Lewis863

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.

Seminar???? What did I miss?

Great reports guys congratulations

Hey that one in the middle is yours lol

So below is the picture of my new dash and electronic installation done myself...took off old thinner dash with old electronics and one new lowrance...traced it on butcher paper and sent it to www.boatoutfitters.com They cut me a new replacement routed edge on a thicker plastic king starboard that matched the previous to a T. Then I measured 16 times lol and cut in the electronics myself and built a bracket system to hold them all in place from behind...viola dual networked lowrance units with total scan...downscan and side scan..plus a Garmin 740 to replace my older chart plotter to run the radar....if you need something custom they do it.. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

Now now play nice Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Actually it is a landlocked two major keys are the maxillary or back of mouth extends past the rear of the eye on a brown. This one does not...The adipose fin on top would have orange flecks and be a different shape... color can be affected by diet...so don’t judge the fish by color alone the way he is holding the fish isn’t helpful for another difference but my money is he’s right..

Shhhhhh about that dang it!!!!🤔😂😂

Agreed I found plenty of fish way outside temp ranges they should be feeding in and slammed them... but I found them first on sonar, then put the lures on them, at the right speed, then varied presentation and lure color to find what they wanted, as well as speed as a last resort via the zig zag. As you say all the tools in the box... and some days it takes ALL

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Well I’ll raise my glass to the men who had the stones to give it a go and made it back not wearing a popsicle... our crap just ain’t meant for winter operations ...

Where ever the fish will bite...

Dang... what sk8 said....I dont have time to be too old school I use the hawk for speed and temp equally important and I get as much as 1 mph difference between top and bottom speed on cayuga. If you can eliminate variables that stop you from catching you will catch more... in my humble opinion... Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United