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Is there any good way to fabricate snubbers? [ Post made via Android ]

I have had what I think is a pretty novel idea for a spoon for a while, you would take a typical trolling spoon and stamp the shape, then bend the spoon into an S-curve and properly tune the top and bottom edges of spoon to offset the force of the water to keep the spoon from doing the typical wobble. If done properly the spoon should theoretically travel straight forward, without flipping over, in an exaggerated S pattern, like a swimming fish. This way the lateral line of the salmon is stimulated in a natural way and the pattern on the spoon is exposed horizontally 100% of the time. I have never tried to make it cause I just don't have access to proper materials. I think it would be huge. Side note if anyone wants to help me create this please do. Other side note this is intellectual property of me! ( In case this becomes big ) [ Post made via Android ]

Brows and Kings preferred. A mix of both would be ideal! Skein is simply the eggs of a fish that have yet to detach from the membrane inside the fish. Aka a "tight" fish as trib guys call them, rather than the loose spawning fish you see actually spilling eggs when you catch them. [ Post made via Android ]

Hey guys, I am a big time float fisherman and as such I was wondering if you could toss any skien you get from the big female's into a red and white cooler I will have set up near the side of Bruce's building facing the boat launch. I figure if you fillet a couple kings for clients it shouldn't be much trouble at all. I will be there fishing this Sat 8/4 and the cooler will be there as well. If you guys could donate it would be awesome! [ Post made via Android ]

Hey guys, how far off the ball do you typically run your spoons for summer browns? [ Post made via Android ]

Do you fish the crawlers on a dropshot or a more perch style rig? [ Post made via Android ]

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Nah, I would rather not be irreparably damaged! [ Post made via Android ]

Ahh comon guys, use your imaginations. I am not "fixing" anything, just wistfully thinking of what could be. But just remeber that the salmoniods we love to catch are just at foreign as gobies. It's all a cash deal. Salmon are cheap to raise and easy to pattern, thus a $ return to the captains, the tourists and state. And soon with all the stocking this fishery could collapse just as bad as Michigans. The only natives are lakers and Atlantic's, everything else is just a man created Goldfish bowl. And if you can control kings, you ought to be able to control stripers. Not that I can complain about having some of the best fishing for trout and salmon in the world 15 min from me ;p. Just saying its fun to imagine what could be if money making wasn't the central point. [ Post made via Android ]

Now don't laugh or get angry, I just wanted to kick this idea out there and see what you guys thought of this. What if the DEC released some striped bass into Lake Ontario? Now I would imagine the bass would out compete the salmoniods and the baitfish population might crash, but in Raystown Lake, PA the two coexsist quite well. Could you imagine? Surf casting for breaking striper off the piers, pinning for steelhead and the stripers, and last but not least trolling up 40lb Kings in the morning and 50lb Bucketmouths in the evening. Spring and fall runs of huge trout, salmon and striper. Think of the fly fishing and spinning opportunities that could happen! Ha now back to reality, this all comes from annual pilgrimages to the Cape where I would stand waist deep in the surf hauling in bluefish after bluefish and then have my plug get crushed by a cow striper, or drifting 4 oz bucktails in the Ditch tentatively awaiting the thump of a 20 lber to make my day. The salt is in my blood, and I just wish we could bring it a little closer What would you guys think of stripers in Lake O?

It's sorta kinda a walleye bass comvo, but yes we are!! [ Post made via Android ]

The smallies are set still around, divers I know saw them by the hundreds around devils nose last year, its all about emulating thier food sources! Think about it, these fish eat either pelagic bait like the salmon and trout or they are pb gobies. Do your best to imitate these and you will score. The ecosystem always changes, remaining stuck in old ways is a surefire way to strike out [ Post made via Android ]

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Novi ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water: Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: Surface Temp: Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 6 Total Boated:5 Species Breakdown:5 steel one king Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: 120 150 Lure Depth: 30-80 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Worked the 120 to 150 ft range out in front of the creek and the steel were snappin on the sliders, around 8:50 we got slamed by the 26 lb king 50 down over 104! Great fight and a PB for my boat! [ Post made via Android ]

I am normally an artificial guy but I am gonna bring some crayfish along, just in case

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My cousin and I will launching out of the Buffalo small boat harbor this upcoming Sat (weather permitting). I have a good graph and and charts, so finding seneca shoal and other structure will be no issue, what I want to know from you guys is what presentations WILL get me into fish. I have horrible luck with smallies, but I am planning on dropshotting and Carolina rigging tubes, small flukes, dropshot worms etc and I will be using fluro on all my rods. Anything more I should do to make this trip successful? [ Post made via Android ]

thanks for the information this is all good stuff. I will definitely have to concentrate more on the tubes and jerkbaits. I definitely felt when I went that bass were still on their beds. but they should be done with the spawn and should move to deeper waters soon. [ Post made via Android ]

What kind of jigs do I toss at the points? And is thier a good lure I could use to simulate an alewife so I could use artificials rather than live bait? I am just a more traditional bass guy. Also I have put tubes and cranks and spinnerbaits and dropshots on these fish but they have not touched them. Is it just a matter of finding enough of them? Cuase the marks seem to be all over the 15-30 ft range but a lot were suspended. My thought is that either I an not presenting my bottom tactics to enough fish and I am not giving the suspended fish the right swimming presentation. [ Post made via Android ]

Hey can you guys shed some light on how to catch these fish on canadaigua? I have drifted live bait for perch and picked them up accidentally and they have always been slobs. But it seems I can never hit them when I target them. I know they suspend a lot and I can see them stacked on my finder and I know they behave a lot like the pelagic trout that chase the alewives, but there has to be a way to get these fish. I mean after all they have to have some bass instinct. Any pointers?? [ Post made via Android ]

It was a ton of fun and feeling a hit 70ft down was a blast. It's an amazing fight as well, like fighting a smallie down 70 ft [ Post made via Android ]

I promised I would post when I jigged up a Canadaigua laker and here is is. I actually went out this morning to fish for smallies which was a huge failure (anyone wanna PM me about how to catch them on artificials?). Anyway after hitting perch, huge sunnies, and massive pickeral all morning I was frustrated and decided to give laker jigging my second ever concentrated effort. Now let it be known that you who are learning to jig NEED Navionics hotmaps. With that beautiful chip I was able to pinpoint awesome humps that had hooks all over the bottom. Anyway I put on my hand tied marabou laker jig and in an hour I hooked up with five fish!! Sadly I dumped all but one, but still I landed my first jig fish! I would rip the jig five times off the bottom and then reel fast to the boat, one fish slammed the jig on the reel and the rest hit on the rip jigging cadence. And this all happened on one hour in a very snotty south wind. Cannot wait to focus a five hour outing on the structure I found, when the wind cooperates. It should result in lots and lots of hookups! [ Post made via Android ]

Hey guys looking to pick up a 5 to 8 HP kicker for around 500 to 600 bucks, looking for a real reliable motor and does not have to be brand new but late 80s is acceptable with 90's being preferred. I know this is in the classifieds section but I wanted a few more guys to see this as I am eager to get a deal done and back on the water!! [ Post made via Android ]

where are you located? I would love to come take a look and possibly see the motor run if that is something that can happen