Ryno23

Are the boafang reliable? I cant believe how cheap they are lol

I have a uniden that I would be willing to sell you.

I use underground and the buoy info web page.

Wish I lived a bit closer to Sodus, I would help no problem.

Thanks for all you do for this, I've only been docking out of Sodus last year and this year, but really glad to see this.

I have a 3 year old son and a 1 year daughter I want them to experience the same fishery in Lake O that I have the past 5 years since I've started fishing up there. Once my kids are abit older we will diffidently be up there helping with this program as much as we can to assure the future of the fishery.

Thanks again for leading the charge in this.

I see there is one you are looking for on EBay for 60 bucks. Good price.

You be better off buying a new single one. Be cheaper than dual.

That's funny, I was just about to post the same thing.

Had an issue he sent some replacements no questions. Good to have customer service like that.

Will be buying more in the future.

I am looking for one used silver Big Jon Multiset rod holder.

I have a dual big Jon rod holder I'll sell u. It's like new was only on my boat for a season rest of time was sitting in the basement.

I got some Bert tracks so don't use it anymore.

I would suggest to eventually get a down speed & Temp setup(if you don't have one already). I fished my first 2 years on Lake o without one. I caught fish but after I got one and figured out how to use it effectively my hookups went WAY up.

They aren't cheap.

I participated in the one in Sodus last year for the first time. Was a really good event, doing it again this year.

Divers on mono doesn't work very well. You need a wire setup or braid setup to run divers.

Depending on ur targeted fish divers are not needed. If u want lakers you will need them if they aren't hitting on riggers.

Rochester, MN

I could be wrong but isn't there a NYS law that prohibits you from cleaning your fish so close to the waterway? Like I said I could be wrong but that was always what I thought. Keeps guys from filleting fish out on the lake to keep more than a limit

Don't some charter guys do that ? I see cutting tables on their boats so they can do it out on the water.

If that was the case why do some marinas have their cleaning stations right next to the water/river with the flush going into the water.

I don't do it on my boat so I never looked at the laws but I believe if ur a certain distance or depth you can, again I don't know just what I thought.

Was able to get out yesterday for abit for the first time this year. Weather was rainy and cold but I can't be picky if I want to fish with the time I have available.

Got my lines in the water around 7:30 at the trailer park headed towards maxwell picked up a double pretty quick, nice Brown and a nice smallie. Headed back to Sodus around 9:30 after the wind started to pick up. Picked up another nice brown on the way back.

Worked 10 to 25 fow all came on Bay Rats, was a good day as everything worked on the Boat with no issues and moved a few lines.

All went back in to fight another day.

The north shore now has six million people adding their waste products to Lake Ontario now daily. Michigan stocked smelt a hundred years ago to support the commercial fishery. They thrived and exterminated the cold water species such as lake trout,blue pike, viscose and white fish. In the 1960's Canada began trawling them out and shipping them to Asia. In the 1970's Pacific salmon were stocked to reduce the alewife and smelt biomass. The Federal Fish guys can stock only native fish, not foreign invaders like Pacific salmon, rainbow trout and European brown trout. After forty or more years of stocking these guys, the forage base is over controlled now. What we have now is not like the past years and may never be again but it is still better than Pacific Ocean salmon fishing.

Im confused, they stock foreign species all the time in Lake O.

If I didn't buy a penn yan a year and half ago I'd be all over it at that price.

Will make someone a great deal.

Ok. How many King Fishers are in the 40?

I'll take all the King Fishers...if you will split them out.

You saying u can't buy just the king fishers?

I'd take them off ur hands.

Admittedly I don't keep a ton of lakers, but they more often that not have something OTHER than alewives in their stomach. They have a hell of a lot more diverse diet than a king, which eat pretty much exclusively alewives all year long. Listen, I agree that if the dec is so worried about bait, that filling it with tons and tons of long lived lakers doesn't make sense. But I think they occupy 2 very different parts of the ecosystem with relatively little overlap.

I'm not a fish biologist, not sure you read the entire post but I asked about LT eating gobies now and people who fish for LT said they do not eat many gobies from June to sept/oct they said their diet are Alewives.

I'm not arguing what they eat, I just don't understand the DEC put and take side of their program. I do not think it is balanced for LT compared to Salmon/other trout in the lake. Compared to life span of a LT compared to others.

I put all LT I catch back that I accidentally catch, and I know most people also do.

If Alewife entered LO through the canal system is it possible that there still is an influx of new Alewife coming into the lake from the ocean? Not sure if this is still possible or if has ever been studied but I thought I'd ask.

I always wonder that myself..not sure if the locks prevent that now.

It appears people say LT main diet from June to septish is Alwives. Not very diverse.

Oswego, Mexico August till abt 1st or 2nd week in sept depending on when they decide to run.

I usually take the 2nd to last week off in August and spend that time in Oswego.

Hasnt really failed me, been doing that last 5 years.

People want them as a back up plan. Most will not admit it but by the number of people buying my lake trout rigs, I would say there is a lot more interest than you know.

Yes people want ur setups for backup plans to catch fish bc there are so many LT now, but the problem is not many people keep LT and the fact regs help people put them back.

The put and take side of their program is off base for LT compared to Salmon/Trout like I said In my previous post. Not many people eat LT so they don't keep them, it's dog food and fertilizer in my mind.

To ur point since people catch and release most LT it seems stocking so many more seems off since they live so long and from my understanding they are doing well in natural reproduction.

This just my opinion of course.

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Never fished it, but doesn't seem that big. Not having boating experience on a small lake isn't huge problem but I would be wearing a life jacket at all times than. When in doubt just go to shore and wait it out.

You have to start somewhere on getting boating experience. Everybody has started at ground zero at one point in their life. A small lake is a good starting point.