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Those large metal cylinders are what float the metal cable. The metal cylinders and the cable is considered “the boom”.

The boom has broken a few times in recent memory. I went over the skyway and was able to see ice as far as the eye can see.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/must-see-ice-climbs-ashore-from-lake-erie-in-vicious-winds/ar-BBU1zaP

The ice boom broke on Erie. This means an earlier spring in Niagara County and potentially a faster dispersal of fish lakewide after the May flurry on the west end.

You get a chance to see some of the local news out of Buffalo there is some great video of shove ice growing like tectonic plates colliding.

The crap just started here in Buffalo. It’s coming.

Is this another NOAA report? Looks calm.

Tons of dead skunks around Skaneatles and I saw robins!

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Unfortunately I can’t grind my dogs like I would like. My pointer has a condition called Exertional Rhabdomyolosis that causes skeletal muscle break down on heavy running. She will start pissing blood after 1hr.

YES!!

The earthquake was from the seismological shift of Oak Orchard charter captains realizing that the eye sticker should be placed on the nose of the spoon .....not on the rear.

Ended the season on a high note. Rarely is a grouse set up perfect. The bird was where it was suppose to be, the dogs flushed it, my brother missed it, I shot it, my pointer found it and my rescue dog-flusher dove in and grabbed it. Perfect.

So another year approaches. Today I took advantage of some recent snow melt and cleaned up some dog droppings out in the yard while taking in some Vitamin D. I had my ears and eyes scanning for any signs of spring. Then I heard it..... a couple of starlings in a neighbor's tree. I always look forward to spring's first signs.

The dreamweaver mags work great as do the superslims. The mags need the split rings changed out - not sure what happened with some of the last couple of years production but I lost a bunch of fish by the hook sliding off the split ring. I run a lot of northport nailers also. Hard to go wrong with Michigan Stingers in stingray size. R&R tackle has good spoons. Northport nailers have the most durable paint jobs. I have a few moonshine patterns I run also. Stop by some time while in slip and I can show you what is working. Changes slightly every year.

Paul is right it didn’t matter much last year and it won’t matter this year due to size of this year class. I caught just as many fish on a six inch spoon as I did on super slims so size didn’t matter either. A theme emerged after May on color scheme involving spoons with black-glow-UV. More important was where in the water column you were fishing.

Use a wire line knot - no crimps Make sure your termination swivel spins Make sure your ball stops below the waterline Make sure balls are off in transit

We keep getting these monsoon westerlies that is probably screwing with the water level readings.