Sk8man

Didn't have a camera with me but checked out north end Canandaigua just now. Water level high but not disasterous. Spoke with a couple of Bass guys fishing from their boats in the marina they said quite a bit of debris and some logs floating around out in the lake.

As far as drills go the Bosch Hammer Drill is very beefy. I have used one for years with my ice auger and a lot of guys use Dewalts. I have had the Makita and Ryobi's and they weren't great.

Nice going Mike best report I've heard in awhile. Couple friends out today never moved a rod from early Am til about 4 PM, Same yesterday.

Really tough from Rochester to Sodus to put a good day together right now no matter how far out you go. Skippies are absent as well. Wondering whether our northern brothers are doing anything over there?

This is a good example of the personal preference issue which threads through many discussions on here. You have two different views by very experienced fishermen that each have good reasons for their views which reflect their own experiences with both types of line and they prefer one over the other the other. In short, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this as it comes down to what you feel more comfortable with, or may have had better results with in the past. So it basically comes down to either trying out each and making a determination based on their performance in your situation, or "winging it"

Sounds as though you may be referring to Owasco but I wouldn't generalize that to all the Finger Lakes (e.g. Keuka, Seneca, or Canadaigua for example) I night fished fished those lakes 50 years ago and the sawbellies were attracted to the lights in huge schools and we got our bait to fish that way. There is less bait now than back in those times and that holds for each of those lakes mentioned. Seneca has bait but not the predators munching on it but I remember herds of bait that would literally run for miles from bottom to surface on each of the lakes I mentioned on my graph recorder.

The majority of stress and rubbing of the wire should be at the tip

You too

I just wish we could clone his wife; especially for the boat driving ability

Not so much worry there only about getting Popeye arms

Luckily the fleas have been pretty spotty this season thus far but it will only take one experience of a dense concentration of the fishhook type fleas while reeling in a king or steelie to fully appreciate the comment.

Yes Mark always seems on top of things there and it is really appreciated....great public service

Go with wire. Although the water fleas can attach to anything but braid gets the worst infestations and it is harder to remove them from it.

Nice work Justin. Looks like some of those Browns are coming into there own size-wise and health-wise. good to see

Although it may be done it may create a premature wear situation so it would be taking your chances I guess. The motors on many of the older riggers just weren't up to lifting the heavy stuff.

10 colors as you can deploy any number up to and including that.

Looks like you had a hell of a good vacation Anthony. Shows you can still have a lot of fun out there, and Fishy is always helpful and has all the right stuff at his shop

This is however the first time we have had someone from UPSTATE that comes from a blue collar family in that position. Lets not jump off the cliff yet It could be that ANY politician regarded Cuomo as a huge liability for upcoming elections and thats all they care about anyway and most folks regardless of party were either intimidated by him or just couldn't stand him so they took advantage of the opportunity to jump on board the train to take him out before he messed over them in some way.

4 hours ago, L&M said:

John Mann in Sodus Pt. 

 

X 2 if you want the very best

Nah. not between friends

If Steve changes his mind I'll take them

Good going Bill. "All the right stuff" Kudos also to the emergency folks who help folks out all the time and frequently without attention to the fact or even thanks sometimes. We do in fact have a great bunch of people on LOU who are there to help others whether on the water or on here.

They do actively feed at night for sure trolling for them in the dark may not be the ultimate way to catch them though

When you say lead line do you mean leadcore? If so there is much more drag in the water and a larger belly in the water. If you are referring to monel wire it is quite similar to copper but less kink resistant.