PeltHunter

I run an 8'6" 5wt fly rod with a 10 or 12lb tippet. I also fish at dusk on the Oak when a lot of people are gone already

They should also take the money from hunting and fishing licenses and put it into bettering opportunities in those activities. Instead I'm sure thid money will also just go to walking trails in NYC for those people that **** about hunting and fishing.Sent from my DROID RAZR using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I did the old course when I was 14 or 15 and now I have about 30 days on the water before I can go for my captains license. While I understand why some think this is a good idea from my point of view having gone through the course its a waste of time. The regular state course teaches near nothing in my opinion. If they want to prevent accidents through regulations the best thing to do would be to make people have a log with a certain amount of hours on the water under power to be able to take a boat out on there own. There is nothing in a classroom that is going to beat experience on the water. -Paul

It depends on what you have to spend and what size boat your comfortable piloting. You can get a late 80s early 90s 25ish foot Sea Ray for around $8-12k. That would honestly be my recommendation or maybe a Thompson 240 you can pick them up pretty cheap too. If your not comfortable with something that big I'd go with a 20 or so foot Aluminum Lund. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Lake Ontario United mobile app

1987 Sea Ray S-24 Sorrento or an 89 Thompson 240 Fisherman. We're looking to move up to somewhere around a 30ft Sea Ray Sedan Bridge or Express this year

One of the most naive things to say is that when the 2nd Amendment and Bill of Rights as a whole were ratified the founders didn't know what guns would become. The whole point of the 2nd Amendment is to keep people in control of the country should it turn to a tyranny. Would the same people who argue the 2nd amendment is outdated because of high capacity magazines and semi-automatic weapons because they can hurt more people faster argue that freedom of speech is outdated because of television sending peoples opinion or views out to a lot more people much faster than a public speech or quotes in a newspaper? Or argue that freedom of press is outdated because the internet gets it out to a much broader spectrum faster than a printing press? Lets take away TV and the internet. It's a far fetched analogy but along the same lines

Awesome post Tom! We pay a lot of attention to what people are running and other variables, but we still run the old trusty set ups too. And on the bold I agree with that as well as many of the old stuff that works probably had its day when my dad and uncle started fishing out before I was born. It's just weird to me how something just gets so big so fast out there and a lot of the less experienced weekend warriors really preach on that stuff without trying the old tried and true methods as well. We always have a flasher and an A-TOM-MIK Fly out in the spread, Great product!

The fishing in the Oak has always sucked and always will . The big groups of people should make their way up to the Salmon and stay the hell away from the Oak. No fish there to catch

Avoid The Oak like the plague theres no fish in that creek....

We run a black and purple Evil Eyes all the time haha they still work

This was more of my point. People will look at you funny now if you have a good day on a J plug or bring in a nice fish on a hotshot. But at one point it time, I guess "Their years" they were all the rage.

I'm not saying they don't use that sort of thing its just I find it odd that certain years they "push" certain rigs that are usually new thing thats out. I guess its hard to explain 5 years ago everyone from charter captains to shop owners we're pushing meat rigs. Now its flasher fly combos they try to push when the meat rigs that are being used are still catching quality number of fish.

Why exactly are there all these fads on what to use to catch fish on Lake Ontario. I've been fishing up in Oswego for 10 years with my uncle and dad and its just something I've noticed. 10 years ago it was J Plugs it seemed, people swore by spoons for a while, then it went to meat rigs for a few years and now its all flasher fly combos. It just seems odd to me how people will laugh at you for running a J plug or spoon now when they catch the same amount of fish as they did 10 years ago or when you have a good day on a certain spoon and people think your bullsh*tting them because flys are the new thing. Is it something to do with a kind of good ole boy system of charter guys and local lure manufacturers? It's just something I've been thinking about for some reason I cant seem to figure out lol

pics of the trailer and price?

A third of my team just blew up in 2 laps haha

I'm in

Thats awesome! Makes me feel more blessed we can fish on Lake O though with the size of fish they get in Michigan. Are the salmon just comin back in Michigan or something?