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+1 for Gator, but if you have $1500 to spend, you might want to consider a Furuno 585 or better a 588. These are 1 kh units . If you combine that with a good transducer you not only see your weights, but also your downrigger cables. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

maybe they learned how to eat gobies

I have a Furuno 628 and I love it. The fish finder quality mostly depends on sensitivity of the transducer. The best investment is a high end transducer. The user friendly and high end transducer furuno is the biggest bang for your buck. I don’t think that you will find them at Cabelas. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Yes Haddock fishing is here big time. We went out on May fifth for a glorious day on the water. After having traveled from Upstate NY and having lodged in Hubbardston MA we arrived in Gloucester and immediately went over to George's for breakfast. This is THE place in Gloucester for people who like huge pancakes and other great foods. Then it was on to the dock to meet Captain Kevin of Kayman Charters and the other members of our team. Soon we were on our way to the grounds. On our way there, we saw a few dozen whales spouting and breaching.The whales stayed close to us all day. Although minimum size for haddock is 17 inch, we decided on 19 inch for starters. That was a mistake. We should have made it 21 inch and we would still have boxed out. From the moment we started fishing we were hauling up doubles until our arms were lame. While fishing , we were visited by dolphins around and under the boat. By the end of the day we bumped up the minimum keeper size to 21+ and the last keepers were all over 22 inches. We all boxed out . On our way back we were a happy exhausted group of fishermen, but there was another surprise. We saw a right whale! Back in port we walked away with around 20 pounds of haddock fillets each, a tired feeling in our bodies and a sense of great satisfaction. I was too busy fishing and I did not take any pictures , but DRLFC did shoot some pics. Doc, if you read this, can you please put up some pics from the trip? We'll be back next year!

Sorry no picture yet, It is a good stainless steel made for up to 15 horse kicker bracket. It does need some cleanup $75. I would prefer pickup, mostly because this is a heavy bracket and I would like you to see what it is before you buy. I can email you the pics

There is repair and rebuild. For repair, the marine shops are good. If it’s a rebuild you are after, you can probably get it done by any good machine shop. Most marine shops send their rebuilding jobs to machine shops. If you can strip your outboard to the bare block, you can save a bundle of money Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

In the greater Rochester suburbs, there are dozens of flocks roaming through the parks. This spring the flocks are usually about a dozen which is smaller than previous years.. I read an article that the turkey population is quite predictable from season to season. When rabies ravages the local predator population (coyote,fox and raccoon) the number of turkey eggs that survive is much higher than in normal years. A few years later,when the predators make a comeback they have a lot of food (turkey and eggs) which will raise the survival rate of their offspring, In turn, this forces the turkey population down because of increased predation.

you can also go to Del Lago Casino. It has a good Hotel, lots of good food, nice rainy day entertainment and lots of parking space for the boat. It is about one hour away.

I'm just curious, Does the LOU website track the net use of its members? Lately I have been getting a lot of spam from boating and fishing websites which I have never visited before and I never give out my email to any stores I frequent.

There are very few mercury dealers left in Rochester. There is Bryce Marine, but it has mixed reviews. Then there is Independent Marine services on Empire boulevard at the bottom of Irondequoit bay. I would check and see if Pugsly on route 104 towards Webster does Mercury. The next closest is in Geneva. A 2 stroke really is not rocket science.

I do not think that you can use an adjustable bracket and expect the outboard to go lower, but if you can install a non adjustable bracket(Panther has some) about 5 inches below the place where your outboard clamps onto the transom you should see improvement. Before you do that you should check if the remote control cables will still move freely and not hit the transom. If they do you can solve that problem with a spacer or two between the transom and the bracket.

Most of the reason why we are tight lipped and sometimes plain misleading is the wide open nature of websites like this one. If a nice guy from Upstate NY gives a positive report about a certain place, then that certain place will be raped by a lot of nice guys from Down State, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and whoever else reads it. I would like to see a closed professional members only room for fishing reports that are honest and not open to the general public. Until that happens , I will either be tight lipped or deviously misleading to keep people from raping our beautiful lake.

Last year in September we fished in front of the Salmon at about 40 to 60 feet and there were huge schools of fish there. Naturally we presumed that these fish were salmon schooling up getting ready for a run on the river, but all the time we snagged perch on our lures. We realized then that these schools were perch and moved to deeper water. The schools we encountered there were in a fairly narrow band depth-wise but hundreds of feet long. There must be millions of perch out there. and this is their spawning season. ( the end of it already).

They are generic. I bought Cannon online for maybe $15 or so and used them for my Penns and now my Cannons.

The NOAA uses 2/3 of the average mean as the wave height. They do not mix extreme heights in their calculations. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Yes, there was something fishy about that story and you ,pap, swallowed it hook ,line and sinker

They do have the one piece 7 footers light weight rod, it is the 2 piece that they discontinued.