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nickihoyboy

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  1. Pennfish, Would you be willing to ship the pulleys and releases on my dime?
  2. Oswego NY, I have a bunch of them I would be willing to part with. I am from NJ but currently at Oak Orchard and won't be home until Saturday. I can send you some photos of the spoons when I get home if you are interested. I have some silver and some black Arrowheads, all in good condition. I think some may never have seen the water. Nick
  3. You said it ErieBuck! You local guys are so lucky to enjoy this tremendous fishery on LO. I'm from southern NJ and I would rather do the eight hour drive to Lake Ontario for this fishing than the one hour drive to the ocean for those opportunities. While I have put dozens of 30-40 lb., and one 50 lb., stripers in the boat I still prefer the mighty king as my number one fish species and I totally appreciate all that upstate NY has to offer the sportsman. Made the long trip yesterday, splashed the boat today, can't wait for the fishing to start tomorrow morning.
  4. I'll take them Greg. PM sent.
  5. Thanks Bottom-Feeder. I don't mind the fish tangling up the lines, that only means that I'm catching fish. Just trying to avoid the fishermen doing it. Definitely going to give the chute rod a try when we hit the Oak in a couple of weeks. Never fished the west end before, so I'll be having a bunch of new experiences this year, including a 9 hour tow from South Jersey. Can't wait!
  6. For the guys that have a lot more experience than I do, I have been wondering about the feasibility of running a 400 weighted steel rod straight out the back of my boat to complement my normal setup of one downrigger line at each of the two back corners and one 9' wire diver rod on each side of the boat with mag divers on a #3 setting run back 200-275 ft. Mostly curious about the probability of the diver lines getting into the weighted steel line in turns. I'm thinking that the divers should be set to run deeper than the weighted steel line, which I would expect to be running about 75' deep. Or would I be better off running a chute rod with a diver on a zero setting and keeping that higher than the port and starboard diver depths? Your thoughts and experiences would be greatly appreciated.
  7. I did, about 20 years ago. It's been so long that I forgot all the particulars, but I remember that I tried two different models of them and I wasn't happy with either of them and I went back to my 13 lb. Slim Darters. They may still be lying around somewhere in my attic, if you're interested in them I'll look and see if I can find them. If I can, you pay for shipping from NJ and I'll send them to you. No promises that I'll find them though. Nick
  8. Trorun, I would like to buy the two Big Jon pulleys if you are willing to ship to NJ and take Paypal. Will send PM. Nick
  9. I'll take them. Will send PM with info.
  10. Heard a couple of statements recently that, if true, kind of sum up where we are at this point in the debate. "You can make windmills with steel, but you can't make steel with windmills". "Tesla is now one of the richest and most valuable companies in this country. So why are they still getting untold millions of dollars in government subsidies?" My viewpoint on this whole issue is that we (this country) should definitely be exploring any number of options concerning alternative methods of energy, but I think trying to convert to alternative sources too quickly could be disastrous. We need to ease into a change, not try to do it overnight. I do believe that companies related to the fossil fuel industries will fight the change tooth and nail, but they will have to concede eventually. They should be major players looking toward alternative sources that they can develop to replace the oil and gas. And becoming dependent on one alternative source could create the same issues we have with fossil fuels right now, we need multiple alternatives. Let's face it, the biggest threat to the earth's environment is just people in general. As the population of the earth grows, people are going to have an effect on the environment just due to sheer numbers and, unfortunately, many countries don't really care as much about the environment as they do other issues.
  11. bigted, Saw your reply to my post about the lost board in Open Lake Discussion and found it a little disappointing. Just to clarify, we didn't even know that we had snagged somebody's gear until quite a bit later when I raised the downrigger to change lures. The Michigan Stinger spoon the other guy was trolling had snagged my downrigger cable at some point and we were completely unaware of it, which was kind of surprising since we had no indication of it. Anyway, as the rigger was coming up the spoon caught on the stop beads on the cable and jammed into the rigger boom when it hit the pulley. The rigger motor kept running and before I could shut it off the drive belt on my Scotty downrigger jumped off the drive wheel, causing the downrigger to free spool with no way to stop the cable until the weight hit the bottom in 140' of water. Fortunately we got the boat stopped before all 300' of cable was out, but it took a long time to get the belt back on and the downrigger working correctly. By then the other guys were long gone out of sight. We turned around and trolled back in the direction that they were headed in but never saw them again, hence the post on LOU. My question is, why didn't they stop and come back? We were dead in the water for at least 15 minutes fixing the downrigger, maybe more. I feel bad about what happened but I don't know what else I could have done.
  12. Looks like a nice deep ramp at least. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
  13. Bayonne59, had pretty much the same experience, only two weeks instead of one. Boiled my brake fluid and had my brake pedal go right to the floor towing my 23' boat in a two hour traffic jam on the PA Turnpike. Sat on the shoulder for eight hours trying to get some help, finally decided to try and make the next exit (13 mi. away) at 11:30PM with light traffic, only to find that the brakes were working fine once the fluid cooled. Never heard of this before, except in NASCAR, but I Googled it and it describes my situation exactly. Very weird. Anyway, get to my rental near Mexico at 5:30AM, take a nap, then take the boat over to Lighthouse Marina where I had reserved a slip, only to find I can't launch at their ramp because of the low water. The owner of Lighthouse, Abe, offers to go with me to the Mexico launch and drive my truck and trailer back to the marina while I drive the boat back. Barely got the boat off the trailer at Mexico, but finally got tied up at Lighthouse. Fished hard for two weeks from the plant all the way up to north of North Sandy, from 85' out to 400', with very little success. Threw everything I had at them, spoons, flasher/flies, meat rigs, you name it. Tried speeds from 1.5 to 3.2, didn't seem to matter. Even tried some stickbaits and j-plugs in frustration. Ended the trip with one king in the high teens, two steelies 9-1/2 and 10-1/2 lbs., one brown 6 lbs., one small laker and a bunch of small browns that ate the spoons (all released except the king). The charters out of Lighthouse didn't seem to be doing much better. Plenty of marks and plenty of bait, but didn't seem like the kings were interested. I was told the same thing, come the last two weeks of August and the first two weeks of September. Talk about combat fishing time. And I waited all year anticipating a great fishing trip. Oh well, that's fishing.
  14. Fished out in front of the nuke plant all weekend with no luck on kings. What water depths were you fishing? Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
  15. Not sure where to post this, but I hope this finds the owner. While fishing off Mexico Bay/Salmon River on Monday, my crew accidentally snagged somebody's copper line and side planer, which ended up in my downrigger cable. Not sure how it happened and I apologize if it was my fault, and I would like to see the owner at least get the side planer back. The boat was a small aluminum boat, probably 16', with a distinctive beach umbrella for a canopy. We recovered the spoon, the copper line and the right side side planer board. If this rig is yours, or you might know whose it is, I would like to see them get it back. Please contact Nick at 201-870-2311, or through Nickihoyboy at Lake Ontario United. I'm from NJ but will be in the Mexico/ Pulaski area through Saturday, 8/7. Hoping this can help.
  16. ErieBuck, Not sure the PM thing is working. Got a notification that you responded to my PM but getting no message. Just let me know how you would like to be paid. Thanks, Nick
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