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IMO chinook salmon !

You are lucky that it was all ! have had worse ; leave it !

Thank you for closure ! Hopefully lessons are learned ! I have been out in Lake Ontario solo many times since 1984 and feel safer than on the Queen E. highway but I take NO risks !

Famous quote " don't go away mad ; just go away ! "

Thks Fishstix that is probably the bottom line [ ie try and replace it ] !

Can the crack be fixed ?

Tks HB2 for response Not sure pic would help , crack goes through latter side of reel were handle attaches .

Ditto on " shut it down ! " Everyone who had an opinion has had their say !

#5 flo/white with black ladderback J-Plug has worked also !

S#5004-004-0760 Made in USA [ glad something still is ! ] Original J-Plug Fickle Pickle ..Sorry the bite can change every day !

I will try with picture later ; got mine a Peter's Tackle St Catharines may be some left : Call Angela at her store .

" FICKEL PICKLE " #4 with ratel took the only KS on Sept 03 !

Ditto for us on south Canadian side not great !

" FICKLE PICKLE " with rattle # 4 J-Plug put newbie #5 in the StCG&F summer derby on Aug 29 in the Laker category [ silver with a lot of chartreuse paint ! ]. The #5 flo white with black ladder back also works this year . Zilch with Lymans !

Good post Frogger ! Could not agree more !

Ditto : We were out that AM I would not go further than 120 FOW : With a strong offshore blow the further out the meaner the lake ! and the harder coming back ! Hopefully outhers can learn from this event !

" No fish is worth dying for ! "

Great topic ! The captain wants to get as many fish in the boat as possible ie he is the expert for salmon fishing that day ! " not very satisfying" ? you cannot please everyone so do not even try !

I will only buy Humminbird !

Mea culpa ; just checked the board at the StCG&F summer derby : leading rainbows are only 12+ lbs ie small !

ps. I did not have that colour !

IMO it is a TOM MAC from the west coast from the 1980s ; never did much for me but I have that colour !

Lot of interesting comment ; as I saw it the fishing changed dramatically in 1994 with the invasion ? of the zebra mussel : then came the cormorant in huge flocks . NYS must have a better fishery than us in Ontario 20 + pds ? ; my personal best was in 1991 at 15.7 running 50+ trips a year ! Last year we did not get one ! This year they are all small [ OK for the Barbie ] . The leader in the SCG&F summer derby ~ 15 lbs as I remember and some of those guys are out every day ! ps we have a two rainbow limit daily Ontario .

Go to Lake Erie !