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  1. You can get one like mine for $40 at Home Depot, then another $10 bucks to modify it to make it easier to use.
  2. Great thread!!!! A lot of really good thought-provoking material that goes along with the one thing that I enjoy doing more than anything else - fishing. My grandfather ("Poppy") instilled a love of outdoor sports in me. I grew up spending my summers at my grandparent's place on Keuka Lake. My days were spent fishing and swimming. I learned where to go and what to use for different species of fish. I snorkled all the time, taking the opportunity to watch fish while doing so. Every April 1st, I had my hip boots on and was chasing up and down Sugar Creek trying to catch a rainbow instead of all the suckers and chubs we would catch (I was never in school on April 1st). Fall and winter grew to mean hunting to me. I found that time in the woods is almost as good as time on the water. The love of the outdoors, and of being around water are the primary reason I fish. I can have an absolutely terrible day and be miserable and stressed out, but put a rod in my hand and sit me in a boat or on a bank, and all of the crap that life throws at me flies away. I guess you could say that I fish because it brings me inner peace. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the catching part of the sport, along with the cooking and eating parts, but the fishing part is what matters - it soothes the soul. So if I spend an hour or six on the water, I come home refreshed regardless of what, if anything I may have on the stringer. I've taught my kids to love fishing, and now that I'm a "Poppy", I've already got my first grandson hooked on fishing (he's 4). We have fun when we go fishing, but we also have fun "porch fishing" too (sit on the front porch and practice casting into the yard). I have a ball watching him when he climbs into the boat, sitting on its trailer in the yard. He would fish in the yard for hours if we let him. Grandson number 2 is only a year old right now. I figure I'll wait until next summer before his brother and I start working to hook him on fishing. I think that if LOU had been around back in the day, MY Poppy would have taken the pledge just as readily as I did. The principles behind the pledge are ones that have been around for generations, and it's nice that you've gone so far as to make them the centerpiece of the premier Lake Ontario fishing resource on the internet. Thanks BlueEye!
  3. I've found the best way for me to free up freezer space is to fire up the old Brinkmann Smoke & Grill. batch one, and batch two, Once those fillets get to looking like this, they develop a magic power to quickly disappear!!! My super-simple recipe, for any one who wants it... Brine: 1 gal Water 1 C dark brown sugar 1/2 C Kosher salt brine overnight. Smoke at 200-225 for 5 hours with apple wood 30 minutes before done, baste with maple syrup. Enjoy!
  4. I keep my hooks sharp and during the spring/summer, let them set the hook themselves, but this time of year, be it from the boat or wading the river, I've found that if I don't give them a good whack, I used to lose 80% of my hookups when I tried letting them hook themselves during the fall - no break-offs or straightened hooks. They just come unbuttoned on a good head shake or change of direction. Their mouths get really stinking bony. Once I started giving them a good whack or two, I started landing 80% instead of losing 80%. The other reason I like to give them a whack, is to get them running. That puts tension on them and helps keep the hook in place too. I carry a small, jewelers file with me and touch up my hooks often, just a couple strokes of the file - definitely helps too. In the river, I've switched to Owner Cutting Point hooks - that has also helped a bunch since they are sticky sharp right out of the package.
  5. Not sure about a boat that big - how much does she draft? I know it's the only gravel ramp I've launched my 19' Carolina Skiff at, and had no problems, but with my outboard trimmed up to just keep the water intake in the water, I only draft about a foot at the bottom of the skeg. I haven't been there this year, but like described above, last time there it was only 2-3 ft deep for a ways out into the main river.
  6. I'm wishin I was fishin too, and have only been out twice this summer. So what is working for me is my neighbors. Between the guy next door and another up the street, I've got a bunch of salmon in the freezer, and have smoked a bunch too. Hoping to get out in the next two weeks while they're staging, then I'll put the boat away and get out the waders.
  7. No it's right on the Salmon and it's less than a mile downstream to the mouth and it's a nice ramp. We always called it Pine Grove launch, but it's part of Selkirk park (North End)
  8. I look at it this way... I'm a salmon sitting in the river resting before making a charge further upstream. for some reason there is a cluster of eggs waving in front of my face, so I snap at it. I equate it to having someone dangling a potato chip in front of your face. In the case of an alwife, that would be like having someone dangle a properly grilled steak in front of you face. I don't know about you, but even if I'm not hungry, not thinking about food at all, if there was suddenly a nice fat juicy NY strip stake, grilled to perfection, in front of my face, I'm taking a bite. The fair fishing trick is to put the potato chip or steak in front of the fish so that they feel like snapping at it - and they do! I can usually tell if I've accidentally foul hooked a fish (and it happens) because there is absolutely no turning them. Most times however, I feel a "tug", not a "bump", and find that I have a nice hookup INSIDE their mouth, and when I'm fighting them, even though I may not be gaining line, I can at least turn them and get them running different directions. That tells me when I'm doing it right. using alwife (herring) for bait in the estuary - lots of people do (usually cut bait rigs), and they catch fish.
  9. I would normally have steam coming out of my ears while I come right out and say I'm against something like this. When I first read the opening post, I started to get angry that they are talking about doing this. Especially since I am a "MEAT FISHERMAN" (Noun: 1. one who eats what he catches; 2. one who catches fish for their nutritional value). So I took a deep breath and thought about it a little bit along the lines of how it would apply to me when I'm up to my chest in the Oswego River or the Salmon Fiver each fall.... here's the train of thought that ran through my pea-brain: fall fishing in the tribs gives us the opportunity for a really sweet mixed bag of salmonids - all from shore or wearing waders. Any given day, once the fish are in the tribs, I can catch kings, cohos, browns and bows. If I keep 2 kings, a coho and a brown or a bow, or even one of each species, I've got a stringer that will be tough to carry back to the truck. Heck, 2 kings can be a lot to drag back to the truck! I also understand that, as has been said many times before, the salmonid fishery in Lake Ontario is put and take. The "three female browns" mentioned above will be replaced by juvies that aren't in the river this year, but will be next year, and those, in turn will be replaced by the next class year, and so on. If stocking remains at current levels, no change to the creel limit is really needed (there are plenty of browns to be had). The notion that ALL of the mature browns in the tribs are taken every year is naive. So, now that I've given it some thought, here's where I stand... I do not believe that there is any real need for this change, and if they enact the reduced creel limit on the tribs, I wouldn't approve of it. However, at the same time wouldn't be totally outraged either, since it will have minimal impact on the pounds of fish that go home with me in the fall. Groups that are "pushing" for this (if there really are any), are obviously misinformed and misguided. Now had this regulation applied to browns in the lake, then I would have a BIG problem. This would totally screw up my spring brown fishing (and would certainly hurt the charter guys). Out on the lake by myself with a one & done regulation? I'd be better off spending that time hitting one of my small fishing holes and bringing home a limit of crappie (30, @ roughly 1lb each vs one 4-8 lb brown). In that case, I'm not buying gas for my boat (my jonboat with a trolling motor works fine on my little local lakes), not stopping at Screwy Lewie's for a couple of the spoon or stickbait of the day, not stopping at the sub shop for lunch, not paying to launch my boat... in other words, not putting money into the Lake Ontario fishing economy. Multiply me times all the other meat fishermen out there, and that means a lot of money not going into the economies that the fishery supports. Not a good thing.
  10. Most of the tribs are open to use jigs and treble hooks from the lake to the first bridge. Oswego is open for jigs and treble hooks from the lake to Utica Street bridge (2nd bridge), and Salmon River is a no-go "from the upstream most navigation buoy located between the breakwalls at the mouth upstream to the County Route 52 bridge in Altmar" (pretty much the whole river) Here's a link to the special regs page on the DEC website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/31420.html
  11. to get to the Selkirk Shores launch, turn off rte 3 onto Pine Grove Road (just a bit south of the river) and head towards the lake.
  12. Right in the bill, it says "effective immediately", expiring on Dec 31, 2013, so that would mean now.
  13. I have AT&T, never had a problem out of Fair Haven or Oswego. Plenty of signal.
  14. While I didn't catch anything, It was nice to put in 3 lines with different rigs/baits yesterday while drifting Cross Lake for walleye.
  15. same sort of advice from me - I've got a 19' Carolina Skiff with a 90 HP on the back and have been comfortable trolling on 3 footers. Like everybody else said, watch the weather, pay attention to what the waves are doing, and know when to pull up and head in. If you're driving from a long way away, I'd suggest staying near one of the larger bays so you have a backup plan ready and waiting. There have been lots of days when I get to the lake and end up fishing the bay because the forecast was wrong and the waves are too much for me to be comfortable.
  16. I figure you can simply tell them that the three lines in freshwater bill was signed into law this week Give them the number of the bill S2462B-2011, and that it was signed into law as chapter 455-2011 on August 17th and is an "effective immediately" law. If they still want to write you a ticket, it will be easy to get it dismissed. I would guess, however, that since it was signed two days ago, that the DEC probably sent out an email notice to all of the ECO's letting them know before it became public knowledge.
  17. Great report - it's always great to see a kid with a fish!!!!
  18. Here's the whole text of the bill: S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K 2462--B Cal. No. 106 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N SENATE January 21, 2011 Introduced by Sens. LIBOUS, MAZIARZ, O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ mental Conservation -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to authorizing angling by a single individual with up to three lines in freshwater; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expi ration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph b of subdivision 12 of section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 215 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: (2) one person may operate not more than two lines, with or without rod, EXCEPT THAT ONE PERSON MAY OPERATE UP TO THREE LINES IN FRESHWATER; S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed repealed December 31, 2013. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07301-06-1 So this says to me that if you're going out on the water today, 3 is the magic number for rods/person
  19. First thing I'd try with your electric is a shallower angle of attack - just a bit off parallel to the skin. If you still have trouble cutting through the skin, then it is time to use a good old manual fillet knife (sharp) to remove the skin. That will give you the control that the electric may be lacking. Personally, I fillet everything with a plain old fillet knife because I like the control it gives me to get the most meat off the carcass. I used to find that I left a lot of meat behind when I used an electric. I also leave skin-on my salmon and trout fillets because I generally cook them on the grill or in the smoker and the skin keeps them from falling apart. Aside from that - give youtube a look - lots of fish cleaning videos to be viewed.
  20. GOOD News fellers! I subscribed to updates on this bill, and just received this in my email.... LRS ALERT [email protected] to LRSAlert show details 9:43 AM (6 minutes ago) S2462B - LIBOUS Authorizes an individual to angle for fish with up to 3 lines in freshwater 08/17/11 SIGNED CHAP.455 I guess this means he signed it two days ago? http://m.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S2462B-2011
  21. The Gov has been negotiating with CSEA - with layoffs hanging in the balance. That he hasn't gotten to this yet doesn't automatically mean he'll veto it or let it run it's course to a pocket veto. The fact that it passed both houses of the Leg with the numbers it did (unanimous in the senate, one against in the Assy), the numbers are already in place to easily override his veto once they go back into session, so he may just go ahead and sign it to avoid the negative stigma associated with having a veto overridden. He has 30 days, so let's see what happens over the next couple weeks. As for Mr. Martens, Commissioner of the DEC, If he truly is against the three line law, then he would have an opportunity to prove out the validity or lack thereof, of any objections to this bill he may have. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the changes to the billl this final time through were put in place to make him a little less opposed (it is now set to expire in 2013). I've gone to the governors website and sent an email too - urging him to sign it into law. While we wait and see, sending letters is the thing to do if we really want this thing passed.
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