old man

i'm signed up. cya there. wife will spend day at casino. could be costly.

zarzycki,you say family fishing? if you need numbers for women and kids have you tried the north end of cayuga? you can hammer pickeral there with a johnson minnow or red eye on light tackle. you will also catch a few fair size pike and some nice bass. another good family spot is eel bay. i rent a state cottage on wellesy island 'bout every other year. they're not cheap but they are nice. you can leave your boat in the marina for 10 bucks a night. from there it's about a 10 minute run to eel bay. the bay is loaded with pike up to about 10 lbs. and they're dumb.

i fish there several times a year,casting for muskie and have never seen a pike. caught a gar there once. it's no pike lake.

great looking paint,zach! probably too soon for an auction. i'd bid on 'em but not everybody drinks as much as i do.

for my money there are too many meat hunters out on the ice. i would like to see smaller limits but on the other hand conesus gets hammered in the winter and still has the biggest pike during the open water season compared to seneca where there is no ice fishing and you can't buy a pike over 10 lbs there. what do i know? merry Christmas and go bills!

ho ,ho, ho,indeed. merry Christmas to all! only 5 months and change til the opener.

good info,thanks guys. now another question. i was lookin at leadcore line at dicks today. i spend a lot of time puttin green marker ink on my braids,yet that leadcore is all different loud colors. do you use a flouro leader at the end of that stuff or what?

hey trollers,help me out. i'm gonna do a bunch more trolling next year and i need some advice. i want to buy two decent rod and reel combos to troll with. what are you guys using? i made this rod holder when i still had two hands. i did't want to drill a bunch of holes in my boat yet. it mounts on a pedastal in the rear casting deck. only 5 months til i can try it out.

thanks. since i blew my hand up i haven't been able to do much so i got the pencils out. the nice thing about the ones i draw is they always bite and they're always big. i'm gonna get a nice one done this winter and donate it to larry for his tournament. door prize or something.

there's one!

while you're out shoppin think about goin to larry's site and throwin a few bucks to the baitfish fund.

my 08 merc 150 efi had 3 coils go bad after the warranty was over. they gave me six new ones on "good will". they need to have different warranties in cold weather states. you get two years on a new merc weather you live in florida and can use it all year or in new york and and only get six months. things will be different when i am king.

thank god my latest wife is an emt! i coulda bled to death on the dining room floor. god that hurt!

i bought three of zach baker's baits at an auction last week. paid on monday,delivered on tuesday,nice service. took 'em to waneta thursday to get 'em wet. just the king and i were out. the baits all ran as advertised. some serious quality here. over the years i have bought some highly respected baits that turned out to be crap,but zach's stuff is all good. i REALLY like the deep diver,i was able to hit bottom anywhere in the lake at will with it. about noon i caught a low 30"er on it,trolling. i got tommorrow off to try chataqua on the full moon but it aint gonna happen. i had a horrible accident with a router today and i won't be fishing anymore this year. 22 stitches and i have never gushed blood like that before.arrrrrgh!

earlier this year i decided i would donate 10 bucks to the baitfish fund for every muskie i caught this year. there's 210.00 in that jar so someone feel free to push the bid up to that. after that it's up to my bac.

after a nice live chat with a guy from pakistan i got my password back and as of now i'm winning one. fished waneta wed,kinda crowded,7 other boats out. i had a hot follow that i was sure i was gonna catch but noooo. i heard one was caught.

i tried to bid on your stuff but when i registered on e-bay it said i was allready signed up. i retrieved my user name but when i tried to get my password back it said i didn't know my father's middle name or my phone number or somethin. have another drink. i'll try again tommorrow.

yesterday i saw temps from 51 to 55. you guys do anything on the st. lawrence?

fished 7 to 3 today. had the whole place to myself but it didn't help. caught a small one around 9am on a bucktail in front of midway. had a looker around noon at the bell tower. i even trolled for awhile today. nada.

go now.

i always use spinerbaits and bucktails first. with all the short hits yesterday i also tried spoons,minnowbaits,and some rubber stuff. only the hairy stuff got bit. the two i caught were south of mcpherson pt. in front of the red cottage in 14fow. both of those fish were around noon. sorry about your leader,hate it when that happens. chalk it up to metal fatique. gettin out in the wind was fun. lucky,nobody saw me. when i say i got out ok i really mean i got it out in one piece and didn't get laughed at.

they were gone today. i got in and out ok,alone. i got bit alot today but i only got two average pike to the boat.

that sounded a little rude,sorry. it's not my spot. swift's landing is a park between palmyra and newark.

nice. you were in my spot so i fished the other side. i think the pike go after the walleye that stack up at the falls this time of year. aquaduct park is good too. so is the area behind mobil/pactiv. i fish swift's a lot 'cause i can walk there. the boat launch behind the fire dept. in macedon is killer for smallies.

now's the time to catch some pike near whitewater in the canal spillways. got this one yesterday at swift's landing throwing a bucktail right into the falls.