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Missdemeanor, I've still got the Mac-Jac hand held temp. probe and still use it, same as fish hawk. I remember trolling next to Misty blue out of Oswego, for some reason most every time we past each other I'd hit a double solo of corse,he was good luck for me. Boy it was a night mare fishing Oswego back then in Aug. Sept. that was real combat fishing,if you never fished it in the early days you don't know what a crowd is. I fished the pro am at Willson with Screw Louie back when that was the only pro-am, we even took home money,we may have done a better place if we hadn't gone out that night, boy was I in bad shape the next day. Wow those were good times.

Hey I rember Old Hickery,he and his brother were very active with the DEC and the fishery, I think he was the first president of ELOSTA, I went to the first meeting and was a member into the 90ies. Sorry to hear he pass,hope he had a big one on when he died.

I remember reading in the paper that they planded to stock kings in the lake in the late sixties. Wow that got the blood flowing,I had a 16ft. lonestar with a 35hp Johnson,I fished the lake for bass and perch back then.I got a hand crank Riviera from a old timer on the Finger lakes and bought a Larance green box. Some time around1970 the first run of salmon came into the Salmon river. Not manny had a clue about catching them, me either. I don't think I got any the first season.I don't think I got the speed right till I got a speed gage,it was a pice of wire with a weight on one end and a pointer and a halfmoon shapped piece of tin on the other mounted on the side of the boat.you put the weight in the water ,the hand pointed to numbers on the plate. If you hit a fish you checked the number on the plate,that was your speed. We gave snaging a try at night, got out of work at 12:30am and headed up to the river they had the water flow down and the river was full of fish, seven of us took 35 salmon that night,it was fun thats not fishing.Some one took a 48lber out of the river, I think that was the record and still holding. Those were the good old days. Boy am I old.

Nice work Kayaker, I fished the same water yesterday morning,one hit on the diver and it got off. :yes:

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THOSE LOOK LIKE THE OLD WALLEYE WORNRIG.

Try stacking the smaller dipseys on your top line 10-15ft. above the ball out about 40-50ft. put the stacked rod in the outside holder and bottom rod on the inside holder. It shouldn't interfear with your wire dipsey. Its a good setup when the temp. is deep and you know where the lures are. I've taken a lot of fish that way, take your time and think about what your doing and you won't have a problem getting them down. Good luck

I fished Oneida over the week end got some eyes and some of those tasty sunfish, there huge. The gobies are in big time,that should screw things up.

pap,If you find the Eyes in the weeds, 6-8 fow you can slide the two hooks together shorten your leader and do a careolina rig with a bullet sinker and cast your rig and swim it through the weeds. Hey potsie, hope this helps you with your lure making.

Hey pap, about 100yrs ago a friend showed me how to tie that finger lake sliding minnow rig. tryed to remember how but couldn't so I went to the shrink wrap.

I've been rigging with17teen lb leaders and two hooks,the top is a slider, it keeps the worm strait by sliding the top hook up or down. I slide about 1\4" of shrink tubing over the hook shank, then slide the leader through the tub and the eye of the hook about 2 " and shrink the tub down with a sodering iron till its tight, slide the hook down the leader and cut off leader where you heated the tubing, about 4" . I don't think its any better than a three hook rig, its just my thing. Love those quick change Clevises. Gota check out the hobby shops and check out some beads.