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I'll take them Greg....

Too bad - hopefully someone can use it - some great topics to be discussed and a solid goodie bag that will go along with the seat!

Thanks for the introduction - in the coming weeks I'll be putting together some slides to walk through during the seminar - we love our brown trout fishing and can't wait for this!  Rumor has it there might be a special guest who may present a couple of slides on the topic as well.   See you there!

Vince00 scammed a guy I know as well - same deal responded to a WTB ad saying he his friend had the item etc.  Asked to be paid through Friends and Family....

49 minutes ago, Gill-T said:

This is a tough one. I have had two observers that were not fisher-folk on my boat that got sick to the point I had to come in. I felt bad for the ladies that got roped into the event by their families. I agree observers get a great education if on the right boat. Many start as observers then decide to enter tournaments (me).  I feel bad for tournament organizers that have no perfect answer to stop cheating. It would be a great win-win to coordinate with the USGS or DEC to do stomach content checks in the name of science for each fish after weigh-in. If everyone knew their fish would get cut open, lots of would be cheaters would think twice. Randomly draw name from a hat for pre-cooler/boat check prior to send off each morning. 

Some of the smaller east end events were using an "integrity form" where each team had to have preferably a member of another team or individual check your boat/coolers/cabin/storage areas on the morning of a tourney, they then had to sign and include a cell number on the form and then you had to bring that form with you to weigh in - people will always cheat but to me that was a welcome approach to a small tourney without observers.   

No such thing as a "mate card" - what is likely being referred to is you need to be enrolled in a random drug program which meets the requirements set forth in Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) sections 46 and 49.   There are a lot of maritime drug consortiums out there.  What you typically need to do is provide them with a pre-employment drug screen upon enrollment and then you become part of the pool of candidates that gets drawn for a periodic random test.   Two years ago I was tested 3 times - last year never was drawn.  Cost to be enrolled in a program runs from $75-100 anually in most cases.

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There was someone on the LOTSA FaceBook Page who had a surgery re-scheduled and had a couple tickets to sell....might be worth a look.  

On 12/31/2022 at 4:25 PM, King Davy said:

I started diving into the study. Check out the chapters on environmental study and impact. In my opinion they captured and exhaustive amount of data setting up the environment that could be effected. You have to get into section 4 to start reading what the study team determined would be the impact of construction of the Mills, and after completion impacts. 
 

Understand this has never been attempted in the Great Lakes so their results of impacts were literally logical guessing from what I can tell. Nobody has ever drilled into the bedrock of either Ontario or Erie so there is no data results of how that activity actually impacts the environment. I’m glad they’ve seemed to do the diligence in this study so we can close this book hopefully forever.

Really appreciate your involvement as a stakeholder - what would be ideal is for legislation to be brought forth based on this NYSERDA study that seeks a moratorium on the turbines in fresh waters of NY state....Thank you. 

Still just a few seats up for grabs - great opportunity to up your game!  Cost of admission includes a Friday Night social hour with the instructors, full salmon school on Saturday - which is 8 hours of instruction and includes lunch, and a Sunday morning free-form where anything is fair game.  Mid-February date puts is that much closer to the 2023 open water season!

Click link to learn more or register

https://niagarafishingexpo.com/lotsa-salmon-school

On 11/3/2022 at 4:37 PM, bottom-feeder said:

im still fishing the lake but after it gets cold ill be on the river every weekend

if interested ill take you down in my driftboat....im not a guide

if you dont find a set up you can use one of mine

text at 315 771 1638 if interested in going sometime

I have a driftboat too and no longer guide - let me know if you want to hook up sometime as well - my boat or yours.   

Once you get set up give me a shout - can have you side casting in 5 minutes and wallis casting in an hour.  I fish the Salmon River with my 12 year old a lot and he has been side casting for a couple years and now is starting to wallis cast.  Not hard.

Side cast is easiest to learn and 90% of the folks on the tribs never move beyond this - it does cause some line twist and most folks will run a swivel above their float to mitigate the effects of line twist.  Wallis casting - no need to add a swivel above the float - harder to master but a much more versatile cast.

Redundancy - my opinion is you should have one pump that can be operated in an auto mode with a float switch and at a minimum a second pump that you can switch on if needed.  The biggest thing a bilge pump buys you in the event of an emergency is time - with a big enough hole they won't keep you from sinking but should be sized to buy you time where you can either find and minimize water ingress or give you a fighting chance to stay afloat should a rescue be needed - especially important in cold water....  

Still some open seats - this will certainly sell out.  A lot of great topics on tap for the 2023 LOTSA Salmon School! 
 

https://niagarafishingexpo.com/files/2022/07/Trout__Salmon_Flyer_with_QR.pdf
 

For anyone who also plugs into shore power (you share a common ground with the entire marina if you do) you should consider installing a galvanic isolator on board.  

Galvanic Isolators Explained | BoatUS

On 9/25/2022 at 12:20 PM, Gill-T said:

Lots of gun cases and ammo boxes at Cabelas in Buffalo. I am no longer felonious. Thanks Hochul. I would love to hear how a locked car is considered unsecured. 

All just 'feel good' legislation with the added benefit of making a few otherwise law abiding unsuspecting gun owners instant felons....

Temps are cold on the inside - guys were inside of 50 fow last couple of days after the 3 day NE blow that we had.

My son likes your boat - but it will be a couple years before he gets his first boat!  Good luck with the sale - hopefully we are looking at your new boat next year out of our windshield if you are coming back to red dock 

How much are you asking - not looking to buy but didn't see it listed in the ad.

No spoons in our spread although did hear a few guys took some on spoons.  Best flies for us were A-Tom-Mik ultra green glow (aka 41) and Glow Hammers early.  A-Tom-Mik B-Fly, Stud, and UV190 in the sun. A-Tom-Mik Steel Gator meat rig took 3 of our 4 meat bites.  Couple other decent kings my kiddo took - nothing LOC worthy though.  

My opinion - right now flasher/flies are outfishing j-plugs.  As fish transition to skinnier water plugs will get better but on the east end the majority of the kings in 80-120 fow are falling to flasher/fly combos.  This past weekend we had 18 flasher fly bites, 4 meat bites and 0 plug bites for a total of 11 hours of fishing across two days - landing 14 adult kings.  As others have said fish the marks not the temp - most of our bites came 52 degrees and warmer. 

It's dropping and has dropped over the summer months.  It usually does  but this year seems more drastic than the past few years due to limited rainfall.  I've lost almost 2 feet at my slip since early June.

 Video illustrating the Coriolis Force.
 

https://youtu.be/aeY9tY9vKgs

9 minutes ago, HB2 said:

But  in a word , everyone sure does know what it means when it happens. 

 

I just watched that video. That is not  a true representation of what happens . That video shows a tank with cold on one side and warm on the other . Then they pull a wall and it disperses . 

 

What actually happens is there is warm water on the entire surface of the lake .  The prevailing current is west to east . Then the north east wind forces water towards shore and forces the warm water north while churning up the ice water . So actually it does flip . 

 

 

 

Not exactly.  Has nothing to do with prevailing currents - everything to do with the Coriolis Effect - it’s why low pressure systems rotate counter clockwise in northern hemisphere and clockwise in Southern Hemisphere.  When wind blows east or northeast it pushes water in that direction.  The rotation of the earth causes a deflection “to the right” according to the right hand rule when dealing with vector cross products.  The resulting force causes the moving water to  deflect to the right so water moving east will deflect to the north thus the warm water near shore pushes north (when looking at it from the south shore) as water moves out It fills back in with colder water underneath and causes the temp to decline on the inside.  That’s how it actually works.