steelhead'r

Yes! The names are crazy. Been around the LO salmonid fishery since it started. FYI. The two that got weird names started was Mark Pierleoni and John Oravec. Listening to those two on the VHF would get anyone smiling.

I have pics on my phone but i'm a dinosaur and have no clue how post them. I know how to text them. Dex can you post them if I send them you?

While prefishing the A-Tom-Mik Invitational with Thrillseeker I landed a 19# steelhead. 37" length and 20.5" girth. I have been trying for forty years give or take to get a 20# steelie. I came close on fri. As you can tell by my name I'm partial to them. My thanks to Nick for setting that rod, Dex for saying that outdown was going to go off, Steph for steering the boat and to Vinnie for netting it. We released it maybe me or someone will catch her next year over 20#

Because DEC saw the Zebra musells and the cleaner water they reduced the stocking 60% of the king stocking. manmade or natural that's a crash

Ahhh! I remember catching my first Lake Ontario salmonid, a coho, in the warm current of Russel's Station.. I get a tear in my eye every time I drive past that closed plant that use to have fishermen there 365 days a year. When the samonid fishery took off; each spring 1000's of boats (99% 18' and under) caught plenty of football browns, cohos, lakers and steelhead. Catching of chinooks was spotty. A trip with 2 kings was unheard of until September came around and people caught them at the pier heads. Dick Schleyer came up with an idea to have a fishing derby in the spring where the grand prize was a boat bigger than 99% the boats out there. On those four days each morning had vehicles with trailers lined up onto Rt 18 at Olcott, onto the parkway waiting to launch at Black North Inn, A couple marina launches at Rochester and Sodus. But where where those kings.Everybody those other species and took them in to the weigh stations to get those door prizes. I think it was Ed Rowan that won the first boat and he caught it out of Bald eagle. That port also got winners the next few years. There was something about that west end and catching kings. So much so that a rift formed between the east end and the west end. Henderson (Bill Saiff) even went to have a derby with NO king category. The early years no one could catch kings consistently. I remember even going out with Vinnie off shore in the night to see if we could catch kings in the summer. The real turning point in king fishing came when Northern King developed the NK 28. The rest is history. Catches of 100's of pounds of kings in the summer was common until the crash. The crash that started with an ocean boat dumping his ballast tanks and releasing the zebra mussel. Those were the days

Reading more of the Bible

With less heat calories in the lake and should we get a normal summer (not above ave heat) fishing will be shallower than normal this summer. Keying in on shallower depths usually is easier to fish

Kinda like you don't leave fish to find fish

JimB don't put that fish down one iota. That is a world class fish, Let us not get spoiled.

Nice!! Get em now before you head off to SD

More bad news: Ammo manufacturers are raising their prices in April 60% on most populars calibers. They are saying that materials are not readily availablable

While at work selling guns yesterday a customer told me about a sign he saw. It was a picture of an AR. It read "I can use this to protect your family abroad but I can't own one to protect my family here at home"