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I see on the "Brown Trout Eggs" box it says creek pond.

If you use the water from a creek that would support a spawning population of browns, will that imprint that stream onto them?

Maybe a better question would be, do the Lake O tributaries have the water quality and flowrate to support a naturally reproducing stock of browns?

Good job, Teach!

I like the options snap weights offer behind boards.  Distance from bait, quick change of weight size.

I have no interest in this company, Franks Great Outdoors usually has the red snaps with pin, the snap weight models, for around four and a half bucks when purchased 10 at a time.  Do yourself a favor and just buy 20.

I use them this time of year for rainbows.  2 oz, 100 foot out, orange and gold spoon behind boards.  I could do the same thing with lead core, I just don't see any advantage.

I personally love the term 'hypnotic effect' lead core has on fish.  I am old enough to have watched Ed Sullivan, I love magic and hypnotist shows.  I have never seen any fish hypnotized.  

A new paint job?

I do not have a salmon mount of any species.

I have a gorgeous L Superior red fin Laker, a very non-trophy size 9 lbs.  Beautiful fish, great day, and good company.

A 28 in walleye.  My Dad did the netting and he is notorious for knocking them off.  

A 27 in Steelhead, I was fishing in my last contest/tournament.  All I could think was "I gotta land this fish.  I need it to win"  

They all have a special reason to mount.  They are all short of my personal best.  Purely on size, I would mount a 25 pound Lake Superior King.  On the right day, I might do a 15 pounder.  

Atlantic? Hard to say.

Braid

I have a Lowrance HDS gen II with side scan.  I changed boats two seasons ago.  The Side scan module and transducer reside in the basement.  

I have the 7 inch screen.  I use the plotter and depth finder, its too small for anything other than side scan.  I may get another screen this off season and link them.

My transducer picks up turbulence from the kicker.  (It did on the last boat anyway.)  There is a splitter and another transducer option.

$$$ Break Out Another Thousand 

I heard they taste like lake trout...

I did some carpet and plywood work this year.  My supplier has no outlet east of Cleveland.  

I would recommend Stainless Steel staples.  The ones I bought were designed to work in a T-50 gun and they did just fine.

I use Scottie releases.  They allow the rod to show what is going on.  If I tangle a flasher or dodger there is a very different fast vibration at the rod tip.  Much different from the steady thumping telegraphed to the tip from a flasher or dodger.

Hook the fly onto the downrigger cable and look see for yourself. 

I recently purchased a few second hand dipsey divers.  Two of them have a lead fender washer (lack of better term) sandwiched between the two plastic parts.  I doubt dive charts will be of much use.  I think the beggars will get deep.  

What are they called? Are they still available?

I have a blueberry patch.  The berries get a heavy peat moss mulch.  The cats believe its the best litter box in the neighborhood, worth fighting over, at 3 am.  Unfortunately they do not fight to the death.

There is an internet recipe somewhere containing 3 kinds of peppers that does work.

The cottontail rabbits eat the canes.  I fence the patch in the fall to keep the rabbits from ruining the crop.  This year I left the fence up.  Tired of 25 dollars worth of pepper to keep the cats out.  

I do not like the looks of the fence.  I do not like cats.  The cats are all neighbors pets.  They are hard on the small local birds and animals.  I do not like cats.  Its is not the cats fault, it is the owners fault.  I do not like cats.  

I think that next year I will live trap them and turn them over to the animal shelter.  After a couple of trips to the shelter and the bail money, maybe the owners will keep them in at night.

My old 470 Mercruiser's water cooled voltage regulator quit this spring.  We, my boatyard and I, decided the best fix was an after market kit putting a GM marine alternator on.  I got out Monday and on the return trip, the voltage was jumping from battery to charging, 11.5 to 13.5.  Not an ideal situation.  A short outing to an inland lake Thursday found no charge at all.

A stop at my boatyard an assurance that he would look into it.  Not sure how that figures where you are at, here it means 30 days, close to the remainder of my season.

I pulled the alternator and the terminal marked 'battery' was out.  An inspection revealed the stud was arc burned and the insulator had some melting.  I called Romaine in Washington state.  After reaching a supervisor, we determined it was a bad build.  I was assured that a new alternator would be shipped to me from Kansas City.

I installed a deep cycle battery for inland lake forays.  Reinstalled the defective alternator (I need the belt to run the power steering pump)

Its nice to deal with a company that can own up to a problem and 'make it right'.  Even if it is not normal policy to ship before the defective part is in house.

As more of the water cooled regulators quit, please be assured that Romaine Electric has a track record of customer satisfaction.

I have no interest in Romaine Electric, my local boatyard, or the outfit making the aftermarket kit.

Several weekends ago my nephew was on Lake Superior  A young fellow with limited experience.  After fishing for several days, he was counting on a 5 watt solar panel to keep the battery charged. Power divided by voltage is about 0.42 amps, not much of a charger.  Two stroke Evinrude kicker, no charge there.  Breeze picks up out of the south, he pulls lines.  Not sure how or why the kicker was shut down.  A quick pull on the recoil and out comes the rope.  A bit more experience and he would have been glad it was an OMC for the ability to knot the rope and use the flywheel to start it.  VHF radio transmits but low volts no reception.  Coasties, sheriffs, an Uncle or two, plenty of onlookers awaited him as he returned to port.  Some how it was revealed to him there was a way to start his kicker.

No, I was not the Uncle in attendance.  No, I do not choose to go on Superior with one battery.  Yes, I do wish we had kings like you do.

I am uncertain how to take the MI DNREs assessment.  They claim low alewives so less salmon plants.  Put in more lakers,  Lake Michigan lakers are filling up on the remaining alewives.  No one programmed the lakers to belly down and eat gobies.  Lakers and sturgeon seem to be the restoration fish of the decade.  After all, salmon are a non native species.

They seem to be well intentioned professionals.  Professionals because they are paid for their labor.  I believe they are trying to avoid a population collapse like Lake Huron experienced.

Perhaps they are once again earning the acronym Do Nothing Right, Ever. 

"all the way up"  Is the lower unit of the kicker still in the water?  If it is try tipping the kicker to get it out of the water.

They are Stable Flies.  They gather on the south shore of Lake Superior also.  They are bred and raised in the manure piles south of you.  They are worse after a nice warm southerly wind.  They can ruin an outing or clear a campground.

They will never bite through suntan oil, ever.  Just regular cheap, safe suntan oil.  The oil.  

Do not miss a spot, lay it on like you are a swim suit model.  Thick and oily.  No poisons.  

Not the best for fish attractant.  Few bug sprays are though.  It easier to get a fishing partner to spray you down than rub oil on you thighs....  A bar of soap and cloth to dry my hands are on my boat.  

Not sure how NY sees feeding seagulls, but... Isle Royale National Park sometimes wants one to feed the gulls and sometimes sink the offal to feed the fish.  On gull years remove the belly meat and spiral cut it.  Wait till you have 20 or more gulls squawking and fling that 3 foot long piece of belly between a few.  I enjoy watching them french kiss and then somehow one will fly off with the other in pursuit.  Not sure how but the front gull got it all.

Some of you guys are seriously funny.  Do you all hang in the same  bar?  I am not much for drinking, but a few rounds would be a small price for the humor.

I happen to live in the UP of Michigan and am toying with a road trip idea.

Lake Superior has been giving up some pretty nice eating lakers recently.  As an example, last year we canned a couple of larger fish, upper teens to low 20s, there was less than an eigth inch of oil floating in the jar.  I trim belly meat and back fat.  I am curious if the lakers in Lake Ontario are pleasing to eat.  

I just installed a second battery, Perko switch, two 4 lug 150 amp buss bars, two new fuse panels.  I also wanted a second battery.

I trailer the boat with drain plug removed, no need for me to direct wire the auto bilge pump. 

The thing missing in this thread is the fuse within 7 inches of the positive terminal.  I put a terminal fuse block on each battery.  I do not ever expect to see or smell main cables smoking.  I use a 125 amp fuse, the correct size for the cable.

I just installed a second battery, Perko switch, two 4 lug 150 amp buss bars, two new fuse panels.  I also wanted a second battery.

I trailer the boat with drain plug removed, no need for me to direct wire the auto bilge pump. 

The thing missing in this thread is the fuse within 7 inches of the positive terminal.  I put a terminal fuse block on each battery.  I do not ever expect to see or smell main cables smoking.  I use a 125 amp fuse, the correct size for the cable.