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generally speaking i am very cheap the exception is the case where quality makes all the difference and spoons are one of those cases. perfect example you can get cheaper spoons than FLT's but if the paint and tape is ripped off after only one or two fish than than you have to buy it again and at that point it cost more. The quality of the paint on these is second to none. it is the only spoon that has stood up as well as the NKs of the 80s i have used other brands recently and have several blanks of each that did not start as blanks. FLT also has a nice variety of colors and sizes so you can find the patterns that work with your spreads and if ever i could give you lure advice alpha alewie

so the zebra and quaggas accelerated a process that was started by the clean water act. the fact that less untreated waste and just less waste overall means the lakes become less productive. seneca is historically (before industrilization) a low production lake. it was the excess nutrients phosphorus being a big one that caused the high levels of plankton that led to the large numbers of fish many years ago. the ecosystem has changed drastically multiple times since. clearing of the land and lots of drainage ditches full of fertilizer actually has the effect of fertilizing the lake ( which would increase the algae and thus the lowest levels of the food chain that would actully lead to increased baitfish. the mussels more than mitigate this though and even with more agriculture the overall volume of nutrient loading is way below what it once was. all this means that long lived slow growing fish tend to top the food chain and desity tends to be low. lake trout are interesting in that a healthy adult population will prey upon there own young this is one of the reasons they can thrive in low production lakes but the result is a fishery that is very vuanerable to overfishing. that is why catch and release is so big on the major lake trout lakes of the north. i think seneca is in the middle of another ecosystem change. I have not personally seen gobys there yet but i'm sure they are around. I would think there population will explode soon and probably result if a couple of years of slow fishing (lots of easy to catch food around) followed by a noted increases in fish size. i would be interested to hear from those that fish it more often especially the perch guys has anyone noticed the gobys starting to pop up yet or have they been there for a while and i'm just uninformed (possible) the lakes stocked this year could find themselfs growing up surrounded by food

From my limited knowledge the lake trout population is doing quite well and natural reproduction is up. I think this affords a great opportunity to stock more silver fish. I would go one further and even say maybe try coho or dare I say it kings I dont know if the lake could support that voracious of a predator and I know the DEC would never go for it but if its put out there I can always dream

I bet this tourney would be a lot of fun to fish with my dad. Now that i have a little bigger boat hes been asking me to take him out for perch. I wish I could get out but the cast is still on for 3 more weeks. I'll have to mark this one for next year is it always on columbus day weekend?

i find that very interesting because just a few miles south in the fingerlakes lakers are reproducing quite well. To the point where in some lakes they increased bag limits and decreased stocking in an effort to prevent over population. during the memorial day derby the DEC guy at the weigh in told me they are estimating 60% of the population is from natural repro on seneca. I know they are different ecosystems but every laker i have ever cleaned out of seneca has been full of aleweye. I wonder if the water is that much cleaner and thats why they are doing better or if the nature of the lake means they are in position to eat other foods often enough to prevent thimene defficency of eggs.

i have a one man flip over frabil that i picked up 10+ years ago i think the model is a scout. the whole thing weighs 27lbs so its a great compromise. it also has a lock where i can can set it half way open so i can see my surroundings but get a nice wind block out of it. I would recomend this to anyone the only down side is its a one man.

hoping for one more trip for the derby up to the wife and weather than a few weeks off may be perch fishing by than hopefully theres still some kings in the lake in october

we just got back from an afternoon trip out there that pic must have just missed us. we had similar results one 8lb brown one 20lb king and a pair of skippys one big rip on the dipsey but came unglued. hot as heck and my ankles are bleeding from the flies

I use tubes and store them in a flasher file box. the tubes I use are actully from a science supply company they are used for cultures of fruit flys. I repurposed them and they work great. the lid has a hole in the middle so if there a little wet it will dry out. and they are fairly cheap i get them from the company i work for but they are readily available online search drosophilla vial I use them without the foam plug

I always enjoyed the rigging so using a bait that you have to tune feels very natural. for starting out though I am using premade rigs right out of the package. the rigger was a big weenie rig i won as a door prize at the lotsa marketplace the dispsey is one of the DW pre made ones I ran that behind a blue dolphin spin doc 8 inch i'll be expanding the selection over the rest of this year. Ronnie D the boat is running very well for me i'm loving being able to get out on the big lake again its been almost 20 years since the last full lake o season for me

Just wanted to post a pic of a fish my wife got a couple weeks ago on our black lake trip. I have become convinced that a state record swims there. My brother got one many years ago that had a good chance but back than i had no idea what the record was and the pic is not digital. the last few years I have not been able to get on the water as much as I want to on this trip as it is difficult for a single person to take care of our special needs child alone for to long. I have taken to fishing off the cliff there and have put togather an entertaining way to fish for these things. I use a live bluegill and dangle it straight down with its back out of the water so it splashes around. this leads to punishing surface strikes that you hear from a ways away and if you happen to see the fish coming in you can watch it toy with a bait before inhailing it. Wish i had a video this fish circled the bait for 10 mins and swated at it 3 times plus touched it with his nose another half dozen. there was a broken off bobber floating next to the cliff that it kept going to look at. This all happend 10 feet below where we were standing on the cliff in about 2 feet of water within 5 feet of the cliff edge. It didnt make the record but weighed in ant 9.59lbs and was released the my wife wouldnt get within two feet of the fish as i held it because it kept snapping. if you look at my hand under its head you get an idea of its width those that have seen big ones up close know what i mean it spanned the width of my hand and I am not a small person. Just wanted to share this was a great memory with my wife. My niece was up there with us and my daughter on the blanket as well. It was a good day.

I was thinking the same thing

had a plan to fish sat and the weather had other ideas so pushed it a day and spent the time redoing leaders and adding 30lb due to the recent flea reports. I took note of all the reports that said there was a hot meat bite and had my brother pick up a package of strips on the way. well let the wife sleep in and got to the launch around 10:30. Headed west and set up in 150 on a NW troll. Things started right off had a hit on the 72ft rigger pulling a big weenie meat rig before i had 4 rods set nothing home got the riggers and dipsey set and before I could get the boards out the wire back 300 pulling meat took a big rip that came off after a minuet. things kept going from there. the peak was a double on the riggers with a 10lb king and a decent steely. As a good sign of as we were picking up the other rigger pulling a white nuke spin dr and purple mirage fly back 240 took a nice shot my first screamer of the year. landed that it was another high teens king. Ended the day 6 for 12 with 3 high teens kings two 7-10lb kings and the one steelhead. the trout took a frog down 75 and the one king on the dipsey other that that every hit was on the rigger or dipsey pulling herring strips. I have to call that a successful experiment and guess i need to get more bait heads (I own 3) fish came from 180fow to 350fow no fleas on the rigger rods but a decent number on the dipseys even caused one of our lost fish (another teenage king) thanks to all who post reports the info is invauleable