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Ok. Now you do realize winter water levels on the lower portion of the st Lawrence exist for a reason right? It needs to freeze over at a certain level down there to prevent damage and once it does freeze over water levels need to remain stable. We are nowhere near plan 2014s winter lows and are letting out as much as possible to get there without causing damage down below. Plan 2014s winter levels havent even come into play yet. Hell the plan went into effect in Jan of 2017 and without any real changes we were facing record lake levels by April of that year. That's mother nature's fault plain and simple. Its not as simple as just opening the spillway over the long saulte dam all winter. Lake Ontario is right in line with all the other great lakes right now as it should be. When every major body of water surrounding us is at record levels, we will be at record levels no matter what plan is in effect. Seems pretty logical. The problem is while all the other great lakes are dealing with the exact same issue we here on lake Ontario feel we have somebody we can blame. In 5 years we will all be complaining about the water being 5 feet low and them letting too much out. Just hope your marina was smart enough to install floating docks this time.

So what your saying is every single great lakes body of water both above and below us are at all time record high levels but you want Lake Ontario to not be at record high levels. Makes sense.

Just curious who do all the other great lakes get to blame thier record high levels on?

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Guys who think musky fishing is about smoking weed all day and driving around impaired and forget that they are putting others at risk. Guys fishing Quebec or ontario waters without a the proper lic. Guys constantly worried about everyone else when they should be looking in the mirror. Too much musky bs not enough musky fishing.

You can go months or years without caps or bearing buddies and not have a bearing fail. The grease doesnt just magically escape unless the bearing is overheating. Hell I had a duck boat that I never bothered putting caps over the castle nut and the grease always stayed put. 1 day without a cap didnt cause your bearing to fail. It failed, everything got hot and u lost your bearing buddy in the process. It happens, often.

When bearing goes bad everything goes flying off little by little and the bearing cap or bearing buddy is usually the first part to get thrown. Been there a few times over the years. Some one stealing the bearing buddy wouldn't cause the bearing to go bad, that's a hell of a coincidence if that is the case. The bearing going bad would cause the bearing buddy to get tossed tho and that's my guess as to what actually happened.

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I think thruwire is an amazing recommendation but high quality screw eye baits like bakers or well designed plastic/resin baits like depthraiders, Jake's, believers, grandmas or perchbaits all have thier place. Legend perchbaits truly are the standard for both durability and productivity but that being said they arent a true thruwire bait. Nobody needs to spend a fortune on baits to have success on the Larry. Mike Lazarus catches his biggest fish every year on perchbaits, musky candies and depthraiders. High quality reasonably priced baits. If the goal is to catch muskies on the Larry I'd say spend the bulk of your investment on a high quality net, rod, reel and release tools and then equip yourself with proven baits that have caught giants there for years. Perchbaits, musky candies, believers, depthraiders, Jake's and jointed stalkers wont do you wrong and wont break the bank. Black perch, orange belly perch or anything walleye have always produced out there. Drop em back and set the clicker.

You mentioned the importance of through wire baits twice and then listed 5 baits only 1 of which is actually true thruwire construction. Fretthold, the least proven bait of those you've listed, but the only one that is actually throughwire.

Niagara county, but I do have to drive down the lake and up to clayton at some point this week if somebody wanted to meet up along the way.

I have 4 brand new daiwa 40 lcha reels for sale. Bought 6 and am using 2 for wire dipseys and was going to use them for musky trolling but decided to go another route. All are brand new in box. Need $167 each to break even. Still about $40-50 below retail. Buyer pays shipping or willing to meet up on west end. Perfect wire dipsey reels imo, crazy fast at 47" per crank.

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Amazing fishing, great event, great guys. Thanks for putting on a good show Matt.

I figure I can squeeze 3 sets in b4 it's done. Wish me luck. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

Here is the fun footage from that night. Hunting partners make awful shooting benches. If the scenario ever comes up for anybody out there, just shoot off hand. Lol https://youtu.be/eNdb2C7k4UE

Had 1 last goal for the year and that was to put my buddy on a late season yote. Took a couple trips but we got it done on the 3rd set tonight. Dogs were very vocal and this little female committed at the 32 minute mark to fox pros female submissive. Played 7 minutes of pup distress after she dropped and started over to grab our prize. Sure enough a dog comes in on her trail and I couldn't get still enough without my tripod to seal the deal on the double. (Shooting off ur partners back is an awful way to keep still by the way). Lol The lines in the video are caused from the core starting to freeze on the thermal. 3 straight long sets without a break was apparently enough to make it happen. I've seen it in my handheld monocular on frigid days but never got the scope cold enough to make it happen until tonight. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk