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  1. NyFallGuy
    You're exactly correct about the small fish not surviving the ride along. If I see them out there, I lighten up the tension and/or check my lines much more often. It's almost funny how good you feel about releasing a small survivor.
  2. NyFallGuy
    I keep my clips super tight too. Personally, I've felt that if the clip releases, it doesn't matter how fast I grab the rod, with any slack on the line the fish (salmon) always seems to get off the hook. I like the cannon clips. The "click...click...click" means I'm good. Oh, the only issue I've had is when the dinks are out. You could be driving around for an hour without a hit, because you've got a dink in tow.
  3. NyFallGuy
    Great report!
  4. NyFallGuy
    Thanks guys!
  5. NyFallGuy
    I was wondering how important wind direction is right now on the niagara bar this time of year. Later on in the season, if the wind is coming from any Easterly direction there was almost no point of heading out, but perhaps before the thermocline gets all set up and the lake flips this is not the case? Maybe in the Spring, blowing cooler water towards our Southern shore pulls the fish in closer? Going out Tuesday, so I guess I'll find out, but any tutelage would be greatly appreciated.
  6. NyFallGuy
    You could probably do an engine swap pretty easily, yes? (one boat to another)
  7. NyFallGuy
    I was thinking of doing the exact same thing. Have not heard anything but that doesn't mean they're not there, fingers crossed.
  8. NyFallGuy
    Still new to identifying these beasts. The last king I caught, I seemed to think it looked to have more fins but didn't give it much more thought, as it was the largest I had ever caught. Niagara bar.
  9. NyFallGuy
    Torpedos, absolutely. I tried pancakes... bending them, tuning them. It's a pain. The torpedos are perfect. They have the least blow back and maintain their direction. I use 12 pound.
  10. NyFallGuy
    I've been dying to try this out. I thought it would make a funny vid. Sitting back, hit the Cannon auto-retrieve, and find a 30 pound king hooked right off the torpedo! Beer in hand, of course.
  11. NyFallGuy
    I find it so exciting. No, actually, it's nuts. I go out alone running 2 down riggers. When I get one on I have to look up to see where the traffic is and engage the auto-pilot, a.k.a the bungee cord. It's not so great. Try fighting a fish and steering with your butt through traffic. It gets intense.
  12. NyFallGuy

    No Gas

    NyFallGuy replied to HB2's topic in Open Lake Discussion

    The hackers got into the government system by sending out a trojan horse update to the government. Thinking they were simply updating their infrastructure monitoring software, they wound up passing it along from one system to another. This move gave the hackers "back doors" to systems all over the place. Basically, it was a little more sophisticated than simply guessing that some slacker used "Admin" and "Password" on their desktop, not that that doesn't happen far too often, sadly.
  13. NyFallGuy
    There was definitely a crowd out at the bar today. Water was nearly glass. I don't even want to imagine how crowded it will be tomorrow.
  14. NyFallGuy
    Yes, it really does sound counterintuitive. I've spent a great many hours working those shallower zones with tons of bait and caught barely anything, while going out from 140 to 180 always works much better. There's a bowl that goes from 40' down to 55' right on the US/Can boarder. That is the only spot where I've caught lots of fish around lots of bait, but that was weeks ago.
  15. NyFallGuy
    I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
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