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Lead. Tin sucks for 2 reason, 1. It is too light for the size and 2. it looks like a spot light coming through the water. That shinny finish sucks!

Clippers. They stay on your plainer line all the time. They have tension adjustments. They will not spin after releasing and catch other lines on your tow line.

It depends on the port. The Bar to Olcott will heat up, the Rochester area is going to be really good this year because of the amount of colored water in the Rochester Basin, and the rest of the lake will be hit or miss.

I use the clippers too. Other brands can spin around on the tow line catching one of the other rod lines. It will twist the line up so you will have to reel in the board to get the mess untangles.

Come on Tim, why wouldn't salmon eat worms? They eat sponge in the tribs!

I would say 36" and knock the creel limit down. I had an old timer arguing with me on the ice at Conesus one day about the pike population. He was upset that the population of monster pike was way down compared to the 80's. I told him he was part of the problem. He had 4 big pike laying on the ice! I caught and released 2 and he was pissed. Some guys (like myself) enjoy eating pike. I try to keep 26-30" fish and let the bigger ones go. I will keep big ones if they are not going to make it.

It is against the law to target out of season species. Bass is the one exception.

300 yds for me. I hooked a 27lber in the dorsal fin on my 300 copper 2 years ago. The spool was almost empty before we could start turning!

150 yards of backing sounds a little scary! You lose 1/3 of that from the boat to the board!

No book needed. Just spend hours reading this site. Here are a couple go to combos / spoons for me: Spin Doctors and Atommik Flies- Hammertime Spin Doctor with the Green Hammer fly Live Wire Spin Doctor with the Green Crinkle fly White Crush Spin Doctor with the Mirage Fly Dalmation Spin Doctor with the Blue Hammer fly Stinger Spoons- NBK - Stingray and Mag Gator - Stingray and Mag Diehard - Stingray and Mag Tuxedo - Stingray and Mag

Nice job Steve!

Nice job Matt. Glad to hear everything went well with the boat. Was the steelie beat up from being in the creek?

I have a 150qt cooler. It all depends on how much fish you keep. If you only keep a couple, a 120qt will be fine.

Sleepy Hollow and East Fork are less than $35.00 / foot. I believe they are $25.00/foot.

Save the cash and network with guys in your port. Have someone that will come get you if you break down.

What do you guys think Lake Ontario will throw at us this season? Make a prediction on the biggest weights (lake wide) of each species caught during tournament fishing this season. Here are my predictions: King - 36lbs 8oz Steelhead - 19lbs 2 oz Brown - 24.5 (already caught at the Oak this past weekend) Lake Trout - 29lbs 11oz.

Always start out with one in the riggers, one on a diver and one on a copper. Let the fish tell you what they want you to run. If the flashers are quiet, change them up. I always leave atleast one flasher out. Most of the time I will leave it in the rigger spread. I'm a firm believer that a flasher will suck them into your spread. If they are not hitting it, they are still coming over for a look and then hitting the spoons in your set.