Sk8man

:smile: I think between us we covered most of it Nick...

Good thing it wasn't a sea gull Nick he might have stripped the pink tape off your rod

I have used various things on my nets over the years as extensions including metal vacuum cleaner tubes inserted and with screws on either side to hold it in place and taped the length of it to provide a good grip. Not exactly your fancy telescoping model....but it works... and especially when fishing by myself.....

As far as what you MAY see on a fish finder....there are a lot of variables involved. The actual sensitivity of your unit and transducer are the first hurdle. Units vary in their ability to pick up the thermocline (or other things for that matter). Then there is the sensitivity point you have chosen on your unit. More important factors may relate to water conditions at the time. Increased water clarity combined with a very well defined temperature stratification in the water column increase your chances of seeing it on your screen (usually looks like bands of tiny dots or pixels on your screen sometimes as though you are picking up your downrigger weight even). Often phytoplankton and zooplankton get "trapped" within the band of higher density water and this may enhance what you see on your screen and also probably accounts for the fish being there....because the baitfish feed on it. On Seneca it can start up in early June in some years but is more pronounced in late June to early July.

I think O2 levels is more plausible - freshwater fish are very adaptable to changes in water temp (unlike salt water varieties or aquarium fish). Also I wonder if spawning fish might be more vulnerable to things at that time compared to the rest of their life cycle. That aside I also wonder about the possibility of contaminants in the water table and underlyng aquifers that could affect multiple lakes at the same time.....(like natural gas leakage from vertical or horizontal drill ing. There are many gas wells right near the lakes.....or even increased salinity levels from vacated salt mines....

Not a bad idea to use small styrofoam beads (shipping packing) in the handle so you can go back and get it. They don't add much to the weight of the net and are a chap insurance policy.....

Many of the same things from Lake Ontario can work on Canandaigua but smaller seems to be better here in terms of spoons and sticks. In a couple weeks I'd be pulling thermocline rigs (Seth Green rigs) for rainbows browns and lakers with Suttons and a variety of other spoons. I'd run peanuts (Wobble Trolls) behind the flashers just off bottom from shallower depth to out deeper. I'd also run leadcores with 3 to 5 colors and maybe even toplines with a little weight or off boards (run way back 250-300 ft.). Light fluoro leaders are helpful (10lb test) until the fleas come out.

Looks like you have the salmon figured out pretty good Nick. Good going!

We got the electric sky show on Honeoye tonight just as things were starting to look good for a walleye dinner too just got home....and it is blowing like crazy now.

Thanks Ed

Good cautionary point....I had assumed he would read the reviews if interested in it and would have seen the info in the reviews as you apparently did.

Really makes you wonder just what is going on with these lakes.....

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This always seems to be a tough time of the year here on Canandaigua until the water stratifies. Sometimes it looks as though there is nothing out there at all....they must burrow into the sand Another couple weeks or so with warm weather and the rainbows will be all over the lures.....

Oh no! Let's hope Nicks gets up late or something.....

Same spoon I lost a real big one on in the derby awhile back...

After looking at other posts about that unit. It looks as though the 2 ft. depth thing is a firmware/software issue or (hopefully not ) possibly a design flaw in the chip or circuit board. Several people have mentioned the same problem.....I'd contact the Humminbird tech folks to see if they have a "fix" for it. YT's comment is well taken though...might want to switch to an Airmar transducer if they don't solve the problem as a last resort to try (better transducer anyway from the comments I've seen)

Yeah Nick is just trying to keep the "northenders" from coming down there to grab his fish

Kinda tough on those lakers Nick....the salmon are spoiling you.