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  1. Sk8man
    Maybe this will be the day Rob. You've been paying your dues
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    No use crying over spilled milk. My wife and I are die hard Bills fans but despite the fact that they played a good first half they faultered in the second half and did not play up to par or as well as the Texans. There were questionable calls in the first half as well and the Bills were luckily on the good end of things. The Bills have shown a lot of progress this season and are commended for it but they are also not ready for "prime time" YET (as in a Superbowl appearance). They are a young team with plenty of "gifts" but they need more time together and further development of those gifts and especially Josh Allen. He has the makings of a great quarterback in terms of native ability, a strong throwing arm but he needs to develop better control in terms of consistent accuracy. The Bills need some taller pass receivers so that they can get the "jump balls" better from the high throws. Josh Allen needs to learn that a lot of the success in getting up the field relates to shorter screen passes and that high throws long range are not always the best method for gaining ground and are "risky" and should be used more sparingly and selectively.. The main strategy of developing their primary game plans around Josh Allen is both a benefit and liability because if he gets taken out it is very difficult to re-align things around another quarterback.....fine when it is working but they don't have a lot of depth YET to their second team line-up either. So much for armchair quarterbacking from someone old enough to be Brady's father
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    Sweet!
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    Yup another good one.....so far I'm zero for 2 in my predictions Hope I do better at fishing this season Oops correction I am 1 for 3 I picked the Titans over the Pats .....how could I forget? (sorry Bill)
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    I'm picking the Saints and Seahawks today
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    A wife can come in real handy for help putting the wire on if you don't have other less costly options
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    Some companies don't list size and some bands of similar size are stronger than others. You may want to go to a place like Staples where they have various standard sizes and try out the breaking strength of some different bands. Something around 3 lbs breaking strength usually works. I have used an inexpensive digital luggage scale to get a handle on the breaking strength.
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    Rubber bands are the way to go. ANY knot such as between segments is a potential weakness in a setup so to the degree you can eliminate them you're probably ahead of the game
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    Add to that checking for abrasions the same way and re-tying existing knots.
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    I think it boils down to fact that the Bills played very well the first half but you can't win games not playing well in the second half in a fairly low scoring game. Josh Allen is a work in progress and he made some not so great plays as one factor. The Texans played better than the Bills in the second half and that is where you win games.
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    Bill is just being realistic and straightforward (as usual) GO BILLS!
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    I think you missed my point it wasn't a criticism of you. Each side of the argument has made its point with "data" to support it but it has now become like beating a dead horse and sure looks as though nobody is going to cry "uncle" anyway.
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    Good luck Rob
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    Man.....this thread sure has taken on its own life might be easier and perhaps even more productive to just "agree to disagree"
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    It is a good question and although i haven't seen any data on it I would suspect that it would be adversely affected by heat and sunlight (esp UV rays) and this would likely be true for nearly type of line that I know of unless specially coated perhaps. Even the color on some of the braid lines bleaches in the sun and weakens..
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    Some real good advice right there.
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    Ah I hear ya on the "controlled drift". Real nice looking boat and I'm sure you are going to be greatly enjoying it
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    Question: just wondering why would you need trolling bags if you have a Merc 9.9 kicker and an electric motor? I should think also you will need some sort of throttle control and steering hookup for the kicker especially mounted directly to the rear platform
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    As far as I know Seneca has only frozen completely a couple times since the late 1800's. I think the last time was about 1976 or 77. It is a very deep lake with a lot of undercurrents so it takes a lot to freeze up even sections of it at the extreme ends of the lake where it is shallower. Usually extreme cold coupled with low to no wind for a while where it may freeze up for a few hundred yards from the ends of the lake. It also depends on whether they are pulling water down the Seneca River at the north end of the lake and that area of the canal near the yacht club can be quite dangerous as the ice can vary greatly in thickness even a few feet from where there may be "safe" ice. Prior to the new marina being installed at Sampson ice fishing occurred there too.
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    Already sent my Seneca diary in to DEC so have to wait a bit to answer that. but I don't have a vested interest in painting a rosy picture either. Take a look at the derby results numbers-wise and it tells a lot more than my diary entries too which have been way down last few years from years past. Admittedly, I don't fish it as frequently as in the past when I lived right in Geneva. The opinions I have expressed are just that....opinions and I don't necessarily have the market share on accuracy
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    I too hope for the best as Seneca is and always has been my "favorite" lake. It is encouraging to hear about healthy pike as for quite a while they seemed as though were in short supply with the radically changed weed availability. Hopefully a good balance can be maintained between the predator/prey relationship with the perch population. I don't believe they have treated for the lampreys in back to back years but I sure hope the DEC steps up their efforts to reduce their activity. I also hope that environmental conditions (i.e. Mother Nature) affects the ancillary smaller streams along the lake shore on both sides of the lake by not having sufficient water flow to support the lamprey larvae as they aren't treated, but this is complicated by the fact that young fish also inhabit some of them that maintain water flow during the summer/fall. The deltas in front of the streams are potentially the major problem though. On the bright side despite the fact that Seneca is so deep and large it does gradually cycle the water over time down through the Seneca River as it is not "locked up" like some other lakes or ponds helping in a "come back". Cayuga seems to have done it so lets hope this is a good start
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    My above comments were directed at the overall lake fishery as contrasted with many previous years, and not with respect to a single species or particular location.
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    Nice fish for there too if it is where I think it is.
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