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Well, in the pics in the article they have reddish fins. Not as red as they could be, but fish coloration can vary greatly. The brown goldfish I've caught didn't have the red tinge the fish in the pics do. Also, the shape is telling- in that first pic you can see the smooth curve from the head to back and belly on the brown fish, and the goldfish has the characteristic hump I mentioned on both the top and bottom. Still think it's inconclusive without better pics but they occupy the same niche and can cause the same problems so it doesn't matter much.

I have a couple of 27s and 47s, they're great for the price. Only reason I have 47s for the Finger Lakes are the extra room for leadcore if I want. I have them spooled with 30# and 50# braid and put them away when the fleas show up. Only drawback is the gear ratio, think it's only about 24" per turn on both of them.

No idea about the ice, sorry. Haven't seen it at all this winter.

I'm only 10 minutes from Cayuta and I gave up on it years ago. I've tried ice fishing and spring fishing with little luck. I wasn't as good an angler back then so maybe it was part me, but eh it's small and weedy and gets a lot of snowmobile traffic in the winter. A lot more fun places to fish in my opinion.

For those interested I stopped by Treman today. At the end of the docks there was 20", 28" and 28" of water going north to south. Water level was ~18" below the bumper level and ~30" below the dock. No debris on the launch ramps. At the end of two docks were deadheads, one fairly large ~12" diameter and the other a 4" branch but who knows what it's attached to. They're blocking a couple of the launch spots. Just realized I should have checked the depth in the middle of the docks too but I wasn't that smart. From the link sparkyice posted it's come up 6" since Wednesday and probably will a little more. So that's the scoop, it's kind of sketchy with those logs in there but might be doable depending on the boat.

I've been catching goldfish for years in Cayuga, up to 2-3 bs. Those non-gold fish pictured in the article look like rudd though. Wild breeding goldfish can lose the bright colors but I'm pretty sure those are rudd. Easiest way to tell is the hump the goldfish have between the head and their back, the rudd have a smooth curve. Not that it really matters, they occupy the same niche and are not good for native fish. I think the rudd can breed with shiners. Edit: looking at the pictures again it's hard to tell. Not good enough pics of the heads. Could be brown goldfish but at least around here the rudd are far more numerous.

That I don't know... when do you want to know by? I can check it out tomorrow. There was a lot of debris, including whole trees, in the inlet from the last rainstorm. Might be flushed out with this rain, it's high and moving now.

Rollie look here, the red line is the current level: http://www.canals.ny.gov/waterlevels/netdata/cayuga-levels.pdf It's updated once a week if I remember right. Looks like it was updated yesterday.

I've never had a problem with them but the most complicated thing I've had them do are trailer bearings and lower unit flushes. Oh and fix the gear shifting. Seemed fine but I wasn't asking a lot.

Good article! I think the horizontal air resistance would have more of an effect since the arrow is moving so fast in that direction. If it's 450 fps at the muzzle it will surely drop a little over those 50 yards, making the time slightly longer than 1/3 second, and allowing it to drop further. No idea how much of an effect it would be, probably not much though. Wonder how they'll be treated in terms of hunting. Probably be a few years before it's even addressed.

The equation for a constantly accelerating object (such as falling under gravity, and in these short distances we can ignore air resistance) is d = 1/2at², where d = distance, a = acceleration, and t= time. At 450fps the arrow will travel 50 yards in 1/3 of a second, so that's t. a = 32 fps/s, the force of gravity. So, solving for d: d = 1/2 * 32 * (1/3)² d= 16*0.11 d= 1.78 feet If fired perfectly horizontally the arrow will fall 1.78 feet at 50 yards. Pretty damn cool device! Edit for rounding error.