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Over the winter, Tom Barbara of East Fork Pro Marine rebuilt the 5.7 in my boat. We did a motor test Wednesday and Thursday afternoon was the first fishing trip of the year. We left the creek at 3:15 and was greeted with a flat calm lake and crystal clear water inside. We ran to the lake trout grounds and found a spotty screen. When we marked fish, we caught fish. We had a steady pick on lakers all evening. Hammerhead Cowbells in Froggy, Crystalina Watermelon UV, Gambler Rigs in Bullfrog, Alien and 2 Face were the best producers. 95-115' was the best zone. It seems like the natural reproduction is up. We caught 6 lakers that had didn't have an adipose fin clip. At the end of the trip, the Canadian Coastguard icebreaker (Griffin) motored by us and it looked like they were setting the buoy on Wautoma Shoals. Not sure if that was what they were doing or not because they were too far away.

I heard he even produces liquid methane on ice fishing trips? Any truth to that rumor Keith?

When you align the Kicker and outdrive, make sure the drive is down. If it isn't, the alignment will be off.

Less than 250 square miles for days yet they didn't pull the boom. Complete BS.........

I just bought the Millennium fixed trees for my boat. Good deal for the price!

The bow was given to me for my son to use under the condition I passed it on when I was done for free. I’m happy to see someone will use it with their kid to get them into the great sport of archery. Hunting is a dying tradition in today’s messed up world. We need youth to continue the tradition for future generations!

Kings are showing up in Rochester already.

Reminds me of a couple episodes of Deadliest Catch where they fish the edge of the Arctic ice pack!

Its gotta look a lot different this morning. Lots of wind and ice flowing by the camera last night. Camera also looks a lot cleaner this morning.

Quality florocarbon is more abrasion resistant than mono. It you are casting, braid is thinner and you get further casts. also with casting, you get less loops and line twists. If you are jigging, braid has more feel.

The longer the boom is in place, the longer the wall of cold water coming down the Niagara keeps the kings bottled up West of the Niagara River.

They already cull a certain amount on the bay every year.

Between the pike, bass, perch, walleye and cormorants, it's an uphill battle no matter how smart they are. Just the cormorants alone are a problem. Although, if Atlantics are raised there, maybe the USGS will kill more cormorants. Sounds like a win win to me.

Dave, Are they doing any kind of tagging (Adipose clip or Coded wire tag) of these wild fish to see if there is any kind of survival rate after they leave the creek? I would imagine the Ibay predators put a hurting on them. It would be an interesting study.

I was hoping bird flu took care of them….

If Atlantics have an alewife diet, they will not do great. There have been studies done on this. The thiamine deficiency causes mortality in adults. Why don’t we see big Atlantics often? This is the reason. Yes proper stocking practices will help survival rate of stockers, but it will do nothing to help mortality rates due to thiamine deficiency from an alewife diet. Until alewife disappear from Lake Ontario, Atlantics will suffer.

I enjoyed it too. I used to be the schedule coordinator for the Sandy project and that was a pain in the butt. Not being able to fill slots, and people not showing up really sucked. The feeders made that easy and was more consistent for dropping food with less waste.