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  1. Big Water
    That's funny you mention Accuweather. When we moved to State College, PA, my wife, who has a four year comp sci degree applied for a job with them. They were offering McDonalds wages for an IT person. Needless to say, she turned them down. It doesn't surprise me that they have a bad rap. The owner, Joel something or other, has a terrible reputation in this town also.
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    It just looks like a poor attempt to satisfy some academic criterion for a business case. I take him at his word but it points out the chasm between real life and academia. Now if he starts a company that replaces boat carpeting, I'll be onboard. I've been looking for that service for quite some time and it seems to be non-existent in my area.
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    Keep it to waves three feet or less and get off of the water when it starts to get bad and you'll be ok. If you have manual riggers, you'll be looking for electronics soon. If you get hooked on Ontario like I did, you'll be spending money like a drunk sailor soon.
  4. Big Water
    That looks like my winter boat except mine is an 18.5' dual console. All hooked up and ready for the weekend. Took a lot of salmon from it before I got my bigger boat.
  5. Big Water
    A friend of mine uses an iPilot on an 18' boat and loves it. It's a 24v unit and I believe a 72" shaft. Maybe he'll weigh in.
  6. Big Water
    Core is short for lead core line. It sinks at about 4-5' for every 30' out. The line also changes color every 30' so "two colors" is 60' and will sink about 10' at normal trolling speeds. You can use mono or braid backing and tie 2/3/4 colors on to get to different depths. Also use a mono or floro leader of maybe 15'25'.
  7. Big Water
    I've had great success fishing a local lake for lake trout with Thomas Speedy Shiners. Color varied day to day but they always produced.
  8. Big Water
    Nice Fish!! Thanks for posting. I'm jealous.
  9. Big Water
    The big "dog ticks" that we often see on our pets don't carry lymes disease. It's those minuscule deer ticks that can look like a spec of pepper that are the problem. You can't see them easily until they're already embedded and engorged. Use Permethrin on your clothing. Works well and lasts through several washings.
  10. Big Water
    Sorry I don't have a pic, but the MS Caddy Shack UV killed in May. Later in the season it was a mixed bag with no spoons shining for more than a day or two.
  11. Big Water
    Fwiw I had the same boat with a 70 hp Johnson that topped out at 46 mph. I don't think he's far off. Maybe a tailwind.
  12. Big Water
    You're only allowed 3 rods per fisherman, so unless you plan to do this a lot, I'd buy some small inline boards and learn how to use them They are easy and work well. Drop a couple of mono lines 100-150' back from the boat and attach those to your down rigger releases. They only need to be down 2-7' when you're fishing in shallow for springtime browns (6 to 15 feet of water). Run two riggers, two inlines and maybe a rod by itself straight out the back. Bright colored stick baits for muddy/cloudy water and some natural colors for clearer water. Find the warmer water pockets and they will hold fish. This is usually the muddy/colored water. Keep all baits a good distance from boat, because like mentioned earlier, the browns are spooky. You can pick up coho, lakers and an occasional king this way also. Good luck.
  13. Big Water
    You should have fished the west end of the lake this past spring. You couldn't keep them off of the lines. Speed made no difference and lure selection made little difference. The only thing you could do was move out of the area, but there were kings mixed in with them, so we didn't. Eventually we dropped down to 4 rods and ended up with all four rods hitting within 1-2 minutes. We actually caught 5 fish on those four rods because we had a double on one that hit the slider. The deck was GREASY!
  14. Big Water
    Just got back from Pittsburgh or I'd have been all over that offer. Hoping to get my boat up to Seneca maybe starting in late November. Late fall/winter fishing there is great! Good luck out there. Tell Rusty Rat ,Doug said hi if he's on the lake.
  15. Big Water
    After a couple of years asking the same question and getting an assortment of answers, does anyone have the definitive answer? The mature salmon that will be running the streams this year are; 3 years old 3 1/2 years old 4 years old 4 1/2 years old I understand that some will run a year earlier than normal and also a year or two later. I'm talking about the norm. I always assumed this year's run would have hatched in spring 2012 making them 3 1/2 years old.
  16. Big Water
    What Rich said.
  17. Big Water
    Great report Rick
  18. Big Water
    The cats are so used to the Bears they walk right past them. Neither seems to care.
  19. Big Water
    Just to muddy the waters, 2.0 to 2.2 on Fish Hawk. 44-48 degree temps. That's been my sweet spot.
  20. Big Water
    This one's well fed too!
  21. Big Water
    Same here. I'm wondering if we're just depleting next year's stock.
  22. Big Water
    Guy I fish with made two hand gaffs out of a piece of rebar and ground them and painted them. Work great and cheap.
  23. Big Water
    A friend was running rubber flukes in a whole bait head a month ago while I was running meat and MC Rockets on my boat. He was taking more fish and hits than me. He did that because he didn't have any cut bait but uses that rig for stripers at a local lake.
  24. Big Water
    Very nice Atlantic. Congrats!
  25. Big Water
    Great to hear you found them. Keep up the reports!
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