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so I was given a set of rods the other day by a faimly friend these are old shaksphere meat sticks that we used to snag with when it was leagl and later used to fish cod out of hampton beach. they have diawa GLS 47s on them from the 80s and they are spooled with dacron. I am thinking I can make a rig out of one not my normal type of fishing but always good to have some other options plus I love trying new things. I am going to add some 30lb to prevent fleas with a barrel swivel every 10 feet for 100 feet or so and than make up a bunch of 12lb fluro leaders. all my research I see talk of suttons and similar spoons at slow speeds. most of my box is made up of Finger lakes tackle spoons or old northern kings or some DW super slims most of those spoons run better faster. is a rig worth fishing at faster speeds say 1.8 up to 2.8 with those spoons? I really like keeping a mixed spread with a junk line or two for silver fish. or if I'm gonna try a rig should I just go all slow and if i want to run another rod put out a cowbell or a dodger on a thumper or some such? I'm just trying to cut the learning curve a bit so I have another option for days when i have a buddy or a kid with me and cant get my normal spread dialed in. especially seneca as i can usually catch something but have never had a 20 fish day. also anyone seeing fleas yet I'm going sat evening and want to know if i have to put in my top shot of 30lb on the rigger lines for the fleas

my motor is a pull start and not hooked up to a charging system I have a deep cycle that I hook the electric up to but I rarly use that any more can I run electrics off of that for a full day? would love to upgrade to some used electrics the manuals are rough on my sholder (chronic issues)

i like the dummy boards i'll take a set. i remember being anchored perch fishing once and one tried to run us over claming right of way. they got some dead perch thrown at them

i like when the yacht club has all the littlle kids in the small boats race in circles in the center of the genny right where the channel first narrows. I always feel like some parent is trying to get a couple of them run over and in general its just bad judgement to have that there especially on a busy weekend. I still refer to most of them as wind pricks and wind dicks but might have to give rag boat a try I think i have to much respect for jeeps (rag tops) though.

so i may need correcting on this but the boat being overtaken always has the right of way so when the wind prick is behind you and moving faster than you they do not have the right of way this I belive also applies to the genny where I often have larger boats up my A as im heading out to the lake most get it some dont and just about run me over I shouldnt be able to touch the boat passing me with my net especially when i'm in a 14 footer and there in a 30 plus anything than they toast you with a beer and wonder why your yelling

yeah me to with i had more time on the water but if i can make a regular out of her it will be worth it hoping for nice weather in two weeks.

So I got the chance to take my brother and niece out on the lake. She has never been in the boat before so i was hoping for a chance to get her into the sport. the weather was gorges but we didnt get out till 11. set everything up in the the top 30 feet because she told me on the way that all she wanted was a rainbow trout. got a hard smack on the rigger early no one home turned around and started marking some fish and my brother yells out theres one jumping took a sec for the rod to fire hand it to the nice and she pulls in a rainbow not huge but totally worth it. next thing we know we are surrounded by weeds and cotton wood and all 8 lines are craped up. in the process of clearing them she got a small salmon and we missed at least 2 hits. I broke my copper rod trying to clear cotton we finally got set up and the brother says okay we gotta turn in gotta have the kids back soon. so back to the dock we go probably worked out as we got swarmed by bugs and she was a little freaked. she wants to go again thats all i could ask for. so hopefully in two weeks we can make it a saturday and with more than a couple hours i can get her a couple fish. hope all did well in the canadaguia derby wife wouldnt let me do another full weekend so close to memorial day. Blue was the color that took the most hits.

back in the late eightys and early nintys when we fished the lake with my dad we never had any line heavier than 14lb on the riggers and we used no leader. breakoffs werent a problem. in flea season you need thicker line for the fleas but you can still leader down for better action on the spoons and with a smooth drag 12lb test is pretty tough to break grab a buddy have him hold the rod and you yank on the line trying to break it and leave the drag where you would if fishing if the line isnt frayd 12lb line is not gonna break without a mistake like thumbing a spool my biggest ever king (35lbs) came on 12lb test that had been on the reel for multiple seasons and had countless fish on it.

i'm all for it with a small motor i cant break the 5mph limit anyways it would put everyone else on my level of course than there would be that much more of a crowd in the areas around the launch oh well thats whats nice about seneca you can fish right out of the gate from most launches

so based on the web cam pics we decided to fish watkins well by the time I got there the wind had shifted and there was just no way we turned around and went to severen made one pass that was uncomfortable at best with no release so we switched out the gear and trolled the shorline for pike made one pass up and down caught a decent pickeral but that was it. saw a huge school of nice perch but had nothing in the boat to target them with for any real effort. I tried to talk to guys into going to naples to try there but after getting beat up by the waves I got out voated. oh well maybe one more trip before the derby