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The girth was also 33”

X2. Debris fields are visual “tells” that indicate an area of current wadded up a bunch of stuff and shoved it up against the bank. Bait and plankton gets pushed by those same currents. As stated, if debris is too thick, fish the edges. If just feathers and driftwood, go through it. Usually fish are up high and feeding in those areas

Yesterday I tried Off deep woods spray on my legs and spread some catmint around the boat that I had growing in my yard. Flies were much less than the day before and the Off worked well enough. I think I was bit twice all morning. The catmint made an absolute mess of the boat.

Easy to make yourself

The baitfish population thanks you.

I agree with Vince, you need to examine some stomach contents yourself. Let me know when you are ready.

Haha 😂

Looks like a great day!

I won’t take my boat there either. Those gaps in the concrete are going to pop someone’s tires. My brother has cottage down there so he gets the season pass. Not sure what they charge to use the fish cleaning table. Nice set up for fish cleaning though

Yes, I think that is right. I put the surgical tubing on the release arm. With the line through the tubing, the line is probably protected as it passes through the housing to the other side. I probably should have read the directions better lol.

Thanks. With the 10’s of millions of walleye in the system, nobody should be shy about posting a report. Lots of fish for everyone when they get here. I don’t think they have reached the Catt in any numbers as we noticed there were only 4 boat trailers in the Hanover lot when we stopped in to the fish cleaning station.

Dunkirk Sunday west of port. Mostly worm harnesses on leadcore when the lake went flat

Right, the arm with tubing clicks down onto the line. The sharp pointy thing helps secure the line when the arm/tubing clamps the line and is located in the central housing where the line passes through to the other side of the diver.

A word of caution if you are clamping on mono. The little pointy triangular rumble strip that helps secure the release pressing against the line will crimp and weaken your mono. I ground those sharp rumble strips down with a dremmel tool and increased the release hold by putting a small piece of 3M double sided tape down so the release arm pinches the line down into the tape. No slippage.

Thanks for the report. Looks like a road trip is in order. I have never fished West of the Catt. Are fish near the harbor at Barcelona or do you have to go hunting for them?

Good stuff! Was this event promoted or do you have all the boats you need or want? I would be interested in helping out next year if you need more boats. I used to volunteer for the wounded warrior program out of Sodus that Nick used to run. Unfortunately, that event was discontinued.

Yep. 1.5 setting on inside. I run a four pack of slides. Mags on inside. Standards on outside. To help avoid divers getting together, I run standards on 40 lb wire and mags on 30 lb wire (gains separation). I also set them exactly the same by laying them out on the lawn to confirm all my leaders are the same length, the mono leader I clamp onto is the same, the small piece of braid between the mono and wire is the same. Each side is run the same distance back so they fall together, and the opposing side may vary but not much. For example a spread of four divers might have two port side divers (a standard and a mag) both out 250’ out and two starboard divers (a standard and a mag) out 275’. In conditions of extreme changing down currents, like near the red can- Niagara Bar, I will pull the two inside divers before I turn 180 to go back over my line, otherwise, I can leave all 4 divers in the water and turn completely around without tangles. Slide divers are great in that they don’t spin on themselves so you can bass flip a standard outside the inside mag when resetting.

There is another meaning of the acronym “POS” crypto bot.

East winds all week ….

I think on years of no ice coverage, the emerald shiner migration into and out of the upper river doesn’t happen. The local East homebody Walleyes have to go roaming to look for food as a result.