58Johnson

44's are going for $20-$30 each on ebay. 

Sk8man...I just caught my biggest rainbow ever on Cayuga on a 61. It is my small version of a 44. Slightly different shape, but close.

To stop the crack from spreading you will want to drill two small holes at the ends of the crack. Then a marine grade epoxy smoothed over the crack should take care of it.

Leaderboard w/update

Add in a 7lb 5oz Laker by Rollie to board (sorry Dave)

I won't have tomorrows results...so maybe somebody can take a few pics of the final results and post them

Alex1young you have a PM

DJ 717 ...You have a PM

Alec,

I agree with you that the bite follows no rhyme or reason at times. I'm trying to figure out some.......

Often/Sometimes it works like this thoughts.

Like...

I find the bite often starts later in the morning (10am ish) when there has been a full moon.

Real sunny days often move the fish out just a little from the day before.

Darker lures often work better on cloudy days, brighter lures on sunny days.

These are a few of the basic rules that sometimes/often work. As you said, the reasons fish do or do not do what they do is what keeps us fishing. I'm just adding to the thoughts on what may or may not work on any given day. It drives me nuts to see a boat roar by in the morning, as happened the other day, and find out while I got nothing they had a great day on the rainbows. They knew something about what was possible that I didn't. I'm in a stage that I have some go to techniques that usually work, but I'm up for learning new stuff so I have more options. Always learnin'.

I had some vacation time this last week too. I fished most mornings and most evenings.

All mornings or evenings that were tough (the skunk) also had a bite on the opposite part of the day. I had three skunks during the week.

The ultimate rebound was today 8/19/12. I almost did not go out this evening since I had a Saturday morning skunk and a Sunday morning skunk and was getting frustrated I could not get either dipseys or spoons to produce. The thing that got me out was a report on John Gaulke's website http://www.fingerlakesanglingzone.com/reports.asp that explained the shutdown effect of the recent cold front and cloudy skies. He stated that Sunday had been slow in the morning due to the overcast skies but he predicted the steady weather and clearing skies should help the bite improve as the day progressed.

I headed out at around 5pm from Meyers. Set up at AES in the deep water with only one hit with no one home. I headed in shallower and the dipseys lit up. I used combos of green and white spin doctors and flies. I headed north of AES and stayed in 180 then 145 then 120 then 100. All were productive. Nothing really big but my arms are wasted from reeling in the mag dipseys over and over. Caught and released around twenty. About 12 4 to 6 lbers, the rest smaller.

I'm a believer in John's thoughts on the weather. It was a great day of fishing. Plus the sunset was fantastic!

I would like to thank all who put so much effort into the staging of the lighthouse derby. That also includes the sponsors, especially A Great Choice Lawn Care and Landscaping LLC.

Had the pleasure of fishing in the derby with my 15 yr old son. The fishing was good with us setting up by AES (Milliken) around sunrise. We fished cowbells and kwikfish, bouncing bottom. Kyle got the second place fish in the youth division (5.6lb laker) as our first fish. It also had a first place sized lamprey attached. The lamprey provided a lot of entertainment sticking to the side of the boat, the downrigger, and various other things before it's demise and return to the depths.

The wind picked up after several hours and around eight more sub 24" fish so we pulled up and headed to Taughannock

for lunch. We hit the concession stand for the traditional hotter than the sun fries and a burger and chicken sandwich.

The wind had died down after lunch so we set up and trolled the run south on the West side. That's where Kyle and I had first discovered trolling from a guy who was rowing a boat while trolling. He was nice enough to stop and talk to us and from that point on were hooked. Bass and perch fishing fishing now had to compete with the big fish for attention. We only picked up one more laker on our run south from the park. If there was a smallest fish prize, that one would have taken first for sure.

We packed up and headed in. We hung around at the weigh in to see several nice fish. One was an impressive brown in the 10 to 11 lb range. Several 10-11 lb lakers hit the scales. I haven't seen the 12-14+ lbers from this lake in a while. I wonder where they are? It was nice to meet some fellow fishermen and women and some LOU members.

It was a good day...

EarlyRiser you have a PM

Contact Humminbird. They sent me a new transducer for my 768c. I also had luck with doing a software update.

See this thread

http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishing/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19042

Note: these were almost all 700 series Humminbirds

Here is a Duckworks article on the repair:

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/10/howto/plug/index.htm

Grease on tap is correct. If you miss a little, the shavings are aluminum and very soft. I've done several and never removed the head.

They are pretty easy to do yourself.

I've been using Z-Boards in-line boards and have nothing but good to say about them. Two of the best features are that they pull WAY out to the side and also that they stay upright at all times. You can even come to a stop and then start back up and they will not fall over.

Just to stay on topic...I remove mine by hand, keeping the line tight as possible.

Stan

You have a PM

Were you using a old style Seth Green rig? Can you describe your rig?

Thanks for the report.

TROUT

Dan Perkins 9-10 L

Justin Vanetten 9-4 L

Angie Conner 9-4 L

Bernie Griffin 8-14 L

Tom Brown 8-10 L

Charlie Buchannen 8-9 R

Wayne Sincebough 8-4 L

Ben Foley 7-1 L

Angie Ayers 6-13 L

Sonny Arcangeli 5-8 L

BASS

Anthony Muro 3-5 LM

Brooks Hendrix 3-0 LM

JR

Kaden Chamberlin 8-1 L

I had two break in a row. Bought one, it broke first trip out. I returned it to Bass Pro. They relaced it no questions asked. The replacement broke first trip out also. I returned to Bass Pro only to stand in line with someone else with the same broken rod for return. I got an Ugly Stick for a few bucks in exchange and have been happy since. FYI. mine was a 8'3" medium light if I remember correctly.

In the past I have been EXTREMELY happy with the Diawa rods. The old Firewolf has been a great dipsey rod for me.

I'm in...58 Johnson (Mark)

This is the Meyers Launch on Saturday...Yes thats the dock at an angle to the left from where it should be. On Sunday it had drifted to the right.

Bobber,

Where you in the blue boat?

We were out there and picked up Lakers jigging (my first sucessful time) in 125 to 160 feet. Lakers were hugging the bottom. We used the "This looks promising" method of fishing structure changes since we could not see the fish on the finder. I landed one, Mike landed four. I'm guessing that were getting reaction bites rather than feeding bites.

We also got one almost legal salmon on a stickbait run off an inline planer board.

Z Boards are my choice....equal to the Off Shore boards http://thezboards.com/

I love the way these boards allow you to come to a full stop and when you restart they get running again no problem!

Also they have great customer service. I broke a board by adjusting it too roughly and they replaced it no questions.

Hit Dick's in Ithaca...Selection was limited but I got some GREAT deals (70% off).

Thanks redeyes

Some important info:

From a belt pfd manufacturer:

"· COLD INFLATION-Oral Inflation may be required in addition to manual inflation if

chamber is not firm due to cold temperatures at or below 40°F (4°C). Inflation Time

using CO2 gas will be longer at these temperatures."

ANY CO2 inflated pfd is risky in under 40 degree weather. Wear the foam in the cold weather!