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How about dumping a few of those babies in the Mississippi river? They will probably make short work of the Asian carp, besides, I would love to see a You-tube of some southern hicks Tiger fish noodling.

One morning on the Spoonfed I lost 3 fish in a row,so I asked captain Glen what my mistake could be. He told me that brown trout and lakers have a very soft mouth and horsing the fish in or setting the hook hard causes the mouth to tear open. Every hard jerk will make that tear larger and in the end the hole will be so big that the lip will tear open on one side or the hook slip out of the hole. The secret is in patience and steady pressure without rash movements. Kings have a hard mouth and they are much better fit for a hard fight and it is easy to recognize a king when it hits your spoon.

It is a good thing that you made it out of there in one piece. You might want to consider investing in a flare gun,that usually gets some attention.

How many fish that are dead already and were meant to go to the weigh in do you think will be thrown back in the water because the fishermen think that they must catch a bigger one?

The Penn

In my physics 101 course book there is a picture of a girl standing at an overlook scaffold of the Grand canyon. The girl's long hair stood out in a perfect circle. In the comment under the picture it said that 10 minutes after the picture was taken, the scaffolding was hit by lighting and 2 visitors lost their lives

I have read somewhere that aluminum boats are less of a deadly risk compared to fiber glass boats,because aluminum is far better grounded and as such not charged differently from the lake around it. There are stories where lightning hit a fiber glass boat and it blew the through the hull transducer right out of its hole causing the boat to sink.

If you have that happen,the next thing might be a lightning flash coming your way. Interesting,but not healthy. Next time it happens,you should ground your rods out by sticking them in the water and then get off the water real fast.

check this thread. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=26095

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water: Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: Surface Temp: Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: Total Boated: Species Breakdown: Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS We just went for a sunset fishing trip to the oak,and it was well worth it. Just slightly west of the outlet, over about 145 feet of water we stumbled upon an amazing temperature break at about 50 feet down. Every few yards the temperature and the speed at the ball would change dramatically. going up and down between 60 degrees and 48 degrees while the speed of at the ball currents went between 3.4 and 1.4 back and forth all the time. There was fish all over it and the catching was amazing. I figured that there would be brown trout around it so I dropped a brown trout lure that I picked up last week at the proam in Sodus point. The very same that caught all our big browns on the Friday pre-fishing ,but this time the kings were hitting it.6 of them in half an hour all in the 8 pound range. Then,on a glow froggy I got a laker which I was sure at first was a big king because of the way it took line out. This fish went down to the bottom where it intended to stay. It took almost half an hour to slowly winch what turned out to be a 29 pound lake trout out of the water. The lesson that Glen taught me about browns and lakers having a soft mouth came in very useful indeed. We had a blast of a sunset fishing trip and got off the water just in time before a very heavy thunder storm hit the Oak. Cornelis. ====================

A while ago there was this video by Captain Bill Salmon where he was testing the breaking strength of 7 stranded and in one case 19 stranded wire line. feature=youtu.beI went searching for the the torpedo wire and around Rochester I only found the Mason wire,the price of which varied between $36 and $44 per 1000 foot spool of 30 pound test.On Line and on E-Bay the Torpedo was about $40 per thousand foot instead of the $25 it said on the video. Just today I swung into S&R tackle nearby Sea Breeze on Culver and there it was. Torpedo wire for $22,89 per thousand foot. He has about 7 spools left and will not buy anymore till next year. If you need the wire ,then this is a chance to get good stuff for cheap. Cornelis.

Does anybody know of a place near Rochester where live alewives are available? They are readily available at the bait shops in the Finger lakes area,but are not to be found around here. Does anybody know why? Thanks,Cornelis

Does anyone use dipsy divers in the finger lakes to catch lakers? Thanks,Cornelis

On Owasco lake you fish on the south end when you have a southern wind and on the north end when there is a northern wind. That way you will catch browns ,rainbows,eyes,pike and even some lakers at the outer edge of the weedbeds from 24 to 35 feet down. I usually have a lot of good catches with mooneyes which every species in that lake loves. As for walleye,that is for people who can't catch salmon.

We fished the Trench (shipping route) last Friday about a mile south of the Canadian border.Lots of bait specially around the bumps that come up to 50 feet where the rest is roughly a hundred. We did plenty of lakers and a few skippies. We were really scouting for big salmon for the proam but we did not find them there

I use a #4 or #6 Octopus hook in the mouth that does the pulling and tied up to that with a line between 2 and 4 inches long a treble hook that goes through the mooneye near the tail ,or it is just held there by a small rubber band. What you create is a live lure that gives of a perfect wounded fish smell and signal. Now you are no longer dependent on a minimal speed to make artificials effective. You are effective at very slow speeds. Somehow it works better off planer boards with leadcore. Cornelis

We went to our cottage expecting a very busy lake,but the opposite was true.It turned out to be very quiet with very little boat traffic and even the jet fleas were few and far between and well behaved. Saturday afternoon I tried the new Riviera planer boards and those things pull like mules. It is a learning experience and the weeds have a much greater effect on them than it has on Otter Boards.The jury is still out on which is better.I guess that they both have their place. Next week I will run an otter board on one side and a riviera board on the other. As for fishing,the lakers preferred 6 colors with a glow frog dodger and spoon at 1.9 to 2.2 mph. We took about 9 cookie cutters in 2 hours, on top of that we got 2 nice browns over 140 feet of water at 40 feet down. Sunday,neither the lakers nor the browns wanted anything to do with artificials be they lures,suttons or flies,so we changed to mooneyes and we caught a bunch more lakers both on the 6 colors and the 8 colors trolling at 1.6 to 1.8. The browns took the day off. All in all a very nice trip.

Now that is a nice striper !

The idea to get the bigger boards won out,I ordered the riviera triple boards. I'll probably put the otter boards up for sale.

I believe that those are very good indeed,only problem is that they cost more than a fish hawk X4 unit, $516 is a lot of money for boards

Did any of you guys have a chance to compare this planer board equipment? I hear that Otter Boats with 2 stabilizers underneath will sink when the tow line breaks off.Is this true?? Cornelis.

Was it just me that got gear caught in the trees,logs,branches, deck boards and birthday balloons,or did you guys get your fair share as well?

That's interesting. I was doing north/ south at 2.9 mph, going from 130 feet to 300 across a vertical temperature break about 45 feet down where it went from 55 to 48. All of my steelies were caught within a few hundred feet of that line.

I saw you out there. It was the same for me,many small steel head.The one that got away took my dipsy diver along with it.

Congrats! They are great boats. I rebuilt a 1964 17 foot Duratech Orion and she gave me many hours of pleasure.A 1957 35 horse sea horse pushed her at GPS clocked 28 MPH pulling a 2 kids on an innertube. The only thing I disliked about her was her inability to cut through waves,she slid off the side instead.