zackblain
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+1 for seagars they were able to get me parts for my old Jonson, staff has always been helpful with answering questions regarding doing my own repairs on my motors, trident never returns calls or offered to lend advice they just want your money. Even tried buying a new motor through them and they never returned calls with quotes I asked for! End rant
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I would avoid trident in honeoye like the plague.
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15mph northwest wind here, gonna be a bit choppy down there I'd imagine
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UV can't be charged but glow can, and it's all about the intensity of the light you use to charge, not how long you expose it
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Also you could change prop sizes to slow down a bit and keep your rpms up, tossing a five gallon bucket off the back or a drift sock will allow you to run the motor at above idle and maintain a lower speed
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If you have a garden hose at home you could run it at home and play with the adjustments until it runs right where you want it too, not a very difficult task just remember where you started off so you can get back to where you started if you adjust it the wrong way. Like I said, there are plenty of small old two stroke motors purring around still
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What year/model motor is it? You could most likely do most of the simple stuff at home like changing spark plugs, tuning the carb, replacing lines/filters. Google is wonderful when it comes to that stuff.
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That's a sweet looking boat. -
Plenty of people still trolling with old two strokes, just takes time to get them dialed in.
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Bows are in the stream for the most part, browns are usually in the warmer water chasing bait. Do you have a fish finder yet?
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no hemlock and canadice similar, more browns in canadice and bows in hemlock, but laker patterns are largely the same in my experiences.
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probably get a better response over on the panfish board
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The bottom of the middle is smooth you shouldn't have an issue just touching the ball to the bottom and cranking it up quick. We drag bottom with 20oz weights on meat rods and rarely ever hang up.
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There are no doubt some monster fish in conesus due to the alewives, for that same reason they're difficult to catch using the "traditional techniques" I think Justin's reaction bite techniques would really work well over there and I'm interested to see his results after he fishes it this year. -
If you're fishing blind, my recommendation would be go right to the middle, drop a sutton or other lightweight down on a downrigger til it hits bottom, crank it up a few feet and troll around 2mph. You will catch lake trout.
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lakers will likely be deep and browns will probably be in the warm water
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I'm almost positive both are open now
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Anyone been to Hemlock lake this year to try for bullheads?
zackblain replied to mattym22's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
I'm pretty sure this weekend was the first weekend the ice has been off -
I was surprised to see hemlock still had ice on it, oh well maybe next weekend
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How much ice is still on Canandaigua?
zackblain replied to Iron Duke's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Fished outta woodville tonight, launched at five. Only fish we marked were deep, felt good to be in the boat and everything ran like it was supposed to. Temp out deep was 34.5, probably shoulda stayed shallow and went after crappie but I had to scratch the trolling itch. -
10-15, when the fleas show up on the bigger lakes you'll need to splice in some heavier big game of sea flee/fleaflicker
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Canadice still locked tonight hemlock looked almost completely covered on the north end, tomorrows wind should start breaking it up.... I Hope
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The newer ones agree good reels, the early models had some issues but Okuma took care of them.
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for occasional use I bet you'd be fine just set your drags accordingly