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small boat spring fishing can be a ton of fun especially if you hit a double or triple. I did it for years with the 14 footer. another good place to study a chart is the navionics web app you can get 1 foot contours so you can get a feel for where on the shoreline you can expect to have to turn out from shore. http://webapp.navionics.com/#@6&key=o%7DfoGzqklM

i think as the main show grows lotsa should consider moving the marketplace to a different weekend i know they used to do it that way. there is a different feel to the marketplace and when I go to something like that i have a different set of goals of what I am looking for than at the main show. the main show had a ton of retail and was a good place to see first hand a lot of tackle that just isnt carried in the stores that I can regularly get to. That has its appeal and will likely keep me going to shows like that on occasion. That said the main show is retail there was some used and overstock but for the vendors on the main floor they are going to make far more on the full retail prices. I enjoy the flea market feel running through a box of lures to pick the ones that my my styles has a huge appeal for me and thats what i loved about the market place last year. I dont think its unfair at all to make a comment or complaint about such a thing. If negitive feedback is never recieved than how would anything ever improve? in buisness the worst thing that can happen is someone has a bad experience and says nothing to you than there is no way to make it better. Negitive feed back is an opportunity to improve. Positive feedback just reinforces what you are doing right. I am sure it is no easy thing to put on the show but LOTSA doesnt put on the whole show. They use the proceeds to help fund the pen rearing so finding ways to gain more proceeds is a good thing. seems like there were a lot more seminars this year thats a great way to promote the fishery perhaps that is a better use of resources for this particular show and it might be benificial to do a marketplace type event in the rochester area. maybe the geenese charterboat assosiation would be interested in getting involved get a different set interested parties and catch more people from the east end. would also help to break up the winter more. Just thoughts.

though my drive was only a couple hours i was also dissapointed in the marketplace compared to last year. the main show was good my brother ended up sharing fishing pics with dave genz for half an hour. Hopefully its not a trend and the market place just swings up and down from year to year.

so made it out late morning no problems coming out of the launch did not see the mentioned obstruction though. Lake was a little bumpy but not terrible. ran a couple miles south and set up on a south troll. went an hour or so without a touch and corssed over to the east side and zigzagged our way back north. the weater was nice and the boat ran well and is already to set for its winter nap over the coming week. the fish were not be be had got one very small bow as we were picking up but that was it. No releases all day did not even see anything on the fishfinder. dont know if i'll try can again i dont know if i have the paitence to learn a new fingerlake. anyways do some stream fishing and some ice time to try to keep me sane till sping browns. i'm already thinking about my game plan for them.

Thanks for the advice good to know about the canal would hate to do more damage to the prop on the last trip of the year Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

taking the boat out for the last time on sunday. going to finally try canandaguia for rainbows been saying it for years but has never happened. is the north end lauch still usable? I'm not real familar with it but it looks like it could be trouble with low water. I see a few of you posting reports so i'm hoping that means its fine. I'm hoping to be out there late morning. planning to run all my lines in the top 70 foot nice and spread from the boat. Do they typically like the faster speeds there as well. should be fun always wanted to spend some time on that lake but hate crowds so summer is a no go.

i would think the size of the swim bait might have just as much effect on the drop behind the ball as that produces the majority of the drag. I have thrown and trolled a lot of swim baits for pike and they tend to run at a constant depth for me. its more a matter of how long they drop before you start the retreive or the slack to troll so with rigger I would think there would not be a ton of drop. to be on the safe side if you run the same size on all your rods they will all have the same drop so should keep the seperation you set on the riggers. from there you can vary the color if you want to try differnt sizes change all the rods at once that way you can systematiclly try the different sizes at different depths. I find they are very good at locating fish quickly as the thump of the tail will pull active fish from a distance and help you to quickly key in on an area or a pattern. i have had some luck for trout casting them off the pier as well but never made the connection to put them off a rigger. i may have to try that this spring

it was on saturday they were not at the booth charging made for 2 nice suprises

finally got the cast off during the week and things were healing nicely so after a 9 week break finally had a chance to get the boat out. took my dad and brother down to the bay looking for a fish fry. the weather was beautiful for it. We found fish all throughout the bay. no major numbers but steady action. found we caught more keepers when drifting. seemed like keeping the bait moving was key. took home enough for a meal but nowhere near a limit. did get into a school of white perch that were a blast on the ultralights we got one that was in the pound and a half range or bigger. I kept a couple to see what they tasted like and to be honest once fried up you couldnt tell them from the perch. had a minor incedent with the pontoon charter he came up and anchored right in our drift about 10 ft down wind of us wtf. 10ft may have been an overestimate we congradulated him on his manners and didnt even need to rais our voice for him to hear us. oh well pleanty of fish in the bay so we moved on. gonna get one more trip in before i winterize now i cant decide on more perch or a fingerlakes run gotta get some fresh gas and stabil through the kicker

what did you net them with emeralds can be more sensitive to abbrasive nets and the damage can cause them to die. that said cold water can dissolve more oxygen as well as slows down metabolism causing a need for less oxygen thats why cold water is important for more sensitive species. circulation is also important these are wild minnows so they they are used to constant fresh water not like store kept minnows which have already been acclimated to captive conditions

did anyone ask about the half gill plates?