Adm Byrd

As long as I'm living in this dream, my 1st choices would be a 4.3L Mercury I/O, stand up canvas, never been painted w/ antifouling paint and lived in doors atleast in the winters. Bob

Hey Swordfish, I don't think Scott could keep you in line all by himself!

I want to move to a wider cockpit than my 18' fisherman, the 21' seems to fit the bill. Anyone that knows of one available let me know. Thanks, Bob

I can't believe a guy as old as you could retain all this info from just hearing it once, especially with that directional disorder you exhibit,"where did you park, I'm out front", honest officer I didn't know there was a stop sign there". Will have to agree with you though, the biologists need more information (staff & money), they probably could learn more about the cold water fishery from the study of the warm waters which they are doing little (none) of.

First time for LOTSA - great show, rest of the show - waste of time. The bigger venue sounded great but the sportsman show looked more like some kind of temporary shopping mall (everything from Bathfitters to crappy food). The LOTSA room was upbeat, fun and everybody was talking to everybody else - Thanks

Ok here is my 2 cents: Dick Black has a good point on tires except "good quality" trailer tires for most smaller axles don't exist - probably because we all buy on price, I bought Carlisle's this year and even they come from China now. I agree you need to check for alignment movement of the springs but Pete's wear sounds like a bent axle. Glad you found an axle that fit, many are stubs that are custom install and not cheap to replace. Bob

Sk8man and myself went out today, all day, really tough - 1 Steelhead, we worked 120 out to 250 FOW, saw very few fish and not much bait, only got a couple of hits and we tried lots of tricks. I agree on this being a strange year. Only thing you can do is keep believing and keep trying. On a side note maybe take those youngsters after something more active till the trout reports get better, hate to have them loose interest before you have them hooked! Good Luck, Bob

Went out of the Chamber launch at 5:45AM with Rod Hog (Scott), started in 115', set up 2 rigs, 2 leadcores (6-8 colors) and 2 wire dipsys. Had a hammering hit on a dipsy but it got off, then a couple on leadcores, then a 11# laker on the other dipsy. Continued to mix it up with Lakers, bows & landlocks till 10:30, had a good laker break the bottom leader off a rig on it's third run - oh well - thats why I go fishing. Bob

Nice job Kevin, we chickened out - Liney didn't want to get wet! Will try for friday. Bob

One of my favorite expressions "I'd rather be lucky than good". Glad you had help available and glad you made it in. You must have a water fired ignition system on your boat...Amazing Bob

Retired state employees with a college degree need to have some where to use their big words, especially when they are worried about having their fishing ass handed to them this weekend by us small word fishermen. If you see him out there this weekend give him plenty of space and keep your landing nets out of sight. Good luck guys.

KMART Blue Light Special, just like all my equipment

I need to repeatedly remind Sk8man (he suffers from old timers disease) that 3 years ago he told me fishing in the Finger Lakes & Lake O is dead. If I hadn't tormented him with my amazing catches he would just be sitting on shore at the Sand Bar eating swordfish sandwiches with any "nice guy" he could find. He also forgets it was his son that put him onto his good fish last year, I know, he told me over and over for 2 weeks till he forgot that part to. Son of a B...., just thinking about kicking Les's butt again this year has got me pumped as well. Good Luck to everyone! Bob

I have 2 wire rigs and have had good luck with dipsy's so I want to try running a couple off my outriggers so I thought braid would be a little safer (kinks) than wire with my releases. I bought one spool of the slick 8 in 50 lb test, just looking for advice from this expierenced crowd. Thanks Bob

Committed, the guys nuts, good think his son learned how to fish from me!

I used some Power Pro braid last year, Spiny's really like to ride on it. Has anyone used the 8 strand braids (Power Pro Slick or comparables? Are they any more flea proof? Thanks, Bob

Needed to get out fishing, haven't been in a couple weeks, wanted to hammer the bows before the new rules took effect and had 2 new Akuma leadcore reels that I wanted to check out so with it raining and the Bills playing on TV I called Sk8man and There's One and we had a crew ready at 3:30 PM. Nice to be the only boat on the lake. We set up a little of everything running down the west side from the north end, Seth Green did nothing so we pulled it and put more riggers down. Caught and had hits on riggers, leadcore and little dipsy's anywhere from 25 to 80 feet down, brought 3 fish home, fish ran up to 4 lbs and we had a great time. Bob