Sk8man

Purred like a kitten Mike. Very happy camper.

The following is something I received today from a very reliable friend and source of good information: Les, This is straight from the Finger Lake Region Parks Director about Sampson. You can copy and paste the message below if you want to share. It will come as no news to the folks who use the launch and marina that they need a lot of work including extensive dredging, all to the tune of $7.5 million. Parks doesn't have that kind of money so they are pursuing an investor in the form of a private entity to upgrade and operate the sites (perhaps just the marina?). This is a business model that has been used successfully in other locations. Parks would put $2.5 million towards the expenses. A request for proposals (RFP) to upgrade and operate the site, including the 100 plus slips, went out last year with no responses. On contacting potential bidders the consistent response was that the original contract duration proposed was too short for a vendor to recoup their investment. A longer term RFP is in the works and due to current policies that may actually need legislative action to allow enough time for such an investment to be reasonable (perhaps as long as 40 years). A bill to enable an appropriate timeframe is in the works and if I get a bill number I'll pass it on. So, no one is completely sure how or when this will all play out but the launch and marina will be staying. Please let me know if you have any further questions

My son and I fished the north end as well but mostly to break-in and test out my new kicker. We ended up 5 for 5 on lakers and all survived to fight another day but couldn't find any silver action. Lakers were all deep as noted in the above post. the new kicker broke in beautifully and it was pleasurable being able to hear each other talk over the minimal motor noise (vs. my 2 stroke).

If you have the Walleye version of the boards you should be OK with 6 or 7 colors running "normal" stuff but the Runners I'd go with 5 colors

Might be worth trying the new Revolution spoons for something very different in terms of action from the same old standard blanks anyway. FLT does an incredible job with paint but the spoons themselves are nothing special.

Lets hope the silvers wake up soon out there Bob as the temps start moving up

Yeah but..... Emperor Cuomo needs all the states money for the Tappan Zee bridge rebuild. He is probably hoping they will rename it in his honor to give him free publicity for his future run for the Presidency

Hop is right and he definitely knows what he's talking about Not worth chancing the wrath of the Seneca gods.

I tie my own flies and usually stay within the range of 18-30 inches with the most commonly used about 20-22 inches. No swivel on the fly leader just a loop. The flashers or spinneys already have swivels/snaps on them just fasten to them.

It has become tougher and tougher to get good fish out there even when you are real familiar with the lake so don't feel bad

Just an FYI but the receipt for the bait is good for 10 days.

Yep.

I previously posted this regarding the same question: I can't answer the whether it is worth the $150 or not but where I find one useful is in determining where my lines actually run depth- wise and in the desired temperature range. It is most useful when and after the thermocline forms usually around mid to late June or so I use it with coppers and leadcore primarily but it works with a dipsey setup as well. I also use it in summer to find a starting point for the thermocline for my Seth Green rigs on the Finger Lakes as it can give you a temperature profile at 5 ft intervals down to 100 ft which is what I am mainly interested in then. I attach mine to a downrigger when totally still in the water and I have a recording sheet for 100 ft at 5 ft intervals and I run it down and then back up and record the data at th 5 ft.intervals and look for the area where the temp changes the most radically and that will be the thermocline so I set my lines so I am fishing within and slightly above it (also taking into consideration specific species preferred temps which may or may not be as accurate or valid as some folks may think) as I am not interested in lakers much of the time I fish. This method only gives a starting point which is better than nothing but the thermocline varies in the water column in terms of depth and in various parts of the lakes to so it isn't foolproof and it isn't momentary like say a Fishawk X series but is better than nothing for someone on a tight budget.