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  1. HB2
    You know , I was just thinking , cause that's what I do . They have these salmon tournaments most every weekend during the year at different ports of LO . These highly advanced big boats, and there are a lot of them , with the latest equipment with the best anglers fish for the biggest 4 salmon box for cash prices. These boats only keep the biggest salmon they catch . So all these multiple biggest fish kept, and there are a lot , are not available to run the rivers to pass on those big fish genes. If those biggest fish are kept early spring / summer , they are the ones that would be the biggest come late summer. In fact , it seems , that there is a direct correlation between king size and when the number of salmon tournaments exploded in the last 15 years . Something to consider , don't you think ?
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    Actually they would like you to believe that . But when stocking was cut , the destination stream stakeholders were crying about not having kings for people coming up to catch , so they gave ours to those sites .
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    From what i hear from the guys that use to pen rear the kings at Sandy creek , the Sandy fish were the biggest / healthiest of any in the South shore . Don't know how true this is or if you here is any scientific data on this but that's what I hear . So if that's the case , maybe all South shore kings should be reared at Sandy . That is if in fact you want the biggest king possible . And the downward trend in size directly coincides with the halt of pen rearing at Sandy . Makes sense doesn't it ?
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    Are we sure that these fish are sexually maturing as 2 year olds more than in the past ? Or are we mistaking smaller 3 year old kings for 2 year olds ? A few years back we were getting a lot of Jacks skien fishing .This year non so no far and I have landed so very good size fish .
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    Sorry LL , I don't see that going over very big with the charter and especially tournament guys .
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    I just looked at the Canadian summer derby results for this year . Their sizes were comparable to ours . I know every once in a while I see one that's maybe 35 # . That's not a whole lot bigger than our biggest derby winners . Caught some nice skien under a float kings this afternoon . Man do those fish fight . Amazes me the power these zombie fish have .
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    You don't know that for sure . Nobody does . That's pure speculation at this point . This year I saw more bait in the lake than I have in a long while . Probably since the early 90s . Let's have 5 years of that and then see what happens size wise . But I'm on board with Longline about the nutritional value of today's alwives compared to long ago . Not every big king gets dragged out by its tail so to speak . Some make it to the hatchery or naturally reproduce . So there should be a few bigger fish in our catch as a whole lakeside . I got a 27#and change I weighed J plugging a few weeks ago so there are some big ones out there . And my scale is very accurate. And we are comparing ourselves to Socialist Canada now ?
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    So arrest and fine heavily the violators . This everyone should pay for the actions of a few ain't right . Many of us fish legit in the streams . Probably more than most think. Yup , the outlaws are out there . Fine them . I really enjoy the thrill and change of trib fishing . So why should that not be available to those who would like to do that ? Fishing was lights out this year . What more do you want ?
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    These kings are far from worthless this time of year . I contend they are as hard to get to hit as anytime during the season . I have landed more than a few on a long rod and lite line and get fight great . Not like dragging one in on a 500 copper but fun just the same . Drive thru Pulaski Sun morning on the way home from the ADKs . An awful lot of money changing hands there . Excuse my spelling and grandma
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    This is great news . At least we know where they are coming from My guess the reason the fishing was so good was a good natural reproduction year and the increase in stocking 3 years ago . If this keeps up in those streams we should have reasonably good fishing in coming years .
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    Went out 3 mornings and 3 afternoons solo Fished from 12 to 70 ft . Didn't do great I landed 4 kings and I think 5 or 6 browns .Lost a few more of each. I see a fair amount of marks but me thinks a lot are browns . Not seeing many Kings jumping out there. And I'm putting my time out there . Went with Coyote K last night and this morning. 9 browns total , no kings. All on spoons . I fish J plugs mostly in search of kings . Got 2 nice browns on my flasher rig , one on a # 2 j plug the rest spoons Kings came on J plugs . Temp was good as it can't be be this time of year . This is what happens I guess when you don't pen rear kings . Or at least it seems that way . There is a direct correlation between when we stopped pen rearing kings and return rates. I see it with my own eyes because I'm here all the time . Let's see how the skien thing goes .
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    I researched a lot . I wanted to get the best for the buck. I went into Sportsman Wearhouse to buy some jig stuff in Feb . I walked by the depthfiders and saw SALE . I looked at Lawrence marked down. I wound up with a Hook Reveal 7 Split Shot. I'm extremely happy with it , does everything I could want Best part , original price 599$ . Marked down 349$ .When I said that's the one I wanted to the guy working there he said " this is your lucky day " he had stickers in his hand to mark it down to 279 $ . Did not like it at first , modern depth finders are more complicated than early models . Once I set transducer to 200 kz , set noise to low and increases sensitivity a little , it works great .
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    I have waved off and told numerous boaters to stay between the bouys going in and out of Sandy . East side of the channel is very shallow and getting worse as lake drops . Red on right when returning from sea. Red on right when going upstream . And the channel that was dredged out to 9 ft deep is as shallow as 4 ft now . That didn't take long .
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    Do they make replacement drag washers for these reels ? Maybe one of the best reels ever made for the money .
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    We went out this morning and got 3 browns and a big laker,a few more hits , in 35 ft of water before the storms . Then we pulled the plug . Yes Gator , it was a great year , one for the books numbers wise. A little better size wise . First week August the kings disappeared from our area . Let's see the return numbers in Sandy this year as the last few weren't great . Not a lot of skippers so that doesn't look good for next year's crop of kings but we'll wait and see .
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    Yeah we went out about 2 Temp came up more ,was down 25 ft Tough fishing when it's like that . We managed 2 browns and a steelhead , and I think we were lucky to get that .
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    Went out yesterday afternoon for a while Fished 150 to 80 ft Pretty decent picture Got 6 browns a laker and lost a few more Stacker went off at 45 ft , ripped out a bunch of line , flew out of the water and threw the hooks. The big one got away . Might have been a good steelhead or probably a king black green UV spoons
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    There only appears to be 2 slide divers , not lite bite , and 3 ultimate weight kits , or so it appears , in the lite bite packages and parts and rings . Not the 5 slide divers and parts you are posting Am I wrong ?
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    That's what we're about on here !
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    So I went on a trip to the mountains with my big boat. I noticed when I got close to home my tires looked different . I looked at the axle and it had a big stress crack in it from rust . 20 years old , very lucky it didn't break on my the road I ordered a new one on line ,just got done installing it . It really wasn't a hard job . 612 $ total . New hubs bearings ,trailer bolts If that thing had gone on the road I don't know what I would have done . It really could have been bad going 70 mph down rt 81 . Might be a good idea to take a look at yours
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    I took a Scotty power grip and made a 4 ft lead from scrap coated downrigger cable , and attached it to the tail of my cannonball on my probe rigger. I made a another with weed Wacker string and electrical crimps. Worked just as well I took a wooden broomstick and put a cup hook on the end . I bring the rigger up and ball is just underwater . I reach down with the stick , snatch the cable set line in release and throw it over. Works great.
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    Kind of looks like a laker to me . Why upset the applecart at this point? We have a great fishery with what we have now .
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    Fish Hawk and Cannon have teamed up . Big money in lost probes .
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    Kind of looks like a laker to me
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    Try to squeeze it together to make it tighter a little with some pliers . With a little finesse , it might work .
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