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They are a painted sinker with special flutter stuff. My regular rig is three Wal Mart #6 snelled red Tru Turn or Eagle Claw gold aberdeens tied above each other on a half ounce sinker, but the bottom hook is next to the sinker so as to have that minnow on the botom mud. The bottom hook catches 2 /3 of my perch. I use 6# braid as you can feel the perch crunching and scaling the minnows without any movement of the rod tip. It feels like a fiddle string vibrating when they do that to the minnows.

Perch are bottom feeders and a minnow laying in the mud is the first thing they will attack. Check out http://olepetestackle.com/spoonsblades.htm A gold aberdeen hook will bend easy when snagged and is easily bent back in place.

This will alow me and the good woman to miss more perch as they seem to know to bite on the pole that you are not holding.

http://homernews.com/stories/032311/spo ... wait.shtml Must have benn a good time. The Hillstrand boys run the "Time Bandit" of the Deadliest Catch TV show and would be a good time at the Black North.

When it really is pounding out there I stand up and let my knees take the pounding, not my back. By the way, I had a new full knee replacement last September, L4 and L5 disc repair and both rotator cuffs repaired at 68 years of age. Maybe I should have slowed down.

The most important circuit on a trailer is the ground circuit. When your lites have problems run a wire as heavy as your other wires from the brass nuts on the lites to each other and then to the white wire off your connector. The manufacturers save a couple pennies when building a trailer but you will eventually have problems like the wrong signal blinking as the trailer gets old and the frame starts corroding.

First check the fuel line primer bulb by seeing if it draws suction on the fuel tank. The gasket on the water separator may not be tight and allows air to be sucked in instead of fuel. Threaded fittings may also leak.

A good Southwest blow could pack the ice fields up solid past Port Colborne and it will be a while till warm water flows out of Lake Erie.

Lewiston/ Youngstown has a lot of use all year long, the Bar and River, and more "bars"

The Northeast winds over the past couple days blew the ice to the west and open water was seen for several miles today from the Skyway. This resulted in a "warm water upwelling" at the Eastern end of the lake. Very unusual. The ice is moving back today.

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The "Plate Readers" on the back of patrol cars pick up expired plates, uninspected vehicles, uninsured vehicles, unpaid child support, outstanding warrants, etc. Your odds of a police stop are against you now.

So who sells Mysis Shrimp flys?

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The bottom of the lake is 39 degrees all winter, it is the surface that freezes. Water has a strange phenomon that it expands around 39 degrees and higher or lower. That is why the lakes never freeze solid. You hear of a lake turnover which occurs when the lake water reaches 39 degrees and the water is the same temperature from top to bottom. Just wait for an onshore wind and mid 40 degrees water near shore and the fishing season starts as the bait moves onto the beach.

Aluminum boats need an anti fouling coat that does not contain copper. Aluminum and air is fine but aluminum under water has an electolytic problem and copper and aluminum do not do well together resulting in the aluminum going through a pitting process.

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http://boatnerd.com/ Todays News Channel has a report on Great Lakes Water Levels

Cuba Lake winners were a 29 inch northern pike, 21 inch walleye, 12 1/8 inch calicoe bass, 12 inch perch and a rock bass for odd fish. 41 entrants, nice day, I did not win but went home with 50 pounds of calicoes and perch for half a dozen meals until Lake Erie opens up. Thanks to Scott Best, Wizard, for running the contest and sponsors- Bompas Bait of Rushford Lake, Whitetail Sports of Olean and Cutcoe Knives of Olean, maker of the finest filet knife made in the USA by United Steelworkers Union members. I have two Cutcoe filet knives and they are the best, I have been cleaning fish for sixty years and there is no finer knife made in the world as it is sharp, fast and a long lasting edge.

If the boys in Washington release some oil from our strategic reserve it is to prevent their paychecks from bouncing, not to lower our costs for gasoline.

The "certified bait" restrictions prevent you from selling your own uncertified bait fish for transportation by motorised vehicles. Hopefully this restriction will end this year, possibly by June. Another thing you need is a sales tax certificate and you have to make your required monthly reports or the tax guys come down hard on you. Be careful starting up a business in New York State.

There are millions of single screw boats out there for over a century of use. They usually back up with the stern swinging to the left. Experienced operators have no problems. There are instruction books on handling single screw boats. You can run out of fuel with a lot of engines and you will still go no where. An extra engine adds a lot of weight and the underwater struts and rudders create more drag and your fuel mileage drops a lot. With 25,000 boats on the market today, it is a buyers market and you have a lot of choices.

As we did last year at this time we are wearing our chest waders to get out on the ice. We will be there at dawn, if things are no go, then we will do something else. Staying home on a Saturday is a no go.

There is a five mile long pile of rocks called the Buffalo Harbor Breakwater. The outside edge is full of huge rocks that have been dropped and washed off the breakwater over the years. There are a lot of bass holding in these rocks and the gaps of this structure. It seems no one ever finds it though as most Bass Boaters roar right by it.