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  1. skipper19
    Good work guys! The meat is the treat! Looks like a couple of those fish are fin clipped 4 year olds like a couple of mine were yesterday. I saved the heads for Capt. Jerry Feluca. He has the DEC check them for tags....either that or he just likes fish head soup! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    I will keep that in mind, cause I would not like to do a solo if it were peak season and lots of boat traffic, the changing depths, or if wind and waves were in play. I had very easy traffic, and stayed to the outside in deeper water off the drop. However as things got dicey with the double I did venture unknowingly into 65 fow with 90 feet of cable out!...luckily did not loose stuff! The nice day was a true good time solo but if any weather and boat traffic it would have been panic city! Mike, the fishing is fantastic down there and it will last for a while in my opinion. There was plenty cold water from 70 feet down. 46 to 54 in the deep, but many hooks were in 40 feet in the 60s and they were inactive but streaking from the cables. With stable weather the fish will be there. The screen was stacked with salmon in some spots along the drop. I had an easy day with traffic and weather, but anything different and I would want a helmsman and a net guy for sure! Yeah buddy!..I had a chance and it payed off with some patience. I saw a few dozen boats working the drop from 4 mile to the can and very little net swinging going on in mid day. After 4pm the boats were gone, I just figured well I'm here, might as well stay and enjoy the sunset. Well the fish suddenly turned on, and to be truly honest, I think they were turned off by all the traffic in bright sun. I stayed outside and found fish there too. Just worked them with the meat, and that's what they wanted!Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Thanks buddy!...after the lock jaw in front of Point Breeze, and then the little 2 year olds offshore was good, but didn't fill the need for screaming drags! Even the browns were sulking after the gauntlet of boats after them down east from the point.Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Late afternoon bite finally came in the view of Toronto today. I launched solo at Olcott and had a very nice 15 mile ride to the bar area. Smooth water and sunshine. Set up off four mile creek in 140 fow. Lots of hooks on the screen from 40 to the bottom. Trolled a Moonshine geezer, a spindoctor and fly, and a twinkie meat rig on 500 32lb copper. Trolled from about 11 am to 4pm without moving a rod. Not many boats doing a lot during the mid day, but I stuck it out and enjoyed the nice day when finally the 500 copper gets wrecked in 170 fow northeast of the red can. Hauled it to the boat and a nice male king in hand Put it back out and it didn't last more than a 5 minute dunk and another king wrecks it Put down the meat rig once more on the 500 copper and also changed out the two riggers to 100 copper after seeing the fish streaking away from the riggers over and over. Dropped the balls to 75 and 85 and then all hell breaks loose as a double comes. 1st one on the meat twinkie on the 85 rigger 100 copper and then as I begin the battle, the 500 copper once again goes and keeps peeling backing as I deal with number 1. I somehow managed to keep the double hooked up and untangled, but not without the miscues with the net on number 1. That fish came to life and did a U turn out of the net and went around a rigger cable. I did an underpass with the rod with the rigger and managed the net a second time with better results. Finally got to number 2 and it has a lot of backing off the Seagate 60. It's still there and after a long battle both fish are finally on the deck. All the action came in the hours between 4 and 6:30pm. Grass mats were a pain getting on the riggers and the lines. Only a couple other boats left out there at that time. Picked up and ran back to Olcott, still very nice cruise. The port at Olcott is choked with duck weed, and the boat looked more green than blue and white, but the park has a nice pressure wash. A couple tokens from the check in booth, and the boat got clean very nicely. The port always impresses me with its convenience and hospitality. Everything you may need is always there and always clean. Mark Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Good job Stan! I have a few of these in box from about 20 years ago. Good lure in the rough, and loves the extra speed. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Nice work Carl! Great looking center console and new 300 hp should make her run on that bracket!...a T top next? Jealous as get out! Year round fishing and I'm getting ready to hibernate my little aquasport now! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Wednesday afternoon solo. 5 pm to dark. Only one brown on mag spoon 42 second on a king program. The salmon are there, just lock jaw and deep on the bottom 100 to 150. Temp was 49 down 100. Any day could be a different story. Just not much changing with this heat wave. You can hunt with the best of them out there! I could be out there too, just trying to make a decision on a the bar or the oak...browns are a choice if nothing else goes. Good luck! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Checked again this morning, it actually doesn't look too bad for Saturday, but Sunday NOT!..Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    OK thanks, so the usual solid pier is there yet and there is at least a way to get to the boat for loading etc....Sent from my A500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Chummer Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Is it done now? Complete... Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Absolutely! I have seen in July the water was stable and the fishing was fantastic on inside waters 150 to 200 feet. Then the big flip and after that big northeast blows and there has not been stable water since in that range most days I was out. I've had more weird speeds between the surface and down than any other time. Most of the time difference of 1.7 to 2.5 mph between the two. It led me to think something was wrong with the probe calibration but then the tangled rigger sets were proof of current, stuff wandering way off left or right. Worst was west of the Oak from Johnsons to Shadigee. East to west and running toward shore in more than 100 feet. More consistent water was in 500 or more., but pods of fish were scattered and spotty. Last Saturday the water off Shadigee was crazy fast like a river. I didn't even try to fish more than 30 minutes and gave up to go deeper. A buddy down towards glass house and flats did not have the same issue. Yes I believe the current is having a definite impact on numbers of fish, and fish ability in terms of running lures near a productive speed.Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    I hear ya Jason! I was slightly more lucky, if you can call it that, in the fact that I got to the truck at the county launch to find a note on my truck. Not from the perpetrators, but from a bystander watching it happen. It had a plate number and vehicle description on it. Then the people came that wrote the note with more info. I was really thankful they had done that, and after my analysis of the problem, discovered that the bearing buddy had been busted off in pieces by a front tire that had been cranked into my trailer. Nothing else damaged. It looked bad to the bystanders so they gave me the note and approached me to talk, but it was just a bearing buddy, not 2000.00 of damage! So I let it go. But it does just completely baffle me that anyone could even do that kind of damage and just drive away...can't even own up. Probably like mentioned, had too many brewski and would have led to a bigger problem for him by getting investigated. Like getting arrested for intoxicated operations of a boat and motor vehicle. Some very poor driving skills are going around lately I notice. Like taking up the last 2 spots left with the trailer jacked all around....shameful...I've even moved the empty trailer over by hand, to where they belong with a little extra adrenaline from the aggravation! Hope you get a resolve! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Go get that big Ole brown hog Tommy! You can use that little blue ford power wheel to haul it to the taxidermy man! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Had a couple good weeks in July at Point Breeze....the rest...mehhh!..no so much...water conditions haven't been the same past 3 years ago on the west end. Seems like a lot of unpredictable current, less well defined and consistent temp breaks on the surface. Certainly less fishing boat traffic this year than past at Point Breeze. Noted parking spaces even on holidays. Noted almost entirely empty parking by noon, everyone gone. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Still the easy way to check the transmission is to get a portable, or have a buddy with a radio on the channel that is in a boat next to you. Se if anything is coming in. Nothing coming in means the radio is malfunctioning on transmission but can receive. 3 things will keep it from transmitting. The microphone. The antenna connections, regardless of antenna size or DB gain or even power supply, but it does make sense to use large guage 10, and be sure you have full 12.4 to 12.8 volts coming to the radio. Last, and not uncommon lately (cheap grade solder in Mexico), the radio has a problem in the finals circuit, ie, bad diodes or cracked circuit board. Simple checks like mentioned with a meter can find troubles. Check the coaxial cable on both ends and the radio connection to rule out cable and radio grounding. Use an ohm meter. Have someone hold the meter probes to the antenna pin hookup on the radio and then on the antenna pin end of the cable as you key the mic. Set meter on amps with the antenna hooked to the other end, and you should get about 2 amps when the radio is keyed on 25 watt max output. Word of caution though, do not hold the mic keyed for more than a few seconds to get your readings, it can damage the circuit without proper resistance from an antenna hooked up. As for the gain, it won't make any difference 3 or 6 or 8 other than higher gain is just more focused energy. Same power, different focus. Instances in a boat with high gain antennas, where you might get longer transmission by line of sight are in calm seas and a perpendicular antenna position, giving max range. Rough seas rocking the boat, and changing the perpendicular position to the horizon is where you would get better transmission with lower gain, but a little less distance. Rocking a high gain antenna will have the focus miss the receiving radio antenna of the same height at the horizon. In regards to reaching a base like the coast guard, the higher gain is more powerful to the tall antennas that the coast guard would use say 50 miles away due to the more focused transmission of a high gain. Neither would effect the normal power of the radio if it is functioning properly in a few miles. In eithercase, Gain is not a reason for no transmission. The meter, ohm, and volts, and amps, is your best tool along with a buddies radio to receive on. Ohms = 0 is good at the back of the radio, center pin to outer threaded connector. O ohms or no buzzer center pin to cable threaded outter. Any reading and the cable is no good and shorted. Ohms should have some continuity one end center pin to other. There is some resistance set into a cable depending on its RG number. Usually 75 or 50 ohm per 100 feet. You just want to hear a buzzer on a meter if the cable is Ok on that test. Volts should be battery charged voltage 12.4 to 12.6 on any power lead to the radio. Amps should be about 2 coming from the radio antenna hookup on a 25 watt setting. Even better is to check all the amp and watt values with an SWR meter designed to hook between the radio and antenna to read all those values on one guage. See if you can borrow one from someone or have the radio tested in a shop that does that work. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Saturday went west to Shadigee, lake was rolling down there and unfishable with wild current. Headed deep to 600 fow and had plenty of bait on the screen but no hooks and only one skippy out of 6 rods and miles of trolling. Tried meat, spoons, flasher flies, copper, downrigger, dipsy and nothing 7:00 AM to about noon. Beer at the North was cold. Best part of the day. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Wow! Nice detailed trip! You guys had fun! Thanks for taking us along! Mark Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Nice fish men! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Those are the FUN ones!...keeps the blood flowing and story living! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Great job Matt! You still have a thumb? Looks like an ouch moment. .. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Good Ole truck stop....petro waterloo..only wine you get there is your wallet and your stomach... Truckers are a picture of health! Not meee! Breaker one nine..stop in at the choke and puke and throw some groceries down my neck...rahhhjaaww ten four! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    That lake is full of food for fish. Very hard to get a good consistent bite out of them. Also, I think just about every species of fish live in there. I fish it in winter through the ice, and the camera shows miryads of insect larvae crawling around the bottom. The fish are well fed. Walleyes are rare for the most part. I don't know about any recent stocking.Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    Silver Foxette..ooh hh..did you learn that from RayYou are sooo bad Scotty! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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    12 volt fluorescent trouble light in my live well, along with all the glow lures hanging on a small bucket. Everything in there is white and reflects light all around. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app
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