krux5506

bump

Possibly if nobody else is interested locally

Bump....open to trades as well for bass fishing gear - spinning or casting

Bass guys might call me crazy but I wouldn't mind if even the in-season tournaments just weighed fish this way, from the boat then immediate release. In the couple tournaments I've fished on fair haven, they've been open to the lake so everyone just hauls out huge bags of smallies, weigh in, then dump the bags into the bay and leave. Sure, the fish live....mostly....and i've seen a club have a tank set up on site for reviving fish. but the vast majority of those fish are caught super deep, need their air bladders bled, then spend the afternoon in a livewell. if you've got 20 or so boats weighing in that's a whole lot of smallies that may or may not even make it back into the lake. i don't know, maybe i'm just ranting. i guess it's just not really my thing, and i feel like it's a lack of respect.

I agree, when i started fishing the lake as a kid a 2.5lb smallie was a good size. Now you get guys weighing in 23+ lb bags of smallies as the norm. 5lbers are not very difficult to find at this point. So although bed fishing has always been sketchy at best, what it seems is that bass have adapted to gorge themselves on those gobies and in turn we have some monster breeding fish out in the lake now. I keep my boat on fair haven and year by year the smallie population on the bay itself seems to just keep going up. A lof of them just stay in the bay year round now.

Raven rod for sale, 15' 3 piece IM6 in good shape. Only fished a handful of times. Raven doesn't make this rod anymore as far as I know. Located in Rochester (penfield) asking $250.

Wow that's a lunker. Back when I was his age I don't think I ever broke 3lbs for smallies out in lake O but the numbers were always consistent. More of a quantity over quality type of fishing. Now 4+lb and into the 6 range has become more and more common.

Cool to hear Drelick's does this kind of thing, he's right around the corner from me and I always wondered what kind of stuff he gets into.

Yup the bay has been pretty good so far although Father's Day was slow for me! Kinda think the weather was possibly just too nice that day...

No noticeable drop at our cottage that I can see.

I was surprised the Coast Guard didn't even check the date of my flares when I was stopped.