ifishy
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no lies there i was out with my step son at the north end a couple years ago anchored on the dropoff trying to jig and use bait. wind turned south and within a few mins waves were starting to crash over the bow. we pulled anchor and got out quick was a great leason to teach him to always keep on eye on whats going on around you. -
i hear you on the iffy weather my last check put it at NW 12 mph i know if its west enough i can fish the west side no problem but if it turns north i gotta go. I only get a chance to get out evey other weekend so i'm going one way or the other if the water is completely unfishable i will go icefishing i'm just sick of drilling holes. I always have a back up plan but sometimes real time reports are the best intellegence to have. we'll have to see what its like tomarrow at noon when i'm ready to leave and i'll pick which gear to load than.
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attempting to go out sunday afternoon little worried about the wind turning north is there anyone going sunday am that can give a wave report? its a decent drive so if its rough i'd love to know ahead of time and i'll fish the north end
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Early Spring Public Shore Fishing On or Near Canandaigua Lake?
ifishy replied to CatFisher's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
if your willing to drive a bit north go to the genny the piers extend well out into the lake and you can get trout there from late fall all through winter and into spring some days are better than others but theres always a chance and you can hit i bay or a stream on the way home -
gotta love the small outboard i got my fluids and gonna get it out this weekend on seneca wind permitting driveway is thwad enought for the suv i can almost smell the grilled landlock -
got me excited i'll be getting the boat and gear ready this week and weather permitting heading out next saturday my favorite time of year to fish now till the lake trout derby
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go with the home made great on the budget and very satisfying when it works if you dont find something else for reels go on ebay and look for some used penn level winds there is a ton of them on there and they are heavy enough for board lines if you use power pro for the line you can fit pleanty on the reel get the line through ebay as well or walmart.com my first mast (experimental was a tinner walled conduit with a wood dowel inside for streanght and an eye bolt at the top worked for a single mast but than i started to fish with a partner a little more and wanted to double up -
I have homemade boards and mast. the mast is a 7 foot piece of gavinized 3/4 inch water pipe supported by a doubled up floor board bolted across the front of my boat. for reels i have two old penn 209s i got off of ebay for under 20 bucks each i use 150# power pro for line. I set that up 3 seasons ago and everything is still working well. the boards were homemade hand me downs that my father used back in the 80s. two cedar planks with threaded rods holding them togather pull pleanty hard enough to run lead core i even have a 300 copper that I can run pretty easily. Pm me if you like I have some pics i can dig up and send you.
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thats funny right there “El Apetito de Muerte†sounds like a teenager
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Sold / Closed 3 polar tip ups and 2igloo tip ups
ifishy replied to rod hog's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
thats a good deal for the polars i have a set of 5 that i've been using for 17 years i have done minimal maintence and they still work perfect. I got a buddy that is just getting into icefishing i'm gonna send him this and hope he takes a look -
dont let go of the power agar handle when it hits the bottom of the ice and the throttle sticks looks funny as hell with the motor and handle spinning at high speed with the blade jammed in the ice. that agar is currently coated with 15 years of dust in my fathers garage. -
split it 7 and 3 but on the 7 put in a leangth of mono at 1 color on the short one and 4 colors on the long one that way you can run a rod at 1 color 3 colors 4 colors or 7 colors off a board great way to get a lot of range on a limited number of rigs espicially in a smaller boat. you can than use either off a rigger as well or even attach a torpedo weight at the mono section. I love my short cores and hated my 10 color though i did not have the right reel for it. I am probably the minority but i run a very short leader usually 8-10 feet only works very well for me started longer but didnt get the hits leadcore pulses and waves up and down with waves speed changes and turns longer leaders mute this that erractic action can trigger a lot of striks especially on seneca in the sprig or in the mornings or if you find fish over open water. real common to find bait up high and the short cores can catch fish
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short lead cores are my favorite rods i use them for browns in the spring and they catch most of my fish running spoons. i fish seneca the rest of the year and the short cores produce fish year round you can also run them as a SWR on a rigger if fish are real deep but i have better luck running them near the surface
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i once talked to a guy back in the 2 rod per person days he would bring his wife the summer she was pregnant he would run 2 extra rod not sure the DEC would buy it but it made me chuckle -
ive used them off of docks for panfish in summer lots of catches lots of tangles though. might be better using them vertical through the ice though might have to try one this weekend if i do i'll let you know if it works
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Would your insurance agent believe you? Video your gear.
ifishy replied to WillCFish's topic in Tackle and Techniques
fantastic idea just gotta make sure the wife doesnt see the video and find out what it all really costs she always conviently forgets about the collected over a lifetime part. might be fun to start a thread here to post the vidoes to compare collections help pass the time till sping -
the previous link is pretty good depending on where you go you can get a sense by where other people set up as well at least gives you some ideas dont be afraid to shy away from the crowd though just use them for reference -
this is how a redneck does it
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18 1/2 is no youngster for a cat at that kind of age just like people the chance for problems gets more and more. I say feed them the fish get the taste for wild game in them so they keep the mice down unless there like my last one who just got fat and lazy but that was because he ate everything. Only cat i know who would steal french fries from people and eat eggs in the morning if he could get his paws on them
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i used to give my cats fish everytime i kept some for the table they loved it. never had thyroid problems i will say though i used to work in a vet hospital and cats with thyroid issues are more common than you would think. the meds work pretty well and at least with animal meds they are much cheaper than the ones for humans even though its the exact same medicine
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makes me jealous my buddy baild again this weekend so the boat stayed in the garage again. I'm keeping hope that i'll get another chance -
get downriggers ebay has lots get two rigger rods and two leadcore rods get a pair of inline planers or big boards if you have a mast. search leadcore for how to rig and put a piece of mono in at strategic locations on your lead core. dipseys catch me a lot of fish but I would give them up before my short cores any day especially in the spring. with the mono pieces i can set them at different leangths on a board or run them strainght off the corners. they catch fish so do riggers and riggers can get a lot deaper easier easy methods to learn very simple terminal tackle and not to expensive. use basic 30 mono for backer on your riggers and get high quality fluro for leaders on both. when i fish alone an only run three a rigger and a core go out first than the third depends on the depth i'm targeting and whichever takes fish i'll set 3 of those -
we used to go to key colony when i was a kid we did a charder each year there is/was a captain out of marathon called the main attraction his son ran a inshore boat called 2nd attraction they work hard for you and they know there fishing -
I was thinking tomarrow (sunday) was gonna be my best change gonna try to take the boat out late morning how was the launch did you go to clute? and how are the roads in watkins i come from the north end and wont tow if the roads are not clean. dont wanna dig out the waders to stream fish as they dont fit real well anymore. If i go i'll post how the fishing is.
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the kicker is worth its weight in gas alone. I have a 4 stroke nissan i can troll all day on less than 2 gallons i have a 6 gallon tank and top it off everyother trip at most and have never needed more than 2.5 gallons. gonna fish infront of the genny today hoping for some big lake O trout. good luck out there today is prime winter fishing weather.