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Keuka does not have lamprey and no gobi

A small craft warning was out until 5 AM so we left port at 6.30 instead of 5.45. This probably was just as well because it gave us enough rest for the onslaught awaiting us. The original plan was to fish in 80 to 90 feet, but the X4 showed 68 degree water at that depth so we trolled out to 110 where the screen showed us a vertical thermocline with hooks around it. The North-western wind had pushed warm water into the bay and the eastern shore. It had pushed the colder water farther out so we started fishing a bit farther west with our gear down at 110 to 135 feet down and the magnum dipsies out at 300 and 330 with green on green spin doctors and green flies. A 500 copper armed with a paddle and familiar bait was also used. Our speed was about 2.6 The dipsies did the heavy lifting with five out of the hits all of which were netted. 4 big kings and 1 big Coho, next was the copper bait rig with 2 hits. One 20 pound plus king who in addition to a big paddle and 500 feet of copper also fought like a berserker. It took us about 25 minutes to get that one in the net. The second hit had nobody home.The only down rigger bite was on a magnum northern king lure pulled about 70 feet behind the torpedo. While going back and forth, we crossed the vertical thermocline several times and every time it was in deeper water. All in all we got 7 out of 8 with the Coho at 14 pounds being the smallest and the kings between 18 and 25 pounds. All fish were returned to the lake so they can spawn.

I am not looking for excuses,be they good or crappy. I am trying to look for ways to increase participation in the Oswego Pro-Am. As for the Wilson Invitational, more power to them !. I just hope that next year they catch more fish, because this year a lot of good spirits and camaradery had to make up for a dismal amount of fish caught. As for attracting sponsors, that is a lot of hard choices. The amount of support that the stores offer should reflect the exposure they get in return, be it in the sports or living section of our local papers or even by contacting a local television station and have them do a special program. Trying to get big names like Berkly or Cabelas involved has its own pitfalls as we found out a few years ago in the Wilson Pro-Am where because of big commercial exposure many teams were not allowed to wear their own local sponsor shirts.This, by the way caused the Pro-Ams to drastically loose popularity. Let's try to brain storm the revival of the Oswego Pro-Am and come up with a lot of good ideas and suggestions. We have a lot of potential to help our sport and our local economy by attracting visitors to our towns. Places like Pulaski and Mexico need it a lot. Changing the dates is only one out of many other options. A huge salmon fish fry at the end of the tournament might be another. If we use this thread to voice ideas we can later on present these ideas to the organizers and offer them our ideas and thoughts.

One reason why on the east end observers end up on the same boat /team year after year is logistics. The Little Salmon river has very few participants and trucking in observers to and from Oswego at 4 in the morning is not a popular event. On the west end in Wilson the observers are publicly drawn right in front of the Captains, but even there it all is based on good faith.

The mighty brown, deserves respect, but one king weighs roughly as much as three browns. Yes there is strategy involved, in August as much as in July. Very few of the captains in the Salmon river or the little Salmon participate, not because they do not want to compete, but because the odds favor those who fish west of Oswego. And mileage limits the fishing time for the east enders. It is true that at the end of August most charters are too busy to play, but between August 1 and 15 that does not play a great role. Even switching the Sodus and Oswego dates is an improvement. Something must be done to make the Oswego Pro-Am with its unique multiple harbor participation a more level playing field and thereby increase participation.

Here is some food for thought for those who organize the Oswego Pro-Am. It seems that Salmon are on a yearly migration pattern from west to east Lake Ontario. The Pro-Am follows this migration up to a point. The Pro-am starts in Wilson/Olcott, It used to move east to Oak Orchard (now it stays in Olcott) and then farther east to first Oswego and then Sodus. The relatively early date for Oswego means that often the Salmon has reached Fairhaven and has gotten close to Oswego but they are not near the Salmon River. Later in the season when the Sodus Pro-Am is held, the Salmon usually has arrived and is in the Sodus area. Towards the middle of August the Salmon is present from Fairhaven all the way to the Trench and the amount of boats and charters on the water has often doubled if not tripled. How about moving the date of the Oswego Pro-Am towards the end of August . There will be a lot more potential participants on the water. It is my feeling that moving the date to mid-August will greatly increase participation. Instead of the same teams yet again competing,there is the potential of many more participants and obviously a much larger price pot to divide. Think about it.

Did anybody use it? If so, what is your experience with it?

There is no upstream of the hatchery at either Caledonia or Powder Mills park. Both hatcheries have drilled wells which suppliy all their water needs. The water goes from the well through an oxygenator into the ponds. It leaves the hatchery through an unpassible barrier

The reason why Powder Mills Park is not used for kings is the same as the reason why Caledonia is not used. Both are virus free and the DEC wants to keep it that way. The Atlantics that are sometimes introduced into Powder Mills are imported from Vermont. I have tried to talk to the owners of Powder mills but they have not answered my repeated requests for communication.This may have to do with a big restoration project that has been done to Irondeqoit creek. The creek has had artificial barriers and lots of sediments removed. At this point the yearly average temperature in most of the creek is low enough to make Atlantic natural reproduction a possibility. At the same time the kings travel all the way up to the sources of the creek.

I talked to them this February in Lockport at the Lotsa Meet. they told me that they were coming back in business. Did they decide to close again ,or is the closing info from before february?

It is time to completely check the cooling system for blockages. It may also be some crap around the thermostat or the thermostat itself. Personally I think that your water intake is blocked or clogged. When you go at high speed ,the water is forced in at a greater pressure while at low speed just your pumping created vacuum is not strong enough to suck the water past the blockage.

By what you are telling us,it sounds like you will have to replace all the hoses because they are from before the year 2000 which means that they are not ethanol resistant and probably rotten anyway. This includes the filler hose.If you want to remove the tank,it is not such a terrible job. Remove the center floor section and you will see the entire tank exposed. On the front and on the rear there are some pieces of wood that can be unscrewed and the tank can be removed! If you want to drain it first,there is a little trick. Remove the hose that goes from the tank to the fuel pump and replace it with a much longer one which you will feed through the plug hole in the stern and tie it up high. Now jack up the boat/trailer and set a wheel on some blocks so that it is about 6 to 10 inches higher than before.Make sure that the side that the fuel pick up is on is lower side. Next raise the front as high as you can so that the stern almost touches the ground. Stick the end of the hose in a five gallon tank and lower it to the ground gravity will empty out most of what is in the tank. That is how I cleaned out the tank on my Islander. Good Luck

We honestly planned on the crack of dawn, but 10.30 am was the best we could do. We launched in the river so we would not have to deal with a very overcrowded launch in I-Bay. We started in 60 foot of water in front of Slaters Creek just where the thermocline hit the bottom.Lots and lots of bait but no takers so we went out deeper and a bit farther west until at about 120 feet all the different currents collided. Lots of bait and lots of hooks on the screen between 70 and 50 feet. This time we found out what is down there making the hooks. Nice big cohos! We caught a few at 50 feet down. Both were around 12 pound fish but after a while we went looking for the big kings, but did not find them. Trolling back over a series of old waypoints we hit the colliding currents again and over 126 foot both the dipsies fired within half a minute of each other. The one with the white spin doctor and white fly,324 foot out, produced a 14 pound laker, while the other with a magnum glow frog and 283 foot out caught a 25 inch brown trout. The next hour we just mostly watched a veritable parade of bait schools between 70 and 40 foot with active hooks underneath. Our metal offerings were checked up on and declined which, with all the bait in the vicinity, made sense. We packed up at 3.30 after a very nice father and son day on big O.

We left I-Bay around 4 o'clock after having done some trial runs in the bay to test the rebuilt engine (rebuilt by yours truly) and moved towards our destination which was 140 feet in front of Cranberry Pond. The engine did very well. We set up our gear and trolled along. The termocline was at about 50 feet down with browns 40 feet and steelies mixed in. We had some dreamweaver ss frogs fifty down in 65 degree water and scorpion kfc special lures on sliders about 5 feet above. Those were good for 2 browns and one steelie. the dipsies were 264 and 324 out. They had green and white spindoctors with white and mountain dew like hammerflies. They never moved. One 400 foot copper with green flasher with a magnum glow frog got a hit and produced a 15 pound salmon which we promptly send back to grow some more. Most fish and bait was between 20 foot (steelies) and 80 foot. The big hooks and there were quite a few, were between 90 and 60 down At this point we saw a nasty thunder storm move east and over the lake behind and away from us. So we said the cloud moves east and we are moving west so let's keep on fishing until,suddenly, the storm decided to move west after all and before we knew it we saw a lot of big whiteheads coming our way. We probably set a new record in getting gear out of the water and riding the wave troughs we moved to Braddocks Bay with the waves cresting at 5 or 6 feet,but by the time we got to the bay it had eased up a bit and we started our ride back to I-bay. On our way back I explained to my son that very heavy rain flattens the waves and you can actually make good speed. Within 5 minutes we were making very good speed thanks to the massive rain and noisy hail on my aluminum cuddy. We made it back to I-bay in pouring rain, but until we had to load up the trailer we were quite dry.In the few minutes we needed to get the boat on the trailer we were completely soaked. Back in the car we had a laugh at our adventure and decided to get back on the water at the crack of dawn or somewhere around that time. Its great to be out with my son and have fun.

Your best bet will be in Pittsford. Going east on Monroe from Brighton just after you pass the canal bridge and the railroad,you will find the only station in the greater Rochester area that sells ethanol free 87,89 and 91 octane fuel. All the other stations here sell 91 octane ethanol free only

When somebody who is supposed to be a rod man during a pro-am gets the puker thing on an almost flat lake,I like to discuss which French cheese goes best with certain types of garlic and French wine. Then of course Paul and I discuss goat cheese,olives and what stuffing goes best with certain dates. Did I mention how much I love certain mushrooms?

Heck ,if I were Tom,seeing this post would motivate me to send you a few flies!!

My loc salmon was on an atommik as well

I just got a call from a call from a "Microsoft Call Center " in India telling me that they are microsoft and that my computer is being hacked. Could I please push Control and R (or something similar) and they will take care of it. The scary part is that they got my private home phone #. I told him that I am the king of Spain and that I will send my secret service out to get him. In short beware of this scam

Do I sense a slight hint of sarcasm?