Fish Hunter

Actually I thought I had heard you can get in trouble for that, on Skaneatles Lake..........

We have it on board, and will run it after the early morning bite slows. Our largest fish have been caught on twinkie rigs/11" plate.

Hey, you guys are hot-rodders...lol. I never have my ourboard or I/O much over 4000.

Boat launch manners should be a law, that if broken, is punishable by genital electro-shock treatment until adhered to.....................betcha they'd pull their head out their a$$ in a BIG hurry then.......lol.

We caught them in 40 plus FOW on Sunday pulling crawler harnesses.

Did not catch 1 single fish out the back. Those fish are on now, and it'll be that way 'till about mid-August as a rule, but 3rd weekend in July we pull the camper to Lake Ontario, and chase the cold-water fish, 'till after Labor Day, then shortly thereafter, I start inhabiting tree stands.

We use 2-3 oz. bottom bouncers, that deep, fished on the bottom. Let them out until they JUST touch the bottom, clip the board on, and run it off where you want it. We were running 5 rods. 2 boards, 1 off each side, and 1 down the chute with a semi-variety of blades, then we home in on what they like.

We ran our usual #4 Colorado program and had 2 in about 45 minutes, with several silver bass stealing our bait, but then my son was going thru some other harnesses I had put up with spin-n-glows, and others with smile blades, and I said why not? Changed up one, and sent it down. Bang. 10 mins later another. So we pulled another rod and re-set it with another. Bang. Next we knew the port planer board was 1/2 way underwater! Dropped it at the boat.........whatever it was. We had steady marks, with as many as 5-6 on the screen sometimes. We worked our way thru a pile of shorts and ended up with our 6, and we were still boating fish when we pulled it at 12:00. 40 FOW, .09-1.2 mph gps. Gonna' run those as a steady routine until they say otherwise.

That must've had some serious "pucker factor" to it. Wow. I carry a hand bilge on our boat, but with a 2" stream entering, I doubt like hell it would keep up, as I've tested it before. Years ago a local guy, picked up a new-to-him boat in Sodus, and was making his way back to the LSR, as I believe he told me. It caught fire and went down, after those guys went into the water(and were rescued) to escape the blaze. Made the hair on my neck crawl listening to him tell it. Hope we all have a safe season!! Scott

Bass opener probably causing all the traffic.

The threat of someone getting their socks wet tommorrow will keep 'em on the trailer.

We've run even a 4 rigger progarm with all flasher/flys.

I have a few of those......I'll give 'em a rip this weekend. Last year there were a few folks that used "bubble gum" blades that they said worked well for them. Only about 5-6 weeks and we'll be chasing the cold water fish.

I was pulling #4 and #5 Colorado blades yesterday, on Oneida. There sure favored the perch pattern #4. Right around 1 mph off the gps.

We use 10' Ugly Stick/Dipsey rods.