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  1. ChrisS
    Interesting thought. I don't know what the maximum range of alewives is, but if Lake Ontario is just on that edge, then it would make sense if climate swings would affect the populations. I'm sure there have been some studies on this from somewhere. It's kind of what people are seeing with Moose in NH and VT. Those populations are on the already on the edge of their preferred range and then they also get hit with increases of ticks and whitetail deer brainworm due to THEIR changing range.
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    Before I got my lund, I was a kayak and canoe angler. One of my fondest memories is landing a laker and a landlocked salmon at a wilderness area lake. I didn't have electronics, downrigger, or anything other than a general idea of where the deep water was based on a NYSDEC map. A spinning rod, some spoons, and 2oz trolling sinkers ...
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    Rick, thanks for these. I usually catch most of your videos. If you get a chance, on the next few can you discuss a little bit of what goes into your thinking on choice of colors and types of baits? You said something the other day that you wouldn't use a certain spoon until the water color was right, but you didn't go into it more than that. You do a lot for our sport and we're here for it!
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    How deep were you targeting? I fished out of Mexico Saturday as a first trip out and had a couple of fish on a chicken wing close to bottom before deciding that I was done with the wind. My auto-pilot would freak out a few times when there was a big gust (usually because I was standing up acting as a sail while checking and resetting lines). An aluminum gets blown around pretty easily.
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    I've worked from home for the last 3+ years and rarely drive more than 6k miles a year. And that's mostly dragging the boat to the launch and back.
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    Are you or anyone else still picking up matures out there? Last weekend I spent most of my time looking for fish and taking juveniles off the line.
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    I wasn’t sure where to put this but it’s a report I guess. has anyone else caught a bird on a dipsey? This was on a meat rig behind a 124mm deeper diver about 80 feet down. It didn’t trip the dipsey and it definitely ate the meat and was hooked in the beak. Deader then dead when I reeled it in, felt like reeling in a wet blanket. The dipsey rod tip was acting a little weird and I wanted to check the bait so I reeled, it tripped and I couldn’t figure out what the weight was. It wasn’t pulling like a fish and I thought it was tangled in something else.
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    I've used Hirsch Taxidermy in North Syracuse before. He does really nice work. No website, but he's on facebook.
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    Always interesting to me seeing how some groups of fish react so differently. I was out of Oswego Saturday in the 600s and only had hits on a ~220deg heading with most of my hits coming on meat with a white crush/mt dew spinner. A blue dolphin spoon on a weighted steel took the majority of the other hits. Landed two good sized kings in the teens and a bunch of smaller fish. Towed one very small king on meat for a while.
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    500-600 FOW is where I was seeing the boats last weekend. Nearly no one inshore. But I caught a couple in 80 FOW ... very slow day though until I found some pods of bait.
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    Were you seeing colored up kings out deep? I fished Oswego yesterday and was one of the few boats in close - every one else was out in 600 ft. The one mature king (20lb+) I caught was already pretty brown.
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    Harborfest, yay. I know its one weekend, but it kills me that they use the marina for this when it's peak salmon season. Anyway, skipped out of work early to fish and lines in the water by 2:30pm. Started with lots of flashy spoons as well as meat. Temps were stable shallow and I was finding 50F water at 50 ft. Marked some bait in 100-150 FOW, but not many salmon marks. Trolled out to 350 FOW and worked a bait pod, changing up speed and angles, then switched out some baits and colors. Took a small atlantic on a stingray seasick waddler on 200' steel. Marked a few more fish, had some a few come check out the downrigger weight and spoons, but no takers. Fished around a bit and then headed back at sunset. Only saw a few other boats out.
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    Looks like it will be a quiet week without big wind, but as we know that could change any minute. Good luck!
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    I got out solo in the early afternoon to take advantage of the calm top and sunny day. Traffic at Wright's is picking up and there were 20 or so boats out that I could see, but cleared out by the afternoon. Seemed like people were getting into fish. Started out in 250 FOW and worked in to 100 or so with two riggers (meat on one and a mupped spoon on the other) and a UV deeper diver on 1 1/2 with a flasher fly. Settled in with a nice column of 52F water at ~80 ft. Picked up a small atlantic on meat trailing a white spin doctor on the low rigger, then a small rainbow on a uv pickle seed on the other rigger (released both). Then not much else for a few hours. trolled S-curves out to 350 FOW and started marking a thermocline around 100-120 feet down and some bait but not much else. Around 3:30pm, just as I was turning to head back towards 100, I found a nice wad of bait in 375 to 350. As a I trolled through I picked up a good king on an RV crab face on a rigger parked at 95ft in 50F water, lost it at the boat trying to net it. Made another pass, picked up a nice 20+lb king on the meat in 48F on the other rigger and while fighting it, she crossed the diver line, I separated the rods and put diver rod on the other side of the boat, I think with the moving the diver up and down, it drew in another king who hit the diver with a UV blue veggies 1 1/2, 250 out. I landed the first one, but couldn't make the double happen. Another pass, another smaller king on the diver with with UV veggies, and landed it. Another pass and a king on the rigger with a mupped UV hulk for a limit. All told, I was 3/6 on kings in a small area between 75-100 ft down in 300-350 FOW, around 48-52F and between 3:30 and 6pm. Plus the Atlantic and rainbow made for a nice day out!
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    same, no fleas that I've seen.
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    6/29 evening, got out for a few hours in the afternoon and evening, 7-10 other boats out there. Screen was marked up good, most active I've seen my graph this year so far. Good bait, some active fish up and down the water column checking out the riggers. 1-3 with a ~10lb king, a teenager king was released at the boat when I punched him in the mouth with the net and knocked the spoon out, and then a jack that released itself at the surface. All three on a UV pickle seed on my deepest rigger about 80 ft down in 140-100 FOW, 50-52F, three different trolling directions. Put out other similar spoons, but nothing else moved.
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    Flat and calm, slow roll from the west. I fished from 4-8:30pm, Seems like I was the only boat out where I was in 100 to 150 FOW fishing the scum line littered with dead alewives. Marked tons of bait and a few lookers. Bait was anywhere from the bottom 20 ft to the top 40ft. The few marks anywhere in between. 50s pretty much all the way down. Still early, but I wanted to get out and take advantage of a nice evening. No hits misses or anything else.
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    I've been out three times in Mexico bay and with only a smallmouth to show for it. But I only have a partial understanding as to what I'm doing.
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    Everything in moderation. Contaminant levels are far lower than they have been thanks to a lot of work by people in government, industry, and research. There are no "safe" concentrations of these chemicals and no organization is going to claim that there is (liability). At least with EPA, they calculate risk based using an algorithm that shows what the approximate increased risk of cancer is for a general population over, IIRC, twenty years. Not everyone has the same tolerance for risk as someone else. These days, I have no problem smoking a few lake kings every year, but I'm not going to subsist on them. Fish in the 1970s? I probably would have skipped them altogether. And a single data point is just that, a single data point, so I don't put much weight in someone's anecdote. Not everyone has the same susceptibility as someone else. There's a lot of variability and variables that can't be accounted for in studies, which is why researchers use a large enough sample population and look for statistically significant trends. Children and women of child bearing age should probably be a bit more careful with how much they consume just because of the development aspect. Some 65 year old dudes who smoked, drank 30 packs, and ate more red meat than an Oklahoma cowboy are probably going to be done in by something other than a few fish.
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    I suppose CRISPR tech is a non-starter due to the connection from the Great Lakes to the ocean?
  21. ChrisS
    Got out last night for a few hours. Marked a ton of bait in 100-140 FOW, ventured as far out as 180, but stuck with fishing the bait pods. Temps were pretty consistent at 45-50F at ~105 ft. Lots of boats running similar lines near me. Saw some folks hooking up and land a few fish. Ran F/F off a rigger, dipsey, and a weighted steel, added a spoon on the dipsey. Switched out colors and patterns, but generally stuck with green-white-chrome. Raspberry Carbon 14 and a burnt bread RV didn't turn anything up. Only thing I caught was an epic sunset. I'm still new at this and running my own boat. I'll be back out Friday.
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    Fished Sunday from 100 out to 225 FOW both straight out of the harbor and in front of 9 mile. Didn't mark much until I got over to the plant and then found a few pods of bait from 90-110. Marked fish all over the screen from 15 ft down to 120 ft. It looked like there was a thermocline or something at about 15 ft down, but I have no idea what it was - especially with temps being anywhere from 67F to 47F at 110 ft depending on where the current was. Tried everything but meat (didn't have it) at all depths. No hits. Fish would come up and check the ball or cruise up and down the water column. Lots of boats, didn't see a lot of fish being caught. Lost a rod overboard, but fortunately I had the line in my hand. It was set at zero drag so I had to peel all the line off to the arbor knot before I could pull it back in. The knot held, got the rod back and then had to reel all the line back. Fun.
  23. ChrisS
    Hi there, I have a 20' Lund that I use for Oneida walleye, occasional finger lakes trout, and (as often as I can) Lake Ontario salmon. This came with a 10-year old humminbird and probably a 15 year old gamin something or other and a newer 24v minnkota bow mount with the iPilot and remote. I replaced the console unit with my helix 5 that I used for kayak and ice fishing. And moved the older HB to the bow. I mostly use the bow motor to autopilot steer while trolling. For this spring, I'm looking at getting a new console graph and moving the helix 5 to my bow (I rarely fish off the bow maybe some jigging). I was thinking of getting a new HB 12 or 15 Helix G4N and possibly pairing it with a new bow mount 24V motor. There are quite a few options and I was curious if there was anyone with recommendations that they came up. Is there a big benefit for going with a Solix. Are any of the MK motors with a built in transducer backwards compatible somehow with my HB Helix 5? ETA: probably around a $5k budget for everything. Would like to keep it under, but if there are must have features, I could be convinced to go over. Any thoughts are much appreciated.
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    3/5 yesterday afternoon before the storms chased us off, lost a decent fish about 20ft behind the boat. Fished 120 to 180, temps down around 110. Bigger hen pushing 20lbs came on a DR spoon parked in 52F, two that came unbuttoned hit a DR FF parked in 48F. Smallish steelhead on a DR spoon. A buck on a deeper diver FF on 1 1/2 out 225. All fish came on a SW troll. No hits any other direction.
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    Seas laid down yesterday afternoon, more than enough to take my boat out to 500-600 FOW. Unfortunately I couldn't find fish, but it looked like most of the charter boats did. Not too many people inside and there was a definite scum line out around 350 FOW that moved inshore through the day. Found temps down around 120-130 feet and I did mark some small bait balls and a few fish here and there, but nothing to write home about. Probably my last trip up this summer. I need bigger weights, I'm running 12lbs, but I was getting ~40-50 ft of blowback making the fish hawk almost unusable.
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