Sk8man

It has been really taken care of despite seeing a lot of night time trout and bullheads It helped to have been in the case since new.

I still have one in the protective case left from night fishing in the 70s and 80s in very good shape for being about 50 plus years old Still has the aluminum foil on half to keep me from being blinded by the light, and 3 pkgs of mantles

I know this sounds strange but carefully check the "pee hole" very often spiders get in there and block it up believe it or not.

Thanks salmoseine

I didn't realize there was going to be one. Could you Pm me the details? Thx

Hoping to go next week but it is insane going there on Labor Day weekend. Trailers will be all the way out to the road today and tomorrow and south end will be busy as well

Regardless of luck you guys seem to be having a blast Clark

Nice going Brian. Beautiful day......but stuck with yard work

I guess it says a lot for it too that it has held up all those years

Yep it is one of those things....once in awhile you run into high densities of them. Keuka is kinda like fishing three different lakes sometimes anyway each branch can be quite different

Getting back to Keuka. I can't presently locate the pic but I had one of the downrigger clogged with them so bad on Keuka it stopped coming up until cleared and it was a strand about 3 ft long too illustrating that line diameter is not the total answer

I hear ya Mike When my kid was 8 yrs old he caught one 30 lbs on 12 lb test

The 30 lb SeaFlee is related to keeping the fleas off and is only the mainline which you leader off of with fluoro 8 to 10 lb or so. Rainbows do what they do regardless of whether it is 30 lb or 8 lb test and it still ends up being a lot of fun. In the old days before fleas you could use 8-12 lb main lines without any problems but these fleas changed all that. All I ever used on Lake Ontario from the 70's till the arrival of fleas was 12 lb test and it withstood kings up to 32 lbs just fine on decent reels. Keeping fleas off i s now a primary task whether Fingers or Lake O. I have used the Sea Flee on riggers for about ten years or so and it helps a lot but nothing is totally "flea free" when the fishook variety is real thick.

There is no path for Gobies in Canandaigua Lake. They have apparently migrated from Lake Ontario up through the Seneca River to Cayuga to Seneca Lake but unless someone actually purposely introduces them Canandaigusa and Keuka should be spared as they aren't connected to the canal system.

I think as Shakemsam mentioned South Bay Marina was a dealer for Tohatsu at the time I bought mine elsewhere in 2016 so if they are still around worth a chack

Proves that it doesn't take a 40 pounder to to put a great smile on a kids face

Wonder if you could find something like a cylindrical closet hanger rod in aluminum or thin stainless at Lowes for example?

If all else fails try Trident Marine in Honeoye

Doesn't get much better than that! Nice going!