buckboardjr

Good One Mortigan!!!!!!!

WTG Bazooka! Still gotta love the story behind that name! Hey last year We lost 4 nice ones with 8lb flouro. I bumped up to 12lb this year. Don't know what ill effect that has on line shy clear conditions but did manage 6 for 8 last week. Thanks for the report. Are you doing the week before Labor day at FairHaven this year? I'm booked, same cabin. I love that place!

Sounds like a blast Ray. Glad you had fun!

I like that rocket launcher. If you have some closer pics to share I would like to see them. Thanks for the report!

WTG Fellas. Thanks for the report!

Capt. Dave Thanks for the warning I appeciate it. If you look a little closer you will see those rods are in holders mounted at a 45* angle back and are usually used for flatlines but being I had rods from 8ft 6in down to 6ft 6in, if a 8fter made it to the inside release on the planer tow line, I put them down there so the short more outboard poles would go over them during a release. Ed. Sorry about the misappropriation of credit. Lodi Park Guy Thanks for that Brwn sugar recipe on L. Ls.

I'll take them! PM sent!

Nice job! I too drove smithwick roage hooks in past the barbs twice! I don't know what hooks are on them but if they just lay on your skin they dig in. I haven't had to bite the bullet and yank the barbs out in a few years but twice in one day blows! Again. Way To Go!

Nice job ! Oh and your Ol Honda trolled another 10hrs flawlessly today BTW!

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Buckboardjr ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water:7am -5pm Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: < 1 Surface Temp: 39 -44 Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 8 Total Boated:6 Species Breakdown:Browns Hot Lure: Fire tiger Smithwick and Jointed 9size Rapala clown Trolling Speed: 1.9-2.5 Down Speed: Boat Depth: 6-18 Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS Ran 4 sticks off boards and 2 spoons off dwn riggers most of the morning. Wasn't getting a spoon bite so we spread the boards and ran 6 sticks. The hits went in spirts with long no bites in between. Ended with 5 cookiecutters "17inchers" and a 23incher. 23 incher was on a gold Storm. Lost one at the boat that still has my #9 jointed rapala clown. We ran 100ft leads with 12lb P-line 50ft leaders. Only caught one in clear water. The rest were in stained water. Nice day! I needed to get back on The Big O in a bad way. ==================== The Spread These should make for a nice batch of Musky Bob's Brownsugar cured adirondack grilled trout topped with Buckboardjr's honey, lime, mint, tropical fruit salsa. Oh Yahhhh Should look a little something like this Steelhead meal from last month

I shot my 1st deer with a 222 but it doesn't make it a good choice. I agree with Sean. The 7mm-08 is the ticket. Managable for a youngin and can be used the rest of thier life. Lots of projectile choices for custom load workups. It's also cocidered a 250yd gun. My 2nd gun was a 30-06 that always put a hurtin on me as a teen. We always practiced on woodchucks with what we hunted deer with. I near broke my shoulder on a laying down shot at a woodchuck from shouldering it wrong. 7mm-08 has great ballistic numbers and trajectory and managable recoil. It is the caliber I choose to rebarrlel my 8mm mauser if I ever do it.

Thanks for the info fellas

JD Thanks for the vid link. I want on the big water bad!!! Buckboardjr

Nice fish fellas!!!

Was wondering if people are launching from Union Springs and going out for perch.

Winter Walleye fishing on the Susquehanna

Nice catch! I'm sure you had to squeeze and pop that Eye up trhough the 6 in hole. WTG

My friend Chuck's 12yr. old Grandson with a 34lb, King With a 11lb Bow. She wasn't to fond of the toothy snake looking fish at 1st

Beautiful work. Cool fish!

Rolmops That reminds me of a day we couldn't buy a bite out in front of the Salmon river in about 10ft of water. Had been dragging J plugs all day. So I put a NK mag spoon on a dipsey rod with 30lb fireline on it and was flatlining. I desided to wrap it under my arm and jig troll it with one hand and steer with the other. Well I hadn't exercized the drag on the "BS" OKuma reel in a while, and as most know, they take a set. Well a snotty king wacked it and ran. It spun me and nearly ripped the pole out of my hand. They can peel the line in 10ft of water. It was the only fish for the day. 15lber.

Day after Xmas 2003 perch fishing Sodus Bay Same Day

I try to do everything on the cheap and have built my arsenal based mostly on USED old style Diawa Great lakes 47LCs and Eagle claw Yellow Starfire SF400a 8' 6' and SF400 7.6 .The rods are inexpensive, fiberglass, which is forgiving in cold WX, Durable, and I love the Yellow rod blanks as my Eyes pick up a release quicker. The poles I usually buy new. Thru slow shopping I have picked up around 10 47LCs. Ea. I never pay more than $45ea to my door or let them slide. I prefer these over brand new Okumas that I have retired because the drags are smoother and they break less for me. My Okumas also seem to have LCs that forget to start without fiddling with them, an annoyance but tolerable. The drags are sensitive enough to reduce down for light leaders on the Diawas. I bought a monster spool of 30lb Ande pink that I keep in a brown paper bag that I have been spooling with for years. It is quite flea resistant and handles aggressive Blacks release pressures. If I were starting from scratch now I would buy a big spool of the cheaper P-line 30lb. coated. For spring Browns and Cayuga Winter planer brd fishing I splice quite long "75ft" 8-12lb Leaders “P-Line Flourâ€, recommended by ours truly, furry Ray K., to the Ande to try and stealth things up. I have had great success splicing leaders with double uniknots and can't say I ever remember losing a fish to a uniknot failure. The dbl uniknot will go through small eyelets so that is not a concern. I'm a firm believer in Seaquar 40lb Flouro leaders for salmon as I used to get bit off all the time with 30lb Ande on meatheads and that totally went away with the leader material. I think Atomiks & Big Weenies flies are built with it or a variant of it. I realize this is a compromise and would love to have an arsenal of dedicated browns rods with smaller reels and graphite poles but what I have works. I did notice that when reducing down from a Diawa 47 to a 27, the wt. diff. was quite negligible. I wonder if an arsenal of browns rods would be better served with 17s. They may not have enough line capacity? Hope this helps in your decision making.

Way to get out there. Nice Fish!