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That's a heavy walleye, if I wouldn't know better I thought you might have hooked up with my buddy Lonie, and were in our honey hole off Stoney point that is the size brutes that place produces, MAY many more come to your net, one must note that the walleye have the feed bag on which would be nice if it lasts another 2-3weeks and if we can find a place to put ONE WORM in the drink we would be able to last 3 days with the amount of food that's stocked in her now

This sand bar jets out 100 yards off shore and who would think anyone would be wading chest deep in the water at 1am. In the state of PA. anyone wading in water after dusk must have a lighted device on their chest or head and a lantern on shore were they entered the water, this guy had nothing, so I was totally in the right and he was in the wrong, he also received paper work from the fish comm. who lives on the lake to go along with his wounds. I also have a v8 for a power plant so it's not like he didn't hear us coming.

Like one mentioned Seneca is a huge body of water but a lot of it is very difficult to fish, I can understand why the guys are tight lipped about the perch, especially when one fellow mentioned that a boat sat right in front of his house and filled 3 100qt coolers full of fish, that's mucho perch, that has to put a hurting on the perch population. The other thing is one who puts countless hours in figuring these fishes routine, feeding habits, size baits at certain times of the year and their migration patterns ect. ect. should be rewarded with a nice catch of fish. One other post on the walleye forum one mentioned he burned $700.00 in fuel that one week to figure these fish out. I used to get pi$$ed off to but now I understand why it is the way it is. I figured that these guys live on the lake and have the time to do the research and us guys that live hours away and only get to fish a few times, and this sites (claim to fame is to help each other out) but why won't they help me I only want to catch a fish. So if someone tells you were to go, he's afraid you will tell a friend and then the snow ball effect come into play. It's not that there being pricks at all, they are only trying to protect the fishery from those who will abuse it. One thing to keep in mind as a fisherman, and this holds true to any body of water is 90% of the fish are in 10% of the water, if you keep that in mind you will figure out the fish a lot quicker.

First things first Happy Birthday to your father Some times when parents get up in age it's difficult to figure out what to get them for a gift. This gift I think was super special, for one you had both parent together and a FIRST laker at his age is priceless. I wish I had both my parents yet, cherish every moment you have with them. You couldn't of mail order a better gift. Congrats to your dads birthday gift maybe mom will out do dad's fish LOL

Good going, hope you get into the eyes. Best of luck to you, The weather forecast is for rain down here in PA. so they should be on the feed, post your results tomorrow, be interesting to know how you did. Been thinking about spending a week on Otisco before heading up to Ontario for the season.

"One time trolling at night" One night my uncle and I went on Beltzville trolling for walleye, we were doing well flat lining off the sides so we decided to put out the boards and run 2 lines off each side and 2 off the rod holders. Since I have a starter & alt business I built a alternator that you could weld with, so my boat is well lit up at night with floods out the front and out the sides. we wanted to hit a sand flat that the walleyes come on to at night to feed, but to shallow to run through so that's where the board idea came to mind. We made a pass and managed to boat a nice eye so we went up the lake made the turn and came back through right on the same gps route when all of a sudden we heard screaming like someone was being killed we stopped immediately only to notice our board was gone. Here we managed to hook a man that waded out on the bar, with no light on him or a lantern on land. We cut all our lines and got the guy in the boat, The man insisted he call the fish commission, he thought we were in the wrong, meanwhile we took the lures out of his boots and skin, and fixed him up as good as we could with the first aid kit. We ended our night of fishing and headed to the dock where the long arm of the law was when we got there. Long story short the man was ticketed for not having a light on his hat, no lantern on land and not saying anything to us as he admitted that he was there when we made our first pass, my boat passed the night lights with flying colors, and the fact that we pulled him aboard and tried to help him the fish and boat comm. along with the state police said we did everything possible to help this guy, yet he calls the law aboard my boat, the trooper said we were good people, most guys would of thrown him over board. So if you fish at night with other boats an the water PLEASE make sure you are well marked. You will never know when I might be coming around the bend with my spread out 6 lures with 3 triple hooks could make for a painful evening!! That's PA. laws I will have to read what's legal or not in NY.

That is a very humbling, with upmost respect to you and your brother story, cograts. on your harvest and that will be a story to be told over and over again. Great to hear that he's back in the swing of things again!!!

Back in the late 70's early 80's we fished a lake called O'sullivan in Quebec and it was a strictly fly in only lake and lodge, it was owned and operated buy a man named Ted Barklow. He was an American and all his help was native French and native Indians, I forget the tribal name, anyway it was 18 hours north of the US. border and 45minute float plane ride. We set up camp and went fishing what a trip of a life time, anyway back to the blue pike & walleye we caught blue walleye and brought them in and the native Indians went bananas we didn't know what the hell to make of all this and soon Ted came over to us and made us put the blue walleye's back. Later that night Ted came over to our cabin and explained that the blue walleye is some type of spiritual fish to the Indians and they don't want them harvested. He said that this lake was one of the few lakes that had the (true blood blue walleye) in it and that they are rare to catch in this lake. He wanted to know where we caught them, & how we caught them so he could restrict that area to NO FISH ZONE- he told us that they were next to extinct up here and they were trying to keep the blue walleye going by not taking any, We fished that lake for 20 years, every year 2nd week of June we had our trip booked. Then Ted retired back to the states and someone else took over, and the last 15years you could drive there via logging companies made roads, and people could bring there own boats with bigger motors and could get to many places in a day. When we first started to go there were wooden 14ft boats with 9.9 motors, you had to know where you were going for the night bite, because the lake was to big and with 9.9 motors you couldn't get to one end of the lake and back in one day. The last time we were up there,2002 there was still supposedly blue walleye in the lake.

I'm glad it panned out for you, I'm self employed for over30 years now in the starter & alt. business and came across this a lot, I used to just clean them up Including the armature and put a new com end bushing in and charge the guys $20.00 and they were tickled pink, being a boat owner myself I know how expensive thing can get and the way others take advantage of you just is wrong. BOAT= (Break Out Another Thousand)

We did that on Dave's boat now the trim works "same problem" but finds it hard to feed gas with one hand and steer with the other, now what do you use to run trim switch he says it should be on the floor so he can use a foot to operate the trim, I thought maybe a dimmer switch for the up when getting on plane once at run speed then you have a hand free again to operate trim switch.

Probably the brushes are hung up in the holder from condensation over the years, especially since you mentioned it's not up to speed, or the brushes are gone, 2 other possibilities are bad armature or com end bushing is bad. If you hit on it with a hammer then you will need a new one, because the fields are magnets which shatter when you hit on the motor part of the trim unit.

Justin don't let a hand full of goons discourage you from posting about the walleye, all summer long it's all about salmon with a occasionally less than informative post about a walleye catch. What about all the salmon killed for prize money? then fed to the local zoo animals, That's OK! you purchased a license to fish and only creel the daily limit which is 3 per. person on that lake, also utilizing the meat to feed your family not the "zoo" If those folks who wish to catch and release should see your governor Cuomo and ask to come up with a conservation license, I'm sure he would be all for it as it would be another source of income for the state and you could satisfy yourself and the pocket dipper government already in place along with the boating certificate. Soon we all can sit on the couch and play video games, because that's the only thing we will be able to afford!

"Jealousy" is a terrible disease,

Now that's what I'm talking about, way to go Justin congrats to you and the family, If I wouldn't know better I would of assumed you snuck out to Erie HAA-HAA, now the work begins and with those monsters you'll have nice scallops to eat along with some mammoth sized fillets. Way to go, By the way your killing me here all I can do is wish I could jump off the couch and hook 1 WORM up and head to Ostico. They will be there in the spring, then I will come visit you on Osico and make a week of it. Leave some for me LOL Excellent Job JT. I'm so happy for you just seeing those fish, can't imagine actually being there cranking those whales in!!! keep us posted!!