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Oink oink....BANG!!!!....pulled pork

What Yankee said for the absolute best time at Oak Orchard, Point Breeze. May and june are dulldrums...July has it's moments. Mark

Nice pics Stan...Good job on showin em the east coast style Mark

Great deer...man I have yet to get one of that stature. I gotta get me one of those plastic double barrel shotguns..man they are powerful Might be a little easier with the take on baggage too Great buck with the stick and string Mark

WOW!! hunters beware...the deer has a protector ...this is going to be a frequent sight...my friend who has a farm in Otsego county has had these appear in his back yard! What is the DEC thinking Mark

Nice report Jason, I gotta try that Lake this winter, thanks Mark

Good shootin, very nice

I think it is good luck, especially if he sprays somewhere near the stand. Good scent cover Now a huge buck will come by and think nothing of the aroma and figure that no self respecting hunter would ever come near this spot. He will feel safe in your presence. Mark PS..ask omganothershortfatbaldone Indian name for Ray...he rubs a skunk on himself...hunts deer and comes home with a bear. He should have a very good Indian story for you.

Just a thought...could you throw a rubber mat down where the bow meets the concrete. Maybe one which is waffled and lets the water flow through so it will settle on the ramp. Tie a float to it or a rope to the cleat on the boat and you can pull the mat up as you motor off. Of course you would have to wear some boots to get in the boat and stay dry. I've got the same issue but my bow is way too high to climb over and having 22 feet to the back of the boat, I'd be swimming to get up on the dive platform. I would have to tie a rope to the stern and pull the boat around...stern into the ramp and then push off with a pole to get the motor in. Then there's the issue of coming back to the ramp...can't back in...can't climb down off the bow...Maybe I'll just use a smaller boat...I know a blowup boat like a dingy...oh man that's just to "sale" boat for me. Mark

Took Mick and his wife out on my boat and fished the Bar...Had a hit on a dipsy trolling off the out rigger...I grabbed it and sure enough there was a good fish on there....well, I handed the pole to Mick's wife and she reeled and reeled and reeled some more and reeled even more and fought this fish with a huge bend in the rod for what seemed to be an eternity... Mick is standing at the back of the boat waiting for the huge fish to come within range of the net, when finally it appears...First the dipsy is visible and now....here comes the lure...Mick turns around and looks with a sheepish grin and says ...nothin....THERE'S NOTHIN THERE...NO FISH...oops the dipsey didn't trip..the look on Mick's wife Chris was one which needed no words to describe....Mick and I were looking for the bilge room about that time....sorry Chrissy I will be sure to check the dipsy for trip next time, bilge water tastes really bad

Stan, and to those who haven't tried it let me explain that wire is wire and that the 30 lb copper I use serves two purposes on my boat. Not only is a good depth presentation all by it's self but it can pull a dipsey WITHOUT ring and achieve the same depths as wire and in some cases even deeper. This eliminates the necessity of having so many different rods and reels in the boat equipped with both steel and copper. The steel can only be used with a dipsey for depth and that is it. It will not achieve depth all by it's self and therefore it can only serve one purpose....just tow a dipsey. The copper can do that and be run off boards or run straight off the boat. Three different ways of use. The only real reason to use Steel at all is for the reduction of sea fleas which the copper does as well. You can achieve the same depths as steel with the use of 30 lb braid and a dipsy but it collects fleas too much. Most of the guys here use 45 lb copper and it's thickness is counter reactive to the dipsey attaining a depth as much as the 30lb copper. All three of my copper rigs are terminated with 30lb seaguar flourocarbon leaders of at least 8 feet. This keeps the copper far ahead of your target lure and is generally not a deterent to the fish. I have a 150, 300, and 600 copper that have a wide array of uses for whatever depth I want to achieve. OK, now I have opened pandora's box. Mark

YES!!!!! mark

Happy Happy Rod! Have another great year... Mark

I've seen this guy...he's got a white house...I think 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is his address...

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=13879 My post with pics shows the Raymarine you have that is on my boat. The transducer is even with the bottom of the hull...flat at the transom just off the keel...not angled at all. I have it set on 50kz and the straight line tracking at 13 ft is one of the balls running straight off the center rigger. The counter reads 13 ft on the scotty rigger. The arches at the bottom are salmon stacked outside the port breakwall. I usually can track the balls 10 lb down to 70 feet at 2.5 to 2.7 gps while in the 50 kz mode. I like the raymarine pretty good..its a new addition this past couple months Mark

Prolly will be in the cab of this truck on the opener, hope to be one place or another by the first week of November. Either Otsego, Delaware county, or closer to home in 8A near the lake. Bad part is, no practice yet, and no license yet. Four or five shots to check the sights and that is usually it. The big bucks$ for the license is tougher to get used to Mark

j-plug or silver horde..hard to tell them apart but work identical.

Up until April I use North up, but then in April and only April I use the north star in daylight, especially when I go out on the 1st Seriously North up all the time...but only in the northern hemisphere..Aussie rules apply to south up .....north..ɥʇnos...north...ɥʇnos... enjoy yer winter Ice..it is your time. Mark

It's nice Stan, we can actually rub the bottom and not loose our balls lures get some clams on them though. sometimes we get hung on the bottom, not often but I have yet to have to break off a lure. Just backtrack and it usually pulls right off.

Straight spoons 30 foot leads...30lb ande mono with a 6 foot 30 lb Seaguar flouro learder.

Nice, thanks for letting me escape reality for about 3 minutes. Awww crap ....Chicago traffic...uuuugh...reality sucks...Ok I'm gonna look at the pics again....Thanks for sharing Mark REALITY SUCKS...not quite Chicago...Bronx I think...it's all the same...I wanna go fishing now

Beat me with a stick Mick, I sorta shoulda thought quicker and called ya the night before, but I looked at the clock and it was late so I didn't want to bother you. I wasn't sure what the lake was gonna be like either but it wasn't too bad. 4-6 swells and breaking 2 footers on top on the offshore. I saw yer boat was missing from the dock, wasn't sure if ya were out or not. Mark

Look and smell and check for flies buzzing (on a nice day) and you will find the scum line. Out there somewhere near the 500 ft of water. The scum line will have floatsum in it and a slick appearance where a breeze blows ripples elsewhere, bird feathers, sticks, seaweeds, colorful mylar balloons that say happy birthday or I love you on them are common visual indicators. If the breeze is blowing from the scum line you will smell it, kinda fishey some days and other days it's something else but you will notice it being different in some way. Flies are most always near the scum line buzzing around on a sunny day, you can't miss them, some of them won't miss you either, the biting stable flies sometimes let you know. Once you find the scum line it's like gold, stick around it and stitch your troll through it and note the sounder picking up a veil appearance and bait in it, then watch out for the hits. troll out side the line and back in a few hundred feet and see if the bait is lurking on either side and set your program to troll in the bait zone. Last weekend I had plenty of hits with divers on braid 30lb pulling spin docs, pro troll flashers and flies in blue green and green orange patterns, set on 2.5 out 270 and 290. riggers were firing with spoons green or orange gold patterns down 70 to 100 ft. 2.6 to 2.8 GPS. The steelies were schooled tight and when you find them mark it and loop through them. The bite window is about from 9 am to 12 noon for me, and all the fish I kept were stuffed with alewife. Hope this works for ya, I know it does for me, but be patient and troll a little fast and cover water till ya find some of the things I mentioned above. Remember they are schooled tight and it is a bit of a search along the scum line but if ya find that you have half the battle won. Good Luck this weekend. Wish I could be out there but I got another steering wheel to hold for the next three weeks. Mark

Happy b-day, Captain Bill Mark