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My kids have come to call it 'the crazy Ivan' ( good for breaking up the monotony, though it can lead to expectations that are often unfulfilled )

Excellent practical advice! Watching temp and speed is good, but putting fish in the box is better On Sunday 9/19 I took lakers & a few 3lb salmon from 55' to 110' down (That's quite a temp spread!) The only time I go real slow is when I'm marking lots of fish in and around bait and getting no strikes, of course I'll also speed up and try that too. Big Dave's comment that the lakers will speed up to chase faster lures is true and running faster than 2.0 @ the ball (depthraider) will attract a lot more bows & salmon into your spread. Again though, there are times when you need to go slow, especially early and late in the year when the water is cold. -Andy

Ahoy ye scalywags!

Looks like a Whitefish to me! I'm not familiar w/ Cisco. Smoked Whitefish is one of the best things on earth!

Thanks guy's, I'm in!

Welcome to the site. Lots & lots of info here!

Happy B-Day to you Hank! -Andy

After an unfortunate incident yesterday I need to get a new probe for my 840 fishhawk. I'm thinking that I can replace my old probe w/ an X4 probe? I know this has been covered, but I couldn't find a clear cut post w/ a yes or no answer.Thanks -Andy

After messing around w/ different things I've adopted Rob's program.

Congrats to Rshubuck and Mower, WTG I didn't see Dan Gordon's bow but @9+lbs it must have been a dandy!

Ditto what Skippers Trophy reported. Screen was full of fish all day long, but I was unable to get any kind of consistent program going.I Took like one laker on everything from 300'copper to the deep rigger @ 110 down and everything in between, + a couple small 2-3lb salmon on 10 colors. All spoons for me today. I managed a few jigging early but I thought the fishing overall seemed very slow and frustrating. Time to chase land bound and winged critters and leave these fish to reproduce! -Andy

Like I said above, when your after browns that's all you are after. When your after lakers and other silvers and all you catch is lakers, you probably need to speed up the boat and work on covering more of the water column above the lakers w/ some color.

I'll be in the tractor tomorrow, but I'll be on the water Sun, jigging solo in my 16'. -Andy

The traditional wisdom for Lakers,Browns,Bows, and LLs is as follows: species ________peak temp _____active temp browns -------------54-62 ------------47-65 bows----------------42-56 ------------42-61 lls ------------------48-54 ------------45-58 lakers---------------44-48 ------------42-48 To catch browns you have to fish for them specifically and fall is not a great time to try and figure them out. Browns, LLs, and Lakers all spawn in the fall and can get touchy about feeding steadily during the day. Bows are spring spawners and less likely to be real moody this time of year, but they are a relatively small percentage of the total fish population on Cayuga, they are highly mobile fish that travel in widely scattered pods.The best fishing on the FLX is from X-Mas to March

You crazy SOB, now you're gonna have me out there too! I'll shoot ya a pm w/ my cell. If I answer, I'm on the lake & I'll do my best to get ya on em (or I'll threaten to ram Split till he coughs up some info ) -Andy

http://newjersey.craigslist.org/boa/1950626522.html 'On the Lam' saw this & posted it , I'm just bringing it up again.

Well Rod, it probably doesn't help you out but I feel much better that I'm not the only one who has to work! I guess there must be something about being a husband,father and business owner that cuts into the fishing from time to time -Andy

Yup on a 4lb leader I have a 6 on another rod but I like the feel as long as you don't horse them up from the deep you will be good to go. I wouldn't jig deeper than 100 either there should be a need, the active fish should be 60-80 regardless of depth. At least that what I have found. Tight Lines gang! There are 'active' fish(lakers) in water from 50-400. In deep water the 'active' lakers suspend from 50-140, lakers deeper than 130 or so are typically not active. In 60-100, there are active and inactive fish from the surface to the bottom. Jigging in 60-70FOW is easier b/c you can use jigs that are less than 1oz, which give you a better feel for non tensioned strikes which can be as subtle as a crappie's 'tick'. 1 oz jigs are the norm for 70-80FOW b/c you want to get your 'drops' to the bottom b4 you start drifting away from your drop origin point. When you start having a lot of angle in your drop it's hard to keep tension on the downward bounce of the 2-3 jig bounces b4 retrieval. To jig in 90-120 you need to use 1 1/2 oz jig heads for the same reasons stated previously. Since I and many others typically release many of the lakers we get jigging I would strongly recomend you use a 8-10lbFC leader. A 10lb leader will last much longer and allow you to bring in the fish b4 it is mortally exhausted. If you use a proper jigging technique to illicit a good instinctive strike you don't need a really thin leader anyway, remember you don't want to jig up and down repeatedly- don't let the fish have much time to decide whether to strike or not, that's the key to this technique.

I've decided to just focus on keeping my bilge air dry and ventilated. After talking to some folks who know more about this than I do I think that adding water to a wood floor boat is asking for trouble.

After talking w/ some people who know a lot more about wooden floors in boats than I do, I've decided to focus on keeping my like new floor the way it is.

We'll have to have some of those sandwich's when we fish Seneca this winter!

Wrap the breasts in cheese cloth and smoke them @ 180-200 deg, w/ apple wood. I like to mop em' w/ a mixture of balsamic vinegar, beer and some olive oil. We took some geese last week and I did the breasts in the smoker like this- they make a great sandwich, actually kind of like roast beef.

I've got an 1997 Islander, always stored inside (floor is basically like new). I'd like to put some drain holes in my floor, coat it w/ Nautilex and be able to wash the fish blood,etc off w/ a wash down pump. Can I get the Nautilex to adhere well enough to the factory floor so that I don't get water between the two? Thanks, -Andy

, yeah but it's easier to take a nap on a flat surface!

Looking to make my Islander's floor washable. Have heard talk of using Nautolex marine vinyl flooring in the boats. Curious about technique to adhere this flooring to existing floor and making the floor drain properly into the bilge. Thanks, -Andy