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Lakers may be in the system longer but they are easier to take out of the system. They stay in the same band of water year round for he most part. They could cut stocking and fishermen could knock the population down in a hurry. The lakers prey heavily on alewife. Yes they eat other things but their diet is mostly alewife. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Shore ice is the first to go. Old holes, pressure cracks and gas pockets will be bigger. Use spud, rope, and ice picks as back up plans. A life jacket would not hurt either. If we get any kind of refreeze with a coating of snow, the ice will be a lot harder to read. I am putting my ice fishing stuff away for the season. I will find other places to fish on open water.

Fish 307 has them too.

The Scotty Auto stop beads fail. I have seen it more than once!

Voice of reason and Scott are two things that do not go together!

Really Billy? He will never stop talking about this comment around the marina this summer!

I see this post getting ready to slide off the cliff.......

The good fishing on Sodus has to due with two very large year classes of perch that is being seen lake wide.

I have been running them for 3 seasons and put them through a lot of abuse fishing lakers. They have been a solid rigger so far.

One of the local weather guys made mention of possible a wet spring. So far this winter Redfield NY has received 310" of snow. There is no way the snow pack is gone yet.

Not true Chad. I ice fished last year and the year before. Not as many trips as this season but we got out some.

I would be nervous about having a knick or fray in the cable with it stopping like that. I wouldn't want my ball swinging around out of the water either. Other than that, they look like well built riggers.

The internet has ruined spots on the ice. I can remember going to Canadice 15 years ago and not seeing another ice fisherman out there. If you go there on a weekend now, it is a zoo. I used to post reports on the ice but quit after seeing the crowds and the disrespectful "sportsmen" the reports were drawing. Sodus this season is a prime example. Reports drew huge crowds and people were parking like idiots, leaving garbage on the ice and trespassing to get on the ice. Fishing access is hard enough to get now a days. Incidents like the ones mentioned above are only making the access tougher and tougher.

My question is why buy a reel you have to upgrade the drags?

Last year we did not have the snow pack that we do this year. Erie is high again. Heavy rains this spring and we will be in for one hell of a ride!

Fish on the south side of the main point off the parking lot in the big pond for gills. If the ice is good, walk across the pond to the cove directly across the pond from the main point and search until you find gills. Bass are everywhere. The ponds used to have great numbers of big pickerel. I have a 28" pickerel on my wall from that pond.