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Wear Requirements for Personal Flotation Devices The following persons must wear a Type I, II, III or V PFD of proper size and serviceable condition: Anyone riding in a pleasure vessel less than twenty-one feet, including rowboats, canoes, and kayaks, between November first to May first.

I did a quick search for info on Lake George on LOU and it seems a few guys on here have had good results. George is the closest lake to me where there is a deep enough launch for me to target Lakers and Landlocks. The fingers are another 1.5 hour drive. So with that said, a few buddies and myself are headed up to LG this weekend, staying at Roger's Rock on the North End near Hague. Any fisherman on here willing to share some tried and true methods for getting into Lakers and Salmon on George? I am not looking for your specific spot, rather just a few tips on speed, lure selection, rigging that have worked for guys in the past. On a previous trip to LG we were successful off Diamond Point (south basin) bottom bouncing flatfish (U20 size) behind vertical attractors-hammerhead in blue/silver and Chartreuse. Our speed was very slow 1.0-1.8mph sog (no fishhawk). We will have leadline, dipsys and riggers to run in the mix. If this post falls too far from the LOU area, please feel free to delete. Bobby - Bobbyn' Along

WATKINS GLEN SHOW, Who's Going??? Was wondering who's all going!!, how can we make LOU members stand out so we don't all say excuse me as your passing a fellow member?? In the MAYHAM LOL. PAP

My son and I took our 16ft Sears tin boat to Lake Bonaparte to fish for brown trout December 25th. Marked a good number of fish from 15' down to 50', surface temp was 40.5 degrees, fished with dipsy divers from 20ft to 35ft, trolled a deep diving crankbait 150ft behind the boat, tried yellow bird planer boards, even drift fished with various lures all to no avail. Wind was very light to none, air temp was 44 degrees and heavy overcast with a few sprinkles of rain. Trolled with a Minn Kota trolling motor. It was a great day, even though we didn't catch anything. I couldn't make out any definitive thermocline on the FF no matter how I adjusted the sensitivity. There were schools of small fish feeding on the surface but couldn't determine what they were (my FF has down imaging, and those fish wouldn't take any bait either). A major accomplishment for me was this was my first time using the 1973 25hp Evinrude that came with this boat. I had a local shop service the motor 2 weeks ago, which included rebuilding the carb and replacing the water pump. She pushed us along at 20mph and runs like a champ! I couldn't be happier with this boat and motor, which is the package I just bought on black Friday last month.

Finally got into some good perch. My dad, my dads friend, and I went out and caught a lot of perch. We forgot to count how many we caught but they were alot. We didn't get the size we usually get but they were all good size. We also got two big pickerel.