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I've been over a couple times recently and have struggled. Tried shallow around the weedbeds and picked up a few. Yesterday my wife and I fished just north of 113 and I marked fish but only picked up two drifting with a bottom bouncer & worm harness. Is time of day critical? We were there from about 6 to 7:30 p.m. then went and tried shallow again. Did we leave too soon or is morning the better bite? Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

As a tear wells up in my eyes I think back about my Dad & I fishing together. He's pretty much home bound now but I will always remember the great days we've had together on the water.

Mike...nice fish!! I fished with you and Kevin L. earlier this year. John

I really don't want to buy wire line for deep water dipsy fishing. I have a rod spooled with 30# braid. This may be a stupid idea but what if I thread a 1 oz. egg sinker on the line, tie on the snap swivel and clip on the dipsy? Would that work effectively at getting the dipsy deeper or would it negatively effect how it tracks?

Baca....I was up to the St. Lawrence fishing last week. Slugs of adults and goslings everywhere. The tentative 2012-13 regs are out. Pretty much the same as last year. I agree that the season needs to be extended. I also live in CNY and last year the geese showed up here in big numbers a couple days after the season closed.

I bought a 7'6" 3 wt flyrod blank and made a spinning rod. What a blast catching the big gills.

I'm not familiar with the term "mupped." What does it mean?

Great looking pup. They're quite a handful at that age but will have you in stitches getting into various things. Hopefully not your couch cushion!!

I have a small boat and am relatively new to spring trolling. I have a mast/ board system but there are days when I fish alone. I tried to run the boards by myself and forget it unless the lake is calm. I have a couple small Church in-line boards which I thought would be much easier to use by myself. Have any of you used in-lines with success? Any tricks of the trade? Do you run them to slide down to a swivel ahead of the lure or fixed and you remove them by hand once you reel them in to the boat? Thanks for any help.

Jeff....They take up room on the reel so you don't have to spool an unnecessary amount of backer line. Lets face it, if you fish for panfish you don't need alot of line. One ring is thicker than the other so one takes up more room than the other. If you want a full spool of line if you're going to use it for bigger fish then just take them off. One suggestion. Make sure that you fill the spool to just short of the rim. A short wide spool will cast further than a standard size spool but only if you have it spooled full. If you don't then it will actually have more drag than a standard spool.

I have mine coupled with a 7.5' 3 wt fly rod blank & its amazing how I can cast such light jigs. Good luck.

The wife and I just got back from our annual trip to Kansas for turkeys. I took one with a bow and she got 2 beauties with her 20 gauge. Also, lots of great action photos. They loved the Dave Smith decoys and continually tried to mount them. She shot the first tom right off the submissive hen.

Kevin... Great Day on the lake. So, more loks?

Check out this youtube video of a recent perch fishing trip

I inherited some of these yellow and black releases. Not exactly sure how to use them. I presume you take your line and double it,put the loop in the groove of the yellow pin and slide the pin back into the body. Do you also wrap it around the pin a time or two? Thanks for any help.

Guys,

For those of you who hunt Oneida Lake and would to see it back in the SE Zone, nows your chance to comment:

http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2012/ ... on_fa.html

For any of you guys that like to fish microjigs (1/80 oz) this is the reel and at a heck of a price:

http://www.rogerssportinggoods.com/124- ... nning-reel

USReels is one of the innovators of the short wide spool concept which results in less line twist and easier/longer casts. I'm coupling mine with a 7'9" rod made out of a 3 wt fly rod blank. Should be fun.

On the subject of Wonderducks....which model? Are you guys having success with the pole mounted models or the swimmers? My last hunt in the SE zone I used a spinning wing and took it down very quickly because the ducks would flare once they got close.

Any of you guys hunting Ontario or elsewhere seeing much for divers?

Tons of geese still around. Up close and personal today.

Squirrel....As a lab owner I think your assessment is right on. I love my choc lab Jake but he is a cold weather weenie. He has a great personality and loves attention. A great companion. But, he suffers in the cold and I simply don't take him during the late season. I'm sure there's lots of lab owners out there that aren't bothered by the cold but I also think there's alot of labs like mine.

Squirrel....Just got back from a hunt in Manitoba. Tons of divers. Along with a variety of other species I got my first redheads. Here's a photo of my native friend Clint with 4 drakes that came in and we both doubled. Looking forward to the late season on Cayuga.

I love the Carlsons Extended Steel Shot Choke tube - midrange. It's inexpensive and performs just as well as tubes 3 times the cost. At 35 yds. I get a good uniform pattern with 83% within a 30" circle. Can't do much better than that with what would be considered a modified choke. I don't have a 390 but have a friend that does and he uses the same choke as I do in my Winchester SX3.

Corned goose breasts, goose sausage, goose hotdogs, goose pepperoni and goose soup. It all gets utilized, even the legs. If you don't keep the legs you're missing some mighty fine eating. Much better flavor and more tender than the breasts in my opinion.

Lit em up on Saturday

Any improvement? If so, what depth?