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FYI Garmin has been shutdown temporarily by an encryption virus. They have been down for 3 days and they are being told they have to pay ten million for there data to be unencrypted. That means no support, data uploads from gps and watches,ect. It’s ugly and pilots are having issues with flight plans, runners data is unavailable and possibly lost. But more scary is encryption viruses often are used to hide evidence of data intrusion and theft. Can’t wait to get full story.

Yeah, I heard they went through, not happy but would have rolled with it from a pen project but it's a slap in the face to take the kings away and expect us to put the effort in to the steelhead. I completely agree with mothballing the pens. Our private pens get put away and come back out when the kings comeback, they should not be "repurposed" . It is what little leverage we will ever have at getting a pen project for Kings back.

I am not doing Steelhead pens, especially if the new regs go in. Kill pens for kings and ask me to raise fish you don't want me to catch. Uh hell no!

I was contemplating trying to create one about a year ago that was Lake Ontario centric but honestly I wasn't sure I would have the time to put in to it. My original plan was to try to do interviews with Charter Captains, Local lure manufactures, Marina and mechanic interviews/ Q&A with possible reports , news, ect.

I found this link on WeatherUndergound that still seems to show wave info: http://weathersnoop.wunderground.com/MAR/LO/043.html . Not sure how long this may work as my other links show what everyone else has but this one works for now and was happy to stumble upon it.

Wonder if people were just moving that plastic gate to use the launch and this is the solution to that.

Everybody talks speed but here is an example of the temp from a Fishhawk being the difference. Two years ago I went out with a friend on a crappy cool rainy day late July. We stayed inside and worked 35-40 water with great temp for browns. We put a pretty good beating on them. As the day wore on the temp started moving out deeper and so did the browns. Nothing in the sky and the air temp led us to believe the shift would occur as fast as it was to deeper water. But without the down temp we would not have been able to stay on those browns as they moved out deeper with the water temp. Its not just about find the perfect water for the species because yeah you will catch fish out of temp. But its also situations like this I am glad I have a Fishhawk for down temp and speed.

These new regs are managing the fishery by the few who abuse it. An extremely large majority of Lake guys are not leaving there dock every day or weekend with the thought I hope I can put a pounding on the steelhead. The thought process is lets find those kings and have a great time. The steelhead are a fallback or by-catch product for most during the season with the early spring being the exception. I love the fight of a steelhead and my absolute my best memory of Lake O is catching my first one and its rise from 45 feet deep and jumping twice before the rigger popped., but having said that my boat is equipped and rigged to chase Kings first and foremost. The stream fishing is not being demolished by the lake guys. Steelhead and brown trout fishing in streams are way more affected by guys putting up nets at night at Sandy Creek ,snaggers and guys taking more than there limit to go back to NYC or guys who just want eggs for their good time on the streams. So to compensate for :these "few" abusers and what they are doing to a population of stream fished just penned in a small area waiting to be abused in numbers by these guys we are going to take fish away from the honest fisherman. That is very much managing the fishery for the bad guys. Most of us talking about this, whether lake or trib fisherman are ethical anglers, but the poaching problem is not a lake issue its a trib issue and it is the biggest problem for the quality fishing experience in the tribs. As the trib guys like to point out you have the numbers but that also has to do that the cost of entry to trib fishing is low compared to the lake. That means a lot more numbers but some of those numbers lend themselves to the type of people making a quick buck on the cheap and lower morals groups of anglers. Not all trib guys are the same, and the guys claiming to represent them only represent the much smaller group of ethical ones.

Here is my attempt at recording last night state of the Lake. Tripod was not tall enough to see over some heads for my iphone, so some manual hand holding.

Kyle Cuba used to buy antique stuff to I believe.