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i tried to add weights,and it sort of works I have added weights to leadcore and added it on on the end close to the rod. thinking that it would not disturb the unique character of leadcore. But you will have to let the backing farther out in order to allow your extra weight to go down the required 20 to 30 feet. It works but having to take off the weight every time often requires a second person. In my opinion it is easier to put a hundred feet or so of 19 strand stainless steel wire between the core and the backing. It has the same sinking quality as leadcore but very much less water resistance. That way your leadcore will also go down to seventy feet. Either way you will have to let out another few hundred feet and it moves your line from brown and steely depths to salmon territory. I also tried to use 16 and 20 color lengths. That did not make a lot of difference in depth but it did cause a lot of lines crossing and knotting up . One technique that I use a lot in the finger lakes with live bait and leadcore is stopping the engine and allowing the core with bait to sink down to even 200 feet where it comes into the cone of my fish finder and then start, go and stop . That way you can get the very big very deep lakers. I do think that it only works with live bait.

I just read this little thing again and found it is the writings of a sot , Shakespeare I am not.

Just an observation. When I fish a lot I hardly post at all. Then as seasons change the fishing decreases and the posting become more. In the depths of winter posting becomes a steady stream and fishing just a dream. Cabin fever forces me out the door into my snow stained boat to stamp around in and postings turn into a torrent. Please Spring speed up your arrival and release me from this snow bound shore onto the water where my life means more.

This may be a bit far fetched, but my leadcores have braided housing around the core. Having used these leadcores with twilitips for several years I did see some fraying of the braid. I do not know if the same would happen with ceramic tips.

I used to have a set just like it. Except for the finish. The cedar stops the rot and the unfinished wood soaks up the water and causes the boards to lay deeper in the water. This makes them pull a lot harder.

I looked into it and the idea is very attractive. I asked people on "The Hull Truth" website about it and the answer from most of them is that it is nice for walleye in quiet water but these motors are not made for trolling for 5 or 6 hours and then be able to use that motor to bring you back to shore in case of a main engine failure.

I just read your post again and their should be some info about other fish to catch. For the kids, that should be a pogy fishing trip on a head boat. The boat parks on a school of pogies and it is game on. they can catch a lot of nice fish. For you, it may be fluke which you can catch on the flats east of Chatham or if the summer is warm enough in front of Pamet harbor or in 20 feet of water in front the national seashore west of Province town. There you can use a Gambler rig tipped with sand eel with great success, while your boat just floats with the current. Now that is some very nice fish to feast on. And of course, there always is a ton of bluefish,skates and dogfish, although both skates and dogfish are considered a pest

Billings Gate is a shoal in the bay. There are always a lot of stripers in the area around Billings gate. If it is fly fishing you want to concentrate on then the outside of the southern most tip of the Well fleet outlet would be a god spot. As for clamming, very often the local recreation authority sets up a clamming event which happens close to the regular beach. It is wading very close to the surf line in ankle deep water. Your wife can enjoy the event from under her Sunbrella sitting on a beach chair fifty yards away.

You should google "on the water". That is the magazine with all the fishing news for cape cod and the islands.

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Yes, I will take it. You have a pm.

Yes , pap just what I was thinking.I was gonna sent a pm

Spring is a bit early for stripers on the cape. First come the bluefish and then later in spring the stripers show up. First off martha's Vinyard then the canal and later the bay. It starts with schoolies and as May turns into June ,the big cows show up and stay until september when they start their migration to the south again.

It has been tried several times by companies trying to transport our water in empty oil tankers to the Middle East. The Great Lakes Consortium has successfully blocked all those schemes. But there is always the talk about a water pipe line going west. With the current president and the anti environment EPA boss , that might become more than just talk. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

That is true,but now we making room for that water ,besides the lake Superior water takes a long time before it gets here.

On Monday 3-19 at 0.700 AM the flood gates at Massena will be opened. That should bring the lake level down to normal. This would be a bad time to go fishing in the Saint Laurence. Let's just hope that there will be no drought this summer.