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Most charters are non profit.

250# test braid is coming into use for downrigger cable. Less vibration noise is it's in selling point. Blowback has not been determined but a ten to one safety factor would allow 25 pound cannonballs. Commercial trollers on the West Coast use up to 100 pound cannonballs.

Lake Erie was doing better until the Ethanol started to take up our agriculture market. We do not want it or need it but the Washington goofs shoved it down your throat.

Cabelas has what you want when you want it. The stores give you the opportunity for "hands on" examination. Bass pro has better fishing and boating choices. Store locations are what is important to you.

The Port Stanley weather buoy shows 50 mph wind and 12 foot wave height now at 2:00PM.

I tig welded a couple chine cracks and they held out well. When my transom brace cracked, the engine was flopping around in a storm and I was fortunate to make it in. Old boats have a short life span and so do you if you think you can sail them forever.

Near the Houston area is also Willow Creek and Montana Creek which are good for spawning salmon and rainbows. Google up maps for those areas. Check out reports for fishing the area. Become familiar with local fishing regulations also. Halibut fishing in Homer I did well with "Lucky Pierre Charter" who took us out in the Gulf rather than Cook Inlet where the tides of thirty foot cause an eight MPH current.

Aluminum takes only so much flexing, then it cracks. That is a fact and when your boat is leaking, it is a sign that things are unsafe.

Chinese exports have declined lately. Maybe we are running out of money here.

My StarCraft took 268 new rivets to replace the leakers and weepers. Then the transom brace cracked. Sometimes it is best to buy another boat.

When the pension funds and Social Security go into the tank, Florida will not be so desirable.

The Chinese are stealing all our coal resources with their cohorts in Washington. Our steel mills are gone now with Chinese steel being dumped here and throughout the world. Aluminum producers are being shut down due to Chinese aluminum coming here. Not only New York has lost half a dozen coal power plants, the Ohio river system lost twenty eight plants. The do gooders will say this is best for you but it only takes five days for the smoke from China to reach the shores of USA. Heaven help us if a war erupts, we are done in a couple weeks since we have lost our manufacturing capabilities.

Go to a pet store. There you can get chlorine remover, salts, ammonia controls, carbon filters for oil removal, filters for slime and scale removal. Aerators for your tank and double their capacity, say a sixty gallon aerator for a thirty gallon tank. Most important remove dead minnows quickly as they decay and poison the water. Bait saver salts kill ick and slime on your minnows. Keep your filters clean and do not feed the minnows as their excretions poison the water. I have had emeralds survive ninety degree days with this stuff. Now you may think this is overkill but the price of perch at the super market near you if they have them is over twenty two dollars a pound now. I use a thirty gallon stock tank that I picked up at Tractor Supply. Keep it in my shed at the lake. I pick up minnows at Dave's in Derby or Millers at Sunset Bay, he usually has good emeralds. The other dealers have goldens as they survive longer but the perch prefer emeralds ten to one. When we go out at dawn, no one has to drive to the bait shops. My neighbors share the minnows and bring the leftovers to the tank.

No, but most guys troll around here to cover more water and use more lines. The fish caught the other day were taken on jigs which makes sense as the Ohio boys use jigs in colder water that we now have.

One boat Monday came in with eighteen walleyes. Area around Seneca Shoal was the ticket. Cooler water temperatures have returned the walleyes to this end of the lake. The two blows this week along with the rain will raise the dissolved oxygen levels and the metabolism will kick up the feed rates.

Mine works.

If you want perch, use your fish finder. If it says there are no fish below, believe it. Keep moving and searching, you will find them. A good area is where the thermocline meets the bottom.

Aluminum does not rust and paint does not make it faster. Invest your money in better electronics or gear.

Conditions now as the same as June fishing. Side planers, lead core lines on top. Do not look for fish on the bottom so much as they are in the upper water column and do not appear on fish finders as they scatter from your boat. 65 to 55 degree water on the surface is what they want. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app