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  1. Gill-T
    Or save your money and tie the wire line knot to your terminal swivel
  2. Gill-T
    I have been smelling skunky weed coming through my car vents while commuting to and from Buffalo since marijuana possession was decriminalized. Just another day in paradise for me.
  3. Gill-T
    Nice!
  4. Gill-T
    I haven’t heard too many walleye reports this year other than a decent night bite out of Dunkirk. In a lake with tens of millions of walleye swimming around I would have thought I would hear more chatter.
  5. Gill-T
    Great stuff. It would appear that you were able to keep your fish alive in a live well then release them after weighing? Kudos!
  6. Gill-T
    Different things come to mind here. As suggested, two different methodologies in determining temps by the two maps. I believe GLERL defines surface temps from readings at the 30’ down level which you are comparing to the infrared map. Any NE wind on Erie can push the warm surface water away from Buffalo at the head of the Niagara, causing cooler water to be pulled into the river. Also, the down current in most of Niagara County waters is out of the NE sliding under the warm Niagara flow. We always have easy to reach cool waters even during the peak summer months.
  7. Gill-T
    ?? No upwelling that I can see… you should be fine. Also, I generally don’t sample the hypolimnion as I find the epilimnion better tasting 😀
  8. Gill-T
    Great discussion going on here 😂
  9. Gill-T
    Answer: you support redistribution of emerald shiners in all the ports that have suffered from the bad winters of 2014-15 by pulling them from the upper Niagara in the spring.
  10. Gill-T
    My leaders are typically from the rod tip to the reel in length in which case I want the slider to hang up on the barrel swivel to keep it separated from the main line spoon or flasher. You are asking for added expense with the price of quality fluorocarbon when there is a longer leader that can get chaffed. Never mind what a metal micro swivel might do to your ceramic guides over time. By having a small leader length I can check it easier and buy the expensive good stuff -Seaguar blue.
  11. Gill-T
    I believe this a federal venture not state
  12. Gill-T
    Hook placement relative to the meat will have an impact. Size of the hook will have an impact. Stiffness or thickness of leader material will have an impact. Speed trolled will have an impact. Mood of the fish nipping vs inhaling will have an impact. The recent derbies and tournaments (everyone had meat in the water) will have an impact. Lots of variables. Keep doing the same thing over and over might cause the same results and sometimes it is just one of those days.
  13. Gill-T
    Erratic action baits that make it stand out as wounded and as Les suggests, fish outside the bait.
  14. Gill-T
    My set ups are wire -to a one foot section of 80lb braid -to 60’ of 30 lb mono -to a bead/barrel swivel to a leader to a Duolock snap. No knot failures to report but I do check them and change them when they look like they need changing. The wire to braid connection is an improved Albright Knot
  15. Gill-T
    Dr Weidel, are bloaters bay spawners, main lake shoal spawners or main lake-suspended spawners?
  16. Gill-T
    Improved Albright is what you need or it will slip. Look up KC-1 YouTube video on how to tie it. He is a Michigan captain featured on 333 tournament series. At least it used to be on there …. KC-1 sportfishing videos for slide divers
  17. Gill-T
    Nice report. Your findings marry ours from last week. Fish were mostly down 80-110’. Mid-waters were hot in 220’. A bite developed in the 112-115’ ish area near the bottom bait. Standard and mag divers out 225’-315’ with spoons and deep center rigger with meat.
  18. Gill-T
    Awesome! We tried for awhile in brown trout water, especially with that carryover money. Pesky kings kept messing with us lol.
  19. Gill-T
    I survived a midge hatch that seemed like the world was ending
  20. Gill-T
    Weird off-color water for a lot of the derby.
  21. Gill-T
    Yes, I forgot we have a good coho crop. Brian, our board laker was caught 28’ down over 48’ on a rigger …. I also caught a lake trout on a jplug off leadcore….. wierd year but fun!
  22. Gill-T
    I was wondering what everybody thought about the weird derby this year. Notably, where are the big browns? Did the browns spread out when the bait came in? Did all the two year old kings around displace the browns and lakers? Where are the three and four year old kings? I fished from the Niagara Bar to Summerset. We caught an incredible amount of two year old kings from the trench in front of the green can out to 300’. It didn’t matter where we went. We caught one brown, one Atlantic, and only about 15 lakers. I saw bait some days that extended from Wilson to the bar suspended. I saw bait on the bottom from Olcott to the bar. A crazy weird derby.
  23. Gill-T
    Did anyone move rods today after the morning flurry? Tougher bite today! Bite shut off after a few tankers came by. Probably pure coincidence.
  24. Gill-T
    Great Atlantic! We got a small one off the bar.
  25. Gill-T
    That fish had good taste in lures
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