Big Spoon

Lemons to lemonaid! Strong work.

Will depend on how much more rain we get this week, and what the wind does. Forecast is calling for a predominantly west wind, which may help push a lot of it to shore. The west side will likely be cleaner than the east side.

If anyone has their boat in the water at Cayuga, it may be worth checking your dock lines and bilge pumps. The water has come up enough to possibly pose an issue if your lines were too tight before the storm. Was just down at Myers, and the water was over a couple docks in the harbor (namely, the one with the center console directly across from the launch). I didn't see any major issues, but also didnt look that hard. Also, check your bilges/pumps before heading out. If anyone from out of town has a boat on the south end of Cayuga that they want checked, send me a PM and I'll do my best to get out and look. Thanks, Chris

There was a fairly long debate on this topic over the winter - you can search for that thread, but I believe the general concensus was 50/50 between rings and no rings. Someone contacted Michigan Stinger, who said that they design their spoons to be run without rings, while other guys like the added protection provided by the more free swinging nature of the spoon on a ring, and/or additional action by using a ring and a swivel. This long and short is, it comes down to personal preference. If I buy a spoon with a ring on it, I run it with a ring, if not, I don't. As far as running a spoon behind a spinny, I personally don't do it - but I would imagine there is a lot of line twist going on there, and swivels will help cut down on it. FWIW, it may be worth running a barrel swivel between the spinny and spoon as well. Chris

Don't use West Marine brand - broke on of them last night (grabbing rod out of holder, not pulling a dipsy)

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Launched at Union Springs yesterday afternoon. Ran down to Levanna, set up deep, marked a few (very few) in 120-150 FOW. Swung inside, bounced between 20-30 FOW, marked a lot of fish, picked up one big pickerel. Stayed inside up to the green buoy, then pulled lines and ran up north for perch. Ended up with enough for a nice meal. Running mostly natural sticks on the boards, NK28s on the riggers (black/purple, chartruse). Water was very clear - could see the bottom in +20 FOW FWIW, I saw a bunch of dead Gobies near shore at Myers Saturday night. Hopefully thats the start of a trend...

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