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I have a fish hawk X4 and I like it,but when I was on the Spoonfed rig I saw his setup,I think it is a Sub troll and I must admit that it is as good as the hawk with a higher adjustment rate.I asked Glen about the wire connection and he simply told me that like everything else it needs the proper maintenance.Seeing the competition results of the Spoonfed this year,I believe that Glen made the right choice with his Sub Troll. Cornelis.

Maybe you guys should try to use the stinking rich,NO screaming,job exporting,fat cat lure.Remember that it is all sugar coated with empty promises and that it is made for catching your vote and letting you rot.

Lead core is usually quite thick.(the core and the braid around it).Besides 18 and 27 pound test lead core usually have the same amount of lead grain per foot.This makes the 27 pound very bulky but not very heavy. It will not sink very well. I often use 18 pound test lead core to troll live bait (mooneyes) very slowly for lake trout in the Finger lakes.

As always,check the cheap problems first.You have no problem starting or running at idle and low rpm.So that part of your carburetor is clean and you get enough fuel. Now unscrew the high speed fuel jet.(the one on the carburetor bowl),drain the fuel in the bowl and make sure that the jet and the bowl are clean. Now disconnect the line that goes from the pump to the carbs.Pull the plug wires and pump the ball.Fuel should stream out. If not ,you have localized your problem.Now run the starter.Fuel should come spurting out of the pump .If not, your diaphragm is bad or you have dirt in the filters.You can do all these things at home in your drive way and depending on the results of these little trouble shooter tests you can determine where your problem is located If you are on the water and it happens again,push the starter key in.This will activate the fuel enrichener.If that helps you know that your problem is not bad fuel but fuel supply. If nothing is wrong with the fuel or the fuel supply,it is time to look at the electronics. Good Luck, Cornelis

A Penn 330 GTI with line counter. It does not get better.

Yep, a bowfin skeleton

I'll take the otter boards. You can reach me at 585-733-2728. Thank you,Cornelis.

I spent a weekend at our cottage on Owasco Lake and did some Lake trout fishing off Ensenore point. Both days were very windy but almost every time I passed around the point I caught another laker.It must have been around 30 or 40.They were mostly around 3 to 4 pound except for one that I pulled out of 150 feet of water a bit farther from the point.That one was about 7 pounds. Owasco lake is a lot easier to deal with in 20 mph winds.the waves were very short but they were only about 1.5 footers.

Are there any homeless people in your neighborhood?

I would go for Keuka Lake. The reasons are simple.Keuka has no Lampreys and I have yet to see a weed mat. There is a very good launch in Penn Yan and the Bait store (The Beverage Baron)has plenty of mooneyes,but do ask him how to keep them alive. You can start fishing about where the College is,From there on south is all plenty deep.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Rolmops ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):8/8 Time on Water:0.700-16.00 Weather/Temp:nice weather in the seventies Wind Speed/Direction:South,early on around 10 freshening to 15,in the afternoon South -west easing up to around 7 Waves: 2/4 Surface Temp: 71.5 Location:North/North-east of Russel LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 8 Total Boated:4 Species Breakdown:Kings Hot Lure: Green Spinny/green crinkle fly Trolling Speed: 1.4-3.4 Down Speed: 2.3-3.1 Boat Depth: 110-160 Lure Depth: 65/95 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== It was very easy going out with a Southern wind,and running out to 100 feet was no sweat,Thank you Blue Heron for the tip. Once out there it was a challenge to keep two riggers in the water not because of the fish but because of the waves and fishing solo.But Something is happening out there.Around 120 to 130 feet in 44 degree water there are huge bait pods accompanied by huge schools of small and big fish.They are spread out between 90 to 125 fow and rock solid.I tried with wonder bread but no go,with NBK both super slim and regular but no go until I put a green spinny with herring bone pattern and a green crinkle fly on the 95 and that one did all the damage.The ones caught were all between 5 and 15 pounds.The one that got away almost took 600 feet of copper with him.I had 600 feet out with a single Kevorkian and the hit on that one was very fast and furious It took 200 feet of backing out and while trying to get some back it threw the lure. It got to be a lot easier to fish as the wind turned south-west and eased up quite a bit but by then the action had died. I think that I need a steady fishing partner,that would make things a lot easier.How about it Mr Kremer 01? Cornelis.

I run the 8'6" Eagle Claws for my downrigger rods and absolutely LOVE them. Never thought of using them for copper. Hmmm, got me thinking now..... I use them with 600 feet copper on a Penn 330GTI (great reels),but the tips are soft and I had to change them to carboloid tips

What happens in Lake Ontario is in no way comparable to what happens in small lakes.When Honeoye Lake "turns over" it is pretty much the entire lake changing its surface with water from the bottom which is maybe a degree or 2 warmer. Lake Ontario mostly has movement of water and the wind and currents move huge masses of water with different temperatures around. One day with northern winds it may be 75 degrees on the southern shores,but when the wind turns south that water temperature can drop to 46.

I use some of their gear and in general I am happy with it. There are a few problems though. Their Blue Chart map of Lake Ontario has a conflict with their US recreational map of Lake Ontario,They just don't fit each other right. Also,Many of their map source products don't have the proper drivers for a 64 bit computer and you are forced to keep an old computer in the basement so you can use map source CDs and transfer them to your GPS. Cornelis.

Last time I fished there I spent most of my time staying clear of jet fleas and other boats.This time of year that place is wall to wall boaters.

I bought one when I mostly fished the Finger Lakes and it was great while fishing the steep drop offs.On Lake Ontario I tried it for a while hoping to find fish off to the sides and then steering so the lines off the planer boards run through them,but it is very hard to gauge the distance without back ground structure to go by.

In August it is a bit hard to get Stripers in Cape Cod Bay.It's just plain to warm for them and they follow the bait a bit farther north,although Billings Gate and Race Point off P-Town still harbor 30 and 40 pounders.Blue fish,5 to 15 pounders, on the other hand,specially on the Race are so thick and so greedy that you will get tired of catching them.One of the wildest things you can witness there is a Giant Bluefin coming out of the water 20 feet away from your boat just to cross over the shallows between the inner and the outer race.Never mind the the seals tagging along with your boat ready to steal any fish you get on your lines. In September,when they start migrating south is when the stripers are very greedy often pushing a school of pogies(bunker) on to the beach and blitzing so heavily that the water seems to be boiling,all of this within casting distance from the beach.

I got another one from the same character,now using a slightly different name,this time with a full blown Nigerian scheme as in letter,bank account and what not. Now the handle he uses is A M_A B

Thank you for your prompt action. Cornelis.

Ray,I hope that it is all that simple. The fact is that somebody hacked into the membership file and ended up sending fake PMs, thereby gathering e-mail addresses and God knows what other information,possibly the credit card # that you use to pay your professional dues. Maybe it is time to drastically strengthen the online safety precautions that this website uses. Cornelis.

I had the same. It came from Mariam2010 About that long walk.....,please let it take him far away from the places I frequent.

Way to go Tom.It seems like you were in the same place where I was last night. Cornelis

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):07-30-'10 Time on Water:from 6pm till 9.30 Weather/Temp:very nice low seventies Wind Speed/Direction:very light from the north east Waves: 1 footers and later less Surface Temp: 73 Location:in front of Russel Power station LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 5 Total Boated:5 Species Breakdown:Kings,skippies and 2 big boys Hot Lure: wonder bread spinny with green krinkle fly,NBK SS and NBK Mag Trolling Speed:2.8 Down Speed:1.9-3.4 Boat Depth: 180/190 Lure Depth: early on 130 later 95 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS Started out in 85 FOW but the water was 70 degrees at 75 feet so I went out to 180 where at 90 feet dependent on the down speed (different currents) the temperature went up and down between 40 and 58 degrees.I started with an empty screen but at least there was the temperature thing.As the hour got later, the screen started filling up with bait and very soon afterwards small and big fish between 35 to 65 feet and then again at 95.I lost some real big ones because of a shaker that did not even made the rod shudder and stayed on the rigger while some very big fish passed at the right depth.After that blunder I went back to using rubber bands,which made it easy to see the other skippies.Later on I got 2 big ones in the low twenties which made for a very nice evening out Cornelis. ====================