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What's the latest at Wright's Landing?
AnglingAddict replied to nickihoyboy's topic in Open Lake Discussion
From what I have been told they are 100% full...I don't think transient slips are available at this time but call the booth/welcome center for specifics. I just repeating what I was told but you never know. -
Does anyone ship cut bait strips?
AnglingAddict replied to ErieBuck's topic in Tackle and Techniques
Every day is different - some days they want the meat rigs - other days they want it clean. Tom Allen (Atommik) will ship if he has it in stock but last I saw he was sold out for the season. -
You say any kind of chop more than 1' coming from the side - what kind of boat are you running? If it's a light boat I guess I could see that happening if you are really sliding.
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What's the latest at Wright's Landing?
AnglingAddict replied to nickihoyboy's topic in Open Lake Discussion
It's open - still construction going on but open and operational. -
You are crabbed out - it's not the boards. Double Keel Otters will do the same.
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7/4 Braddocks Bay Browns
AnglingAddict replied to whaler1's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
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Going to get about 5 different answers LOL! Most popular brands in 30# 7 strand stainless wire are Torpedo, Blood Run, AFW, Malin, and Mason. A few other brands as well. They all do what they are supposed to do.
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Team Angling Addict is looking for an observer for Atommik Invitational - need to be available for the captain's meeting evening of August 6th (Friday) as well as be available to observe on August 7th (Saturday) with the blow off day slated for August 8th (if needed). We fish a 33' Tiara so you will be observing on another large boat - Tom does observer swap based on boat size nominally. Paid position - we pay $100 for the day of the event and also invite you to fish with us on Friday as we pre-fish. (You will get exposure to our program as well as the boat you observe on over the course of 2 days). Please respond by PM if interested. The only thing you need to be is 100% reliable.
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8 Rod Program Recommendation Needed Please!
AnglingAddict replied to ErieBuck's topic in Open Lake Discussion
Any time you try and optimize for multiple species, across multiple depths, with multiple presentations - you end up marginalizing pretty much everything. My advice is to pick something and fish it - Kings may be deeper and steelhead up high but you can have current moving in two different directions above and below the break and so how do you deal with that? Well you don't. You end up favoring one presentation over the other and some of your rods will likely go dead in the process. Most boats run one temp probe so unless they are moving it up and down a lot - they won't have awareness throughout the entire column. My advice is to pick one species to target and go all in. Its far easier to dial a spread for one species than it is to haphazardly toss a bunch of stuff out and hope for the best. When we fish - we fish a single species - not saying there aren't incidental catches but when we fish Browns or Kings - that's what we are fishing for and expect to catch. -
Should but you never know - did the previous owner change oil at recommended intervals - proper weight oil. Did they run it hard right to the pins when running or were they easier on it - in general as long as you keep oil pressure up in those motors trolling you should be fine - running too low on the RPMs is worse than running the motor hard all the time in my opinion.
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Don't know of much available - with the removal of the International Marina - most of those boats have been moved to Wrights and there is (last I heard) a wait list to get into Wrights. There are some transient spaces available on the wall behind the restaurants on the east side of the river - that's probably your only shot at securing a place to leave a boat in the water. Another option is you could lock through the first lock and you can leave your boat on the wall there - probably wouldn't leave your boat unattended there but all the canal goers tend to park there for the night as they move through.
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Agree - if it stays as dry as it has been across the Erie and Ontario watersheds - I would expect it to drop somewhat over that time period - sort of in unchartered territory as far as being in a low water situation AND under the IJCs Plan 2014. Have to see how they manage it.
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I have had a couple of fish done by Richard Benedict Jr of Angling Artisans Unlimited - his work is the best I have seen. My son's LOC BT from this past summer is with him now and you can't beat the depth and realism in the paint on his mounts - the fish literally shimmer and change color as you walk around the fish just like the real thing. My 2 cents. He isn't cheap but you won't get a frankenfish either. He molds your fish and then lays it up in glass so it lasts forever - not just some commercial production blank where you give them some rough measurements although he can do that too. Link to his coldwater gallery
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Plenty of fish being caught - don't wait on a good report to go fishing - by the time you get there things will have changed. If you want higher densities of fish to target consider spending an extra hour and a half driving and hit the western end.
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12# plenty for spoon fishing for lakers. We run 12# and later in the season 15# for kings and have taken numerous high 20's fish on leader that light. Properly weighted rod, in an experienced guys hands with a great reel and super smooth drag I wouldn't hesitate to run 12#. That being said you would have to play the fish longer and your odds of losing it increase - so from that line of thinking heavier leader is better - but you pay a price in terms if bites normally - lighter leaders will usually outfish the guys running cable.
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Gremlins caused by corrosion mostly.....if you are good at chasing things down and troubleshooting it shouldn't be a big deal - that being said if it was me - for any problem I encounter (for example say an oil pressure sending unit that isn't working properly) - not only replace the faulty part (new sending unit) - but pull brand new wiring and clean every contact in the system related to the system at a minimum - do it once - do it right.
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Personally I would re-glass them - but you can fill them with 4200, lifecaulk, or 5200. Don't use a silicone based sealant below the waterline.
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Lookin for some advice with Boat Insurance
AnglingAddict replied to Hachimo's topic in Open Lake Discussion
Not just about what could happen to you but based on the Marina you are in if your boat has lines break in a storm and damages someone else’s boat or you hit someone coming into the slip you will want to be protected there too - not hard to do several thousand dollars in damage to someone else’s boat and then have to pay the entire amount out of pocket... -
Doesn't look good for lake levels!
AnglingAddict replied to yank my line's topic in Open Lake Discussion
The IJC really should listen to all of us on the water every day - we know more than they do! They should raise lake levels up so we can all get to our docks - don't they know how much revenue we bring in??? When it's high they need to lower it - we have trips to run!!!! This is how 90% of the people on this forum respond. I'm obviously being sarcastic here. The tribs barely had any flow all fall and winter - we are in a mild drought and they ran water this winter - deviated from the plan to lower the possibility of flooding this spring (who knew what mother nature held in her cards 6 months ago?). The IJC headed the call about concerns over high water - and lowered the lake. Unfortunately - mother nature is one of the critical inputs here on the overall supply side - if you don't have runoff the levels will decrease when your supply is less that your outflows - simple flux problem. Runoff, evaporation rates, min/max outflows all contribute. They can only control the lake levels with one parameter - let out more or let out less - no levers to pull on the input side. Is the plan flawed? In my opinion it is - it only looks at the overall level of the lake when determining what the outflows should be across 90% of the expected lake levels - it needs to also consider the overall supply as an input variable or you have a system that doesn't take the rate of change in the levels into consideration which is critical to controlling any watershed - especially so with smaller systems where the timescale of events is more rapid but even at that - the IJC should have known by looking at the rate of change of supply that they were headed for an issue in the high water years. They have some smart people on the board and I'm positive they look at those parameters but when looking at how to distribute the pain across the stakeholders - the riparian stakholders and lake users tend to take the brunt because a slow flood or slow reduction in levels is easier to manage then catastrophically and dangerously flooding out inhabitants downstream. So I think unfortunately that's why we see what we see - we are the stakeholders that minimize the time element of the disaster - as in it happens slow and we can react accordingly. The priorities are shipping and downstream safety. -
Wanted Looking for a Cabelas 8 position pedestal rod holder in good condition
AnglingAddict replied to Sk8man's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent