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If you get to the French side of St Martin just head over to Orient Beach! You probably won’t be interested in fishing after that! Fresh Fish cooked on an open grille, while you wait at Boo Boo Jams you don’t need to dress up

It’s actually entertaining to read this stuff that’s packed with B&B! Buzzwords and BS Then kill every coyote that you can, anytime you can! If we work at the coyotes and get over run with squirrels and rabbits maybe they will pass a law and offer a bounty on them!

I agree with Rob on both 1. And 2. With just a couple of observations. I live right in the middle of the private land that I hunt and watch the wildlife daily. Once the early chasing phase starts any of those three times of day are very active and you will see younger bucks even 2.5 year olds wondering around chasing does all day. If your specifically want to target big bucks, then it would be mornings or evenings. Some days it’s great in the am, some it’s great in the evenings and it changes all the time. The second rut is legit, but it only happens if the does in your area don’t get bred or it doesn’t take, so it’s iffy. I would say about a 20% chance of seeing a buck buck in the second phase. If you are satisfied with any buck, hunt just like Rob says, late season, brutal cold food source. If ones around, he will show right at dark

Slimey Grimy A friend put me on it this year, and it works Not cheap, but it work on my fiberglassboat

I assume that the tool you tried was the one that slides on the top that you can turn with a socket wrench, and it’s probably just slipping. Two things put a cotton rag on the filter and then tap that same cap type filter remover on. When you start to turn it the cotton rag binds tight and it should come off. or do the same thing with one of those rubber jar lid removers this works the same way but they are thicker and a bit more miserable to beat off he old filter when it comes loose the screwdriver beat through works but I would use that as a last resort, that can become a real hassle if the filter tears apart but doesn’t come loose

I am not a regular spawning run creek fisherman nor am I from the Rochester area. BUT I will be in Rochester for 3 or 4 days in the next week or so and I rigged up a spinning rod to give it a try! Any info on where to go etc, would be appreciated! Thanks

Thanks Mike! It was my 7th trip in what I would call a challenging year with the weather and waves! The fishing overall has been good when the lake allows it! Its all about getting the right day! Good Luck

After exactly three weeks of no fishing and a good wave report for Wednesday I couldn’t wait to fish! A great Sodus Bay sunrise and a perfect lake set up was right there! After reading the temp reports from along the south shore I went straight north to about 175’ and set some lines deep but didn’t drop the probe. Went to about 250 not seeing much, brought ball up from 100 down and it was warm to the touch. Dropped the probe and the down temp was very close to surface temp all the way down to just over 100’. By 300 temp at 125 was down to low 50’s and it was on! From about 330ish to 470ish I couldn’t keep rods set, pretty much had fish on for hours. Direction of troll didn’t matter, color of spoons was anything. Speed was 2.6 to 2.8. Zero flasher fly hits, all spoons and plugs. 280, 300 and 330 on the wire dipsy rods and 122 on the riggers. Ended up landing 9, losing 2. One was a swivel failure and one was snapped line on the down rigger release, fish hit and took off and snap! I am pretty sure it’s the only time I had two nets with me, I brought a smaller one because my big one is tough to use solo. Ended up using both nets because couldn’t get fish out of net before other rods fired. Just a crazy morning! Good Luck

Thanks for posting a Sodus report! There always seems to be fisherman but it many reports!