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The wind has turned around to the northeast and that dropped the water level by about 4 inches from yesterday. I think any decent western blow will put it close to 2017. There's an official water level gauge at A Bay. Here's a pic at my dock 5 minutes ago. About 10 inches to go. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Nice report Justin. Way to mix it up when things are slow. I sometimes get stubborn and waste a lot of time running proven, but unproductive on that day, setups. I live on the SLR and there were very, very few boats out this weekend. Water temp 44 here.

Looks great. Good feeling to give an old girl new life@ Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Glad to see somebody was doin it. I looked out the window and said to the wife "if I was younger...…" Thanks for posting the pic, it helps keep the winter moving along.

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I put hundreds of hours running riggers for eyes on the St Lawrence. Learned to use them on Oneida in the 80's and 90's. Lessons learned: Oneida's bottom is a LOT more forgiving than the river. I try to skim no more than 2 feet off of the bottom so you've got to be very familiar with the area you're fishing, A good depthfinder/gps map is essential. My leads are 40 to 50 ft pulling shallow running stick baits. Keeps them ticking right off of the bottom. I used to run Black's releases and was pretty happy when tuned properly, but have gone to Chamberlain's for 3 years. They are 20 bucks vs 10 for the blacks, have 2 adjustments, and can be set for a light release with a good sharp rod snap for a reliable hook set. Allows you to crank the rods down, especially when there's surface weeds and not get a lot of false releases. The release upon a strike is an independent magnetic thumb screw. They can be set super light for soft hits and always go back to where you had them. I'm sold and won't go back. I especially like that guys fishing with you can be shown how to set a rod and it ends up OK.

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Nice catch and thanks for posting

Nice outing!!

I assume the fished killed were only those that didn't make it through the weigh in process?140 anglers with 5 fish bags for a couple days really adds up. Someone must know what the breakdown was between fish released back to the river and those that ended up in the coolers. I bet FLW won't give it up!!

A fitting end to a labor day weekend. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Good chance those big line tuggers were drum. Landed one the other day that had to be 15 lbs. That fish did NOT want to be caught! Congrats on the eyes.

That's the cool thing about this fishery. There's so much good area to learn. I was exploring a new rock pile myself today, after old faithful paid off of course.

Sleep is over rated

Don't feel too sorry for him! Walleye revenge

I wait all year for this weather with this moon! Nice catch. Had a cousin up this weekend and had the same success. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Lake Ontario United mobile app

River fishing picking up for sure. Picked up a drum as well the other day along with a limit of eyes, and yes, they are drag pullers! Come on full moon[emoji106] [emoji106] [emoji106] Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Lake Ontario United mobile app

This year's class of perch here have been running big, finally. Nice work.

Literally a one in a million fish! Congratulations