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This is true only when a transom saver is locked onto the outboard. A good transom saver allows the outboard to rest on the transom saver, thereby allowing the outboard to be supported, but not be jerked up and down at a different rate from the transom

Transoms will develop internal cracks because of engines that bounce a bit with every bump in the road. you will not see these cracks until it is too late. A transom saver will take at least part of the bounce load off the transom and convert it to the trailer. A hundred horse 4 stroke weighs easily 300 pounds or more and it sticks out. dependent on how far it sticks out,300 pounds easily becomes 6 or 9 hundred pounds of non vertical tension on your transom. There are transom savers that have enough extension capacity to have the trailer up to 2 feet under the boat.

Powder Mills hatchery is a privately owned hatchery. It is not interested in making money. It is mostly interested in letting children enjoy the outdoors. Our king stocking emergencies are not their emergencies. Powder Mills is mostly the goodwill enterprise of one Rochester industrialist and his philantropy is towards keeping an old hatchery alive and keeping kids happy, so including this hatchery in stocking kings (which is mostly done for people who can afford to troll) is not what they are interested in. A few years ago I tried to raise their interest towards stocking I-creek with atlantics and the they did not even bother answering my requests.

Powder mills and Caledonia are both VHS free and the DEC wants to keep it that way. In order for them to stock kings they would have to get VHS free fry. Altmar is infected. The alternative is west coast fry. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I wonder what would happen if we mixed fresh caught eggs and sperm in buckets and let it go in or near gravel beds like for instance Irondeqoit creek. If we only have 10 people do 2 buckets each we should have tens of thousands fertilized eggs in the creeks. That should add a few hundred salmon that could start a logarithm that ends up in the tens of thousands and beyond.

That is part of a king setup.

Forget about kings,they fizzled out this year. Go for Cohos,they are about to start staging in roughly 150 to 200 FOW. The ones that I have caught so far are healthy and carry no lamprey scars.

That must be the biggest striper ever caught in Lake Ontario

You know I just had to do it. It does feel a bit strange to haul a boat about 200 miles while the Genny river launch is less than six miles from my house. A point which my son mentioned a few times while we were traveling. Anyway,that 35 pounder is still in the water waiting to have it out with us, so weather permitting we should try to hook into her this Sunday. We should leave the dock around five so we won't get stuck in a traffic jam at the mouth.

We were close to the trench. we caught everything on seasick wobbler spoons and cut bait. The big hit that got away was on 400 copper pulling a Yozuri 6 inch stick bait made for tuna fishing. I just tried it out,but it was one hit and nothing for the rest of the day on that one

Not being able to fish from "Just Horsin Around" this Saturday,I decided to bring my own rig,"Dutch Treat" to the Little Salmon River launch. It was an adventure. We left Rochester around 3.30 in the AM and after the compulsary stop at the Dunkins Donuts in Oswego we arrived at the Launch around 5.30 AM. I have never seen that many fishing rigs in so many shapes and colors so full of excited fishermen at such an ungodly hour. The river held a steady stream of boats going out to the lake while the launch witnessed a very busy double launching of almost exclusely well disciplined fast launches into the river. We launched along with another hundred boats and by 5.45 we were on the lake where there were lights of fishing boats as far as the eye could see. Once out,we headed north into deep water in front of the northern dunes where we figured it would be quiet,but even there 13 miles north of port there was combat fishing, so we trolled farther north leaving all the other boats behind. As for the fishing. No we did not get the 35 pounder that we had so carefully prepared for,we did not even get a 20 pounder, but we ended up with 3 salmon in the high teens and 3 steel head in the six pound range. When we came back around 1pm most people were still out trying for the big one so it was easy to get the boat out. All in all a nice ,albeit choppy,day on the lake. Cornelis.

Another boat you should look at is the Steiger Craft Chesapeake with bracket. It is a 23 footer (without the bracket) and has a nice pilot house and a decent cuddy. Although it is fiber glass, it is still towable. If I win the LOC derby I will order one.

They are called: Starcraft 221 Bracket

The boat itself is a 22 footer,but the extension adds another good 3 foot (including engine).There is decent sleeping room in the cuddy ,but it is not a Marriot hotel. Here is another one in action.

That is a 2007 Starcraft Islander