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I know where that fish cleaning table is and now I know who I was talking to, small world, "out in the big water" eehh

Justin, I was so sorry to hear that "Lil" passed away. I'm sure that you will have many great memories of her. I know that your heart must be full of sorrow at this time, but you have received a great gift having to harvest a few yotes with her. though she will be greatly missed, you will always have a special place in your heart for her, a place that that only you and Tracy can share. God bless her and keep her close and may you and your family have piece knowing that she is in a very special place now, Your Friend PAP

There are quite a few walleye fisherman out there, for some reason unlike the Erie guys that will help you out with just about anything the Ontario guys are very tight lipped about the walleye, It isn't like there is a shortage of walleye, according to the people doing the reports on the walleye reproduction and survival rate, the walleyes are doing well in Ontario. In the 80's it was much easier to catch walleye, before the zebra's came to town, I did well with them especially in the spring Black river bay was a blast, now I struggle to catch a few, but I did see guys do well, cleaning fish at BRCG. I saw the biggest walleyes I ever laid eyes on, so there out there, just have to figure them out on your own. I wanted to ask the question, but I just didn't have the balls to, as I figured I knew the answer I would of got and didn't want to make it a uncomfortable situation as we were cleaning some walleye that came out of the Black River that my 8 year old daughters caught 22-24" those guys had 30" and up, I did find out that they came out of the Henderson area, If those guys belong to this site, NICE catch guys!!

You can use any lure made out there with only one requirement the triple hooks are not to exceed 1/2" from the barb to the shank, measuring strait across. That came right out of the mouth of the fish com. which had two younger people on board, guy and a younger lady. I have a camper in the BRCG. Go up under the bridge in the center you should of noticed a deep hole 30ft deep, mark the top and go 40ft above hole and anchor up let out 40ft of line with a size 3 J plug and lower rigger ball down till 18" off the bottom when they come out of the hole from their rest your lure is right in their face and WHAM GOTCH YA, sometimes there is a drift boat there but he usually favors the pier towards the camp site and usually fishes an hour before dark till 9pm or so, so there is plenty of room for the both of you, he uses a huge split back lure bright orange. I met a guy named Roland up there and he swears that, get the biggest flat fish you can find, he uses natural colors, I kept this under my hat for years, I use a spinner bait the biggest brightest color I can find, you have to fish the spinner bait close to the ball or it will settle to the bottom if the currant is really fast, I fish it 18" from the ball about 2ft. off the bottom it out fished the guide, the flat fish, this set up works. It's easy fishing. If you have another rigger run a flat fish near the bottom and a stacker with a J plug near the surface. I caught a few in my time with this set up. PAP.

Way to go JT. the walleye like I said before are very nice size, just right for table fare. One thing I noticed is they all seem to be in the 20/22" range or do you put some smaller size ones back, would be interesting to know, and the last two posts you mentioned that you had some heavy hitters, just wondering what your thoughts were on that (Tigers) I can't believe that such nice walleye come out of Otisco with the Muskies in there up to and beyond 48" as they are lean mean walleye eating machines, and you catch the tigers trolling for walleye, so they must share the same waters (meaning you go north end for tigers and south for walleye) one way or another they are holding their own. Nice report and always a couple of great pictures, keep them coming congrats on the whole program you got going on JT. PAP.

Hey Tim what do you recommend in the Garmin line, I'm looking also to purchase a Fish Hawk, the 4xd, From reading what the guys say about the hawk, I don't think you really need the top of the line fish finder, as long as it has at least 4000 watts and a 83/200 capacity ducer that should be good enough to find structure and depth and enough memory for a 1ft, or 3ft contour map the hawk will do the rest and. the gps for location. That should be a good set up. I don't think I am going with the finder/gps in one deal it seem like it comes to the same amount of $$ either way and if one or the other pukes your not totally out of commission, just my two cents, after the Elite7 horror story I went through I'm leaning towards splitting them up, maybe others have no trouble with the hds units, but if you read Cabelas and Bass Pro comments on other units it seem like a lot of other people have troubles also, and the guys running the 585 and the 600 series must have a separate gps. as they are finders only.

What ever you decide to do DO-NOT buy the ELITE 7, I have had nothing but trouble with it. Send it back Lowrance said everything was good to go, yea right, same thing as before depth jumps all around and they don't have enough memory to run cards with 1ft contours. Took it back and put my old Humming Bird 727 back on. Leaning towards the 585 with a Lowrance 5hds gps.

I will definitely miss you and your mrs, the both of you work together like a well oiled machine, she gets right in there just like the pro's , and some of the guys I had on my boat I would trade for Theresa any day of the week. I just can't believe that the season came and went already, here is to a great year and hope all is well through the winter months and the holidays. I was hoping that the fishing would last a few more weeks, I'm heading in the hospital for back surgery on the 18th of Sept. and they tell me 6/8 weeks till I'm back on my feet hopefully 100% , so next year in the spring we will be ready for the browns and walleye and then the kings. Take care PAP.

So you can hunt with a light great!!! but there is a season? in PA there is NO closed season. It's 24/7-365 for us. What is the season from when to when?

Do you guys have a lot of yotes up there? can you hunt them at night. I thought I read that you can't light at night in NY. If you could I would purchase a NY hunting license as other than walleye fishing, hunting yotes is my second most favorite thing to do outdoors.

K GoneFishing, Very Interesting post, thanks for posting pictures and good Info, I also tie my own rigs, I also incorporate a Michigan stinger spoon on some of the harnesses, very productive!!

I couldn't agree more, especially for the lite bite walleye

Thanks for the info, I'll just continue on with the Berts, just thought maybe there was a chance to save a buck. Put $ 80.00 in the gas tank. Yea Right!!!

SharkHunter I noticed in the one photo where you are holding up a real nice king I noticed that there was a plastic rod holder reinforced with a piece of pvc pipe, are you using those style holders for salmon fishing if so how are they holding up. I never thought of reinforcing them with anything, good Idea!!. I have 4 of the berts rod holders and looking to add 2 more I have 4 or more of the same type you have and if you never had any break I'll use those as I'm not always going to be using them, but in the spring for brown and walleye they should make the grade. I was trolling for walleye one year and something hit with such great force it sheared one of my plastic ones right off, thinking a big Northern didn't lose my rod but didn't get to see what is was either.

Get a can of black spray paint for plastic bumpers, works great, I tried it on one of my Dipsies I had a bunch of those orange/yellow and painted them green, I'll have to try the black if it's working still next year. I'm done for the year headed back under the knife for my back AGAIN sucks but I'll be ready for the browns in the spring. PAP