Tim Bromund

That is consistent both with what I see in the regs and that I got from DEC. We like to use dink perch we catch in the Buffalo Small Boat Harbor (yearling 2-3" perch) to bait our tip ups with for northerns. I wanted to make sure we weren't doing anything wrong so I looked itnto it several years ago and that is what I was told as well. Ok to use as bait on the same body of water, but they count towards your daily perch limit. Not sure how anyone would know once a pike ate it, but at the SBH it doesn't really matter as I've been ice fishing there for 35 years and can probably count the number of times I caught a limit of keeper perch there on one hand. Tim

I only run sliders on spoon rods, anything else is asking for a horrendous birds nest IMO. Tim

http://www.lotsa.org/Wire%20Line%20Knot.htm Tim

Awwwww shucks Mike, I was glad to help and was really happy that you guys had fun and caught some nice fish. It's always nice when things go as planned. A lot of us started playing this game long before the internet and had to figure out a lot of this stuff on our own. Anything I can do to shorten the learning curve and help new people be successful, I'm more than happy to do so. Hopefully the next time you come up, we can meet in person. Welcome to the addiction Tim

Tom, no you're not Tim

I don't think it matters to the fish. I used malin wire on my wire divers for 5 or 6 years now, which is bright and catch plenty of fish on it. I previously ran mason which is not bright on my wire divers before that and had the same action. I prefere the malin wire because it is softer and easier to work with. Tim

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Tom, 2007 egg collection problems ARE this years 2YO's. (2007 fall is spring 2008 stocking/year class) They will be next years matures. Tim

Must have been a kink in the cable, I attached the probe/weight to the termination, let it down and one wave bounce with them still just slightly out of the water and they were gone, wire broke above everything. Just one of those stuff happens deals. It was a strange day for losing stuff. I also had the power pro backing break on a fish hit and lost a 10 color core and church board yesterday. Tim

And besides, I know that this time of year, there are TONS of boats out fishing in 500 fow at Olcott because that's where the most consistent fishing is, I'm guessing it's the same at the Oak. They were doing their job. What? Do you think that by heading WAY offshore you'll be safe from having to obey the regulations? WTF?? Tim

I had my friend Morris, his brother and brother's future son in law that were in town from California out with me today. After seing the reports we ran out to the 24 line and started trolling north and worked the 24-29 lines straight our of harbor. Turned out to be an expensive morning as my depth raider probe and 15 lb chrome shark are now sitting at the bottom of the lake. It's been a long time since I've fished blind (w/out down speed and temp) but we still managed to catch a few. Over a dozen bites, mostly shaker kings and small steelhead, but we did manage to land 13 and 10 lb steelies and had a huge screaming rip from a mature on the deep wire diver that came unglued before we could get the rod out of the holder. 13 lb steelie came on the lazer spooked NK blue thunder on the 50' rigger ann the 10 lb steel came on the nuc green SD/blue glow hammer Atommik on the 75' rigger. the usual suspects took fish: SS NBK took 4 whacks on the 200 copper, green double crush opti inticer w/ green crinkle Atommik took a couple on the 240 wire, NBK SD/Mirage Atommik took the mature hit later on in the morning on the 240 wire, Mnt Dew SD w/ green crinkle howie took a couple hits on a rigger down 100. Would have liked to have gotten less dinks and more targets, but at least we caught fish and both got the biggest fish of their lives with the 2 nice steelies. Tim

If the results of the 5 year project (started in 2008) to fin clip and put a coded wire tag in all stocked chinooks show that natural reproduction ("wild fish") make up a substantial portion of the chinook population in the lake, then why shouldn't the number of hatchery chinooks be reduced? The lake can only support a finite amount of biomass. Overstocking will lead to smaller chinook sizes and a crash in the forage base. Well, to answer your question: Because the Salmon river is the only South Shore Trib producing significant numbers of wild fish, so in a perfect world, that should be the location that sees the reduced hatchery fish. However since that is the river that the hatchery is on and they need to ensure that they have sufficient returns to the hatchery, that is the one location on the the lake that is bulletproof from ever seeing stocking reductions. If they cut back stocking on the lake, it will be at the expense of every other stocking site on the lake EXCEPT FOR the one that is producing the wild fish that caused the stocking reductions in the first place. Tim

My home port is Olcott, but from the reports, it looks like the Oak is the place to be right now. Tim

Nice shootin' Howie Tim

Tag, how old is the battery in your probe? That sounds like a weak probe battery to me, try replacing it with a new one as see if that clears it up. Tim

Matt, that was a DEC Officer, not a DEC Biologist. While technically he is correct, the fish marking trailer has a better than 99% clip rate and the ones that didn't get clipped by the trailer were segregated and hand clipped, so while no one can say for sure it 100%, it is pretty darn close, probably no more than a couple hundred fish. So, honestly, it really is a very safe assumption that any small king with an unclipped adipose is a wild fish. Tim

Not doubting it, just that I've never noticed. Tim

That can't be possible, from what I hear, the X4 has supplanted sliced bread as the best thing ever. [/sarcasm ] Tim

You have never watched one go down then, or you let them down SUPER slow. Even Shark will tell you the 15's spin b/c the tail was not large enough. He confirmed it to me in Narby's during the 2008 Pro Am when we were talking about him making a 20lb prototype for us. Rich, I've never noticed that either. I run the 15 lb chrome shark on my probe rigger and always just pull the lever back and freefall my Scotty riggers without any issue. Interesting. Tim

Jeff, as a current Thompson Owner all I can say is GET A SURVEY before you buy it. They've already replaced the floor, that makes the stringers and transom HIGHLY suspect as well for wood rot. Thompsons are great boats and an awesome fishing platform if they are solid, but the Thompsons of that era (including my 1986) were prone to rotten wood. I ended up completely rebuilding mine with new floor. stringers, motor bunk and transom. 1985, I'm guessing that must be an 8552 Offshore Model. Mine is an 8652 Offshore Hardtop, which technically isn't supposed to exist (they discontinued that model after 1985 and replaced it in 86 with the 240 fisherman, but Dealers continued to order them, so Thompson built em anyways). Like I said it is a great fishing platform, but you REALLY want to have it surveyed so you don't end up losing an entire fishing season and spend $6500.00 or more like I did in 2003 while it was being rebuilt. Oh, and welcome back Tim

Here ya go, hope you've got some free time, it's only 22 pages long viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14436 Tim

Vince, How did it go last night? I planned on attending but ended up not getting out of work until after 8:30 and was still an hour away at that point. Wish I could have been there. Tim

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