old man

That pic sure gets around. Truth is it's me. Caught it on a cane pole in the wide waters near port Gibson using bubble gum for bait. I swear.

every year this turtle crawls 150 yards uphill from the canal to lay her eggs next to my pool. In about 90 days they hatch and head for the nearest body of water.(my pool) so I scoop them up and walk them down to the canal and let them go.

Nice!

Got my tickets in the mail today. Tomorrow I'm going after all the little league,scout,and cheerleader parents that have been bleeding me all these years.

is that long pond? cranberry? nice fish!

i'm going nowhere. today makes 3 weeks since I've been out. wife had a hip replaced and my current gig is home health aide. I won't be out again until the chatauqua tourney. I don't know how much cleaner my rig can get. maybe tomorrow I will clean the bilge out. one thing is for sure,I will never again complain about cold fronts,turnover,algae blooms,rain,hail,jet skis,cottonwood,floating weeds,or anything else. next time i'm out I will just thank god I am fishing and enjoy it.

old man,I will send you 10 tickets in mondays mail!  Anyone else willing to sell some tickets?

 

Thanks, Capt. Larry

make it 20. I've been buying tickets my whole life and never sold anything. payback time.

i'm a member and i'll sell ten if they mail them to me. speaking of muskies inc.....I got a 90 day notice from them to renew my membership. so I assume there will be a 60 and 30 day notice as well. in this day and age that's a waste of money. I bet 100 per cent of the membership has e-mail. they should have a paperless option. same with the magazine they put out. it's nice but an online version would save a lot of money

plan sounds solid enough. try the bay at the boat launch. there is a very productive drop off about 75 yards south of the launch. I've caught a lot of nice bass there fishing for esox;no reason you won't catch esox there with a bass approach. with today's heat and the approaching thunderstorms don't rule out the shallow water.

my boat has a bait well/minnow bucket combo I never use. I turned it into a mini tackle box. I cut a piece of plexiglass ,drilled it with a hole saw,and glued pvc tubes in it. then I filled all the empty space with spray foam. (looks like I could have let the foam set up a bit longer) if I ever want to use the baitwell the tube insert comes right out.

what a nerd I am! I posted that from my phone. pretty nice ap, chad,if I can use it. so who will be the first to drop his phone in a lake? pretty good odds it will be me.

Just seeing if this works.even this carp is bored to death with tv.

the drains in my champion have the rubber covers in the water and ping pong balls at the floor drain. they still let water in when I slow down fast or have people in the back. I bought pvc plumbing ball valves and put them in the hoses. now I can close them when keeping the deck dry is a concern and still use them when needed.

it was nice to meet a few of the guys from this site. I didn't count but it looked like a dozen boats or so at the start. my son and I bailed at 1 after 6 hours casting with nothing to show for it. not even a follow. the only fish we saw were the ones being netted by three guys in a gray and white  boat 100 yards from us just north of the causeway. they got two for sure,and I think I saw a third in about a half hour. not too shabby! I won't be out for awhile,the wife is getting a new hip Monday and i'm gonna be house **** for a few weeks. hope to get her back on her feet before the muskie opener.

rain and 20 mph wind Saturday...perfect! seeya on the water

I haven't been out yet. my history in may is I see a lot of fish and don't catch much. i'll be at Otisco next Saturday;hoping the warm weather will get 'em going. hey mortigan;working the edges for bass will get you esox at conesus,if they're in the mood. try the bay at the launch;one of the best spots on the lake.

I'm in

I am green with envy. I've been skunked twice there so I have no advice on fishing. but eat at the local diners and order chicken and dumplings;they have that down pat!

go get 'em!

maybe conesus is just not the best lake for tiger stocking? Maybe Seneca or Cayuga where the pike run smaller would be a better choice? Perhaps the real potential of conesus lake is manage it for trophy pike fishing? 22" minimum and limit 5 is pretty liberal. Maybe a 40" and one a day limit would produce some world class pike fishing and with no cost? without tigers to eat the pike will have to chow down on those rudd. I am no biologist I just fish there a lot and I catch 20 pike for every tiger and the biggest fish are always northerns. just a few thoughts.

will do

you're welcome. if I buy another can I give it to my son or does he need to get one on his own?

With tackle boxes careful of any soft plastics coming into contact with other plastic.  I had a few loose ones melt into the tray of the tackle box after one winter of storage.  Not high on the priority list but it does cause a mess.

I bought a Lakewood muskie extreme box 2 years ago. in it was a paper warning me that soft plastics could damage the box. I ignored the warning,of course, and next season my bulldawgs,red Octobers,and bondys were welded to the sides of the box. I wrecked the baits getting them out and to this day the dividers in the box are still soft. p.o.s!

sounds like a good one. and i have time to sock away some dough for it. like i need more baits.

where and what time?