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Anyone willing to give us a depth / temperature update? Thanks, Bob

We went out today, worked 130' - 160', one 9lb king, one 8lb steely on cheater, several lakers on dipsy /spin n glo combo, took a hard hit on dipsy / spoon combo and finished with a steely on spin n glo - couldn't make paddles and flies work today. Speaking of flies the biters where not as bad as yesterday but the gnats covered us for a while

Out of Hughes today and they seemed worse as the day progressed, spend as much time washing boat off as I do cleaning fleas from mono, wire and rigger cables.

I used to look forward to Nick's posts but first fleas in early June

no expert but are you sure your noy running out of fuel?

Mike, Sorry I didn't mean to omit anyone currently involved, could only remember seeing the other group listed on entry form. Still believe with all the interest in this event that members of the active groups could get together to manage the event. Bob

The folks who have run it all these years had a great formula. Sounds like it's time for a new group to pick up the torch and continue. Maybe spread the responsibilities and advertising to include both ends of the lake more evenly and modifying the name calling it Seneca Lake Trout Derby. Geneva's government doesn't seem to be helpful in recent years so maybe moving headquarters to Watkins or Sampson makes sense. I believe to be successful it will need to be organized by a few but some of us will need to get involved with the actual event. I believe Barge Canal Bassmasters have supported it in the past and maybe some of the existing groups of Seneca Lake trollers need to step up. Just my thoughts. Bob

Had to make sure everything still worked on the old boat before selling to the new owner so I went out of Sodus solo Sunday from 10AM till just after 1PM, with the weather being what it was I decided to run two Seth Greens, a planer board and two coppers, started in 400' and worked my way out to 600', constant action, 5 kings to 40#, 12 steelies over 10# and lost some screamers. Boy I wished somebody would of gone with me. At least the boat worked well, sure am glad I brought the windsocks to get my speed up. Odd there weren't more guys out there. Hope I can hold a candle to some of the other BS'ers Enjoy

My son and his buddy came up from PA so we tried the big pond today. Launched around 7AM and headed for Maxwell. The water had a little stain to it so we ran through several times, only had one hit - a bass which got off as fast as it hit. The fog came in for a while and we just tried to run in the 10' range with no takers. As the fog lifted we headed out to 60' - 80' and put down some flashers, dipsy's and leadcore. We marked very little but the lakers liked spoons on the 10 color cores and behind big dipsys 80' - 90' out on #3. No monsters but they got to reel in some fish.

Long ago my alpha 1 got milky, ended up being flange at top of outdrive where input shaft (from engine) comes in, found rust had eroded metal under seal - new flange and seal and all was well for 15 years. Others are correct that there are several points it can come in through.

3.7L Mercruisers have some issues and quirks, agree with fisherdude, look for dependability and reasonably priced to repair power plants

Check out Accustrand on Ebay, guy from California has it at a good price. I've bought his 30#, am about to try 135# for riggers. Good luck

Bullet proof, used same pair since 1984. Simple and they work

I've had a pair of Clarion 553's with 10 colors for 3 seasons and like them a lot, larger body and easy to handle.

I converted my 1984 3.0L Merc in 1992, still runs today and I haven't had to make an ignition adjustment since. If I remember my distributor bushings where a little loose then which makes point gap or dwell wander while the electronic pickup could care less.

I gave them 15 minutes!!

Why don't our elected officials (our beloved Cuomo) ever consult with the people they have working for them (DEC) before they create a new law that is too little too late, nearly impossible to enforce and vague enough to be open to multiple interpretations...Sounds like another SAFE act. More grandstanding at it's worst. Bob