HB2
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I fish a little most every day , sometimes 3 times a day , certain times of the year . Sometimes it's great and sometimes it's not . When it's really good , it can become quite tiresome hauling all those big fish in . When the kings are in I got tendonitis in my left elbow 3 years in a row . But I guess we all have our crosses to bear . -
The pictures are all in my mind Besides , if I got all the big fish I caught in my life mounted , I'd be broke and need to put an addition on my house .
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Well I guess we will never know for sure , not that it matters much . All I do know is I feel fortunate to have hooked and landed it and get it back in the water to swim away . If I would have measured and weighed it ,it would have most likely died . I'm blessed that I have a place where I can fish that whenever my float drops , It could be a 3 " perch , a bass , trout ,salmon, carp , sunfish , or a nice pike . And that's fun .
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No I did not measure it but I think it was 44" or so but it was fat . I have a hard time judging weight of pike as some are skinny so you can't go by weight. I say it's all of 15# . I almost didn't take the pic . I wanted to get it back in the water . It's our there for someone else to catch .
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And no , you didn't here me shouting .
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The clouds made it a bust but it still was pretty cool . I fished through it and caught a few . But I could not see my float for a few minutes . A stiff NE wind started blowing about 1 . When it started to get a little dark about 20 min before it calmed right down . The rooster across the creek started in . Also all the creek dogs started to howl .A bunch of fireworks was blown off. Then it was over. Highly overplayed . Wife and I took a drive through Brockport and the college . More traffic for graduation . Pike was caught on a 1/32 oz chart curly tail under a float 4# tippet.
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Sure started off right !
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My Control King works great . When I hit my electric downrigger it will surge . I have whoever turn the control unit off when I mess with the rigger . I contacted the manufacturer and he told me to wire it directly to the battery .
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Center line of the path is about 350 yards south of my house . That's pretty exciting . But I think I will be at my cottage . What gets me is the accuracy of the long term precise predictions of such an event . There are some real smart people out there . -
Seems to me like a whole lot of hulabalou over 4 minutes of darkness . It pretty cool and all that but it's a little overplayed IMO. Lets wait and see
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You can buy a tubing bender at Lowe's or Home Depot . Electricians use them to bend conduit . It's pretty easy .
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A significant portion of the ADK mtns will have totality
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It's not a one spot destination like a Bills game . It's pretty much state wide .
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I think you have to be smart about it . If you want to go to a population center for the party , then expect craziness . Get a room maybe 150 miles out of the zone .Get up early and drive up , maybe on some back roads . Find a small town and see it there . And the Egg Cream is the official drink of the eclipse . If it's cloudy , I'll put some Vodka in it .
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Yes . I even have a pole . And free coffee for the event. Or maybe an Egg Cream if you are lucky
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I will be at my cottage fishing . Just to see what happens . Anyone can join me and my wife . For the bargain price of 100$ per person .
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What port are you fishing out of ?
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2 nd week in July to 1st or 2nd week in Aug midlake .Oak , to Sandy . Weather is usually pretty stable then . After that the majority of kings start to migrate east to the Salmon river . If you find them you can have good days . But you also start to get the winds of Aug which can keep you off the lake then .
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I feel some of my diver rods are to stiff. They seem to pull smaller trebs ( 1/0 or smaller ) out of the fishs mouth . I have a custom made and older Eagle claw that have more of a parabolic softer action i like better .
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My problem is I built long salmon / steelhead rods or fly rods Blanks are 100$ + for low end
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I built about 40 rods in my day . Most pre graphite or it was new , expensive ,and not great. I enjoyed doing it and still use my long drift rods to this day . I keep wanting to build another but first , you can get any premade you want . And a custom built is not that much better . Or even worse if you dont set it up correctly with the right components and guide placement etc . Second , to build a decent rod will be double to quadruple what a premade is. Blank Handle set Guides Epoxy Thread Finish And non of this is cheap .
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During the shut down travel restriction I did a lot of spring fly fishing at the Oak . It was fantastic There is like nobody there . -
How far out for kings.
HB2 replied to fishing fireman's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
Man , that's a loaded question Summer could be 60 ft Could be 400 But generally , depending where you fish there are usually at least some kings off stucture 75 to 200 ft. -
evening salmon and trout
HB2 replied to fishing fireman's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
When sun comes up I do better on my dipseys and slide divers. -
Don't be fooled on price with the cheaper Cannons . Many guys have lost probe due to the he abrubt stop .I know a guy who lost 2 on 10 trips . That over 1 k . Factor a lost probe and weight and you could have bought the better ones that don't do that .
