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  1. GAMBLER
    5-25'. If you go further back (which is not necessary) they will hang bottom easier.
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    Lots of dead gulls, cormorants and dead fish floating around the lake lately. I have heard the birds is from Botulism. Could it kill off the fish?
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    Thursday- We left the creek early and fished from the Nose to Braddocks Point. We worked from 70-275 and Found matures, smaller kings along with lakers and steelhead. At the end of the day, we ended up with 6 mature kings. All of our fish came on spoons. Not one hit on a flasher/fly or meat. Friday- We left the creek and fished from the pump house West past the nose. We found good numbers of kings in the 140-160 range down 65-110. Mostly spoons again but a couple shots on flasher/fly set ups. We ended the day with a decent four fish box. Saturday- We left the creek just behind the pack heading west. We set down off of Troutburg in 140' and trolled West until the wind started to blow. We had a great first couple of hours with kings, steelhead, lakers and a brown. Spoons, Flasher/flies and meat all took fish on tournament day. The bite slowed but we picked away at the fish. I was not too sure our box consisting of a 23lb king, two twin 19lb kings and a 13.44lb steelhead was enough to place. We ended up placing in the money for the fifth time in seven years. We took 9th place and big steelhead in the tournament. The steelhead was 37" and very skinny. It is a shame that it was not filled out! That fish also put us in 6th place in the LOC steelhead division. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Don't rule out colder and warmer. Lately on Lake Ontario, I have been catching more kings in 40 -42 and 65-68 degree water. Like Les said, fish the marks. When you see really deep hooks in cold water, do not assume they are lakers!
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    Big lakers are found on the colder side. 40-45 degrees. 100+ is usually the better depths. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    You can't leave lake trout out of this conversation Tom. Lake trout are a huge part of the problem. They eat just as many if not more alewives than the kings. The bait population was ok for them to jam 300,000 more lakers down out throats. They stock 800,000 a year and they live way longer than a king. If anything should be cut it should be lake trout. The lake trout population has been increasing over the past five years with two years of stocking shortages and fishing pressure. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Congrats to To the winners! Also a big congrats to Matt French for the slob he brought to the scales for the Shootout and the LOC! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Final update 7/22 9:23 pm. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    I I will update when I get home with the final count. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Updated 7/21 @ 8:40 pm Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Updated 7/20 @ 8:55pm Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Updated 7/20 @ 5:45 pm Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Anyone looking to sign up today, I will be on Ridge Rd near Spencerport around 3pm. call my cell if you want to meet up.
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    Lakers live long, eat a ton of alewives and eat all day long. Ever have a king spray poop all over your boat like a sprinkler? Not usually. Lakers eat and eat and eat. Think about it this way, kings die at 2-4 years old. The life span of lakers is way longer. No one is keeping them or even fishing them for that matter. If the lake trout population climbs, there is going to be more predation on alewives. If the alewive population drops, they will cut stocking. The thinking that lakers eat more of a diverse diet is true BUT they eat a ton of alewives. I find gobies dominate a lakers diet in the early spring BEFORE the bait comes in to shore from wintering deep in the lake. Once the bait shows up, the alewive numbers blow away the numbers of gobies in a lake trouts diet. Most days, you will not find lakers on the bottom unless there are alewives hovering above. They follow the schools of alewives around and eat when they want to. Areas that are not holding much bait, you will find some lakers but not good numbers. I have seen as many as 29 alewives in the stomach of a laker (22lb laker I fileted working on Advocate charters in 2006). When was the last time you found that many alewives in a 22lb king?
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    1. It has nothing to do with NYC or the capital district 2. The feds foot the bill for the raising of Lake Trout. My issue with the bottom trawl is weather. Every year is different. This year, the lake did not get below 42 degrees in the core of the lake. The lake warmed quicker and bait was inshore very early this year (we see it in our intakes at work). Can the YOY alewives be inside or outside the trawling depths depending on the weather? The year classes of YOY alewives that seem to be missing were showing up in the stomachs of fish this spring that I fileted and in our intake at work. I saw more 2" and less alewives than big ones early this spring. If they are going to jam lakers down our throats, we need to step it up and fish them and keep them. No one keeps them and their population keeps continuing to grow. Even through the stocking short falls, the lake trout population continued to grow. Now that they have added 300,000 more, it is going to explode. Fishermen can control the laker population. They are the easiest species to pin point day in and day out all season long.
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    Updated 7/19 @ 11:30pm
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    Without a probe, you can't get it perfect. Current changes with direction of troll and the wind.
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    I'm working nights Tuesday Wednesday. Call my cell Wednesday and I can meet you somewhwre Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
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    Yes. My cell number is on the topic for the Shootout.
  20. GAMBLER
    The shower curtain hooks are cheap at the dollar store.
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    Yes
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    x2 If you want to get them cheaper, find the Scotty stacker releases and buy some shower curtain hooks at the dollar store. Cut the mono and add the shower curtain hooks to them. They are hard to find but they are still out there.
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    The amount you fish out of Sandy Jeremy, you should slip your boat.
  24. GAMBLER
    What do you want for free? The launch is the reason I slip my boat.
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