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oops missed it. Have a good "day after". Tom B. (LongLine)

Dennis - Welcome to the board. I'd suggest you do some reading in the next couple weeks in the other threads; get an idea of techniques that keep reappearing as those are ones that work well. Be careful on what you buy as it's awful easy to go "overboard." Tom B. (LongLine)

Bill S6453 to change from 2 lines to 3 is now in the Evironmental Conservation committee: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi Tom B. (LongLine)

Justin - And a lot less stretch than mono. It's what I've converted to. (P-Line) Tom B. (LongLine)

And the others •Tuesday, March 9, 2010: 7 - 10 p.m.at the Oswego County BOCES, 179 County Route 64, Mexico, 13114 (Oswego County). For information, contact Dan Bishop in the DEC Cortland office at 607-753-3095. •Wednesday, March 10, 2010: 7 - 10 p.m. at the Imaging Sciences Auditorium, in Chester F. Carlson Building (76) on the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) campus, Rochester, 14623 (Monroe County). The meeting is co-hosted by RIT and the Monroe County Fishery Advisory Board. For information, contact Web Pearsall in the DEC Avon office at 585-226-5339. •Tuesday, March 16, 2010: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 4487 Lake Avenue, Lockport, 14094 (Niagara County). The meeting is co- hosted by the Niagara County Cooperative Extension. For information, contact Paul McKeown in the DEC Allegany sub-office at 716-372-0645 or Mike Wilkinson in the DEC Buffalo office at 716-851-7010. Tom B. (LongLine)

Squirt a little oil in each cylinder. Let her set a little, then turn it over by hand. Inspect all rubber hoses real good. Tom B. (LongLine)

Wasn't meant as a public endorsement. But I'd much rather have a member of the Senate's Environment & Public Works committee (& a democrat to boot) come out in favor of closing the locks than not. This is an "atta boy...err...atta girl" in my book. How many "oh $hits" she gets will determine if I vote for her or not. Tom B. (LongLine)

Well, our junior senator has signed up: http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/arch ... not-stand/ Tom B. (LongLine)

You want to know why the state is “broke?†Look at this: in Fiscal 2009-2010, for example) The Thruway Authority spent 38.5 BILLION of which 1.4 Billion was on capital construction (road repair) They spent 282 Million on “supplies & materialsâ€; They spent 30.7 Million on employee travel (mileage, meals, lodging – for crips sake, they drive the thruway for free) http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparenc ... endCat.cfm Pick an agency from the pulldown list then hit search & you’ll see what the comptroller says each state agency has spent in fiscal 2009-2010. http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparenc ... psMain.cfm Tom B. (LongLine)

In order to increase tourism, this S. Korean city blocked the flow on a river, stocked a bunch of fish & has a big ice fishing tourney every January. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/p ... html/1.stm http://www.dogonews.com/2010/01/22/sout ... g-festival http://www.fishingreminder.com/articles ... korea.html Some news sources say over a million attended. The city even drilled holes. Look at the kids out there. Winter LOC anyone? How about Pro/AM – Fairhaven one weekend, Sodus the next, I-Bay the next? Biggest 3 Perch? Tom B. (LongLine)

210 will make for TREMENDOUSLY more blowback. That's why I took it off last year. Tom B. (LongLine)

Which they keep borrowing to spend on things with no pay back.Don't forget schedule M. Tom B. (LongLine)

No HB, The state is not broke! They have plenty of money to pay politicians and their fat staffs for doing absolutely nothing, plenty of money to give them cars, free lunches & travel/living subsidies; plenty of money to keep paying NYC cops & firemen exhorbitantly, expecially allowing them to retire after 20 yrs on full pensions that are 75% of active earnings; they have plenty of money to spend on totally ridiculous feasibility studies; they have plenty of money to give to some development corp so it can expand a big mall in Syracuse; they have plenty of money to give another corp a lot of help cleaning up a site on the river so they can build condos & make more money; They have plenty of money to throw into wind turbine companies which will take the money overseas. Note, not one of these payments has been delayed even one day! Yes HB, the state has plenty of money to waste! As the rest of my post says - they spend it on stuff that has no pay-back. And those things which do have a payback, they either raise fees so fewer people will use them or shut them down. Tom B. (LongLine)

Very sad. The state is not broke. It just keeps spending on things that have no payback. They raise fees on everything, eliminate the "little guy jobs" and then want to close down things that bring money into the state. Tom B. (LongLine)

In order to get out of the 30's depression, the gov't put people to work on massive public projects & paid them for their efforts rather than just give money away. I personally think the current gov't needs to look at these. How many people would be hired building massive proper sewage treatment facilities for Chicago? How many people/truck drivers could be put back to work? Can't do it by rail-electric trains/trolleys? Alll they haul is garbage is garbage & coal anyways. Narrow canal, small boats & barges anyways. Tom B. (LongLine)

Used to run only green, have been running clear lately. Guess the color of florocarbon leaders tells me something then again maybe not. Actually I think the fish are more interested in the lure than the line. Tom B. (LongLine)

I once found a rapala floating out there.(wood) Dragged it around for a couple hours & couldn't catch squat on it. Got bent & threw it in the bilge. Tried it again the following weekend & it was the hot lure. Go figure... Tom B. (LongLine)

Maybe improbable but not inconceivable: - A bird could catch a small one in the canal then fly over a trib or inland lake & drop it. Really not that far-fetched when you consider that all our lakes were formed by glaciers & at one time had absolutely no fish in them. How’d the 1st fish get in that lake 10-20,000 yrs ago? - Some animal/bird eat some (+eggs) then travel & barf. - Some dumb a$$ fisherman catch one & try to use it’s eggs as bait somewhere else. (No… birds do not carry fish eggs on their feet) Lake Ontario is the state’s largest fishery; twice as many licenses are sold in the counties that border the great lakes than the others. This is an interesting report: http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/glsportf ... rt0609.pdf Major drop-offs in license sales happened (1) when snagging was made illegal, (2) whenever contaminant scares happened. They say the major declines in license sales were due to losses in non-resident license sales on Big-O, not resident sales. (Interesting that back in ’06-07, they were predicting a license increase within 5 years) DEC wouldn’t go broke but it’d be in a major funding hurt-locker if anything happened to the Big-O fishery. Big-O is supporting a lot of other fisheries around the state. We use 3? out of 12? hatcheries. (although we have the best with the best staff) Also until this last year, freshwater was paying for saltwater. If carp got into Michigan and tried to spread, there are two natural barriers that I see that may hinder they’re spread: (1) they’d have to go around the northern tip of Michigan where some awful cold water from Superior enters the picture. (2) they’d have to cross Erie & it’s infamous “dead zone.†Tom B. (LongLine) Gad, I hate winter, come on Spring!

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Ben Franklin "Go fly a kite." - City of Chicago Tom B. (LongLine)

1. If you bend the tail to use it on one side, you could use it on the other side of the boat without rebending it?????? 2. "oh $hit...." Tom B. (LongLine) p.s. I'd suggest rounding the tail a little bit more.

Nice rig. Little work & you'll have quite a fishing machine. Good luck with her. Tom B. (LongLine)

Keep an eye on the lake temp maps & you'll see thing like this right on top of it. Tom B. (LongLine)

If I were you and worried about the weather, I'd seriously look at: Oswego - Not well protected from winds from either direction but large protected harbor I-Bay - Generally protected from all but direct North winds but large bay (sometimes lots of weekend boat traffic) Niagara - Only an East wind would blow you off but sometimes lots of traffic. I'd be partial to I-Bay Tom B. (LongLine)