UpGrady

Looking to sell one of my three newly refurbed probes to anyone in need of a replacement or a backup. Contact me with any interest.

As far as the of course "beeping" check your gain set handle on the sport pilot, mine was periodically acting up that way until I diassembled the set handle and it's been working great for the past two seasons. My guess is that the outer portion of the handle was pushed inward while turning to set the gain and a connection got messed up.

Congrats! Dora the Explorer Catch 'em Kit in the horizon?

Thanks guys! No doubt she's worth two more rods... plus the poor little girl is already scarred for life, she'll have no choice but to hang out with fishermen and be a Steelers and Phillies fan... she just doesn't know it yet!

While all of you were out slaying salmon, my weekend got off to a great start on Friday Night... Trysta Faith was born at 10pm, she's 6lbs 12oz and 20 1/2in long Everyone is doing well though very sleep deprived! Looks like I missed a great weekend of fishing of Rochester, hopefully just a sign of what's to come when I can get back out there!

Anthony, Always nice to get out, but that was a little rougher than I like to fish in. I must have just missed you, I got down to the boat about 9:45 or so and spent the morning cleaning.

It's great that this tournament has withstood the test of time, I'm sure it's even better than the early years when I helped out some friends. All of the captains and mates that devote their time should be commended and in some of the cases they are moving their boat to the port, so several days of effort are involved.

Chris, Hope everything is OK with the boat, what a bummer... just a really bad wind direction for those docks. Anyway, good to see that others got onto the salmon as well, nice job, so we have some numbers. Hope it all holds up this week after the big blow!

John, I must have gotten out ahead of everyone and could not see anyone inside, plus I was a just a shade East of the bay... anyway, things are looking up! Anthony, Not a bad strategy for the browns, you never know, one 10 lber was all that was needed... I was hoping for a decent steelhead offshore as well. Better luck next year for all of us!

John, Were you off IBay? I only saw one small aluminum boat all morning anywhere near us.

The offshore is setting up guys! Dropped in at about 80 fow off the bay this morning on a north troll. We ended up working 140-180 fow. 40 and 60' riggers with sliders and mainlines were active with teenage kings and a decent steelhead. Dumped one good one on the leadcore out 10 colors. Only one board line went with a coho. Had a bit of a dryspell from 8-9:30am and it picked up again. Ended up 4 for 9 (2 kings about 13-14lbs, 1 coho and 1 steelhead). All of the drops were kings that were starting to run or we fought for a bit, all seemed to be teenager type herky jerky runs. Great morning out there, pulled lines around 11 to head back in. Surface temps were in the 45-48 degree range, but fell to 39 in 200 fow.

Anthony, At least you caught a few... it was a tough weekend all the way around... I'll be back out Saturday AM... provided a coolant leak on my one engine is fixable. Good luck!

I apologize for not posting yesterday about Saturday, but family stuff got in the way. Saturday started off very promising, first pass from Oklahoma Beach to Shipbuilders yielded 2 for 4 (rainbow and a brown 3-4 lbs each). Turned to go back and the armada was around the corner... needless to say, we didn't pull anything else thru the area. Water was gin clear all the way down past Webster when we headed north. Made it out to about 200 and back into 120 before pulling the lines for the day... a very long but nice boat ride after 6:30am. My buddies' 11 year old boy ventured out the first time ever, so he got a taste of things to come! Sunday we trolled from IBay down to the river on the beach, nothing until the Summerville cove which we worked over for 4 small fish all under 3lbs (atlantic, coho and 2 browns). We then worked the river plume for an hour or so in 30-45' until we headed north. We doubled back a few times in 90' to work some marks, but they disappeared when the North wind started blowing around noon, so we called it a day. A nice weekend on the water, but a very disappointing start to the derby, I think that the leader board can attest to that as well... Hope for the best next Saturday... it looks like something offshore stands a chance of setting up... Good luck to everyone during the week.

Wow... a real blast from the past... Glo Chart and Glo Green are still my favorites for Spring browns off my riggers... good luck finding more... the Luhr Jenson 44 was virtually identical back then as well...

Name: Hans Reafler Boat Name: UpGrady Boat Make: 25' Grady White Sailfish with Atlantic Tower Hardtop Port: I-Bay for past 6 years, the Oak for many more and some Sodus Yrs on the Big-O: Year 30!!!

I have a pair of these in my boat... dealt with similar issues for the past two years... very random sporadic stuff... sometimes jiggling the throttle would work, sometimes tapping the starter, cleaned all of the wires and terminals (check the ground wire esp)... in the end had success with all of this stuff, but it would not last, finally just replaced one starter that was the most fickle last spring, just trying to replace the solenoid would have ended up be equally as painful as changing out the whole starter... no issues all year... knock on wood... Check out Breezeworks.net... a site wholly dedicated to the 3.7l mercruiser, there is an open forum with some very knowledgable people that monitor it constantly. I've gleaned alot of information from it over the past few years.

I think we would all support the increases if the revenue was wholly earmarked to support and better the fisheries and game in this state. The reality is that Patterson and his cronies will merely use the money to support more downstate pork barrel projects. Lessons not learned from our ongoing Thruway tolls! Our goverments, be them Local or Federal, are just trying to find more ways to tax certain things or people to spend it on projects they have no business supporting to begin with. The dispropotionate increases on non-residents is especially troubling...

Ron, Marathon Tech Corp 8280 NW 56 Street Miami, FL 33166 Ask for Bob 1-800-558-1607 I'm not certain what is exactly wrong with your unit, but if it is circuit board related then they are dependent upon an older gentleman in NC that basically has all of the old circuit boards from Ray Jeff and he takes many vacations, so it typically has taken about 2 months to turn the probes around. Marathon performs the diagnosis and testing and can refurb all components except the circuit board. The original probe they did for me cost about $120 when all was said and done. The last set of 5 I sent to them, they mixed and matched and picked the best of the best to put new boards into, so I ended up with 2 good probes for $300. Just be prepared, it's not cheap!

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We lost another one of the great pioneers from the Oak, we will all miss him... this lake always kept him captived and we can all relate... it will be strange kicking off a new year without his reports, but I am certain that he wants to hear as many "FISH ON'S" yelled as possible! My best regards to Shirley and family as well.

I've been negligent in not following this thread all winter, but am I to assume that some form of this regulation is under proposal and would require some of the following items: 1.) Higher license price to allow 3 rods per person 2.) separate ammended license to allow 3 rods per person If these are true then item number 2 is barking up the wrong tree... now this will require more enforcement to verify the extra tag, so more infringement on the fishing time of the 3 rod user and more taxpayer cost for enforcement in this time of scaling back of government agencies... it should remain with item one, charge more and it's the law, end of story. Also, I agree, a 1 day tag for $25 is too steep, they will drastically reduce revenue rather than increase revenue as people will not pay that amount for one day. Please correct me if my assumptions above are incorrect. Thanks, Hans

Still available... I know there are some of you in need out there... the cost is high for a spare or a replacement probe, but the reward with this system is great as well... As anyone knows, very tough to get your hands on any of these probes that are functional, so here's your chance!

Still available.

I purchased 4 probes off EBay, none of which ended up working, so I sent them as well as one additonal spare down to Marathon in Miami for refurb. I ended up getting 2 good probes out of it, one I am keeping as a spare, the other I have available for sale. It cost me $300 to refurb both probes, so I am looking to recoop $150 for the probe. Marathon has already refurbed the current probe I am using and it was good down to about 140' last summer, so I have confidence that these probes will be as good.