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    Hard water can come anytime

    in Ice fishing

    Posted

    One thing on the nils. If you buy the one made for a drill it has a lower attack angle than the normal hand version. Makes sense to reduce torque on the drill. The problem is when you try to use it by hand it takes about a thousand turns (give or take) to go thru 6" of ice. I had the 8" in both the normal hand model and drill. I returned the drill model. Too much work if you had to convert it. The normal hand model cuts like butter.

    Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

    Fluoro

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

    Posted

    I use a lot of fluoro now for leaders and bass fishing. It's great for being a little more stiff and abrasion resistant than mono but, as stated above, quality of the line is very important. I tried the cheap stuff in the beginning and would just have break offs and find the line all separated and frayed.

    I'm using Sunline for bass and Seagar for salmon now and it's a night and day difference from the cheap stuff. Twice the price but save a lot of money in lost gear.

    And if you're looking for small snaps that give more action check out the new VMC Crankbait Snaps. I'm not endorsing them because I just got my first pack and haven't used them yet. The concept seems good though.

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    Snubbers..

    in Tackle and Techniques

    Posted

    I started off using off using the 8" Luhr Jensen snubbers but after reading up on the advice in the LOU archives from Sk8man and others and losing 5 fish in a row after 2-4sec hook-ups, I eliminated them.

     

    5-5 last weekend with just 30# mono to the flasher. And no breakoffs other than due to a tangle. I'm sold. Not sure about the other types but I'm done with the stretchy ones from LJ

    Flasher Flies

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted

    I fish by myself and have been running the flasher about 4' behind the Dipsy and 22" or so to the fly. I've been doing fine but it's right at the end of my netting range. Always an adventure with the bigger fish.

    Also running some slide divers but not getting anything on them so far. Longer lead, different ff, running a bit shallower. Tough to narrow down exactly the problem. I shortened the lead this weekend but still nada.

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    Otisco bite continues to be solid

    in Walleye

    Posted

    Beautiful fish! This tiger and that eye on the other thread.

    Well. It pains me to relive this but I trolled the lake from 15:00-20:00 yesterday and got the skunk!

    Great screen and threw a lot at em but no takers. I usually count on having some great beginner's luck but not this time. Hopefully I'll get another shot down the road. Maybe a morning.

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    Otisco bite continues to be solid

    in Walleye

    Posted

    Trolling is the play for now....water is over 80 I'd strongly urge anyone targeting tigers to work fast, keep the fish in the water, and be quick the pics. Now probably isn't the time to learn to deal with and handle big tigers.

     

    Yeah. I wouldn't be targeting tigers this time of year. Especially not trolling. I found a beauty floating on Saturday that wasn't long dead. Unfortunately there's not much you can do if you get one by accident except, as you say, work fast and keep them in the water.

    Otisco bite continues to be solid

    in Walleye

    Posted

    Amazing fish. Congrats

     

    I hit Otisco for the first time last Saturday. Fished bass until 10:00 and then went out and tried a little trolling for those big marks out deep. Wind was too annoying to do much but I think I'm going to be back to try to connect with one of those pigs.

     

    I did get a half dozen largemouth and a small tiger on topwater. It's a beautiful little lake.

    Spinnerbaits

    in Bass Fishing

    Posted

    I bought some teminators a couple of years ago. Couldn't get a touch on them. Not sure why. I don't fish spinnerbaits that often but when I bought them I fished them exclusively for a while and got nothing. Then I put on a Gander Mountain bargain bin special and started catching fish again so the terminators are retired. A lot of people swear by them so I know they work, but not for me. Strange how that works sometimes. Could have been the time or place but it killed my confidence in them.

     

    I use fireline to fluoro leader on all my spinning combos. Uni to uni knot was my main knot, now it's Red Philips. They're both variations on the uni knot. I've never had one pop (knock wood) and have landed everything up to a 5' sturgeon on 8# test. When I used the uni to uni on 5# power pro years ago it kept cutting itself so I had to switch to a modified albright for that combo. Lots of good leader knots out there. Learn one that works for you and perfect it because they can be a big time waster if you're fumbling around with them.

     

    And as for spinnerbaits for walleyes. Yep. Perfect time for them right now in the deep weeds too.

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