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Sk8man

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  1. Great people with a great product that has gotten even better over time
  2. Spotting on the adipose, lot of body spotting and extending well below the midline to the stomach area, square tail, lot of small sized spotting on gill cover....brown trout.
  3. I think he is having one built right now but he does have a presence on Facebook right now.
  4. I would fish "as is" as the lure is balanced to operate with a specific action and anything added weight wise may throw off the action. It has great action in the water all by itself. By the way they also work great on pike and pickerel in shallower water.
  5. It is the Oakie Dokie. Great lake trout spoon in the Finger Lakes and for Lake Ontario on variety of fish too. Jason Oakes of Great Lakes Lures makes them and he now has a bunch of beautiful colors and paint patterns added to the mix on his spoons that are second to none.
  6. Wind from any direction can be a problem at high velocity and it also depends on where you are on the (or a) lake. Some lakes have cliffs and/ or trees on the shoreline that can block some of the wind if run closer to shore in the direction it is coming from. You just have to use good judgement....and pay close attention to your own intuition there are wind conditions that nobody should be out there regardless of size or type of boat. In the Finger Lakes launching/fishing a south end location can usually be done with relatively high south wind or that same thing at the north end when wind is reversed but it will get rougher the further you get from that end of the lake toward the middle. With east and west winds hugging the shoreline may help create a fishable condition but you may also have to modify your technique or approach (e.g. run less or different equipment and closer to the boat sometimes). Sometimes you can manage the boat running the big motor rather than the trolling motor going into the wind while maintaining trolling speed.
  7. The little orange paper included with my X4D probe said to use silicone lubricant on the O rings.
  8. Good point there. This website contains some of the best information you'll find anywhere on salmon and trout fishing. A lot of the information focuses on equipment and technology advancements that aid people in being successful fishing. People now heavily rely on technology in general to solve problems and "enhance" their lives and the Internet and smartphones have created a great learning environment, but it also has drawbacks especially for inexperienced novices viewing information and assuming that the technology solves everything and can make them an "instant expert". When reading some of the posts on here it becomes pretty obvious that what is often missing is the actual experience fishing and learning to fish by learning the habits and differences among species the many different techniques and methods employed to catch fish. There seems to be an expectation that the learning curve can be totally eliminated by the purchase or use of some electronic device or piece of equipment or vicarious information....no time or effort needed....problem solved. The purchase of the latest greatest technology or lure paint scheme or newly developed line is suggested to be the solution to not catching fish. To the person looking at the information here who has not spent the actual time learning to acquire the basics of fishing I would suggest you are making a huge mistake assuming that any of these aids is "essential" or "needed" to catch fish. Spend time experimenting without reliance on the technology and view the devices as aids or additions to your fishing arsenal and truly appreciate the basic experience of figuring out the fish and their behavior. In the long run you will become a much better fisherperson and will not be subject to "panic" when the technology breaks down out there. I do own a Fishhawk X4D and a decent fishfinder w/GPS and love them both but if they break down I'm not screwed out there either without them.
  9. OR #8 Spros
  10. I believe that has been the policy since the 1970's as the beach opens up....
  11. Do you have a port side view of the transom? I couldn't fit mine on the transom itself so a bracket solved the problem and I can take the trolling motor on and off to replace it on the bracket with my electric when going after other species than trout. I have a quick connect fitting on the power cords of each so they are easily interchangeable.
  12. North end docks aren't in yet Cdga just checked.
  13. I haven't downloaded the APP (yet) so not sure if FREE as it doesn't say but apparently you can access info on launches etc. too.
  14. What I was mainly talking about was at the starter connection from the battery to it.
  15. As of a few days ago docks weren't in at the north end of Canandaigua just the handicapped dock available. Not sure about south end yet.
  16. 10-12 lb good quality fluoro (e.g. not Vanish if you want to keep your tackle) on riggers, toplines etc. You can go heavier on the stuff that is run deeper or bottom oriented stuff.
  17. Looks as though it possibly could be one of the hex patterned blanks from Netcraft
  18. I think you can take that info to the bank You won't be sorry.
  19. A respectful discussion of different opinions and perspectives never hurts anyone and a thread of this nature can benefit everyone if they have an open mind, tolerance for differences, and an openness to new information. This is the place to do it. Hopefully we will all learn a little from it in the process. Regardless of opinion or whether trib or troller we are all in this together and hopefully for the betterment of the sport.
  20. Could also be a dirty (e.g. corrosion) or bad battery connection to starter.
  21. Try the size #9 on the chart if they have them https://www.jannsnetcraft.com/Content/downloads/sizing_chart.pdf
  22. I guess I was focused on the "egg snatchers" in particular. There are obviously many different motivations for the activity and breaking laws or regulations but with the caviar situation greed is at the basis of it and as long as there is financial benefit deriving from the activity and perhaps for some just the motive of "personal power over the system" by breaking the laws the cultural change aspect will not occur.The "rewarding" aspects need to be removed from the equation These behaviors take on their own life once "reward" of some type occurs and these folks aren't going to respond to the things that law abiding folks do. This is also true of many gun issues when criminals and legitimate gun owners are compared.
  23. In view of all that has been said here we are left with the fact that the illegal activity on the tribs is an enforcement issue Staffing of officers and seasonal priorities combined with a lack of effective penalties once the perpetrators are caught. Judges and perhaps prosecutors do not seem to either realize or perhaps fully appreciate the end results of this activity on the fishery. It seems much like divorce proceedings mixed in with the arraignment of serious offenders where the judge may be thinking "why am I dealing with this "mickey mouse" stuff ((e.g. fish or game violations) when I have these more serious matters to contend with and limited time (case backlogs etc.) to deal with. It seems that even when these violations are very egregious and highly publicized the people committing them are let off with a slap on the wrist at best and especially in light of the caviar prices in NYC or other markets.....a small fine is nothing to them and part of "doing business". As with the divorce court situation there should be a special court set up to deal with these commonly occurring situations taking them out of the domain of the regular court system and with special sanctions, and a central court location in the middle of the state requiring presence and travel to it by the perpetrators, forfeiture of all property involved in the offense if convicted including vehicles etc. as can occur in drug situations, and across the board enforcement with no plea bargaining allowed. Just a thought
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