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Kind of a difficult decision, but decided to sell the boat I bought only 4 years ago. Life's gotten busy and my dad's getting older and not comfortable tackling the big lake anymore. We've taken it out probably fewer than 20 times in the time we owned it. There's nothing wrong with it, handles great in mild Ontario chop, and performs fantastically on the finger lakes. It was used as a charter on Canandaigua years ago, and then used for bass fishing in Sodus by the previous owner. Here's what I have... 1987 Starcraft Holiday (?), closed bow, original paint, has had 3 owners (including me) - Deck rebuilt by previous owner sometime in the last 10 years - Original teak gunwales, newer carpet. - am/fm/cd player installed with speakers - shortwave radio and antenna - bilge pump - bimini top with windshield connections 1987 Shoreland'r trailer in great shape - taken apart, de-rusted and repainted piece by piece 3 summers ago 2006 (installed as brand new in 2008) Mercury 90hp 2-stroke outboard motor - previous owner showed receipt for ~$5500 Humminbird 385ci fish finder (2013) Bert's aluminum ratcheting rod holders and tracks installed on each side (2013). 2 big jon old electric downriggers - not sure what year (1960s maybe?) - they work with lighter weights. With heavier, one of them tends to overheat and trips periodically on retrieval A bunch of downrigger weights of different size Boat is currently winterized at my parents' house. They live in Fairport, close to the Erie canal, so it's a 5 minute trip to drop it in the water and take for a test ride, but I would need a couple hours to open it up first, which I will probably do in the next couple weeks, depending on weather and interest. It's the only picture I have right now, but I can take more once the boat is opened up.

Did this. Today. Looks 1000x better. Thanks for the advice y'all.

The girl who met me at the launch once asked me if she could measure, weigh, and then chop off the snout of the laker she identified as a hatchery fish. He looked weird without the snout afterwards...oh well. But, the girl was very nice and polite. I saw her and instinctively reached for my wallet to get my license out, she said "oh, I don't need to see your license. Just had a few questions"

Definitely see them going down when stopped Just not when going... I got a 385ci with 200/83khz. I think my sensitivity is up all the way though but I'm not positive, I will check for sure. Are you saying I can't be getting as much blowback as I think I am? Not sure how else to explain not seeing them. I keep my GPS speed usually between 2.2-2.9. And yeah - I have not seen a screen like that yesterday or today. I have seen screens like that on Keuka, though, and I have definitely marked fish hugging the bottom in 100 FOW, but what would you say is the chance of me seeing that screen "randomly" driving around? Was this like an average screen or one where you finally found the spot?

Negative. I am using some inherited electric Big Jon's and weights, both that came with the boat and get quite a bit of blowback unfortunately, as I think they're 8 or 10lbs, which leaves me between guessing, eyeballing the cable angle and using trig to guesstimate the actual depth, or hitting the bottom and raising the balls, to get an idea how deep they're running. Also had a mag dipsy out about 250 and a regular out 350' both on a 3 setting Sent from my HTCONE using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Spent 12 hours between yesterday and today fishing and could not find fish, out of Bear Creek. We ended up with a 14.2lb laker the first day and a couple smaller lakers today, but obviously that served to make us feel only slightly less upset about not getting into any kings. It's ok, still learning, I guess. Anyways, both days our screen was empty I'd say 95% of the time, except for maybe when we hit 100'-90' FOW and were definitely marking some fish hugging the bottom, bait balls, etc, etc. Seeing and hearing people on the radio say "great screen," or "marking them," or whatever else - how do people get to those "spots," so to speak? We were brave enough to go hit about 400FOW today, and spent about half an hour going in increments of 20-30 feet of depth, slowing down to look for a minute, and going somewhere else to do the same, in search mode, before we gave up, set our lines down out around 390FOW and trolled in south east direction towards the shore... Right now I'd be glad to be at the point where I see fish but fail to catch them, so that I can think about other things like lure, presentation, and technique... But without even seeing them, that's tough. Thoughts?

Alright, Ontario newb here. On a somewhat related topic, (sorry for the slight hijack), do you guys usually look for a pack of boats to join when you go out fishing? If you find yourself alone out there, is that a pretty good signal to pick up your stuff and go find where the other boats are?

After getting skunked first time out of Bear Creek, decided to pack up a few yards away from the launch, not seeing on my FF *just* how shallow it was there. Ran into the giant boulders with my prop at idle speed and immediately killed the motor and trimmed it up. No visible damage. On second look, after getting the boat out, I could see a small bend in the prop. I read you can cause damage to the lower unit with a bent prop but not sure whether this bend is much to worry about or not. Can anyone help assess the situation