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  1. Sk8man
    I think if you pay at the kiosk right before the main gate and get the ticket from it you don't pay the park fee just the $7.00 launch fee if you have the Empire Pass but it still sucks that is no longer a public marina or venue. I'm starting to see why so many people have left the state
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    I heard Sessler has the rights to it for 40 years.
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    We were sold down the river by King Cuomo. He didn't want ot lay out the money to fix things up so that is what the tax payers ended up with. Samsen is a gorgeous launch but it shouldn't be privately controlled same for Seneca lake State Park launch. The issue should have been put to the public for a vote before doing what he did but once again King Andy does whatever he wants....and after he is king or maybe the Teflon Don would be more accurate.
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    By the way Stan I have never seen one of those rods before. Someone must have stayed up all night thinking that one up
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    Most of them.
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    Love those knobs Bob
  7. Sk8man
    The Twin Minnow is meant to resemble the Freshwater Sculpin (Stonecat) and has a little different shape and action than the Flatfish
  8. Sk8man
    This is what Twin Minnows look like. They originally cam with a small treble which was too light and often snagged up on bottom so it helped to change the hooks to single stainless siwash hooks positioned upright with the point facing upward to help minimize snags on bottom The black back white bottom one with the red lip was always a top performer. There was also a slightly larger version of the Twin Minnow that was jointed.
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    Good going Stan
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    Tohatsu

    Sk8man replied to DixieDangle's topic in This Old Boat

    Ah the info I sent wasn't a solution. I just suggested a knowledgeable mechanic that knew a lot about Tohatsu's and I didn't want to publically post the info as I didn't have his permission to do so.
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    Foam from zebra activity?
  12. Sk8man
    Yes Ray globilization, cheap labor in China and other places and the Kmarts and Walmarts and Runnings and so on did a job on all those great tackle places and here in Canandaigua Fishing Tackle where I bought everything from sinkers to my first downriggers. Now even the big stores are struggling against Amazon and the online enterprises. What the lampreys have done to Seneca and the trout these behemoths have done the same to the mom and pop enterprises; sucked the life blood out of them. It is a shame.
  13. Sk8man
    Hop's dad taught him many trolling ins and outs and Hop shared some of them with me back in the late 70's and eighties and it was instrumental in us developing our own techniques and I haven't forgotten it. Many good times on the water together.
  14. Sk8man
    For folks not familiar with this stuff here are a couple of the old standard reels used for Seth Green fishing. I still use several Penn 309's as my rig fishing reels. The Penn 49 M (Super Mariner) on the left and the Penn 309 with power handle on the right. The 309 came with thj level wind guide but I always took mine off because the stranded wire chewed them up and then guided the wire on by hand
  15. Sk8man
    And the A and S automatic reel
  16. Sk8man
    Fat trout has it dead on
  17. Sk8man
    Brings back memories Ray. Old school was the best school back then I started out with the old Vexilar flasher about the same era as the Lowrance Greenbox Then a Heathkit paper graph in the early eighties that my dad assembled for me which all the parts including hundreds of diodes had to be soldered to the motherboard and all parts assembles...probably at least700 or 800 parts). Thank God he was an electronics technician or I would have been screwed Scale went to 100 ft but it actually would go to about 250 if you kept track of the light going around and basically knew where you were in the lake.
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    Before overreacting to it you might want to follow Hank's (LandM) advice and go from there. Might save you money all the way around.
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    What do you do with the stuff you pump out to dispose of it?
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    He was looking for the ones with the little wire clevises Ray. Don't seem to be available anymore commercially.
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    Yeah I don't fish the day before the Seneca lake derby the Friday before it for that reason. I have caught ones bigger than some of the winners either then or a week or so after the derby in the past and now I'm superstitious (or perhaps even more than I was before)
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    Would have been nice to have gotten that one in the derby Anthony but this year winning it was out of the question for everyone except one
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    I know it isn't easy and is time consuming but using the chart to estimate the ratio (e.g. 2:1, 1.5 to 1 etc. and then developing your own is really the best method. Let out line til the dipsy touches bottom and record the setting. GPS SOG, and amount of wire out. None of this stuff is exact (i.e. the charts) and the results also vary by boat and trolling motor speed variations in speed etc. as well. A second way is to attach a Fishhawk TD to the line set to max depth and record that data in conjunction with speed readings etc. All this stuff is fine for "estimates" but in the real world the underwater current can throw nay of the measures quite a ways off. This is another reason not to go as "gospel" from chart values.
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    That one sure looks like a contender Bill
  25. Sk8man
    Good going John and lets hope for an action filled season.
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