kempie

I fish out of oak orchard on the weekends and have had one of the worst years in the 40 yrs I have been fishing LO. wind and bad water temps were the main problems for me.

I leave them in the net along the boat and remove the hook while they are in the net. get a quick picture if you want and then revive over the side. handle as little as possible.

suttons in Naples had the bead chain with a clevis to hook the spring clip to a couple years back. I use them and they worked great. i always wanted to try a seth green rig in lake ontario just to see if they would work. i am sure they would.it would be fun to catch multiple fish on the same line. my dad told me about a time when he was night fishing at Keuka and a guy caught 5 smallmouth all at the same time on a rig.

are nk28 or dreamweaver standard spoons too heavy for sliding cheaters?

how is the water level at the oak orchard launches?

Berkley micro ice. doesn't absorb water like other lines. also use as light of line as you can get away with. 2# test for me.

thanks sk8man. good luck fishing and i hope to meet you sometime.

sk8man do you ever sell any of your trolling flies you use on the finger lakes? They look really good.

Sk8man you are right it is a 200khz and 83khz.

I don't know if you will have any problems with your cannon transducer but you may have problems with your fish hawk unit if any other of the transducers operate within 20khz of 70khz fish hawk transducer. you may have to change the settings on your fishfinders to a different khz setting. my fish finder has a 120khz and a 83khz setting. if it causes problems at the 83khz setting I just change it to the 120khz setting. it doesn't mark fish as well at the 120khz setting once you get over 100' but i know the depth i am at and i always want my fish hawk to be accurate.

good to hear from you Chuck just wish the circumstances were different. i know its a tough time but hang in there. thanks for the pictures, what a nice boat and a beautiful buck. i will be at the bar this spring and hope to run into you sometime.

so sorry to hear about Mike. i worked with him at General Motors and enjoyed talking fishing with him. he was a great guy who had a passion for the outdoors. my condolences to his family.