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the kicker is worth its weight in gas alone. I have a 4 stroke nissan i can troll all day on less than 2 gallons i have a 6 gallon tank and top it off everyother trip at most and have never needed more than 2.5 gallons. gonna fish infront of the genny today hoping for some big lake O trout. good luck out there today is prime winter fishing weather.

best advice i can give is get a pair of leadcores. they are the most productive rods i own. i have a 4 color and a 6 color that i love on the 4 color i have a piece of mono splieced in at one color and and the 6 color i have one spliece in at two colors. run a search on this site for how to set them up thats how i learned. the mono means you can run them off a board at that leangth or the full leangth. get good flurocarbon i like P-line and go the fingerlakestackle.com and pick some lures. i only have a handheld gps so for speed fish anywhare from 2.2 to 3.0 vary untill you get a hit that repeat that speed each day is different. I like big boards but inlines will work i have a homemade mast PM me if you wants some pics did the whole thing for under 50 bucks. spring and fall are my favorit times fish are up high and inclose so with good weather i can fish lake O if not seneca has several launches so i can run from the wind (small boat). If you dont want to do boards to start you can flatline the cores of the back while still using riggers also good in a crowd. get a kicker its quieter and as a result the boards are less important i started catching more fish when i went from an old 40 hp to a newerish 7.5hp I lost a lot of range but have better speed controll and better gas mileage i caught a lot more fish this year. for your rigger rods on the fingers you can use any backing you want but if your gonna fish summer the fleas can be a pain many on hear mention 30lb mono for that and it works like a charm get a spool of your prefered brand and fill the reel than go light with your leaders. I use 10lb in the fingers but keep one rod with a 20lb leader for the spin dr I like the heavier line for the twist. check your leaders often and dont be afraid to change them. with the finger lakes you want light releases on your riggers or something on a teather because you will at somepoint hit a small fish and drag it around for a while. winter on seneca is a good place to learn just keep an eye on the weather winter can turn quick. best part of the small boat mine was only winterized for like 6 weeks last year. I had it out in dec and feb. this is a good site to learn ask any questions you can. most of what i know i learned from the people on this site so i try to pass on what I can but there are many here who know a whole lot more than I do

zimm this time of year drive to watkins glen and launch out of clute. set up right out of the shoot and troll the south end. typically the warm water attacts good numbers. DW super slims work or the FLT spoons last year i did real well in the top 50 feet of water off boards and riggers I usually run sliders as well and had more than one single pole doubles. lot of LLs in the 18-20 inch class but they should be a year bigger now plus there is a good chance at a rainbow. I here there are lots of browns to but i never got into any. If you want you can drag a dipsey or run deep and catch some lakers as well. I will be out in am ut with the wind down i may try to fish out of the genny in lake O or out of naples on canandaguia just because i wanna try a new lake but seneca has been good to me the last 12 months or so but it took a couple years for me to learn to catch anything consistenly there though i have limited fishing time. this site helped a ton

if it catches fish you can use my remains that way but my brother might beat you to it

if you put a hook in that and pull it in can you use the mink as pike bait?

i was on a charter in the keys as a kid we caught a bunch of dolphin when we go to the dock i asked the captin if he ever missed while he was putting fish on the spikes for pictures. he said never in 20 years and than 5 mins later missed and threw one off the dock his mate (who was his son) yelled "jump in" and he did. he got the fish back and while down there cleaned off some scum from the bottom of the boat we still have the pic of him standing next to my brother dripping wet holding a sock infront of the board of fish. my dad sent him an 8x10 a couple years later we were on his boat again and he had the pic displayed.

i know the white sturgeon in the pacific jump and these sturgeon jump when not hooked my buddys pulled and dogged to the bottom I gotta imagine when they get over 100 pounds it has to be a decent fight even if they just try to hug bottom. i'm just glade the DEC continues to work these kind of restoration projects as well as the gamefish stockings it will only serve to improve the overall health of the waters a diverse eco system is a resilant ecosystem

Tg8 how dare you dampin my optimisium with your science. still i know the stocking in the genny several years back had some good success my buddy caught one about 4 feet long a couple years back and he dec did a survey that showed good numbers surviving. I've seen them caught in the seneca river and i know onieda lake has a good population. Interestingly black lake has a small but very big (size) population and i recently discovered that they have lampreys in there thogh they dont seem to explode in numbers. so i still have hope for cayuga I know they had a huge year class of lampray this year hopfully they will get most of them in the traps and there wont be any flooding this spawning season

i seem to remember sombody wanting to buy lamprys to sell for sturgeon bait if they truly do pray on those blood suckers these little guys could thrive in cayuga id love to see a viable sport (catch and release) fishery for them in new york in my life time people would be a huge draw for tourism and put more money in the conservation fund if cumo lets the dec spend it

always good to help when you see a boater in distress in my life ive given 3 tows and once went in to get a camp owner to help out a stranded boater on black lake (offered tow they declined but asked us to get owner). when my turn came and our engine stalled out 2 miles from the dock someone was nice enough to stop there day and tow us in so karma is definatly worth it.

small boats are nice for us poor folk pick your weather and do some research and lots of options are open to fish just gotta keep an open mind and a back up plan thats the nice part about living in new york if you get blown off a big lake there are lots of rivers and small waters to fish

it can be done quite well its real shallow so you have to have a smaller boat fish the creek channels or the flats around the docs trolling works but if you have an electric its better. its a long drive for me now but used to do it a couple times before ice in every year.

will a romer stick on the braid if you wanna do a double stack or will it slide up if you try to tighten the rod down? i will say i switched to 150lb power pro for my boards this year and I like it way better than the 300lb dacron i was using made me start to think about the riggers