Sk8man

I added some to my earlier post as I thought about it.

Tackle Shop Brewer's Sporting Goods right on Main Street in Ovid (south of Sampson on 96A. Pam Brewer is great lady and has a lot of relevant tackle for a small shop. Sells bait as well. Worth a visit Wineries south of there (e.g. Wagner Vineyards right south on Rt#414). If Pam has any Great Lakes lures left get some Oakie Dokies for lakers and some 44's for the silvers. Also, if she has hammerhead cowbells and Gambler rigs they are the way to go regardless of which lake you fish. If you are in the mood to drive a bit while exploring wineries, or take the boat when out there Roy's Marina to the northwest of Sampson near the north end of the lake has the cowbells and Gambler rigs. There are outstanding wineries on the west side of the lake...my favorite is Fox Run and they have a cafe there as well.

You do look very familiar in the photos. I had a 13 ft Whaler with a dodger on the front of it....I was one of the smallest boats out there at the time so I didn't dock it or buoy it there at Clarks Luckily I had 250 ft of anchor rope too and I used my Riveria downriggers with the 4 ft booms to hang my coleman lanterns on for night fishing. Back then Miriam Clark was one of the best mechanics around and one of the very few females doing it too. I think we may have talked out on the dock there back then. I still remember Oravec always wore his Greek fishing cap too. ....the good old days.

Sorry about the pic screw up....don't know what happened there...

Nice going Rene That was a nice real fish Bob and that NK 28 had more scratches on it than two cats on a cat fight. Ifishy from LOU also had a 24 pound king that was a great looking fish and it was neat meeting up with him and his fishing buddy. My son Mark and I got an early start out of the channel and set up in pretty rough water in about 140 ft. We trolled out to 320 and then turned around because it was a hasssle trolling against the 3-4 footers (or more) out there and decided to troll in closer until the wind might let up a bit. We picked up 3 teen kings and a 6 lb steelie before 9:45 AM in various depths mostly on wire dipsys with flashers and home made flies in white set at 250 -275 on a 1 setting for the Deeper Divers. The steelie came on a 10 color leadcore down the chute with a black painted Diamond King spoon with glow bottom. After a few hours it started to lay down a bit so we trolled out deeper again and went out to 630 ft. Lost a big king in 458 ft on a wire dipsy with Spin Doc and white homemade fly. He was on for several jumps and runs and then parted the 50 lb mono on the fly. When it was retrieved it had been cleanly cut part way up the leader by his teeth just as if by a knife and apparently had the leader in his mouth. This is the first time the 50 lb.mono failed on one of the flies, but it proved that nothing is impervious to these beasts Trolled for some more going shallower had some hit and runs on riggers and wires and one on the leadcore...may have been the combination of our faster trolling speed and the waves and they couldn't get hold of it good enough. Finally, in the afternoon a 20 lb king nailed the 3 color secret weapon rig with flasher/green homade fly set at 115 ft on a rigger. man did that fish take some spectacular runs preceeded by a couple of lost fish on the wires...another great day spent with my kid

Brings back some memories.....I used to night fish next to Roides and Oravec when they kept their boats at Clarks at the south end of Canandaigua before threy moved their operations to Lake O and the salmon fishing reallly took off.

I believe FishUSA also carries them as well as Dreamweaver if you don't have luck locally.

Big Game mono x2 at Walmart in green color 440 yds about $7.00 Dreamweaver did buy out the Deeper Divers (changed hands a couple times before that) Not sure on the eye stickers maybe someplace like Netcraft?

Locks may help deter the opportunist but can create major problems if a ruthless thief. I remember years back when at a State Park I won't mention a guy had his boat docked and his trolling motor mounted on the transom and locked with a chain and lock. Someone (in a boat) came in during the night and cut out the transom section where the trolling motor was rendering the boat unusable. There are people put there that just don't care....

Interesting. It has seemed to me that things in general out in the lakes have been a couple weeks behind all season thus far, and I know the 20 lb female king we got the other day was just starting to blacken up a bit and when examined internally had 6 fresh 5-6 inch sawbellies in her stomach (so still feeding) and the skein and eggs were still firm and quite a ways from being ready. .

Precious pics....the fishing itself is sure secondary to that experience

There is a good chance he will remember that fish for life....I still remember mine and it was a 12 inch smallie at 4 yrs. .....but I caught it with my dad....that was the best part