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Location: Upstate New York | Fishing just doesn’t get old! Tomorrow will be my last trip of 2018 on the St. Lawrence. Ill be going out of Clayton and have a few new spots to try; also, going to dedicate a good hour or so as I do every trip to build my custom mapping files.
The rest of the week is plugged up with work commitments.
After that I’m hoping for a slight warmup; enough to get my boat to the “boat wash” to get rid of some of the nasty road salt that gets on EVERYTHING when the roads are wet.
You never know when the big one is gonna bite!
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Good luck stick a pig. I don't know if the harbour in Gan is open I suspect not last weekend was our last. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Good luck. Smash a giant. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I thought I'd made my last trip a week ago, but now it's going to warm by week's end. I'm considering going back to a lake where I lost one of my best baits last spring. I got a thirty incher that did a roll in the net. Released her just fine, but next cast my line broke, I'm thinking where the fish rolled on it.
That part of the lake was abt 5 ft of murky water, no finding it the day I lost it. Now, they are drawing down the reservoir and I may have a chance to wade thru the mucky dead lillypads to search for it.
Two and a half hour drive, little real chance to either find the bait or find fish; would you go? m |
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Location: Ashland WI | I would not drive 2.5 hrs for a bait that I was sure I would find much less one I might not.
I would drive 2.5 hrs to fish though. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Drive the 2 1/2 hours, spend a few minutes looking for the lure, and the rest of the day fishing...
you just never know!!
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Location: Upstate New York | Having some breakfast at the Koffee Kove in Clayton. Some of the locals are talking football...
By the way, I find the iPad app called “Windy” very, very accurate for wind forecasts. Pretty #*^@ accurate!
What do you guys use for wind forecast?
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Yeah, I'm leaning that way, too; only now I find that a lake 25 miles to the north of this one has ice. Gotta see what thaw we get md-week I guess. m |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | 1900Tyee - 12/10/2018 7:04 AM
Having some breakfast at the Koffee Kove in Clayton. Some of the locals are talking football...
By the way, I find the iPad app called “Windy” very, very accurate for wind forecasts. Pretty #*^@ accurate!
What do you guys use for wind forecast?
1900Tyee
Is the harbour not iced in I was told Gan was to the outer docks and the launch was iced in .
I have Windy on my phone but usually use Windfinder I use the Kingston Airport for location because it will give a real time report as well as a forecast but also has Amhurst Is. and Gananoque.
Good luck stay safe looks like other than being from the east north east wind should be quite manageable |
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Location: Upstate New York | No ice anywhere. Cold morning though. Took a splash on the windshield and it froze instantly. Yes, was a manageable day and by 1:30 the wind died right down to nothing...then it was like fishing on a pond. Very enjoyable day.
I was marking clusters of fish between 15 and 20 several times throughout the day. Four or five here and there...but don’t know what the heck they were. I also marked some much bigger fish; that could have been muskies but I couldn’t get anything to bite because I still suck at this. Believers, grandma, slammer, Radtke pike minnows...I even pulled a Williams Wabbler behind a one ounce weighted leader; NO TAKERS!
I only saw one other idiot out there trolling.
Btw, I had to idle my Verado for about 5 minutes before it started peeing water. Then it started dribbling (still talking about the Verado boys) and then it looked normal shortly after that. That always makes me nervous, but I read that’s what you are supposed to do when it’s really cold and things get sticky.
The boat is all washed down and after a little straightening, it will go into storage this weekend. I’m putting a good charge on the batteries, and it will be raring to go in the spring.
Now where is my ice fishing gear?
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Well, I didn't have any luck finding my missing bait today. Brown bait on brown mud amongst brown lily weeds - not a good chance.My trolling motor quit the first five minutes out - keeps tripping a breaker. I did raise a good fish the next cove over, then hooked a smaller one that flipped off boatside. Nothing doing in five of my other spots so back to that cove and I raised a real nice fish twice, good set of shoulders.
Ended the day with this 32. Happy Holidays, m
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| Hello MIKIE -- I'm still kickin down in Ky .. you go to Clearfork ? |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Howdy to your own self.
Nope, haven't been up there in a few years.
all my best, m |
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The Last Trip of 2018 !