Sk8man

Best of luck to each of you LOU folks out there this weekend. It should be a lot of fun....tight lines everyone and stay safe.

Congrats on the win! At least you know you are right on track with what you're doing....

Those two fish probably would be "money fish" if caught tomorrow WTG

Thanks Ed. Guess I'll have to evaluate at the north end tomorrow AM and decide whether it is stillfishing, jigging. pulling copper or trolling....I'm prepared to do any of it but the debris can take the fun out of things real fast. A friend said he saw a telephone pole upright in the water out there yesterday.

Kuba - What I've always done to secure the trolling motor is to place a long shaft padlock through the holes on the butterfly screws after tightening them down good(lining them up first)....assuming you have the type with the holes....

Anyone out there for a report on the water conditions at Sampson or north end?

I've been tangled up with lawn and house stuff pre derby and now sitting here now wondering how all this debris and muddy water is going to impact the trolling tomorrow. I had 4 pages of notes and 98 percent of it relating to trolling...now I'm wondering if I will be stillfishing or jigging...could have saved some time and paper At this point I'm just hoping that everyone makes it through the derby safely north and south. I heard there are even telephone poles out there as well as the tree limbs i saw myself yesterday. All of us need to use caution and good sense while out there. Best of luck to you Joe and to all your southern comrades most of whom are probably hunkered down at Sampson right now trying to stay dry. I don't have to wish the northern guys luck because they are at "home" at this end of the lake.... Les

Looks like a wet tough derby coming up....can't believe all this rain....good luck John!

Hey Ray ...great pics of your feet in a couple of the pics....surprised you didn't paint them with matching lure paint might have served as an"attractor"

That is a virtual treasure chest....if I didn't already have so many and in duplicate I'd buy the whole bunch....i know they may be "old school" but they work....

I took a look at the north end today both east and west side there too. You folks that are choosing to launch at Sampson and elsewhere may luck out because the whole north end (as far as I could see) is full of floating debris today (sticks, limbs, and some logs with a lot of stuff that looks like bark and wood chips covering the area. There is a whole lot of the stuff ripping down the Seneca canal a a very fast pace (the fastest current I've seen in my lifetime (i.e. since the Revolutionary War ) It looked like about 5 mph and there were large ripples and swirls at the mouth of it and I've never seen that before either....the water is very murky but not really muddy. There would have been no way to troll today using any method at the north end itself....pretty discouraging and I don't think there is enough time for it to clear out before the derby. Sorry I forgot my camera or I would have taken some pics.

Nautitroller... looks as though you are all set to go and in the pic it looks like you have some kind of secret weapon (left side sticking up from the boat....could it be communication antenna to aliens )

Yeah it has been so long since I've heard those Cayuga boys catching anything but lampreys....I had kinda forgotten about them....sort of like going to the race track though and throwing your money at a real long shot that isn't a mud runner...and the way the lakes are right now that could be important

Sweet! your rig looks brand new Mike....you did a great job on it.