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Very nice Mike! Thank you for the plug! Keep these reports coming! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Not even close to enough IMO!

One of three browns we caught this day in 120-130’ on the bottom fishing lakers off sandy. Water was 39 degrees on the bottom. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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One mans trash is another mans treasure! The lake trout hate will dwindle even more if the DEC continues to cut king stockings.

My point is in certain situations, brown (kings, lakers, steelhead, coho, atlantics) will leave the preferred water in certain conditions and move to where there is plentiful amounts of food. With the clear water and the calm sunny stretch we had two weeks ago, the browns may have moved off the shoreline to deeper water. I have found browns scattered over deeper water at this time of the year before feeding on gobies. In the spring of 2013, we found browns in 40-70 on the bottom at this time of the year off Sandy. The inside waters were clear and the browns were not around. I don't ever remember an April with this little colored water either. I do agree the stockers from last year seem to be MIA. We caught zero fishing browns last summer. I did watch the DEC stock browns near our pump station and the cormorants pounded that water for days after they were released. I hope we are wrong about the stockers and everything is ok. With the king stocking cuts, browns will be a staple for everyone to get through a season or two at some point.

Thank you guys for the kind words and the support! When you buy from one of my competitors, you are buying from guys that just make tackle. I fish with my product and only produce and carry stuff that produces. If anyone ever has any questions on lake trout tips and technique, feel free to ask. I'm always willing to help out. The only thing I will not give up are my weigh points off of Sandy and Ibay!

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Its 45 right now. What's too cold? I have caught browns in the spring in 39 degree water. Its about food. If the food is there, water temp will not matter.

What I'm saying is they could have moved to deeper water. We have been getting a huge abundance of 1-2" gobies in our intake recently. That is not the norm.

Only thing they could do to improve it is move the line counter. Other than that, I don't think its possible to make the reel any better than it already is!

One other thing that could be going on is they are eating gobies. I have noticed in other clear water spring years, browns seem to scatter in deeper water and feed on gobies. ( I have caught a bunch of browns over the years laker fishing at this time of the year). I hope you are right Brian. Last summer when I was brown fishing in June, July and August, we caught very very few stockers compared to past years.

. The DEC has been made aware of our displeasure with the amount of cormorants and how many stocked fish they kill. Every state of the lake meeting it was mentioned. A couple years back, Capt. Vince said we need to take better care of what fish we stock at the meeting. It seems to still fall on deaf ears. Canada has started a cormorant hunting season. We need to get on board. I would by a duck stamp again and start hunting them.

The water has been clear. Not the good colored water that we usually have.

Last year? The project was cancelled last year.

Good thinking Rick. Didn't the DEC give us fish from a different hatchery due to zebra muscle infestation in the hatchery last year? I cant remember exactly what went on but the fish had to go to waters that already had zebra muscles I believe. Did those strains not do well in Lake O and not survive? Rome Fish Hatchery Contaminated With Zebra Mussels - - The Adirondack Almanack

Atlantic. The messed up fins are a dead give away. Every one we caught in the Salmon River years ago had messed up fins.