BSmaster

I do not know why it looks like fun to me because I would leave a busy trib full of fish and a lot of fisherman to go fish a non busy trib with hardly any fish and no fisherman just for the serenity. Must be the walleye thing. As long as the temperments are calm then I am ok with it being stupid mobbed. At least once for the experience. I am going to look for Ohio plates this fall and tell them they can have my spot if they give me their's in April.

Just tried frogg toggs and I really like them.

best knife is the one that works the best for the one using it with their technique. I don't cut through the rib bones so I use a 6" blade to start the fish and a 9 inch to skin it and then I have a cheap bass pro knife that does an excellent job making them chef trimmed. I am not fast nor do I care to be - missing digits that is.

Patent 8,840,448 Retail $150 I will wait for the hype to bring the cost down to more reasonable levels before even considering it. Analogy- I had a hydraulic wood splitter when I was younger. I found out that sometimes it was easier and more efficient to take the splitting maul to the woods. Granted, that sometimes it was reverse. I will wait until it is obvious that it is warranted. I already own an electric knife I don't use.

Field and Stream reminds me a lot of Gander Mt when they first came out. Gander has since sold all of those cool mounts and it looks more like a Dick's and so would Field and Stream with out those mounts. I have not been to Cheektowaga but anytime I am close to Hamburg, PA I make that stop. It is like my version of a theme park. Indoor trout stream and rooms dedicated to items that are not for sale but for show. Simply awesome. Cabelas has an indoor trout stream... and a mountain... and a tank larger than most personal yard ponds. My family like going to it because they can shop and eat and look at the animals and fish and they leave me alone to do look at man things. I have to pick whether I want to do hunting or fishing because I usually only have 2-3 hrs and that is not enough to do both. My parents use to spend a night in a hotel and shop there the next day when it opened before they drove home so they could spend more time there. This is a must see if you have not been. I guess my point is that if F&S is impressive to you than you need to make this trip to a Cabelas. I am extremely hopeful that the hype surrounding Bass Pro in Victor is real. I won't get too excited but will definitely check it out since it will be on a normal travel path for me.

I found mine at Field and Stream.

If it is for the Susky, I would go with the floating and I honestly do not know about jointed or not. The $13 is why I don't use them. I snag too much where I fish em. It is too painful for me. Joe

I picked up a couple of these last week. I know guys use them to drag behind the boat and do well. Does anybody cast them? I ask because that's what I had in mind. Thanks, Joe

I choose not to worry about it. Like lead, Like asbestos. (even rattle snakes) I respect things that will kill me but I don't let them scare me. There is nothing wrong with the guidelines that the DEC provides. There is also nothing I can see that is right about them. Being a researcher, I want to see the entire scientific method and the data before the report and debate why they did it that way and not like I would. I want to know why an entire fish is tested when I only eat the chef trimmed portion. Where I work, they take the acceptable exposure limits and take at least half of that as a standard. If that number is safe than this number is even safer mentality. I can go into LD 50 numbers but they are not even that accurate. I am at 200lbs so it is probably pretty easy to figure out but figuring in the amount of chemo I had and extended drug use (illicit or legal) it becomes much more complicated. My advice is to know your body of water. If you think it is unclean and the DEC says don't eat the fish, then don't eat it. If you are thinking about it you won't enjoy it anyways so what is the pt. I won't eat any resident fish from the lower Genny or the Hudson for example. 25 years ago I wouldn't even fish in some areas that I eat fish from now because of my pink moss rule. "Don't drink where the moss grows pink" The rivers are the cleanest they have ever been in my life. MHO = You do more damage to your body eating farm raised fish than wild fish that may or may not have some form of contamination. I can't argue with a person feeling insecure about eating wild fish. If it is a feeling than you own it and that is legitimate. I refuse to eat seafood from China and won't order it sometimes off a menu because it may be from there. My feeling is their water quality is poor and they do not have governmental controls like we do in the US to ensure that the fish is raised appropriately. How else can catfish raised in China be more than $1/lb cheaper than US? What I meant (was trying) to say was "I appreciate your concern but I choose to be ok with it" Thanks, Joe

Logic - I love the stuff. Good info. Thanks, Joe

I don't know if news of the flash floods in the southern part of the fingerlakes reached up your way. There was talk of the lakes being shut down until next week. I am debating on where to go tomorrow and may head to PA. Good news is there won't be any yahoos on the water. Good luck never tried it but I think you want to stay on the East side. From the lake association... From Terry Allison-President LWLA Sheriff Yessman and I agree that by SATURDAY morning the lakes can be reopened with a boat speed of 5mph. The lake level is still quite high, but most docks are beginning to be seen again. He will place a deputy on the lakes to enforce the speed limit. He has toured around both lakes and finds that Waneta Lake is less debris filled than Lamoka where there continues to be debris floating in the waters. As you re-enter the waters, please continue to pick up debris on your rides up and down the lakes to make our waters safer for boat travel. REMEMBER THAT UNTIL YOU HEAR FROM ME AGAIN, THE SPEED LIMIT IS 5mph. I want to thank all of you for your patience during this difficult time. Thanks for staying off the lakes till things got better. You are truly the caretakers of our beautiful lakes.yet another one!

Beginning of June can be rough for me given that my son's birthday and my anniversary. My wife and kids love to eat processed foods. I do not mind it but the older I get the more my body gets mad at me for eating them. So I decided immediately after the celebrating was over that it was time to start making my dinners. this usually means I go through the freezer and look to see what I have and determine what I need to get from the store if anything. In no particular order, this is what I have made for dinner recently with notes. Pan fried small mouth in Weber Old bay seasoning (top) and Cajun (bottom) fried in Olive oil. Get the oil hot and fry the top of the filet to get it a little crispy and then flip and reduce heat to simmer for the back. If these are extra thick fillets it is important to have a lid. These were served over Green Giant rice pilaf which is good for rounding out the meal but may have a little too much sodium for my liking. Rocky bass finger size pan fried in olive oil and covered in Lefty's coating patted dry of oil and eaten with Heinz tartar sauce. Blue gill (like above) Crappie (like above) Walleye ( thanks Justin) coated in Lefty's, fried in oil and served over rice pilaf. Pheasant Marsala - breast meat marinated in caribean jerk seasoning and pan fried well. Sliced Button mushrooms (I used frozen wegmans or use fresh - not canned) Fried and I also got a steamable rice mixture. A bottle of Marsala wine to taste. So to make the mixture, instead of using flour and water, I use lefty's and as it thickens I add all ingredients into the pan and reduce all heat and then add wine to get the flavor that "I" prefer. Roast venison (pulled pork style) Neck roasts use to be a pain but for the past several years, I have discovered that all I need to do is slow roast them all day in a beer/water with 4 bay leaves garlic and pepper. The meat will fall off the bone and shred nicely. From here I put in a mixing bowl and add hot sauce and barbecue sauce. Reheat if necessary and jam between your favorite roll and eat it like pulled pork. I didn't get any turkeys this year but this is an excellent way to cook the drumsticks too. Pan broiled/fried Mahi Mahi in weber zesty lemon seasoning and olive oil. finish with Garlic butter. Both obtained at Wegmans. served over a bed of grilled asparagus (from Mom's). Pike balls - chunks of boneless pike coated in Lefty's fried in olive oil and served with tartar sauce and finished with Mom's home made Strawberry Rheubarb pie. A lot of these are easy and some a very quick. Next time you think you do not have the skill or the motivation to do this (like my brother) remember that this doesn't necessarily have to be wild game or wild caught fish. Substituing is easy. Sorry, you can't have my Mom's homemade baked goods. Eat well my friends, Joe

beetle spin (I prefer white with grn n blck) blue fox spinner silver with blue curly tail jig under a float (3ft) color black. Small cranks (never tried it but hear about it a lot) All retrieved as slow as you can while still getting the bait's action. Sometimes I think it should be easy and the baitfish must be a lot different than my presentation and I get nothing. Other times it is bang bang bang. Every cast is a fish.

Finally caught up on my sleep. I can't stop thinking about the top water action we experienced Thursday night. That was a lot of fun. I highly recommend that anyone that wants to lessen the learning curve, Hook up with Justin. I realize that Conesus is a long ways away but the lakes are eerily similar so you can use knowledge from one to fish the other. The lake boils with alewives and the bass are little piggys. I learned something about reaction bites that didn't know before and I intend to use elsewhere in the future. Yes, the fish are there to be caught but the experience of being on a new body of water and the transfer of knowledge is what made the trip fantastic for me. Like Justin said, the lake was crazy for awhile and we couldn't boat one. But when we hit that magic hour it felt really good. Walleye make you work for them for sure. I look forward to going back. Good times for sure. Joe