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bobby123 and pap............great GREAT stories!!!! Ditto to what everyone else has said....Awesome stuff :yes: ..!!!!

Great report and nice mirror carp. Haven't seen one of those in many a moon. Course, I haven't targeted carp since I was a kid, when we used to corn, doughball, even bacon them up.....commons, leathers, mirrors, and escaped orange and blue "backyard pond" goldfish, all in the same waters....BTW, those orange and blue goldfish got large in those lakes in the wild....

Please elaborate if you can on that belly fat. I've never cleaned fish of any kind with anything like that in it....looks like sperm sacs......

Justin.....That is a nice shot of a really nice time on Otisco. Looks like some decent meals there too!

Joe g....I'm with u 100%.....!! For all of the reasons stated by you and others, these age limitations need to be changed. With voices expressing this issue, I'll bet we can get the rules changed for next season. And then your son, and yourself, even though he would be of age for the summer session, can feel good that y'all contributed greatly to the opening up of the derby! And I'll bet the derby sponsers would be glad too..........a win-win for all (excepting the fish ....)!

Remembering the days in spring when U could troll out for a few hours in the morning and catch some nice salmonids for the cooler and then come in close to shore and absolutely crush big NICE smallies (1-4lbs.) on almost every cast with black grub tail 1/8 oz jigheads with 6lb test line and ultralite rigs. Sometimes a true brute would latch on and always break off.. leaving U wondering how big it really was and why r we not using heavier outfits! What a blast. Sometimes we'd pick up bonus sheephead at the same time; they fought well too.You could look down into the clear water and see all of the smallies below near the bottom. They would hit almost anything we threw at them. And no gobies. All fish were c&r, saving the trout. I know the smallies are still there though maybe not in the huge #s. In the really shallower waters, 10ft or less, you would invariably pick up smaller young bass (4-7in).With no gobies. We've caught them since the gobies arrived in september trolling, flatlining with jointed shad raps and such just outside of the Ginna plant and that general depth level along the lakeshore. Nice ones. But not the crazy pre- goby spring time fishing.....

What a great day of fishing!! And your first tiger musky... ! Congratulations! BTW, not nearly the degree of your "first timer deal", but exciting because of it's unexpectedness to me. Last week I caught my first spotted bass. In Shasta lake in California. As far as I can be sure, they don't exist in NY. They have become the most numerous bass specie in that lake, outnumbering the plentiful (and bigger) largemouths, and also smallies. Several were caught all over the place. Always really cool to catch a "new to me" fish .But I had not been targeting at all....just trolling and casting for whatever and those guys were willing! Again....great deal on the tiger and all else man !!

Swwweeeeet! Plenty of those guys (healthy largemouths) in Sodus, too........

Really, REALLY Nnniiiiicce......!!