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Joe, there's gotta be a twin to that salmon slayer down in the Rampage Addiction outlet Tackle Store! I think I lost a good treble to that monster off Devils Nose on Wednesday. Knitted me a copper sweater too!...he has to hit the deck! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Pap knows how! There ya go! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I've often wondered the same thing. Jacking the boat off the trailer never seems that hard to do but how to get the trailer out from under it with Jack stands and stuff under the boat and axles and cross members to come through them. I assume you have to keep the supporting stands of the bow on the outside of the trailer and hold the boat up with a heavy board or timber in the bow area high enough to clear fenders and wide enough to clear the trailer width. Once out with the trailer I think I would further support the outer chine areas under the sides of the hull. Sounds like a big process, and this again is just a guess for this process, and I have never done it. Yet.... Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Went down Tuesday morning and the lake was rockin!..waves that is..as a solo I didn't want to try messing with the wind and waves that were breaking spray over the jetty and breakwall. Went back home for the day and got ahold of my friend Steve to go out Wednesday morning. He brought along his grand daughter Alexis for the morning and it was a great day with a pond still lake..very warm however! Not so much warm in the deeper water inshore though and with the probe down 100 feet it was returning 43 degrees with 77 on the surface in 160 FOW. I sent down a 42 second mag glow cup spoon on that probe and the other out down with a Mag Moonshine Geezer, then went for a center rigger to set up and got interrupted by the 42 second at 100 down. Felt small at first, handed the rod to Steve and said it's a baby, reel him in. A half minute later it's screaming away from the boat! Really fast!...both of are like what the!!!??...not so small after all, he just woke up! After a few hundred feet of drag burn, the fish stops, Steve begins pump and reel action, thumbing the line down on the rod for a little more pressure and the fish burns his thumb on another blistering run for a couple hundred more feet!...we were westbound and close to the fish now, and westbound was the fish too, off to the side and racing us on the surface about 50 to 75 feet away. A few throttle bursts to get him behind us and finally over the side in the net he comes..24.35 lbs on the digital. Another smaller king of about 10 lbs came after that on a 400 copper outrigger set with twinkie rig 11 inch paddle and meat. Had several other LARGE fish hit and either come unbuttoned or break off. All came from 100 to140 feet down in the ice water, and one on a 100 copper clipped to the ball @ 120 set over 170 FOW. A nice tough battle but broke the snell off in about 5 minutes on a twinkie meat rig. Also took the rig off to the side far enough to tangle with a long copper on the outrigger as it came up through the water column.....[emoji84] [emoji20] ..so that caused a copper knit job, and we spent a good bit of our time sorting that out, to no avail. Flats to the glass house was a decent amount of action out east of port. Mag spoons on riggers and meat rigs on three different coppers had top honors, but that was all we ran for the day. Did not get flies or dipsey presentation wet that morning. Alexis had a great time and was very fun out there! She loved touching the BIG FISH gramps caught! Once, while steve had the fish close to the surface, I reference to it as a shark, like all of us commonly do sometimes, and she became hesitant to see it come in!...she said "You said it was a shark!", when I asked her why she went to the front of the boat, and come see grampa's fish! It was funny as all heck how she picked that word "shark" up and spooked about that! She saw the teeth and just knew it was a shark! Lol! But then she had to feel the fish and that was good enough, for more, even after in the cooler for a hour..."Can I feel the fish?"..[emoji68] [emoji1] ..on the way back in she stood on the bow deck hanging on the front railing, and excitedly watching birds fly off the surface in front of us Great day and smooth water! Mark Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Too bad the cormorants don't follow the gulls to the dump buffet. Lots of botch there! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

See, I'm back for more!Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Truck stop...gotta be good. All the trucks park there. No lack for fat truck drivers!...gotta be good and plenty of it! True! I am an example! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Truck stop...gotta be good. All the trucks park there. No lack for fat truck drivers!...gotta be good and plenty of it! True! I am an example! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

You're are absolutely right too Les! I spend weeks on end on the highways. .5000 miles a week. I have the sense that more than half the population has little regard for courtesy and forethought for the obvious. Most unintentional, unknowingly lucky, indicated by the curious looks on their puss when you act enraged or speak threats to their aloof nature. Human nature and laws doesn't coexist on the same plane. Unless you intentionally cause harm back to an offensive individual, in essence lobbing snag hooks, firing flares etc...now who's really in trouble. If the nuisance happens intentional then you must report it. Many times I have wanted to educate individuals who intended me harm out here on the road, almost every day, it's hard not to, but if you can avoid the harm, you just ruined THEIR day. Report them. Better yet have witness. I've had idiots try to get ME in trouble on the road, even call cops on me for trying my best to accommodate their stupidity with as much evasive action as possible, even though they did not follow the law of yield. Which by the way is a courtesy law only. When you get into an accident from not yielding right of way, then it becomes a point of who did or didn't. When someone knows they did it, and you can tell by the usual insults, and you are with others in company (witnesses) just turn away, and discretely give them the finger...back!I'm still not pulling lines. If they are close enough to haul my gear. They are close enough for a picture and registration numbers to send a copy of bills for replacement, along with a copy of picture of their dumbfounded puss looking back. Note attached... my attorney is expensive. Reply soon. Relax, and fish on....the roadways out here are enough in terms of 4 million miles of intense idiot avoidance. So far so good, earth and sea. No jail time yet..... Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Absolutely right...I ain't pulling lines because the only spec on the horizon. ..meaning clear visibility...comes straight to my position that is only changing at 2.5 mph. That is just plain inconsiderate. The horizon at 6 ft above sea level is more than a mile away...Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I think the tidy bowl man has some ideas!Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app