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Tom B. With all due respect what reaction did you expect to take place in 2017 when the plan was in place less than 90 days and the lake level was preparing to reach all time highs just as areas of Montreal were being wiped out from floods on the Ottawa. Lake superior set monthly high records this year in May, June, July, August, September and missed october by 1.1 inches. The flood damage on every great lake is just as bad if not worse than we are dealing with here on Ontario. As somebody who regularly fishes Erie, St. Clair, the Niagara, Ontario and the St. Lawrence both above and below the dams and the Ottawa one thing I can tell you for sure is every one of them is experiencing the highest water levels they've ever dealt with. When you see water lines 9 ft above normal on boat launches and on 2nd story rooflines on the Ottawa you realize just how much water we have dealt with in the almost 300,000 miles that make up our drainage basin. Everywhere I've fished this year I've gotten to hear about how "it's the highest they've ever seen it in 50 years or 60 years of fishing there" but only here on lake ontario do we expect to be an exception because we have somebody to blame. We arent an exception here on Ontario because of some boards control over a spillway at a dam. 1 dry spring and itll be a non topic as everyone moves on to griping about how thier slip is bone dry and all the new poorly designed permanent docks are too high to use.

Huh? Lake Superior, Erie and Ontario all hit all time record highs this summer and Lake Michigan and huron weren't far away. Lake St. Clair also reached an all time high this summer. Since the summer high levels Lake Ontario has dropped more than any of the other lakes. Pay attention to the media all you like. My opinion on our situation is based 100% on research and fact and not just dock talk.

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