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I travel a lot huges is the closest lake o launch but I can go from sandy to Oswego in just over an hour so I chase conditions and reports I also can hit multiple finger lakes. With the little boat I fished Seneca a lot and Cayuga some I have since gotten a new boat but went to an 18 footer because I like having options and I like the multi species set up but if I ended up back in a 14 footer I would set up the same rocket launcher type set up the boat wa closed bow so I even had it so I could tie fish and food coolers on the bow

That's a great little boat with the motor it has there are a lot of alternate waters available and you can launch where others can't you can even launch some places after docks are out. There are times I miss my 14 footer put an electric trolling motor on it and you can do do all sorts of things lake o is fine on calm days but on windy days there are still lots of other options

i ran big boards off of my 14 footer and if both are in steering was fine.  I have also tried what your suggesting with the in-lines. It was workable but better to run them as in-lines or go big boards.  For my little boat i built a rocket launcher frame but actually had it forward of the counsel  and i would hang the big boards over the frame when not in use it helped the storage problem quite a bit.  

Adults have a very short lifespan the ones in the lake now will be dead next year stream treatments are the best tool there is research around attractants and repellents but it is by no means complete and there are not established protocols around using them. They show a lot of promise but lake ontario is a bad place to experiment due to its size and number of variables we very much need good conditions for a treatment this spring so we do t get consecutive large hatches and a treatment within 3 years so this year's adults spawning run doesn't produce a huge class of young

It's just lake st Lawrence which is relatively small and can be raised or lowered quickly effects on lake o will minimal

Gator that’s funny spell check and grammar check has done more for my career than I care to imagine. Ijc can only do so much there limits imposed and lower lows are part of the plan it will require some marinas to invest in better docking but if I’m honest there are some around the lake that have gotten away with being overly cheap for a lot of years. Record levels high or low should still be rare and let’s face it all of the Great Lakes hit record highs in the same couple years under those conditions it is unreasonable to think the lowest in the system wouldn’t also flood

Erie is above average which means above average flows into ontario all fall and winter with all the ****ing every one does about high water they have to try and Fer ahead of it also the amount it can actually be controlled is way less than than they are blamed for it takes weeks to get the levels to change a few Inches differently than it would naturally so to controll it to the level your expecting would take perfect forecasts months In advance the most accurate weather models in existence only go out 10 days and I defy you to find one that's perfect that far out

2 hours ago, GAMBLER said:

Talk to Michigan guys about how many kings they catch a day....  I will take 30lbers as a big one and teen to mid 20's kings in numbers over a 40lber as a big one.  

I would strongly agree with this sentiment.  numbers of respectable fish with a realistic chance at an occasional beast is rare fishery and one worth appreciating 

When the conditions push fish to spend an extra year in the lake you get a lot of bigger fish those years. They are well remembered because they are not common but it shows the genetics are fine for producing big fish just need the conditions to line up.

Biggest and strongest is not necessarily the "fittest" when it comes to reproductions the kings in the lake now are the results of many generations in lake Ontario and are likely a far stronger strain for the local environment than what we started with the increasing if irregular natural reproduction that occurs is a sign of that these fish still have the ability to get that big if they went 4 years till spawning it just is not common. These fish are more likely to spawn at 2. And don't let old timers fool you 40lb fish were never common. Even in the eslo the fall winner was rarely that big

Check the manual they can be different my old Johnson had a stand in it my new merc it says lift just high enough to clear no transom saver and the kicker says keep it down

It sounds crazy but a single overhand knot is all you need I think it's torpedo that has some videos on wire knots but with strands crimps or knots with extra loops can cause the pressure to be uneven. Across strands so they fail one at a time I used the wire knot for years without issue but tried the single overhand because it's easier and it has worked out

Push your riggers back further then go with a track system.  Traxstech, Cisco, and Bert’s are options to consider.  Get the longest track you can fit on each side.  Then you can add rod holders and trees to fit your needs.  If the kids want to tube you pull off the holders.  Use a backer under the gunnel.  There is expense up front but there is a lot you can do with a track system.

The 5s will get just as deep I have touched bottom in 120 with 300 feet out though more typically in a straight line troll At salmon speeds I find about a 3:1 ratio if I have that much line out turns very the depth of course but I usually use my 5s as my deep rods with riggers above than#4 chinooks above that. All that of course subject to change as I get hits

That's the weekend of the pro am there will be a lot of trollers out for the weekend still plenty of room to fish, the channel just gets a little crowded at the start time

Chinooks also have no rings to worry about they take longer to adjust the weight than a dipsy but I don't adjust them now that they are dialed in

I run the Chinooks the curves are pretty good overall I like my leaders to be about 1 rod length for netting purposes the divers get a lot of bites and get good speed variation as you turn to help dial it in. Snubers are a personal preference thing I do not run them

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When you reel in your line, and it’s on the surface, lower your rod tip to the water and rip up. 85% of them will come off. 

one of the bays for the reasons Gill T states above.  nice to have a back up option if the lake is rough.  if your keeping the boat on the trailer than consider sodus area as your also not terribly far from Cayuga lake 

it is done on large server farms. In the case of seneca they bought an old power plant and refurbed and restarted it that power is than used fully for an onsite server farm that does the bit coin mining.  The concern is that the power plant discharges warm water into the outlet near the mouth.   

It does create a handful of local jobs to keep the plant running and does provide some property tax base for the county but the warm water is a form of polution.  its a natrual gas plant and they did refurbish it to be very efficent and clean but there are still CO2 emissions. 

this is not as cut and dry of an issue as it might seem on the surface.  There is both positive and negative associated with it.   the discharge is by the mouth so it would not affect most of the spawning area depending on the species but the warm water could prevent fish from entering the stream in the first place.  the list of Pros and Cons gets considerably longer on this.  It is worthwhile to research on this one and form your opinion it could be an idicator of the overal direction of the state with regards to outdoor activities vs comercial activities.

Again opportunistic middle of the channel is still near the edges if pike are hungry they will eat anything so goby colors work just fine as those are also crayfish colors and smallmouth colors and rockbass colors. If pike are real active Brite colors will draw fish in from father away. I never said they don't eat goby's only that I would guess it would be a smaller part if thier diet than it is for smallmouth. Fish behavior often follows tendancys that you can use but the rules are not hard and fast the fish will try to go where there is food and try to avoid danger

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i have no real data to back this up but i would think that since gobys prefer hard bottom and pike tend to be more weed oriented that gobys would make up less of the pike diet.

that said pike are very opportunistic and will take whats available.

2 years of kings would do it probably no chance the Dec would do it but I can dream

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i have not had that issue but with bigger fish especially you need to make sure the grippers are set in the right area there are some spots where they clamp down on hard jaw and will slide off.  if you get behind that hard bone line they are good to go

Once I realized how old it made me I got depressed and had to go distract myself


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