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Took a drive around Honeoye and Canadice yesterday. Sad! Open water from Trident all the way down to the first point north of launch. What appeared to be ice was nothing more than a thin layer of shush. 40 deg there yesterday didn't help. Canadice looked much better - if you had a boat! Below freezing temps supposedly begin Wednesday. Maybe next Saturday for the south end gills.

Hold on guys. This was just the two week primer season. Beginning this Thursday we get down to normal temps but after that, looks like a deep freeze. We might just be on new ice in 10-14 days.

Just read an account of the incident on Shanty by a close friend of one of the guys that went in. Looks like just one of those unlucky steps in the wrong direction.

Warmer water, plenty of food, both help. I doubt that they were introduced though. Something has kept the population in check. There does not seem to be much in the way of year classes. A few big ones and not to many smaller ones. The only way to tell is to have the dec or some college do a population study and net the lake. Oh well, only guessing here. Forget what I said and let's go back to Gambler's Jed Clampett theory.

Nice fish. I am torn between there and Honeoye. Hate being restricted to walkin though. I wish the weather would put a few more inches on the ice for my sled.

I started out with Gambler and Gator but moved about a 100 yds north of them in the same shallow gill water on the west side. The ice was noticeably thinner where I was. Only about 3" at one point in time , a guy walked over right next to me and his spud web Not through on the first whack. Probably the guy that you talked to Les. Fishing sucked for me. Just some dink gills and a bass. As I mentioned on an earlier thread, my ice 55 humminbird is horrible in shallow weedy water. You just can't get any target separation. The guys next to me were using vex' s and they were much better. I could easily read fish weeds and jigs on there units.

I was there checking yesterday about 10:00 Less. Trident had nothing but north of Trident it was covered. Most of the lake had a thin slushy covering over it, that will certainly go away today and tonight. The south end was covered up pretty good from the launch all the way across but only as far north as the first points. I tried spudding my way out and made it about 10' before the spud went through on the second hit. My opinion, forget it until the middle of next week.

My two cents - Goby.

I know you are fibbing. They have motorcycle races there today and us fisherman will not be able to get out.

I didn't know Mercury made augers

Mr Gambel, when they tested you for mercury did they use just the fillets or a whole body sample when they grind you up and use the spectrometer?

I owned and chartered out of 2000 Luhrs open in the western part of Lake Ontario for a while. Loved the tuna tower on calm days. I did mount three riggers off the back along with two sides without a problem. Also had nice outriggers with spreader bars, When it came time to sell, I decided that the market in upstate NY was too small and not too many people had the cash so I transported the boat back to Va. beach for a while and chartered there for another year. When I finally listed the boat, I had a much bigger market. Sold the boat in less than a month and had plenty of calls. I believe the new owner ditched the crusaders and repowered with diesel.

I have gone a slightly different route because of the space in my Subaru Outback instead of a wood or conduit frame I attached four 6" , 1 1/2 " diameter pipes to the sled directly with u bolts. Then I screwed caps on one end of the pipes. I then used downhill skis and attached two 1" diameter 12" long pipes for each ski and found a piece of plastic tubing at Home Depot that fit around the pipes tight. The set of skis just slide into the pipes on the sled and slide out quickly for transport. The only extra weight is from the pipes and the skis. I have 6" of clearance which I prefer since I either use a sled or Atv to transport and I like the additional height when sitting in the shanty plus the canvas curtain can still touch the surface keeping out the wind.