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This morning was great boating weather, but it sucked for fishing. There were hooks and bait around 50 foot down over a hundred feet of water, but no takers. I continued out 280 feet and then back in to 250. At 50 t0 80 down over 250 there was a blank screen and the water temperature was around 47 to 49 between 40 and 90 feet down. Then I turned west because it seemed that there were some break lines on the surface that way. Sure enough the farther west the warmer the water became all the way up to 54 degrees at 70 foot down but no thermocline to speak of. Then within 15 minutes I caught 3 steelies all barely legal so back in the water they went. I was off the water by 1pm. All in all a nice morning. Probably the last one in a while with the weather prophets telling us that it will rain and storm for a while.

I have to monstrous golden retrievers to take care of. That makes it hard for me to get on the water before 8 in the AM. Don't bother with 72. The only reasons I still have one of those radio things on my boat is the weather and the MMSI. And if I am in an evil mood to spread fake news so people will move away from me.

I'll probably be out there too. It looks like it will be the last fishable day before a few gales will come through to throw what little balance there is into pure upheaval. I'll do something that I have not done for years. I'll be listening on channel 72

This reaction makes me wave a few red flags.The guy obviously is not used to speaking or writing English, it smells of AI assisted scamming.

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It reminds me of the demise of Sears. Their products are high quality and highly overpriced, although lately their prices did come down. When Rob was still there, his knowledge, help and friendly presence made me pay their prices without complaining, but when he retired the place lost way more than just an employee

Why don't you take a metal saw and cut your 8 inch in 2 pieces. That way, you will have a four inch to mount and a spare in case of need

This morning everything was hidden in some serious fog, so I chose to do some maintenance and cleaning until the fog would burn off. That took to about noon I finished playing with transducers and the end result is that the 600 watt Airmar is a better choice than the 1kw. The cone on the 600 is wider, which at the depth we work at, is what I need. Going out to check it , I found that the temperatures went way up. Over 130 feet the surface at 57 and 50 foot down 54.7. I did not look for a thermocline but it might be setting up. Bait was plentyful at 50 down over a hundred feet. In the 2 hours on the water I managed one steelhead and one king, neither of them very big. It was my first steelhead of the year

Today was mostly about fine tuning my transducers. ( an Airmar tr258 and a Garmin 56UHD). It meant going back and forth to the public launch from around a hundred feet of water. The Tr258 has a narrow cone, but it is a bit wider than than the TR260, while the 56 seems to do better in shallower water. Having to run the riggers in the water, without lures made no sense so put a seasick wobbler on one and a bloody nose on the other. For good measure 10 colors went out the back with a Superman. The superman caught a big laker, which I really did not expect. Up to now , the only fish that hit a superman were brown trout. but this week it did 2 lakers. The wobbler and the bloody nose each did a salmon or two. The Garmin autopilot is really what makes solo fishing easy. It's pricy, but it makes solo fishing , even in choppy water , very enjoyable.

It might be too many marinas chasing too few customers. Even today Sleepy hollow Marina (Frank's) is mostly empty slips in spite of his very reasonable prices. Tom does well because he has a launch, a repair shop on the premises, a great loving golden retriever and just a happy attitude towards life.

I currently pay $35 ,so that is about half of what this other marina would cost. So unless this guy requires some common sense, he will have an empty marina.

On Sandy Creek just south and west of the bridge of the Parkway there is a lot of work (or so it seems) going on. The brush has been cleared out and they are advertising the availability of ice, fuel and, presumably, slips. But there is only one pontoon moored in that quite big place. It looks like a nice place, close to the lake and the creek is fairly deep over there already. Does it have a launch?. I would like to find out more, but the gate is closed all the time so it is hard to figure out what is going on. Any info?

I'm at Frank's again, Maybe next year Tom will have a spot open.

Finally, after many delays my splash down. Everything is working as it should be. Fished between 11am and 1.30 pm from 40 feet to 75 slightly east of the creek. The temperature at the surface and 65 foot down is the same (47.5) . There is no bait visible on the screen and the catch is only one laker on a stinger superman. So nothing to write home about, but it is good to see that everything works.

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I know that this is only one year, so this may be presumptuous, but could it be that a very gradual overall rise in temperature ( as in climate change) slowly pushes the northern maximum range of alewives a bit farther north, making Lake Ontario a more friendly environment for Alewives, making them a more stable food source for salmon instead of up and down years dependent on the weather. Or is this just coincidence?

Carp will give you a wild fight. They will outclass bass any day of the week

Maybe HB2 with his rowboat will have a ball fly fishing for alewives. Anyway, this also means that the salmon will be packing on the pounds and if they keep on gorging themselves until September, we might finally see some 30+ pounders again.