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rebel, my uncle on his boat knota chance, hooked and faught one in 65 fow mexico bay while fishing salmon on a green prochip flasher and howie fly. they got it up to the boat after about 40 min fight and it straightened he treble hook out. he showed the hook to me later that day, looked like an awkward fork. never made it in the boat estimated 55 inches.

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also forgot to mention kings have a technique to throw the snapweights off the line.

personally i think the leadcore will serve you well. im suprised the big boards work so well foryou in onieda lake. after about mid june the floating weed mats are too much work to troll through. the inline boards pick the weeds up before they make it to the lure. anyways, the leadcore on oneida lake is on fire right now. you would love leadcore on oneida. especially if you were using crawler rigs. you can fish for 3 hours with one leadcore for a 3 man limit where im fishing now. if you use coundown rapalas number 11 and a 2 ounce snap weight you can atain about 40 feet troll depth at about 1.8-2.0 mph. that should be OK but not optimal for ontario. some days on ontario the brown trout bite is on fire in 75 fow in front of catfish creek even on hot sunny days and you would have to fish just off the bottom. it would be kinda hard to atain those depths with snap weights. 60 fow or less you would do well i think but for august salmon and summer browns you would do far better with a large leadcore or just a couple dipsies and to save some pennies you could fish em with braided line. if your fishing east end for mid september kings and spring browns, you would be able to acheive enough depth with snap weights otherwise not so much a great setup for ontario salmonoids.

seen a dead musky with a duck in its mouth in clayton 1000 islands.

x2 x3 also a brand new impellar will burn up in 30 seconds withough water in the system while running.

if you use cedar youll have to weigh them a little bit but they float well and last a long long time. pine works OK, just have to seal it up so it doesnt get warped and crack. the best wood to use is ash or maple that i have found because they float but are already heavey. the ones i made have no problem pulling out 150 feet of dacron and running 3 stickbaits or even threeway rigged diving stickbait spoon rigs in rough water. the gander yellow plastic ones work ok but these wood ones are much better. those yellow plastic ones from gander will start to leak eventually and sink. that is a serius problem when it happens. been there done that. making your own is cost effective and advised. it may not look fancy but nothing beats having a great day of fishing using equipment you made and can work better than more expensive equipment.

well, 223 243 they all work with minimal recoil... but if you want a caliber with no recoil that will stop a deer better than any other caliber mentioned at the low recoil level...it IS a 25-06. no need to upgrade with age. just perfect already for youths and adults alike. long range capable as well. westerners already know that but out east the word is not out yet but try one and thank me later.

you can crease an R&R spoon in half then smash it with a hammer and the paint will look the same and you cant scratch it off with your fingernail at the crease. Dave from R&R has it figured out. he powder coats them and bakes the finishes on. once there on there there on there. http://www.mytacklebox.com. support your local economy and buy quality products folks.

the walleys are all over the place. there still up chittenango creek all the way out to shackelton shoals. many fish to be had between threemile bay and pine grove as well. a buddy who was catching his limit of walley out east driftin the beach sunday morning caught a heavey limit and reported a sturgeon rolling on the surface. one of the best openers ive had in about 8 years and the fish keep biting. ive been catching them lazy mans style and running two lead core's off the back with R&R crawler harness blades in brown and orange or blue and pearl or purple and pearl. those giant slab sunnies are biting west of threemile and the heathen slime darts are plentifull this year. its a good time to fish onieda for walleyes.

i dont use many flies i just use the atomic brand flies that have a single hook and a treble behind and have a rattle. they work great whene flies are working for me. i have tried the echip ones and they have not started a fly bite whene there is not one.

ive had luck on different color dipsys but i use clear with a white ring. seems to consistantly work good and i never wory bout changing the dipsy color to match my lure.

nobody likes R&Rs?

hmmm...rapala has more world records than any other artificial bait ever produced. i stand behind rapala's. rapala's dont always outfish the others but its more often than not. also i dont understand how a rapala wont last as long as a smithwick or thunderstick. the husky jerk is almost same construction. i have many many lures but alot of pictures on my wall have a rapala swingin in the background somewhere.

also you can lift an atlantic salmon by its tail, doing that with a brown is like holding a greased piglet. i know a ten pound atlantic would spank a 10 pound brown as far as being connected to a rod, and just for a fun fact, a 15-20 pound atlantic can and WILL run a 30 pund king off their reds. they are extremely territorial and they have no creature besides man to fear. they will not have to compete with other species for spawning habitat...they will steal it. atlantics are awsome i wish more stocking was taking place to jumpstart the natural spawning rate.

im a "hardcore" C&R fisher and camera time kills the fish. if you keep it in the net in the water untill the camera is ready, dont hang the fish from there gills, get the picture then quickly torpedo the fish under the surface layer of water they usually just take right off twards bottom like nothing happened. keep em out of water for 3-5 mins after a hard fight and it will be a floater...dont do like some common sense lacking individuals do and stick your hand up through the gill to hold the fish and after the 13 bloody pictures, flop the fish back into the drink pretending you did the right thing.

also i might ad that for the big boards, if you mount reels or a mast, about 5 feet off the water works good for me. if you get em up too high they pull really really hard and only go out the same distance from the boat. too low and your releases will dip into the water and could cause the release to twist over the planer line. otherwise the big boards seldom have release problems and as soon as a screamer yanks the release your fighting the fish of the day on a free line. the inlines as convenient as they are, having the planer on the line while fighting fish stinks and if the fish pulls drag in the opposite direction with enough velocity it will certainly break your line with the planer pulling backward like a trashcan lid. the releases on inlines can be played with, but never 100 percent foolproof.

skaneateles has some descent ones. seneca has the slobbers

tournament fishermen like the single inline planers. i dont prefer them, but for specific fishing types they are neccecary. now if the only fishing your going to do is on lake ontario's clear waters then the larger mast style planers and a bucket full of releases will serve you well. if you fish like me, from kings to brookies muskies to perch, i think youll need bolth. the mast style planer setup will cause your lines to pick up floating debris and they will collect on the lure, fishing lake ontario this is not an issue. also you dont want to run a whole mast system for putting one or two lines off in a very small strike zone only to pull it all back in to make a turn or what not. also big boards are not good for river fishing. the little inlines are convenient for certain things, they are not convenient for pulling six planer lines all day long fish after fish on a large body of water.

browns school yes, but there somewhat nomadic. ive caught browns in 30 feet of water while the pack crashes their boards on the banks for banner counts in the cooler and ill peck away at 10 pounders and steelhead and atlantics away from the pack. you cant catch em all i can assure you. thers alot of catch and releasers like myself out there as well. catch a bunch and keep a couple is recomended but not neccessary for browns and kings. via my own personal preference, lake trout caught in shallow water, and ALL atlantic salmon that are not/wont suffer mortal injury should be released as quickly as possible...at least until there easier to catch and natural repro is rampant.

never seems to fail is pretty much the same term i would use as well. the whole alewives are delicious too.