Can't go wrong with either. We went out of Mexico 2 weeks ago. Trolled to the plant and back and limited on cookie cutter browns in 20-40 fow, all spoons, anything green. This past Saturday launched out of Oswego, trolled towards the plant 70-90 fow, 3 browns and 2 small kings. Browns on spoons and the 2 kings on flasher/fly set up. Fished the marks and adjusted riggers and dipseys to the depths we were marking fish. Two of the browns came on a 10 color flatlined behind the boat with a spoon. Again, anything green. Good luck!
Fished that same depth on Friday, Set up a mile out of the chute heading west to the plant and just trolled our way out. Marked a lot of fish, and had 5 by the time we made it to the first buoy. Turned and fished our way back to port and picked up 2 more and lost 1. Kept our 6, all cookie cutters. Spoons on riggers and flat lines with snap weights caught fish, 2 colors were quiet. Standard size spoons hammered silver with any sort of green on it all caught fish.
I have 2 that are practically brand new, will take $40 a piece + shipping. I also have a Penn 309 with 10 colors on it that I will sell for $40 + shipping if interested. I can get all 3 of these into a large USPS flat rate box for $21.50. (We'll say $140.00 Shipped) Just the 2 Magda's will be $15 to ship, so $95.00 Shipped.
Not much press coverage on this, very few details. Initial reports from 4/26-4/27 were all there seems to have been on this. Seems strange. My heart goes out to his family, and a prayer for his poor soul! Sad!!
Finger Lakes and Tributaries Special Regulations
Finger Lakes and Tributaries Fishing Regulations
Water
Species
Regulation
All Finger Lakes
Northern Pike
May 1-Mar 15, Minimum Length-22", Daily Limit-5
Walleye
May 1-Mar 15, Minimum Length-18", Daily Limit-3 (see Skaneateles Lake for exception)
I have one of the Walmart group 27 size battery for my Terrova 55. Use it for Spot lock mainly, and have good performance and run time. Used it for 4 hours last weekend locked up on a perch spot, motor was reading 3 bars on the battery when I started and still reading 3 when I finished. Had a pretty good headwind the whole time.
Maisie, as I'm sure you know, directly east lie Sodus, Port, and Fairhaven bays. I'd put money on any of them this time of year. Some good options on those Finger Lakes to the South of you also. Easiest to start looking for shallow flats, with any knid of weed growth.
Not Lake Erie, but close...and recent.
See full report at https://www.onthewater.com/fishing-reports/2021/12/upstate-and-western-new-york-fishing-report-december-23-2021
Dipseys w flasher/meat did it for us over the weekend out in front of the Salmon river. Didn't crush them but 4 out of our 6 fish came on meat dipseys. Did 2 on F/F off the riggers, and never had a bite on spoons.
Fished 3 of 4 days this past weekend right out in front of the Salmon river. Friday in 30-40 FOW, 2/3 on Kings both upper teens. Saturday 50-60 FOW 1/4, King roughly 20 Lbs. Sunday 80-90 FOW 3/3 on Kings, 1 teener and 2 just over 20. Seen small scattered pods of bait buy no massive balls like that. Would you expect to see those west end fish make their way to the big river, or will they stay and spawn in the west end?
Good deal, never even thought about a slide diver as a dipsey option for kings...makes good sense. My partner and I fished out of mexico last Sunday and went 2/3 on Kings, 1 of which was a standard size stinger 100' back on a rigger at 50 over 70', where we had 46 degree water. I'm really starting to warm up to that more of a stealthy subtle presentation when the bite is off.
Chowder, here is a screen shot from the manual that lists the front panel buttons. The uppermost left button is the "Pages" menu. When you hit that, it should bring up a list of available pages at the bottom of the screen. Use the "Arrow" keys to scroll through the pages, and then hit button #5 to select. Once you have the screen you want selected, button #5 should take you into the settings menu. I have an Elite 7 and the buttons are different as my menu button says "menu" and I have a separate "enter" button, but this button #5 on the Hook 7 is a dual function button. When you get into the sonar system menu, try setting the depth and sensitivity to "Auto" as a starting point. I'm not an expert here, but hope this helps.
Oh heck yes, even better yet! LOL. What's the best way to tell them apart? I tried zooming in on the tail and thought it was spotted from top to bottom. They hit another one around the same sixe this morning.