Pete Collin

What a shame. Seneca was on fire when I got into lake fishing 10 years ago.

Nice to hear you doing well Al!

I used a drift sock once and found that you lose a lot of steering that way. I have a trolling plate (they aren't expensive) and it works well.

Jealous. I've had pneumonia the last two weeks.

Hello All, My leafy tree video got a lot of views, so I did another one showing how to ID the softwood species common in NY.

I have used SG rigs on the big lake. Mostly I target lakers but in the fall i have caught rainbows and browns. You can't really fast troll with SG rigs, so the rainbows and browns have to REALLY be in the mood to bite for you to catch them. i got some juvenile kings that way but it seems like a big chinook would break off quickly. Definitely use gear you don't mind losing!

Are you a woodworker, too, Les?

Hello All, I make woodworking videos and put them on YouTube. I just finished a set of shelves for my fishing room. So you get a tour of my "man-cave" in this video:

I am a consulting forester. I'll tell you what I know about locust. It is useful to farmers as fence posts, but there is no industrial-level market for the species that I have found. The people who take it are usually the ones who want to use it, rather than a sawmill buying it and marketing it from there. So unless you can find a farm nearby who has a use for it, you may find it hard to unload. It has limited use for wildlife. You often find other species growing among what looks like a pure stand of locust, including cherry and black walnut. If so, you could do management activities that would encourage these other species to gradually replace the locust. When hop-farms were being put in all over the place (only a few years ago), I heard stories of hop farmers paying $100 apiece for locust of very specific lengths and diameters. I never got to verify this because the hype was over before it started and there are not many hop farms in my immediate area. Good luck if you should buy the property. You are best NOT factoring any potential income from the timber when figuring up your price. Peter Collin Portageville, NY

Steve, I remember a group of southern guys encircling a pool of a smallish trib one spring. It was full of suckers and they caught many of them. One guy, every time a sucker pulled down his big bobber would yell,"Ah thank thisun's a TRAY-OUT!"

I lived in Massachusetts for a while, so this video kills me. Mass-holes rather like to curse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwN59hYQAFg

Do I take it that the chain is so the rope won't fray?

Even if I nudge along the bottom a bit, that would suit my purposes.

Now that I think of it, using the pythagorean theorem, I figure that if i am in 100 FOW and anchor with 300 feet of line, a passing troller would have to get within 282 feet of me in order to snag up. That seems pretty close. Most guys give me way more space than that.

What I hear is that you plan on a 3:1 ratio for an anchor line. So the deeper you go, the greater the chance of a foulup. Which leads to this post.

Hello All, I want to experiment with fishing in deep water under anchor. What I think about is how any passing boat would have cannon balls down, presenting a big hazard of tangling. is there some common boaters' warning (like a flag of some kind) that tells passers by that an anchor line might be under them?

Hello All, I want to experiment with fishing in deep water under anchor. What I think about is how any passing boat would have cannon balls down, presenting a big hazard of tangling. is there some common boaters' warning (like a flag of some kind) that tells passers by that an anchor line might be under them?