Yankee Troller

Did u fish with Lenny and I the one day we had the slob Laker on? I think we had to back down on him.

Sure! I'll take your money

i agree about fighting fish on core and copper. Its not very fun, but you know that your big boy of the day WILL come off it. As far as fighting i would choose the rigger rod with a spoon. Now there is a clean/fun fight.

They make a special bead for the braid line

Im a leadcore/copper guy b/c I know that throughout the day our big boy will fall victim to one of those set-ups!

I just got a call from Kevin Jerge and he wanted me to let you guys know that he has slips available from april through May15th. So if your fishing the derby he can accomodate you. I stay here every year. It is an upscale place with great people! The facilities are the best I have seen on the lake (and I have been up and down the south shore). To contact him: Kevin Jerge 716-863-1001 or [email protected]

Its my understanding u cant fish past the first bridge of a river or stream after dark, but the lake is fishable.

I saw that one and i saw the depth readings it gave. I need a line for my old man to follow thoguh. The gold is the only one with topo lines. My old man isnt too good with electronics.

Yeah, no other chip showed me contour lines. So, yeah it was nice. Not that the lines mean a whole lot most of the time becasue we open water fish a lot, but it will be nice for following the bar in the spring or fishing shoals for browns (yeah like I do that). I picked up a apair of Eagel 500c's for $175 a piece brand new in the box.

Something tells me I may be buying 2 of them if we keep the boat we have now! I bought 2 brand new GPS units for it, so I need a chip to go with them.

When I was at bass pro this weekend we played with all the chips they had and the only chip that showed the Lake O topo was the Navionics Gold. Now im sure if it shows the bar it would show the rest of the lake, but don't quote me.

http://ndtackle.com/baitrixorderform.html Here is the link

Gander mountain has it. I have heard it isnt as good as the real thing. There are some other imitation cut bait strips out now that I saw on GLA. You may want to look into that too if your looking for a substitute.

I have run them up at the bar on a wire rig on and off and I have yet to take a shot on it. Although I have taken shots on stickbaits from spring kings. I did hear of a guy doing pretty well on a Lyman a year or so ago up at the bar, but it was a one day thing.

Yes it is. Like I said I have two of them that way. Im not saying its the best, but thats the way they do it in the bass boat industry, or at least the top of the line manufacturers. If I were to buy a brand new furuno u bet Im having a marina drill the holl in my trolling boat and mounting a true thru hull.

Yup, I have two of them. One for my digital lowrance flasher and another for my lowrance fishfinder. You epoxy it center of boat near the rear in the bildge area. Like I said I can keep bottom up to 65mph (except for when i jump a wave). It marks fish too, but I only really loo at this when im idoling. Bass boats use this becasue at the speeds they travel and the amount of boat that is inthe water when trimmed out anything that an offset the boat can create a chine walk or the boat not to handle and hard to drive.

A true thru hull transducer requires you to cut the hole into your hull. Basically if you laid under your boat on the trailer or at dry dock you could see it. I used epoxy to secure my lowrance thru hull trasnducer to the bottom of my bass boat without cutting any holes and i can keep reading bottom unitl i go over 65mph. I got the 2 part epoxy from autozone i think.

http://www.atommiktrollingflies.com/trolling_fly.htm Scroll down! Its there. It proly should be under the Misc section, but he still sells them.

I dont want to tell a "seasoned" guy like you how to fish, but that niagara outflow can change currents pretty fast. Its crucial to keep that probe in the water on the west side becasue of this. Your lures down might be going to slow.

I dont know, i didnt think about that. Call Denis Daniels at Sea Tech Marine Training. He taught a lot of us who hold a CG license. He would be able to help you.

A captains license is only good on navigatable waters. So Conesus and Honeyoye for example would require a guides license. And if by chance you do choose one of those two you also have to get an additional permit from the state which is another test. If you wanted to do trips on a stream, or ice fishing, or on lakes like canandaigua or Seneca you would need a just a guides license.

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2 spoons? YEAH RIGHT! Would you really go out with 2 spoons? Id rather watch roland martin whale back on a 12in bass before I hit the water with 2 spoons. Mulatto would be a main stay, but the other would be betweena coyote and a copper NBK. One to cover the morning bite and the other for the rest of the day.

The only problem with a free slider is you really dont know where it is and can be in empty water. If the fish are at 100' down and you put a free slider out it will probably only get to 50. On a side note that is where the big steelies might be and the reason why I dont get them

What kind of boat do you have? If its a hard top then its easy, but if its not you would need a radar arch. My old man built one for our penn yan we used to have. There are many places, mostly independent, that can do the custom work for you. I know this has been discussed a lot on the Great Lakes Angler board. Let us know and get some pics of the boat for us and Im sure we can help.