traveling man

i have run them for years. never had a problem with running wire and dipseys.

i really like fish fairhaven. very little boat traffic and the fishing has been good.

Anyone have the results?

thanks for the report we are headed up Saturday. Were you fishing west of Fairhaven?

Amen!!!

Canadian officials confirmed this week that non-Canadian anglers who drift fish or troll on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence River or Lake Ontario without first checking into a designated port of entry and calling Canadian customs are illegally in the country. They risk being stopped and face the possibility of being fined or having their boat seized. The only exception to the current policy, officials said, is if a person is traveling by boat from one U.S. destination to another and happens to pass through Canadian waters without stopping. Tour boats, for example, would be unaffected. The announcement comes in the wake of a May 30 incident in which Baldwinsville resident Roy Andersen was stopped by customs officials while he and a buddy were drift fishing in the Gananoque Narrows. Andersen, who had a Canadian fishing license but did not call in to Canadian customs to report his presence, was forced to pay $1,000 on the spot to keep his boat from being confiscated. So what’s the big deal? Gary DeYoung, director of tourism for the Thousand Islands International Tourism Council, put it in perspective on Friday. DeYoung said a 2008 study done by state tourism officials showed that in Jefferson County alone some $209 million flows in from tourists each year, and more than 20 percent of those visitors fish. “The bottom line is you’re looking at one fifth of our tourism being tied to fishing,†he said. “Anything that affects that is going to have a big impact on this area.†DeYoung said American charter boat captains and anglers have been operating “for generations†under the idea that they were OK as long as they didn’t anchor or set foot on Canadian soil. Patrick Simpson, owner of the Ship Motel in Alexandria Bay and a part-time charter boat captain, was at the meeting this past week in Clayton where a customs chief explained the most recent Canadian border policies to a group of local business owners and charter boat captains. He said the official emphasized “how easy it is†for anglers to stop into the numerous designated ports of entry on the Canadian side and just call. Then a charter boat captain from Henderson Harbor stood up and asked the official where would be the closest spot from his area. The official said that would be Kingston, Simpson said. It’s an hour and half away. Simpson said once a charter boat captain gets to the port of entry and all the information on his clients gets called in, there’s always the possibility that one of the people aboard could get rejected. “If that happens, you have to turn around and go back, forgetting the fact that everyone aboard has paid for the charter and has bought a Canadian fishing license,†he said. He said the most common reason for someone getting rejected is a DWI on their record. “ It could be something that happened 20 years ago,†he said. Simpson and others who attended the meeting in Clayton said the customs official stressed that the Canadians are not planning a widespread crackdown or change in their level of enforcement. “But as a professional charter boat captain, I’m not going to take that chance,†Simpson said. “I’ve got to tell you, very few charter captains are going to go through all this rigmarole to go fishing in Canadian waters.†This is from the Syracuse Newspaper yesterday

100 hours is not overkill in my opinion especially if you are trolling alot.

I hope we start enforcing the same rule. This is bulls*it!!!

being new wire a wire line set up, you should get 30#

That must have been a lot of fun! That is a huge laker, congrats. It is to bad we can't use 10# line all season like the old days. we have been using 5'6" ml ugly stixs for our spoon rods and been having a lot of fun with them. I'll be out in the morning. i'll give you a shout to see if your fishing.

thanks for the info. let me know how you did mortigan.

biggest

has anyone fish that area for kings yet this year. if so is it worth a trip sunday?

8 points for a bump. I was not going to move for him. I kept my auto pilot on and missed him. when i was trolling back south he did it again!!!

Thanks for making it on a Sunday. It should be a blast.

i hope our goverments can get this settled quickly.

rich and i fished out of myers today. we fished only for silver fish. the deepest line we had down was 45ft. we ended up with 3 reel nice bows and about 10 small salmon. when we got to the launch i found out i forgot a net. the first fish of the day we needed it. we hooked up on a perch colored storm stickbait. the bow was 4lbs and rich reached into the water and grabbed the stickbait. the bow came in the bait and a hook went through his finger. so i cut the hook and push it through. i was freaking out and he was calm. the next fish is on the same stickbait and a 6 1/2lb rainbow. so it was my turn to reach overboard and grad the fish and i wanted nothing to do with those hooks! my right hand went under its belly and my left hand went on its back. i squeezed hard and threw the fish in the boat. the 3rd bow was a a single hook black and purple spoon so that wasn't to bad. it was 5lbs. it was an interesting morning. i think it is going to be a good year for rainbows.

Roy Andersen has been fishing the waters of the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Island region for his entire life. The 22-year-old from Baldwinsville spends his summers in Thousand Island Park and gets out on the water every chance he can get. And there’s one particular spot in the Gananoque Narrows where Andersen knows he can catch pike and perch. “It’s my favorite spot in the entire world and now I can’t fish it,’’ Andersen said Saturday. Andersen’s favorite fishing hole is in Canadian waters. Until recently that wasn’t a problem. But on May 30 when Andersen and a friend were fishing in the Gananoque Narrows, two Canadian Border Services agents boarded Andersen’s boat and seized it. The agents told Andersen that he had not reported to a Canadian port of entry upon entering Canadian waters. “They told us we were in violation of the law,’’ Andersen said, “and if we didn’t pay the $1,000 fine, they’d take the boat.’’ Andersen and his fishing partner both had Canadian fishing licenses. The boat was outfitted with flotation devices and safety flares. But none of that mattered to the Border Services agents. “It was crazy,’’ Andersen said. “I’ve fished there my entire life. I fish there every day in the summer-time. My dad’s fished there since he was little and never had a problem. “They told me you can’t even take a boat ride in Canada without checking in, which is news to me.’’ The law the two agents said Andersen had broken can be found in Section 11, Subsection 1 of the Canadian Customs Act, which reads in part: “… every person arriving in Canada shall, except in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, enter Canada only at a customs office designated for that purpose that is open for business and without delay present himself or herself to an officer and answer truthfully any questions asked by the officer …’’ However, the law has rarely if ever been applied to boaters fishing in the Thousand Island region. “This is something new to me,’’ David McCrea, a charter captains who works out of Henderson and frequents takes clients into Canadian waters. “They’re saying no entry to Canadian waters for any water craft. That would mean sailboats, kayaks, canoes. It’s never been that way.’’ Louise Rochon, an official with the Canadian Border Services Agency, said the agents were justified in their actions. “It’s our position that they were doing what they’re supposed to be doing,’’ Rochon said. “They don’t normally fine people, but it is a requirement to report to Canadian customs under the Customs Act. All private boaters have to report.’’ Both Andersen and McCrea said reporting to a Canadian port or marina isn’t feasible. McCrea said it would take up too much time and use up too much gas for charter captains to make a profit. “No one can afford to run to the point of entry because it’s just too far,’’ Andersen said. Sean Magers, a spokesperson for Rep. William Owens, D-Plattsburgh, said an exception in the Customs Act makes fishermen exempt from the statute. Magers pointed to an exception that reads: “(Subsections 1 and 3) do not apply to any person who enters Canadian waters, including the inland waters, or the airspace over Canada while proceeding directly from one place outside Canada to another place outside Canada …’’ “Congressman Owens has already reached out to the Canadian Embassy on the matter,’’ Magers said in an email. “Our interpretation of the Canadian statute is that fishermen are exempt.’’ Andersen said he briefly considered letting the CBSA agents take his boat; a 23-foot Starcraft built in 1988. But he was also told that if he didn’t pay the $1,000 fine, he and his friend would be put in handcuffs and forced to lie down on their stomachs as his boat was towed to a Canadian port. He could also face a fine of up to $25,000. After calling his father, Andersen paid the $1,000 fine with a credit card. Andersen said he planned to appeal the fine, “but I’m still out my thousand dollars.’’ Meanwhile, word of the Canadian agents’ seizure of Andersen’s boat and the subsequent $1,000 fine has made the rounds at marinas on the United States’ side of the St. Lawrence. “No one wants to go into Canada now,’’ Andersen said. “I know a lot of my friends like to go over to fish in Canada and they won’t dare take their boat over there now.’’

we will be launching out of myers sunday. see ya on the water.

Rod, I think you should cut it off. How are you going to raise the hardtop?

Your right about that Big Dave. One day I was fishing off the plant and I had to go about 1mph GPS speed to get a 2.5 reading on my probe.

I would not afraid to buy a lowrance chartplotter.

Here is an easy way of explaining it to him. There are current an a lake just like a river. If you are fishing on a river and you are trolling up stream you go at a much slower speed to give you lure the desired action. If you turn around and troll down stream you have to troll faster to give the lure the desired action needed to catch fish. Both of you are right but he is missing the part on sub surface currents.

I saw them at Jon's in Mexico. I am sure he would send some to you via mail.

I need to get rid of it!!!