rolmops

We launched at Mayers Marina at 11/7 and the launch is fine.Just go under through the pedestrian bridge and stay close to the fuel dock until you are in the channel.

I forgot and it cost me a prop.

The perch are coming in strong, you will see the "fleet" in the bay next to the second set of channel markers.Just fish at about 25 to 30 feet down or you will catch mostly gobies

I probably won't winterize until mid December,but I have to take care of some things in Europe around the 10th of December, so we should try before that.

A windy dark day on the bay seems like what we need, I'm sure there will be plenty of those.

Cornelis.

You can call the humminbird people at 1-800-633-1468.

This is the repair department ,but they will help you out.

Mark,

Do you sell stainless steel 6 inch flexible flue liner?

rolmops

Gambler's probably right. Lots of shad around here. If you catch a Northern in the bay this time of year you'll probably find him full of them.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

I think so too,it looks like the right time to get in touch with pike hunter and see if we can get out together so he can teach me how to hunt some esox.

Giant Gobies.. some average 10-15 lbs.. They like jiggs tipped with a perch minnow.. dont let their funny appearence and slimmy feel intimidate you... Gobies are a delecasy.....

Wow,thank you for this great piece of advice.I really appreciate the way you share your advanced outdoors knowledge.

I do not really understand the meaning of "some average" and I had a hard time plowing through the additional 6 spelling errors in your 27 words, but given some time, I will see the light.

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This Sunday I probably broke the record for the most gobis ever caught on a mini mite jig,but that is not what this question is about.

While drifting and cruising just south of the 104 bridge in the bay I saw my fish finder screen full of pods of bait fish and big fish following,mostly between 25 and 32 foot down,over 25 to 60 fow.I threw a lot of jigs, lures and live bait at them all to no avail.

Can somebody please tell me what these fish are and how they are caught?

Thank you,cornelis.

I bought my food saver at BGs for $130. As it turns out,the eBay ones are usually the ones that are no longer made for stores and they are excess supply.

I like mine so much that, combined it with an inverter,we ( the three of us) always take it on extended fishing trips to Cape Cod and after making proper portions,I vacuum pack all my fish before it goes in the cooler,usually while on the boat.That way the fish stays very fresh and after a week we usually come back with a few hundred pounds of cod,haddock ,stripers,bluefish and this last trip one extra cooler with 150 pounds of bluefin tuna steaks.That foodsaver pays for itself every time it goes to the Cape.

I have a few Penn Senator 113s and a few Penn 330 GTI levelwinds.I use them both on Lake Ontario and for Striper and Cod fishing off Gloucester. . The Penns were all bought on Ebay (used) for less than $40 a piece. All they needed was a cleaning ,some lube and a set of drag washers.I have yet to see a reel that beats a Penn.

Very interesting! we have had no zebras since we moved the boat to the Oak. Had lots when in I-Bay.

They come in 3 year cycles.

But it is also possible that you have something going on there that stops them.

Maybe you should inform someone at the DEC about your experience at the Oak.They may be very interested.

I would very much like to know the name of this dealership,because I am looking into buying another boat and this is one guy that I want to remove from my dealers list.

I hope that you informed the boat company of the disgusting treatment at the hands of this dealer.His name should be on the front page of this website as a warning to potential boat buyers!!

So you are on Iboats too.

Here comes again.

Zebra mussels love to attach themselves to the intakes on your lower unit.they will grow so thick that they will actually cover the intakes on the outside and the inside.

they do not usually go up to the engine block because most of the time(when you don't run the engine) there is no water there.

Just take a piece of wire and clean out the intakes and the tubing going up to the engine.

It is important to raise your lower unit out of the water when you don't use the boat.The best way to prevent and also kill the zebra mussels is by letting them dry out.

The perch in the bay are anywhere between 4 and 14 inches.The bigger ones are usually at the bottom of the school.The trick is to get your bait/lure all the way down without having it attacked by the small ones.

I have good success with a small lure called "mini mite" usually tipped with a maggot or very small piece of worm.

As it gets colder,the perch move less and it is often a good idea to move over the school. That makes it a lot easier to feel the these often very light hits.

Hello Tom,

Thanks for the pictures.The white bass is definitely very similar to what I caught,except that it was more streamlined ,more striped bass like.Probably it was just a very large male,much larger than I ever caught before.

I just looked at a whole lot of googled images of all sorts of bass and it probably was just a large white bass.

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Date(s):9-26

Time on Water:06.30-10.00am

Weather/Temp:50

Wind Speed/Direction:south-east at 15mph

Waves: 3 to 4 feet

Surface Temp: 64

Location:Genny river mouth and north to 90fow

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Total Hits: 3

Total Boated:1

Species Breakdown:Striped bass ?????????,steelhead

Hot Lure: green dream weaver with added herring bone and eye (home made)

Trolling Speed: 2.1-3.4

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Boat Depth: 20 to 90

Lure Depth: 15 to 60

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Very choppy and tough weather for solo fishing.

At first I joined the combat trolling crowd in front of the river.It was here that I picked up this 19 inch fish that for all practical purpose looked just like a striped bass.It even hit with the same ferocity as the ones I catch in Cape Cod Bay.Now I realize that there are no stripers in lake Ontario so it must have been some other species that I don't recognize,unless somebody has been doing some illegal stocking of hybrid striped bass of the type that is found in southern reservoirs.

After leaving the crowd I went out to deeper water and hooked up twice with nice steelhead but it was almost impossible to bring them in, net them and steer the boat at the same time in the large waves that were out there,so both got off.

It was a fun morning,probably the last for the big lake this year.It is Ibay from here on until next spring.

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I'll hit the water either Saturday or Sunday,whichever works out better.

I am sort of thinking the 3 or 4 hundred FOW and fishing for steel head.Does that make any sense this time of year or am I wasting my time??

Last time I visited 31/22 I really went out there to catch perch and now you're telling me that they are in the bay.Now I understand why the only thing I caught there were steelies and salmon.

I second that

Forget about Russel station.The power plant is closed and there is not enough of a current there to attract any fish.

Funny that should mention the rec boats.

I own a cottage on Owasco lake but I hardly ever fish there in summer because of rec boaters,I used to escape to Keuka ...

That just goes to show that everything is relative.

Keuka Lake,which is just around the corner from where you live,is much cleaner and has some great Lake trout and brown trout fishing.In general the lake is not as wind swept as Cayuga and Seneca.Best of all.It does not have Lamprey.Both Seneca and Cayuga have lots of lamprey.

There is a great free launch site in Penn Yan.

Way to go Rolmops!

My lake boat is already out of the water

I will be fishing out of a smaller boat from now till the bay freeze over.

I'll be chasing perch and pike in there before too long myself.Come to think of it, perch fishing is very relaxing compared to solo salmon hunting.

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Date(s):9-17

Time on Water:4pm-8pm

Weather/Temp:nice weather

Wind Speed/Direction:north/north-west

Waves: choppy but easing up toward sunset

Surface Temp: 66.4

Location:Genny river mouth and out north to about 70 fow

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Total Hits: 7

Total Boated:4

Species Breakdown:1 laker ,1 brown,2 kings

Hot Lure: spinny with mountain dew/monkey puke dreamweaver

Trolling Speed: 2.2-3.1

Down Speed:one of these days

Boat Depth: 20 to 70

Lure Depth: 15 to 65

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There is a lot of bait in the river mouth and several salmon were visible slashing the water.At the end of the pier where the river water mixes in with the lake I got the brown on a monkey puke (gobi)lure and after some circling in the river mouth I went to 70 feet where there were big bait pods with big fish in tow.The bait was at 62 feet and at 35 to 45 feet.The 2 year old kings came in on the mountain dew at 40 feet and the laker

(a 10 pounder) came in on a black ss dream weaver.

There was a very clear temperature break at 40 feet down in the 70 fow area.

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I got skunked too,but knowing that I'm not the only one makes it a bit less frustating.