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Sounds great Nick. PM sent with my numbers

It was a great event. I met many wonderful young men and women. Already have it booked for next year

Group pic Sent from my SCH-I545 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

fished the all aboard event for wounded and active military personnel and vets. Left dock at 545 Saturday morning and headed NW. Worked water from 70-210'. Marked very few small bait pods here and there. Picked up 2 Skippy Kings off the boards with a 2 color core w/NBK spoon and the other off the 5 color w/SSW UV spoon. We were getting desperate to put these guys on fish. Moved into 100 FOW with intent of doing some Lakers. Started marking some good bait pods in 55-90 range. Had 64.5 surface and 53 down 40. Threw a standard dipsey out 76 on a 1 and within minutes hooked up. Nice steelhead around 8 lbs or so lost right at back of boat. Minutes later 55 rigger fires pulling a orange crush spoon. Nice 7.5 lb brown. Worked that area for next hour but no more takers. All in all was a tough trip for most of us. Alot did a fish or two and most did none. Temps and bait are starting to set up nice though.......here is Austin (10th MTN Division Ft Drum) with his brown

i re-did mine a couple years ago using 1 x 6 x 8 pieces of cedar fence material as my backer. Lightweight and has held up great so far. when it comes time to redo them again i will look into the PVC board

Awesome job. Remember these times as they go by way to fast. I have 2 daughters of my own and any time spent alone with them is a treasure and making memories like this she will never forget is priceless

Great job Mike 'Bout Time

Great News. WiNDSTREAM is in again this year as a Gold Level Sponsor. Just received word today Mike 'Bout Time

It's been tough for everyone lately. A couple.browns first thing in the am ( very early ) and shuts down. Most guys are heading deep to bang Lakers. Way to stick it out and get some fish Mike 'Bout Time

Team 'Bout Time is in.... will work on sponsors and donations this week Mike 'Bout Time

Price ? Mike 'Bout Time

Depends on your boat honestly. The water is low every where. i can't lauch at Turtle Cove because my trailer will fall off the end of ramp and the my axles will hit. I have a 23.5' Trophy and weigh +/- 5000 lbs and was able to launch at the state park ok yesterday

I decided to try a couple and can honestly say so far this season the glow green frog and standard green frog for me has taken more hits (nearly 3 to 1) over any other of my lures. im on the East end. I have the Orange and "High School" also ready for when the Coho Show up

The water at the park is very low. There was just enough water at the very end of the dock to float the boat off the trailer. I showed just under 3' ( 32-34" ) at the end of the docks,

Boat size will only limit you if you let it. Only fish the conditions you are comfortable with. As far as Charters entering the open divison, if that what makes them feel better so be it. There will always be these kind of people in life and unfortunately there nothing we can do about them. I would take pride in fishing with your son and doing the best you can and not letting one or two bad apples ruin your experience. For me the tournaments whether it be Pro, AM or Open is about the experience. Years ago the first ever tourney i enetered was the Open Division out of Sodus. At the weigh in I met alot of good guys and Charter captains that were willing to talk to me and share their success and non-sucessful programs. Point is for every negative (bad) person out there you will find 2 to 3 positives. Guys like Rich (Yankee Troller) and Bill Ruth (Billy V) among others have always been a class act towards everyone. Associate yourself with the positive guys and forget the negative. When you fish the Open and place ahead of that "person" whom you think should not be there pat yourself on your back for a job well done.

Splash down this afternoon at Fair Haven. Launched at state park around 130 pm and worked my way west. Gin clear water the whole way. Temp was a solid 45 until I got in front of "7 sisters". Found a small pocket of 48 degree water and moved a couple rods (all sticks). All cookie cutter browns. Turned around and headed back east. Took a decent 8 lb brown off die hard spoon down 5 and 50 back out of the 45 degree water in front of holiday harbor. Made a pass on east side of chute and took another 2 cookie cutters in 47 degree water. The water on the east side had the most (only) color to it. Boat ran great and officially ready for the season. Mike 'Bout Time

How did you attach the spring to the underside of the fish wells? Mike 'Bout Time