Seneca,7-28-2007

[ERABBIT]

Well it's been 12 days since I've been out, the fleas have died off and must be too cold right now for a "new" hatch. Surface temp. was just below 70* down temp would relate to a point or shoal with it being warm on the south side at say 50' then cooling down slowly on the north side. Started about 2 miles south of Serven Point at 9:00 am with my two great nephews picked up one small 15" from 9 till just after 11am then they hooked up with 5 more and two that got off before the could feel them on the end of the line. Boated a total of 4 15",17.5,18" and 23" we boxed the 23". That was Patrick fish and Andy lost a slob at the back of the boat. After that he got a headache and we didn't stay out much longer it was HOT.

Patrick with a 23" laker.

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Andy with a headache after losing a big one.

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[muskybob]

Nice fish Andy. Keep up the good work.

[ERABBIT]

Seneca 7-29-2007

At 8:00 am + both boys were still sleeping and I had every thing ready to go so I gave them a wake up call. I think maybe this had them a little wore out:

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No way could it have been the trip to the icecream store......

They both got up and were ready to go in a matter of minutes. We got down to the launch and got boat off trailer and I got in to start motor.........no go would not turn over. Checked a few things out still nothing got the power pack out of truck and that didn't do any good. I started up the kicker and told them we could fish close to Lodi and that would be it, so we gave it a shot. Just got out front and putting first line in the water and a boat just checking things out comes in right on top of us , ( some jigger looking for marks...LOL). So I took over steering till we got some distance from him and then put the rest down. Ran north into the wind surface was 72.5* with fleas showing up at the knots. Andy was up and the rod fire hooked him up and he was into a good one. No help from big brother today and he landed a 29.5" 8# 12oz laker. That smile says it all. We fished the area just north of the point for awhile picking up one more at 17" that Patrick landed. Played with starter switch and big motor started up so we called it a day so I could run in using that instead of the kicker. Now I hope to figure out this switch problem that I had fixed before... :roll:

Andy with his HOG.....

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Brothers make up.....LOL....

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[ERABBIT]

Seneca 7-30-2007

The boys were up and ready today so we were on the water at 7:15 am the new solenoid on the starter worked great. It's better now then when I bought this boat in 1999. That solenoid must have been going bad way back then. Any way with the lake flat I set the boys up to do some jigging that I NOT good at but give it a try none and then. Andy picked up two one at 21" and 20.5" and Patrick picked up two one at 16" and a sawbelly I got zip!!! Not bad for two guys that never used a baitcaster before only had about 4 backlashes each but by the time we were ready to quit they had them down so they could get them out themselves. The boys had quite a few missed hook ups with Andy having the most. He worked his jig retrieve down so I heard a lot of OH darn when he missed one. No chasers on the screen the few hits I had were on the bottom coming up short and ripping the tail off my jig. Patrick's were the same as mine all on the bottom. Andy would just jig a few times on bottom then would work up some jig few times and do the same thing.

[ERABBIT]

We went back out for a while in the evening and Patrick picked up a 27" that went 5# 8oz. He thought he had the one to beat his brothers hog. On a jig it was a little tougher for them wind was up more than in the morning.

[ERABBIT]

Here how the boys did today :

Seneca 7-31-2007

Late start today boys were a little slow getting up but that's ok the way things went. Hoot came down for the ride and watch the fun. We had the three riggers in the water at 8:30 ish and pulled all lines before 12:30. We went 13 for 18 lakers from 11" to 23" and one rainbow all trolling. It was just a little too windy for jigging in my boat so we went with a trolling set up. Picking most fish up at 80' a few at 75' and the rainbow and I think a small salmon that got off at 30'. Dodger peanut deep at 80' frog BTI at 75' and a bare spoon (my now rainbow spoon) at 30'. Lots of weeds around the shoals and point kind of clear other wise. No fleas to speak of but the surface temp was up to 75.5*. Just wondering if this next warm spell will set them off again or dormant till next years first warm spell.....

Andys first Rainbow 22.5" 2# 10 0z.

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The boys and Hoot at the helm...

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The days catch

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[ERABBIT]

Seneca 8-1-2007

I slept in till 7:30 am and the boys got up a little while after me but I just could not get going for a while. We went across lake and ran down just below Sharky Point and set up and trolled north with three lines in the water at 9:00 am. Fished till 11:00 am when it got to hot out for the boys , even thou we put 5 fish to the boat in the last half hour.

We went 9 for 10 --- 20,15,15,25,21,24,13,20,16 we kept the 24,25 and a 20 for lunch. All fish came on the deep rigger down 80' when I dropped the BTI with in 5' of the deep one they shut down till I brought it back up a 30 minute later. Saw a fellow Pa.er in the Severn area drift fishing just so you know if you read this you pulled up your third line to late. Turning your back to me and keeping the rod tip low while you reeled it in would NOT have worked if I was DEC but you gave me a good laugh.

I had the fish iced down good so we went in and the boys jumped in the lake for a while.

The Boys with lunch:

[goin hungry]

What's a "BTI"? You seem to be having some good luck out there at a time when most of us have been doing terribly! Any advice you can give us?

Great to see the grandkids having so much fun - that's what it's all about!!

[ERABBIT]

It was in a above post but today the BTI (Big Ten Inch) was dead here is the pic.

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Here is the web page to buy them but just a heads up these were made to use off diver rods with two fly rigs with a bait head for salmon. But no one told the lakers in Seneca that yet !!!!!!!

http://www.michiganangler.com/

goin hungry I posted a lot of info here look back thru and see if you can find it there. I have no idea what you set up looks like or what your using. If you give us some more info maybe someone here could help you get your finger on it.

[ERABBIT]

I'm back in Pa. now and the boys are home with Mom and Dad. They had a good day on the water but both were ready to pack it in. We had lines in the water at 8:00am landed 6 fish by 9:30 am one 19" rainbow that showed Andy how a REEL rainbow jumps.......then pulled up and ran north some what out of the wind for some jigging no luck on the jigging then one quit (Andy) jigging and 15 minute later Patrick quit. I said you guys had enough for this year and both said yes. So at 10:45 am were heading in..........