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Woody, I prefer the jig/minnow because it means light spin tackle. Sometimes you have to put a stinger hook on to catch nippers. Check lines often as zebra shells will fray your line. The fight these lakers put up in the oxygen rich water of the Niagara flow is a whole different fish than the boots you drag up with trolling gear.

White or blue-glow opti-dodgers with an A-tom-ik "white halo fly". Usually use Big Weenie Blue-glow beads underneath her skirt and some scent on the hooks. Any double crush or oil slick glow Spin Doctor but prefer a white paddle. Behind cowbells... a Chartreuse peanut head with a Chartreuse gulp twister-tail grub.

Start in front of the green can and drift. If you have an electric bow mount ....even better. Try to stay over your bait verticle to avoid snaggs. Jig with minnow, or three-way rig with a small spinner blade with worm harness floating bodies with a minnow, or three-way rig with a kwickfish. The tailout near the green can is like a tailout of a stream. As you move closer to the can, the bottom will come up quick! Raise your baits as you come up onto the bar 12-13'....continue the drift a little longer past the can, and then pull lines and do it again.

Freezer fillets! Beautifull meat. The fillets were gorgeous. Different pinbone configuration. I think we will be catching bigger ones. The day I caught this fish off the mouth of Keg Creek, someone else caught a 21 lber out of the same area. I see Vince caught a 17 lber. We have not seen how big these things will get just yet.

Yes, that is it. I think some indivigual bought every known T-connector on the market to sell them at high prices because everyone is out of stock. Are you able to sell it to me?

I sheared the pins off when I took apart the T-connector for my Lowrance fishfinder. Can't find a replacement anywhere . Does anybody have this part on an older model Lowrance that they would like to sell? Help a guy out would ya? Thanks.

Don't know of any line-counter reels that will hold 600'. Just get the 600' pre-marked from A-tom-mik with the large capacity reel (sold at a-tom-mik also). Personally, I would get a 300' and just add torpedo divers or pinch-on weights to get additional depth.

There is a reset function that has to be done if the unit is bounced. I think it is a safety feature. Go to the Lowrance website and it will walk you thru the process. Something like ....hold down zoom in, and zoom out keys while turning the power on.....I think.

We had 70 mph winds on Thursday, plus all those storms nailed Ohio and Pennsylvania. Hopefully, the lake settles this week.

That is a rule on my boat....all netters have to have eye protection. Glad the shakedown went well. Wish water conditions were better, but 70mph gusts on Thursday reeked havoc on Erie water.

Color went all the way out to 270'. Small good window of water off Sommerset Plant was the only game around. Too murky even to chase Lakers.

I run 1 lb thumper weights, size #1 dipsys with a ring, mag dipsys.......what ever you got.

Tony, the game this weekend is get a Canadian license and fish for Kings near Port D (with a tournament going on) or Lakers in the 40-100' level or shoreline trolling for browns, coho, or accidental kings. Next week the kings will be around the bar.

With the single keel, 9.5" and 11.5" should be the string measurements. Order the half keel from big jon and upgrade them. They will pull like a mule and your planer line will be tight with no sag.

Don't buy a Lowrance. I own one, and it works, but when I had an issue.....customer service was a nightmare. The company was sold to Simrad.

Lakers Rick. Many of those suspended fish are inactive for long periods of time. The fish on the bottom are always active.

Often overlooked is the business end of a lure. The hook color, configuration (treble/siwash effects the weight and action) are crucial. One of my favorite deep spoons is a Purple/holo/glow NK. Once, I had one of the silver trebles break and I replaced it with a dark Owner treble.........and the spoon died. I have yet to take a fish on it despite the same spoon with the stock silver treble firing nearby. I think at depth, the silver hook looks like a tail and adds action. Conversely, in shallow water, I have better luck with dark hooks. I have witnessed many times in spring-time pier fishing, browns following a spoon while nipping at the hooks. I think fish focus more on the bait and less on the line.

Fluorocarbon does have a shine/sheen to it that I can seen relected, but not sure how the sheen appears deeper in the water. Manufacturers have recognized the shine factor and are starting to add coloring to dull the sheen. Personally, in the green waters of Niagara county and summer fishing on Lake Erie, green mono is invisible and costs MUCH less. I don't put as much importance on Fluoro unless it is in larger diameter applications such as with leader materials for flasher/flies or copper/leadcore because it sinks. I have found smaller diameter fluoro line strength to be suspect compared to mono. Personally, I feel more attention should be paid to the business terminal tackle end more so than the line. Having an invisible leader means nothing if you put a big, ugly swivel that inhibits the baits action ahead of the lure.

I think that was you I talked to on the 10th when we were pulling out. Glad you took my advise and travelled into the "laker hole". They are big, fat and extra greasy this year.

PM Tom Allen, he will stay with you

Go up to the DEC boat launch/park on Black Lake for the Pike opener. Shiners under a bobber with a wire leader. St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg has casting areas for pike. Try the Black River dam for Steelhead right now thru April.

Stoutner, there are some browns to be had in front of the Sommerset power plant, keg creek, eighteenmile creek, Hopkin's creek etc. Water is lacking color right now, need rain this week. Timing-wise there should be some Cohos and Kings in the mix this weekend if the emerald shinners and spottailed shinners ever decide to come ashore......they are late. There is zero bait in eighteenmile harbor as of sunday.

The Boom Days celebration is listing the 14-16th which usually coincides with the boom removal. Best guess will be Thursday? I would not make plans to fish the river or bar area this weekend. The ice bergs come down and pile just west of Wilson.

NICE!!!!!!