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Please stop showing your phone numbers. It is just another tidbit of information that somebody somewhere will gather and in the end use to scam you.

Use private messaging.

On 2/19/2023 at 7:24 AM, sherman brown said:

I found that the lightest rubberbands I could buy at wall mart office supply or any other store was still hard to break.  then I found Omish outfitters rubber bands on the fishusa.com site and in some bait shops along Lake Erie. they make 2 weights of them the heavy and the lite. I believe there are other brands on the market but I order a lot of my still from fish USA so I just ordered from them.

Leave them out in the sun a while, they'l snap real easy afterwards.

I always used to think that the farther forward and the higher would be the best thing to do. (masts). The bad part is that when something goes wrong, the lines may end up under your boat with all the trouble that it may cause. I do not see anything wrong with the pulleys on the top. I made one small edition to the tow lines. Drlfc's son calls it an "Old Man"s Rope". This is a rope with a bayonet hook that goes around the tow line and then to the side of the boat where it is tied up roughly at the back of the front seats, or just in front of them, It makes it a lot easier to pull the lines in instead of trying to get them with a pole hook. Wherever you make your  connection, front or center, make sure that the tow line does not go on or under your dipsy rods.  I bet there are a few sad stories about rods that got caught and went into the lake. I myself got crazy lucky. when one of my rods got pulled out. It went under and in pure frustration I jerked up my downrigger rod and miraculously the line caught the dipsy rod and I could bring it back on the boat. I have used lanyards on the dipsy rods ever since.

It depends on how high your boat is on the water. An aluminum boat is light and high on the water so you might end up going way too fast with the wind in your back. A fiberglass boat lays deeper in the water and is held back by the water. That said, I usually try to ride the trough which is on an angle to the wind. It makes for less banging and the wind direction is not as crucial. But it all depends on how much wind and how high the waves are. I wish there was a golden rule, that would make it easier.

Somebody mentioned way points and I do have a bit of a problem with that, because way points are static LAND marks, but if there is wind there usually is a current as well, which moves at let's say one mile per hour, the fish move right along with that current and one hour from now they will probably be about a mile away from your waypoint.

I drove by there today and the place being surrounded by houses that people  and probably also dogs live in makes it a hard target for thieving. I think I will give him a call and ask him to get some info on the board.

Are we talking about Sandy near Kent and Hilton or the one on the east end?

I would be interested, But before that, I would like to know what the chances are of having my gear stolen there. I heard some horror stories.

In short, how is the security setup over there?

12 hours ago, orangediablo said:

 

Why not?  They make decent fire starters.

 

Another option is using it as a flame source next to a pound or two of tannerite and water bottle of gasoline :).  Right after it rains of course.....for obvious reasons

What boy scout troop were you in? A burning cigarette with unlit matches at the end and some straw to camouflage and ignite it will do the exact same thing and allow you to get far away before the party starts. You see, the boy scout troop that I was in is called IDF

I added some pics and a dolphin video to the first post

I was staying  in Santa Teresa which is a popular surfing spot , but it is hard to reach ( Cesna flight and unpaved roads) The place where I fished from is called Mal Pais. Probably the only charter that is on the net over there is "Jason tours" When you see his website it seems like a big operation, but it is a one man operation. He is a very good and pleasant person who speaks good English.

As for Santa Teresa , it is a dusty little town where the beach crowd of young ladies, who seem to compete in how scantily dressed they can get, are very well represented..

If you want to go there you should count on renting a 4 wheel drive vehicle. US dollars are accepted in every place.

This question has come up before. Sometimes the local volunteer fire department will take them to use for training purposes. I usually save them for the fourth of July, but you also can just ignite them in a place where they will not case alarm. Do not throw them in a campfire.

On December 27 , our 43th wedding anniversary, my wife Debra passed away after fighting brain cancer for over three years. On January 24th the flags at the medical center and the River Campus of the University of Rochester will be flown at half staff in her honor.

I lost a loving wife and the University lost a beloved and treasured dean. She left us too early.

I feel that as bitcoin values decline ,so will the will the need for this utterly needless polluter. My hope is that they will go bankrupt .

1 hour ago, Gator said:

Like most of you, I'm far less worried about eating locally sourced fish than I am about all the other crap that's used to make the stuff around us, things that we'd have never even considered a decade ago. Teflon coatings. Microplastics in our shaving cream. I'm no Chicken Little, but there's enough data out there to conclude that many of these things are not entirely benign. The issue is determining cause-and-effect. I mean, look, it took 40 years for public acknowledgement that cigarettes might have some nasty stuff in them that's bad for you. And that was like, "Duh, of course" to most folks. I can't imagine how long it will take to do the same for the less obvious stuff we use every day.

 

And it's cost-benefit, too. Try weighing some ridiculous allergy again the benefits of plastic. Non-starter. That is, until we find out that we've sterilized the human race by creating a cosmic Dr. Snip through some unanticipated avenue - like applying flame retardants to baby's clothing - we won't move on the issue. 

 

So, since we can't do jack all about it, we should all just grab some wings and a beer and enjoy the games this weekend. Go Bills!

Thank you for this. You just put some whip cream on my morning coffee.  I barely got my breath back from laughing at Jimmy Kimmels's skid on George Santos and now you top it off with a cosmic Dr Snip.

23 hours ago, whaler1 said:

So easily run 3 on each side off his outriggers is probably three feet apart?  
Clean up in aisle 7. 

Sorry, I meant to say otter boats which allow you to run lines 20 feet apart.

What saddens me in this case is that we do not seem to learn of our previous mistakes.

First we dumped PCBs by the thousands of tons into our lakes and streams and made fish inedible and gave a lot of the polluters a free ride to make bigger profits by not having to clean up after themselves and now we find out that the same was done with these forever chemicals. As long as big money has big political power we will just keep on having our precious resources polluted so more profit can be made.

5 hours ago, Gator said:

I source my PFAs straight from the lab, so I know exactly how much to use to get that perfect flavor.

 

Seriously, though, and not to hijack this thread, but over the past decade I have become severely alcohol intolerant. I have a hangover before getting a buzz!! I'd think that it's a me thing, except that there's at least several of us on this board alone that now have the same issue. It happened as we got older. Knowing how some of these chemicals manufactured in labs can interact with our genome in unexpected ways makes me wonder how prevalent this sort of age-onset allergy is these days, and whether it's linked to environmental toxins. There's begun to be some interest at the national level in this sort of general phenomenon. We know the incidence of childhood food allergies are rising, and it's not crazy to extrapolate to older adults.

 

Anybody else here experience unexplained allergies with age?  Of the eight or so folks I know with alcohol intolerance, all are men. Obviously, I'm not claiming cause-and-effect with fish borne toxins, but it's enough to make me raise one eyebrow and throw this out there for discussion.

I have the same experience, but I solved the problem by changing from Sam Adams to Yungling. Now I’m good again. 
It might be that the culprit is hops instead of alcohol.

You can easily run 3 longlines on each side of your outriggers. Running a longline out  the stern is asking for trouble.

I once fished solo about 8 miles offshore, the lake was as flat as glass and the fish did not bite at all. Out of sheer boredom I put a junk line out the hole, a 12 colors leadcore . not 5 minutes later a king hit a rigger line and almost at the same time a steelie hit the leadcore.. The 2 fish managed to make the mother of birds nests out of the leadcore and when they were done doing that, they both broke off.

8 minutes ago, Sk8man said:

Not trying to crimp your thinking but more is not always better. You can run quite a few lines on a wide 20 footer ad I have run 9 on my wide 18 ft and on the Finger Lakes you can usually get away with it but on Lake O when you have 8 lines and four of them long ...even on boards an unruly Chinook or big steelie can make a mess of things in a hurry and then you spend valuable fishing time straightening out and re-rigging. Usually it is more productive running fewer lines but setting them right according to the location of bait, fish. position of thermocline, and conditions.

I find that more lines out is usually because the bite is poor and boredom sets in. 

Seeing that you use a smaller boat, I would start with otter boats or something similar and run weighted steel or regular steel on both sides. This is to stabilize your rig. As you probably know, that as soon as you move in the boat it will change direction. Having the otter boats minimizes that. Next I would run the downriggers and the dipsies. Again in order to stay on course, I would never have one down rigger out of the water for it will make the boat pull in the direction of the rigger that is in the water.

Normally all that water would be stored as snow. So far, there is not much of a snow pack 

When the bridge across Irondequoit Bay was built the bedrock was also drilled into. This opened a connection between the bay water and the aquifer underneath. As a result , the salinity of the aquifer's water became much higher. If my memory (what's left of it) serves me well, this was one of the reasons why the Webster water company shut down.

On 1/1/2023 at 6:56 AM, HB2 said:

The way I see it , it's not about power or green . It's about putting money in the right people's pockets . 

 

 

You just reminded me of the "The Fast Ferry"

This takes the subsidies out of the equation. Between these and the tax brakes it could still be profitable to place the mills in the lake.

Besides, the rapid advances in technology may very well make the mills profitable using all these conclusions. So just hold your breath.