john1947

great post Nick.Your crew is greatly appreciated here with all you do. Getting reel at PO this morning. Many big kings to come yet..

Some years ago I sort of gigged a nice king up 90 ft. off the bottom.I was trolling a copper sutton 38 and had a flutterfly 38 brass and silver on a cheater line.Somehow I got hung on bottom and yanked and yanked .The king hit the butterfly and the battle was on .Thirty minuetes later it was tired enough to net.If you could get those butterflys down they would do the job.I still catch many kings on 38 silver and brass. This was one of my sure luresI used evryday trolling.But then I hardly ran myself much over 2 unlesss I usd hordes,js,or diamond kings. Tomorrws ticket is hordes over diamond kings in close.Keep you posted.

Hi, lately I have been getting facts and what to do to bring back the smallie on LO.Ive talked to several private hatcheries who specialize in smallmouth.My conclusion is that it can be done but it's not going to be cheap.Smallies can be raised on liver pellets much like trout.They supposedly have to taught but about half the cost using fatheads.It usally takes about 13 lbs of fatheads to raise a 1 lb smallie. There are some shortcuts and we could lower the cost signifcantly.TheNYS state hatchery crew is a very capable bunch of guys who could realy make a go of this. The goby presents problems but what are they?Does the goby eat the nest before it hatches?Does the goby eat the bass young?Lastly does the goby consume to much of the food needed by the bass fry. The biologists might have important information that could solve these riddles other questions would be how big do the young bass need to be before released to raise serviabilty. Is there anyway we could curtail the goby population .Would a electro shock kill the goby but not other species?Just a idea. My thinking would be to mass stock certain areas around the lake till be get back to a good bass population. One way maybe of getting more attention would be to form a Lake Ontario Smallmouth Restoration United.(LASRU) The quicker we get together on this the sooner the bass will be back. Maybe our excellent NYS Hatchery crew could comment on any of these ideas. Bringing back the smallie could energize the fishery and get kids fishing again and off the box Good Fishing John Anyone interested in meeting on this let me know.

ill be back Saturday can do sunday joe

good idea ill look into it thanks john

Thanks Capt. Rich, Im also looking intoa good rod helper,who knows maybe a deep water salt water chair might not others who can't join in as well as they would like. Lots of good guys and vets would like to go if their bodies would allow them. Best' Retired Captain.John

Any input on this option would be welcome.I fish with guys who can't reel for very long,myself included.parkinson will stop you Never hear of anyone talking about this option. Thanks john

I have been watch several deer come up through my property,seems like alot of them have some tick problems. I ran accross this idea which seems cheap and very effective,maybe the DEC might look into this to reduce deer ticks and lyme disease http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=deer+tick+treatment+salt+lick&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=510475EAD9CCD2A145D3510475EAD9CCD2A145D3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fRThDxlqMVg 60 plus mph and about 15 mpg make it accross the lake in a hour. Now this is a toy Id like to have

Last year I went to using black dipseys.I caught fish but not many more than before with green or chrome.Also using a dipsey set at zero straight backseems to work so why bother with copper. I heard late last year that guys were having good luck on glow dipseys Anyone experienced using dipseys with outriggers?.Any imput welcome.I now have set up my boat to run two dipseys on each side conditions permiting.