Fat Trout

Probably should change something then. [emoji6] Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I fish the river and lake and i can say that 2012 (if i remember the year right) was fascinating with the clipped salmon and what we saw when on clipped vs non clipped. I hav wished every year since that they kept that up. What showed up when wasnt any kind of 50/50 40/60 even 30/70 mix....it was stark contrast. Id love to gage volume of each year to year. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Im endlessly entertained by random comments of nothingness. Right. Upstate ny would crumble without NYC and Westchester. Sure, i know this as fact because i saw them constructing the cash pipeline last week. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

for me....asking myself the same questions you are. Not enough. If I had a large glass boat that I was putting a through hull on 10 feet up from the transom perhaps I'd think differently.

I just bought an hds 9 carbon with total scan transducer for 1699 as they are clearing them out. I wanted to go airmar but saw just enough online commentary expressing difficulty to make me decide to go with the total scan and dip a toe i to the airmar at another time. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

In Mexico until Sunday then coming home to strip for the dealer trade in Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Its just a milk crate actually. It fits the can nicely and let me mount a filter on the side and pick the whole thing out easily. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

So at the risk of coming across like Lucky13 who loves to post endless amounts of web links and info (lol). here's a pic I found of a coho's mouth and an interesting web page with some fish ID photos http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/home/Default.aspx?tabid=605&FishID=41

Are you sure about that? I'm not going to proclaim to be an expert but with 5 min of google searching I didn't find anything saying the MMSI #'s weren't used in certain Geographies. I did find info via coast guard / homeland security that seemed to indicate that coverage via the Rescue 21 Distress system appears to have been completed as of October last year and to include the coastal US portion of Lake Ontario in the ninth district called "sector buffalo" . I'm taking it that it includes your direct info via your MMSI #....but admittedly I'm not an expert. https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=mtNds https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Acquisitions-CG-9/Newsroom/R21_103117/

I'm looking to sell my 13' Smokercraft Alaskan 13' DLX w/ 9.9 Yamaha 4 stroke. Its located in NJ but if someone is seriously interested I can bring it up on a weekend to Mexico NY. I'll be fishing the lake a few more weeks and river after that. I love the boat but don't use it as much as I should. Garage kept. Ethanol free fuel only through the motor Includes: - 2009 Minn Kota Powerdrive V2 upgraded to Ipilot - 55# thrust / 54" shaft - Shorelander Roller Trailer - Boat can be launched in a puddle. - lowrance Elite 4x fishfinder. - Custom installed bow platform for the trolling motor (1/4" plate aluminum topped with carpeted marine ply) - Carpeted front platform. - Deep cycle battery - 3 gallon gas can with 10 micron filter $5000 Firm. PM if interested.

Doubling down and betting my house and truck! Full disclosure...I've been at this game for over 30 years.

With good fun intended and having fished Lake O and the rivers for quite a while.....I'd bet my house its a coho But hey, thats why fishing reports are fun! And to the OP....I'm sure it was a fun fish and looks to be over the 25" for an atlantic so enjoy either way!

I say its a coho but in the end we are all on our computers or phones drinking beer and analyzing photos lol.

Its a coho on the left, possibly a small king. The tail looks forked because of the angle of the tail to the camera. The head is def. not an atlantic.

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Floatation foam may keep the boat from going down but it can also become REALLY tippy with a lot of water in the bilge so you capsize if you have pitching wavy conditions. This is expecially true of a small boat that takes on a crapload of water which now is all on the deck and not in the bilge. The center of gravity goes way high and it rolls in what are surely very wavy and pitching conditions. The scary part about that scenario is it will happen really fast. I keep my life jackets on deck on the sides in cargo netting for that reason

For anyone reading this thread that wouldn't otherwise think of it. Having your bilge pump tied to a float switch is a must! You don't have to keep your boat in the water to need this. Its an early warning to problem. Separately, but related. I towed a 24' boat with my 18' boat last year. He was broken down and didn't have radio or cell phone to get out of trouble. Communication is a must. I have a VHF on my 18' tied to my GPS chartplotter which has an emergency button that gives the CG my location, indentification and contact names of family IF activated. VHF may seem less valuable these days with cell phones, but its still a good emergency tool for big water....and Lake O classifies for sure. I always leave with sufficient cell phone battery charge. Its great that people can and do help and I surely will. However you have to plan like there is no help from others and consider that you may be putting others in harms way if you are unprepared.