Jomat

Great job! I was out there too in a small boat....wind/wave forecast was def a little off. All our bites were on musselhead meat rigs behind 11” flashers out 175’ on a 2 setting. Still had 30lb powerpro on my rigger rods and the fleas were on that very bad especially in the top 40’ of water. Luckily had some 30lb fluoro to quick put a top shot on them.

Are these all size 2?...interested in size 3 if you’ve got them

Looks like you guys got some real solid fish...just got back from a week out there fishing the southtowns derby....best size class of fish I’ve ever seen in that area of the lake. Bay rat black mamba and white belly goby crushed out there for us.

Rented a house up there last year over 4th of July week and there were huge hatches of those especially large hexagenia flies. The fish were stuffed with them puking them all over the live well. Very impressive bug population in that lake right now. Seems like if they didn’t have them they’d be starving to death.

Bay rat xld- Black mamba, chrome blue, goby reef runner- eerily naked, naked purple dhj12 - purple glass perch, custom antifreeze perch deep bandit - chrome blue, sandstorm these are the baits that’s ive had good luck with in both Oneida and Erie....properly set tattle flags are IMO required on Oneida as those fish really don’t pull the boards back

I live in Corning ny. So I fish the chemung and Susquehanna for bass, walleye, muskie out of my drift boat. I’m not much of a fly fisherman but one of my good buddies is and he makes me throw his bug rods whenever we take the driftboat down the river together. ive also got a 17.5 alumacraft that I drag around the state for walleye, salmon, and trout.

this fly works real well for them in the river but it’s heavy and pita to cast...not much different than casting a jig at that point. I’m super bummed about not being able to get my boat in the water for the opener...been preparing for it since ice out. Guess it will be waders and headlamps for me this year.

For some perspective, here in Steuben county we’ve had 11 people die in the last two weeks from this. Not NYC, Bath and Hornell. I hear a lot of people talking about how anyone who legitimizes this are sheep and it’s no worse than the flu. 11 people don’t die in nursing homes from the flu in 2 weeks...11 people don’t die in this county in 2 weeks period. On top of that over half the positive tests that came back from that nursing home (residents and workers), were from folks who were asymptomatic....so probably “essential” workers carrying the virus without symptoms and unknowingly infecting/killing old folks...taking it room to room AFTER they passed a thermometer test to be allowed to work. That virus didn’t just show up in that nursing home it traveled there. If nothing else I know I’m traveling a lot less, and will continue to travel less as long as the launches are closed. Sucks to not be fishing but if it keeps someone safe it’s worth it.

Our police/troopers will be trying to avoid as much contact as possible as well. My sense is no one is going to get hassled for going fishing. I’m bringing snacks and caffeine with me from now on though instead of making pit stops at every D&D and gas station I pass. Fishingfool stay safe and healthy at work...hard to tell which is worse right now. Being on the unemployment line or potentially putting yourself and your family in harms way to keep things running.

Great so if you’ve already got an onboard charger it’s probably wired up to those batteries already and all you need to do is plug the charger into an extension cord to charge all those batteries overnight. Def saved you some time and money that it’s already there. I would recommend you take a few minutes though and trace all the wires out just to familiarize yourself with the system. There are in line fuses and whatnot.

I was in the same situation last year...just bought a 17.5 alumacraft. I used my trolling motor ALOT. I have one of the older powerdrives that has the autopilot functionality. It works great in everything but a stiff headwind for keeping the boat straight and letting me fine tune my speed. If you use it the same way I used mine chances are the first thing you’ll want to buy is an onboard charger to charge those batteries as a full day of trolling will def wear them out. I have a 24 volt trolling motor so bought a 3 bank charger to handle those plus my cranking/electronics battery.

If you haven’t fished a legend tournament you are missing out...my favorite smallmouth pole.

Tall enough for reef runner 800’s?