greenhornet73

are they in close enough early in the morning for my kayak or are they moving out once the sun is up? I missed my annual trip to Henderson this Memorial day due to my kids all getting hit with a stomach bug so I am hoping to at least get up to Fair Haven if it isn't too late

I will be at Stoney Point this weekend and hoping to troll for browns in my kayak. Are they still in shallow in the morning or have they moved out deeper? Any info would be really helpful since I usually only get to fish there in the summer.

Awesome job and video, thanks for sharing. Haven't had the 'yak out much this year besides one short walleye opener shake off tour with a nice 24"er to start the season. Hoping life slows down a bit so I can get out there on the big "O" while the inshore bite is still good

Nice pics and nice looking spoons. I like the hammered spinner blade at the hook,

Any word on dredging the blind sodus channel this fall?

You got that right. If I can get one good month of fishing on ice I'm happy, then it's back out there for browns by mid march.

Ok I stand corrected. Wow prices have changed since then. Bass Pro Wildlife Creations charges $4 more per inch than replicas which are $12/inch for freshwater fish.

I can say that the mounts that I paid those prices for still look just as new as the day I got them back. He used a rubberized material for the fins that doesn't dry out like you see on some older mounts. I don't care what anyone says, replicas are quite a bit more expensive than skin mounts and that is why I didn't have a 48" muskie mounted a few years ago because I insisted on releasing it. The pictures and newspaper article will have to be enough to keep that memory alive.

It may be a self- proclaimed term like my uncle who makes wine with a group of friends and calls himself the head "wine master".

This was dated back in 2009 from an experienced taxidermist in Denver. Prices vary, but here is one taxidermists prices. He is a Grand Master Taxidermist. Bass 3-6 pounds---$285 Bass over 7 pounds---$300 Crappie any size---$235 Blue Gill any size---$225 Walleye, Pike, Musky---$12 an inch $200 minimum Striped Bass---$13 an inch Trout, Salmon---$14 an inch Reproductions---$16 an inch Epoxie Finish---$35-$50

Haha really? Like I said it has been a long time since I had a mount done and that was back in 2003 and the rate was about the same as the one in 97 so I didn't think the rate would have changed all that much. I paid around $325 I think for my 31" walleye and around $450 for my 33 1/2" coho.

Yeah it's by the inch. For skin mounts, trout and salmon are usually about $2 more per inch so you are looking at anywhere from $9- $12 per inch but I have never priced out a replica but again it depends on who you go to. The guy that did my mounts in Camillus I think got out of the business but he was awesome and reasonable.

Wow Lowballer, so that was the rainbow your grandson caught on a Rapala?! That is going to be a beautiful mount and a fish he will never forget. I caught an 18" brookie when I was 10 with a bobber and a worm fishing under a fallen tree in Nine Mile Creek because I didn't have waders yet while my friend and his dad waded upstream without me. They came back to find me with that fish on a stringer. It sat in my freezer for years because my parents didn't want to have it mounted and I am still sad about it 'til this day without even a picture to show for it but what a great memory that was.

Wow Lowballer, so that was the rainbow your grandson caught on a Rapala?! That is going to be a beautiful mount and a fish he will never forget. I caught an 18" brookie when I was 10 with a bobber and a worm fishing under a fallen tree in Nine Mile Creek because I didn't have waders yet while my friend and his dad waded upstream without me. They came back to find me with that fish on a stringer. It sat in my freezer for years because my parents didn't want to have it mounted and I am still sad about it 'til this day without even a picture to show for it but what a great memory that was.

Haha no that recipe was for a tasty cedar plank not the fish, but they do have a pearl inside their skull located between the eyes

My first coho in 1997

Yep big sheepshead. Don't be fooled by the size, they get huge in Lake O. I caught a 12# in my kayak trolling for walleyes last year. I thought it was a laker in only 30 fow, couldn't believe the size of it and it bent the hook of my plug.