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I would pay good money to watch 😂

Hand held flares or flare gun one or the other required yes

Just a little heads up to the wise...the New York State Police have decided to start having a very active presence on the Finger Lakes starting this year. They are doing boat pre launch safety and registration checks, they are stopping boats on the water for checks, and they are conducting law enforcement searches. If you are putting a boat in the water on the Finger Lakes this season I advise you to be in compliance with all New York Boating and Registration laws, make sure you have flares with current dates, distress flag, fire extinguishers, pfds for all on board, dewatering device, sound producing device, and that you not be out drinking and driving the boat. You should also have a first aid kit. Kayakers need a whistle and have a pfd on or available. They have started slipping a boat in Cayuga and trailering to other lakes regularly. Free safety inspections are available through the USCG Auxiliary base located in Ithaca on the inlet and we send people out periodically to different marinas as a courtesy inspection. I would hate to see any friends on here fined or ticketed. I personally am quite happy to see it, as I see seriously dumb and reckless stuff on the water too often. It is always a good idea to take some time to do your own safety check each season test your bilge pumps, make sure your horns work, and many of your boats are not equipped with marine radios when they should be, get a portable one if need be so you can reach out for help....there is also a USCG app now for smart phones it has an emergency contact button that gives you your immediate gps location and ways to contact for help. Be safe out there please...and have a great boating season...

I find both entertaining I’ve been told you want real fun run a downrigger with a fly rod and stop after hook up

Not to revive the jigger vs troller because both can be successful but as a captain taking people out on Cayuga I routinely follow other people’s results and the days where I don’t do at least 50 percent better than someone who went out jigging is very few and it is very normal for me to haul in 8-12 pound fish that fight well and have a diversity of species but I believe both can be successful and it is about what you enjoy and after that it’s about improving your skill at finding and presenting proper lures... less about method more about skill of the fisherman Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Yeah I love them... especially when a 10000 pound boat is going 40 mph.. but also great at troll speed single engine can keep me at 1.5 or so

Lol best investment in electronics you can make next to a really solid sonar system

Looks good when we are hauling at 40 mph makes a loud whipping noise though

I had just finished setting up for departure Sunday and thought the lighting was kinda cool and shot some photos of our ride ready to fish thought I would share... Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Not a bad idea...I will be putting up a comprehensive video on the uscg aux website for ithaca a cold water presentation that included a video of people in water about that temperature as a test and followed their symptoms over time..it is quite educational...have some editing to do on it but it will be up likely in a week or so on our YouTube Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

45 degree water you would be incapacitated within 10 minutes you were close to shore but risky ... Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

We were the 30 foot hard top Avalon white and black with light bar Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I did... I was amazed someone would be in a kayak in 45 degree water lol hope you were in a good exposure suit we got the brown close to where you were but a little north of you.. wild fight broke the Treble hook

No skunks here went 14 for 18 hits a beautiful brown rest lakers ....one 32 inch 12 lb laker...Sunday... Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

You are not crazy...i have found that a high percentage of the suspended lakers in cayuga have coloring often as bright as a brightly colored brown and a high percentage of them were natural spawn not stocked... all of the brightest colored ones I have caught were natural spawners. The exception being I found them on the bottom during october...I did not track everything I caught over the last couple of seasons...and while id like to think I have the discipline to do so and it would be interesting I probably dont. Other things like clients conversations and finding and landing fish take priority. I do know I caught between 250-300 lakers last year on my charters and paid close attention to whether they were clipped or not. I brought one up with a lampray on it, a few had scars but not many...when I would go shallower and work bottoms for browns I would invariably snag alot of lakers that were smaller in the low 20 inch category and be shaking them off... like rustyrat I could not find browns after the early season...

Lmao strong opinions gotta love fishermen. I get them both ways but mostly suspended bottom dancing only when I have enough good experience on board to work riggers so I don’t lose equipment.