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FOUND: saturday 1/7/15 on fleet cove road by the old yellow duck crossing sign- i found a valuable item someone had left on the snowbank on the side of the road. i left a note on the sign with my phone number, and also left a note at the lost and fouind and at the waneta inn. if anyone knows of who left the item there send me a p.m. and i'll make arraingements to get it back to them. so, of course i'm wondering if i did the right thing, picking it up. somebody would definitely have picked it up regardless. i figured i would at least make an honest effort to get it back to it's rightful owner while some people would simply have kept it. i hope somebody on this site can help me return it. i'll post this on a couple of different boards as well.

FOUND: saturday 1/7/15 on fleet cove road by the old yellow duck crossing sign- i found a valuable item someone had left on the snowbank on the side of the road. i left a note on the sign with my phone number, and also left a note at the lost and fouind and at the waneta inn. if anyone knows of who left the item there send me a p.m. and i'll make arraingements to get it back to them. so, of course i'm wondering if i did the right thing, picking it up. somebody would definitely have picked it up regardless. i figured i would at least make an honest effort to get it back to it's rightful owner while some people would simply have kept it. i hope somebody on this site can help me return it. i'll post this on a couple of different boards as well.

i was there yesterdeay the 18th, was some ice around the dock by the big blow boat, launch was open enough to have gotten a boat out there.

south end lamoka? drive down the east lake road till you see guys on the ice, you'll see where they park. access can be tricky, it's a swampy area and i've gotten wet several times getting out onto the open lake. also there are tribs that come in around there. be careful. i'm pretty sure it's private property there but they don't seem to mind. not yet, anyway. a couple of years ago i saw tracks from a pair of otters there.

fished south end lamoka sat. good ice, poor fishing. there were several guys out there, nobody was catching, based on chatter i heard

we all hear alot about ice thickness and safety, which is of course of grave concern. this info is the accepted standard of the U.S. military, if anyone would know i think it would be them. be safe. http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/Districts/MVP/Reports/ice/safety.html http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/Districts/MVP/Reports/ice/ice_load.html

thanks for the replies, fellas. hvs isn't too far away from me, and i like the place. it's a nice little store. i just have to get my stuff the night before i go fishing is all. i'm gonna try seneca harbor in the morning- sat 20th- barring a north wind. hope to get a few of the "carpet" perch the place is so famous for.

ok, so billy bob's place is gone, where can you get bait in the area? thanks

was at the f&s saturday mid day. place was a zoo, i couldn't take it, had to bug out before i bugged out. saw lots of people with tubs of .22s. i just glanced around the place. under armor hat, $24.99, shiny bright stickbait i never heard of $23.99, decent prices on lodge cast iron pans. i'll have to check it out later when there are fewer people. i been getting my ammo at seneca gun sports, they are a nice place, and my cousin works at hvs so i go there too. one thing that seems consistant wherever i go... when i aks the clerk what they're biting on, they point at the empty peg and say "those, but we just sold the last one" just my luck i guess.

mad, i agree. i watched a couple pieces of firewood come off a trailer on the interstate. they went cart-wheeling 20' into the air, could have killed someone. guys didn't even know it happened. it's criminal. i'm pretty laid back about most stuff but i'm totaly anal about securing a load. i've seen tons of boat stuff on rt.14 south of watkins glen over the years, a baot cushion might not hurt a car too badly but if a driver swerves to miss it the utility pole sure could. batten down the hatches, boys. the edmund fitzgerald might still be afloat if they had.

floatfisher, i guess you got a better look than i did. i went by about 6:15. there was traffic around me so i could only glance at it. i didn't notice trailer or truck and it did look to me as if they were winching it up onto a rollback though. hope all it was is a bearing or a flat. i couldn't imagine the feeling you would have in your gut if you arrived at the lake minus your boat!! a guy at work said he did witness one come off a trailer and land in the median some years ago. he tried to signal the driver and all he got for his trouble was a one finger wave, so he hung back and took in the action. i guess it went rolling sideways down the highway, stuff flying all over the place. fish on

you left it on the side of I-86 in corning just west of rt.414. they were winching it onto a roll-back truck as i drove by on my way to work this morning. i assume you noticed it was gone when you got to the lake. it was dark and i didn't get a real good look but it appeared to be 19'-21' I/O. a few years back i met my buddy in watkins to go on up the lake and i asked him where his boat was. he laughed at me. i said no, seriously dude, where's your boat? it had bounced off his trailer in horseheads. he went back and retrieved it from the cop shop. his was just a 10' injection molded sunfish that came off his little utility trailer, it didn't hurt the boat. i can't imagine what hitting asphalt at 65mph would do to an aluminum or fiberglass hull on a boat.

i lost an entire 5 leader complete with sutton spoons and wire on seneca to a blowboat a few years back. we saw him overtaking us and did our best to get closer to shore to give him room (right in front of the salt plant in watkins). he never saw us. we never saw him as he was hidden in his boat somewhere, he definitely wasn't paying attention to where he was going. he passwed between us and the rocks and we were casting distance from shore. his keel caught my monel and the old penn 49 started screaming. nothing i could do, he spooled me.

this is a link to another fishing forum i belong to, from austrailia. the thread gives a perspective i think we as americans should be aware of as we muddle through things in this country. we're all facing many of the same issues. http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?198065-the-lucky-country-quot-Just-value-what-you-have-and-don-t-give-it-away-quot

i found a dewalt battery powered circular saw in the road yesterday. i called the paper and they placed a "found" ad at no charge to me. hope the guy who lost it calls me. i make my living with the tools and would like to get back something i had lost. pay it forward.

well, thank you gentlemen. this will be something new to me, and i've always liked the idea of it. on the odds of catching your lost rod, well, that's why you'll never hit the powerball jackpot, my freind!

so, i'm movin stuff around and find gramps victrola. i need copper for it, but not sure what gauge, #22 is what i think i remember hearing or maybe i dreamed it. i found a few old fluegers and twin minnows i remember from when i was a kid. i never had the chance to pull copper with the old boy so dont know much about it. he had a place just south of plumb point. http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-copper-wire/=mjt880 http://www.mcmaster.com/#9896kac/=mjtgkt these link to a good source, for any kind of wire so, any info or tales of days gone by would be very much appreciated. im gonna give it go next weekend or so. good luck an tight lines thanks joe

i apolgize for posting a topic like this on a fishing forum, but i know alot of the guys here work in the trades. i'm an industrial electrician for a fortune 500 company, and the concensus among the guys i work with is that we should always work with a partner. it's a safety concern. there are places in our facility that, if something happened, we would not be missed until our attendance percentage got flagged by the computer or someone went to check on the smell generated by a rotting corpse. seriously. osha has some specific rules for narrowly defined circumstances, but generally allows work to be performed alone. i beleive some insurance companies require two people on any given job. so, i'd like to ask the other factory maintenance guys out there what their facility regs are concerning this subject, and what they feel would be the best practice. you don't see bumper stickers on boats that say "i'd rather be working". thanks, joe

geeze, i dunno. in a perfect world...sounds great. in my world, every time i use something that ain't mine it breaks.

as for the white deer in horseheads, it's generally considered "taboo" to shoot one. i disagree, because to my way of thinking if you shoot only the brown deer, well, soon there will be only white deer, and they will spread to surrounding areas- which they are doing. i've seen them on ocasion while hunting, but never had a shot at one. it is kind of sureal to see them slinking through the morning fog. i've seen them pretty close up in peoples back yards in the area, they are a different looking critter, rather goat-like. that might be because the whiteness acentuates the deer's normal shape in an odd way. a woman i worked with's son drew a permit to hunt the depot, and he got a respectable buck.

it's tough fishing perch from shore on seneca. the breakwater in watkins always has guys fishing if the wind from the north isn't too bad, and they get their share of perch but you won't limit out there. some guys fish the docks in the marina there, too, and pick up a few. it might be worthwhile to fish from shore where feeder streams dump in, if you have access to private property. smith park is public, and you can fish the beach where the creek flows in. i'm not sure how i would rig up for shore fishing perch. probably a drop shot rig, modified with some sort of float to keep the bait off the bottom just a bit. the launch at severne is open year round but i don't think you are supposed to fish off the launch, although i have seen people do it. i suppose if you keep out of the way and don't make a nuisence out of yourself you'd be ok there. if you try it, i think i'd pick a calm day. it's tough fishing seneca from shore throwing 3/4 oz cleo's into the wind, pitching bait and trying to feel a bite through the whitecaps would be quite a challenge i imagine. good luck to ya!

i can appreciate the fact ( first hand experience) that squirrels can be very destructive. if they're chewing up your house, you owe it to yourself to get rid of them. quietly, in a quick, humane, manner. an air rifle works very well, even in town. it is illegal, so i can't recomend it, but it does work. i'm a bit put off by someone who would take revelry in torturing them to death, ripping out the guts with their teeth, rubbing the blood all over their chests and bragging about it on a public forum dedicated to sportsmen. peta reads these types of sites searching for propaganda to use against we fishers and hunters. we don't need to load a gun and hand it to them to use against us. come to think of it, jeffery dahmer started out with small animals, didn't he?

i LOVE this guy! http://www.the-leader.com/news/x1024316 ... -his-story