Tuckman

Take it back to where you bought it...it should be fixed or replaced for free, theres no excuse for a new motor stuttering.

They should make a crankbait in the homely shad color for the bass with lower standards

If everybody always stayed on topic, life would be a lot less interesting

Lamoka has the better fishing, but they killed the weeds last year and it sucked after that, so I dont know what to expect this year...The women at waneta are def questionable, Ive seen some disturbing things goin on on the docks out there, still, I start hearing the deliverance theme song in my head everytime I fish that back canal in lamoka... I got this 46" muskie during a bass tourny on waneta a few years ago. He ate at rat-l-trap just like my trophy carp, haha

I use the BPS enticer hair jigs with a zoom tiny chunk and like them alot...I only throw them in the early spring myself though

The FLW has done a much better job reaching out to the nonfishing public...there was even and article about FLW and its fantasy fishing in the NY TIMES a few weeks ago. BASS still has almost all of the heros of the sport though. If FLW could lure Mark Zona away from BASS/ESPN it would be a wrap

I've never fished silver before. It a tiny lake isnt it? The york tourny I fished in honoye was in august, there was like 47 boats on that tiny lake, and was won with 12 something, only 2 teams broke even broke 10 lbs that day, but I'm sure it has big fish in it. I just couldnt believe how many small fish we caught out deep on jigs.

Conesus is great, I cant believe the largemouth bags that get yanked there. I should fish def fish it more but dont get over there much with cayuga and keuka so close...I went to Honeoye for the first time this past summer for a York Bass Club tourny and caught about 50 fish with my best 5 fish limit weighing 6.2lbs...I think I was in the top ten to, hahaha...It sure is a fun lake if you like to feel the old tap tap though, hahaha

I fish waneta/lamoka lakes religiously. I actually won my first bass tournament over there years ago...lamoka has some pigs swimming around in it, Ill be over there as soon as the ice melts

yes ww2farmer I was joking, thats why the smilies were winking at you. BTW, I live on Seneca lake so if you want to talk about tough smallmouth fishing, I have plenty of exp. with that.

Then is sounds to me like the NY record is ripe for the pickin'... If you do it in a kayak, you win $5000... If you go out in Erie in a Kayak you deserve more than $5000

All my different species of gulp are swimming around in the same quart gulp container. Some of the zip bags of gulp were drying out on me, and they needed to be relocated promptly, and the gobies had some room left over after thier numbers were decimated by smallmouth. After a winter of all of them being under the same roof they seem to be doin fine.

Mark Zona's Cameraman caught an 8.2 out of Dunkirk Harbor(NY) last year on the WGFS, though...and that was after catching multiple 6-7lbrs on the same day as well

Haha, Hawgchaser, dont get me started on my Energy PT report, I have one of them too, at least whats left of one...lol I guess I really shouldnt bash quantum its just that I have had very bad luck with them, and all 3 PT' s had the same exact two problems. On the other hand, I had one of the old 80$ PT golds and that was an very good reel for years and was the reason I bought the other 3 Quantum reels last year. When 3 new quantum reels all strip gears in less then one year while my citicas and revos still run strong under the same workload I was forced to come to a extemely biased conclusion...lol :-X The best reel is the always one that works best for you of course

I completely agree that Tennessee has been at the forefront of the smallie record hunt for the last 50 years, but we are just starting to see the potential of Lake Erie. Not very many years ago Erie was so polluted that is was just about considered a lost cause in the sportfishing industry, but due to a tremendous clampdown on environmental regulations and a vast cleanup effort Erie has rebounded into a worldclass fishery. If you consider the average growth rates of the smallmouth bass, a normal 5lb smallie may be 15 years old. With the help of the fairly recent gobie infestation the smallies in Erie can easily reach 5+lbs in under 10 years....It is Nothing to launch out of Buffalo and catch 50 fish draggin tubes, with 20 of them in the 4-6lb class. We have seen the lunker smallie potential of Tennesee. The next 10 years is when Erie will be defined. My vote goes for Lake Erie if for no other reason than because the fisherman are better up in this neck of the woods. ;) 8-)

For one the next smallmouth world record is coming from Erie, and I suppose Ill have to be the one to go catch it if no one else steps up to the task!!! ;) For two, the world record chasers in California seem to have no problem releasing world class green bass. They have even released potential world records for fear of harming the fish. Why would you think the next record is coming from Erie?? Look up the 25 biggest smallmouth and TENNESSEE has 14 of them. No they didn't all come from Dale Hollow either, they come from 4 different lakes in TENNESSEE. Oh yeah lake ERIE only had 1 on that list . Thats why they call TENNESSEE the smallmouth state. If I can find the Article, I'll post where they shocked up a 13 pound smallmouth out of Centill Hill lake. I completely agree that Tennessee has been at the forefront of the smallie record hunt for the last 50 years, but we are just starting to see the potential of Lake Erie. Less then 20 years ago Erie was so polluted that is was just about considered a lost cause in the sportfishing industry, but due to a tremendous clampdown on environmental regulations and a vast cleanup effort Erie has rebounded into a worldclass fishery. If you consider the average growth rates of the smallmouth bass, a normal 5lb smallie may be 15 years old. With the help of the fairly recent gobie infestation the smallies in Erie can easily reach 5+lbs in under 10 years....It is Nothing to launch out of Buffalo and catch 50 fish draggin tubes, with 20 of them in the 4-6lb class. We have seen the lunker smallie potential of Tennesee. The next 10 years is when Erie will be defined. That being said rickyterry, I will gladly trade you a trip to Erie for a trip to Center Hill. Its to cold up here in NY now anyway ;D This argument definitely deserves its own thread 8-)

I like spro bronzeye myself, if anyone is having trouble hooking fish on the bronzeye, try the bronzeye jr. the fish really suck the little guy in. I always start with the big frog though because it can be cast to lilly pads in the next lake over.

50$ is about all the Accurist PT500 are worth, I picked 2 of them up last year when they had that 50$ rebate through BPS and both reels were absolute garbage...I gave one of them away to a friend and the other one's gears are so shot that its unusable. ...just my own exp. though

For one the next smallmouth world record is coming from Erie, and I suppose Ill have to be the one to go catch it if no one else steps up to the task!!! ;) For two, the world record chasers in California seem to have no problem releasing world class green bass. They have even released potential world records for fear of harming the fish.

The Big lakes are open now, but they dont usually freeze over to much anyway. I need the small lakes to open up though, they warm up so much faster and its easier to find the fish in the spring...Heck, you can still freeze a twelve pack in Seneca on the fourth of july...have you ever heard of Cayuta Lake???...Its a tiny lake over by me and its full of hawg largemouth, the day that the ice is off I'm headin over there.

Well, I am usually pretty reluctant to divulge my secret carp fishing hotspots to the public but I guess I can make an exception. This pic was taken on that flat just north of willow grove almost in front of sarrassins. 8-) I only target bass on Keuka, but I can think of 9 fish species that Ive caught out there...all warmwater though, no trout

"A 20+ lb carp on light tackle is a lot of fun, at least until you have your picture taken with one." Hahahaha...I was throwin a rat-l-trap on a flat during prespawn on Keuka a few years ago and I felt a thump set the hook and thought I had hooked the mother of all smallies...Well at least it was brown!!!...If you look closely you can actually see the rat-l-trap hanging off her lower jaw...Even a carp deserves a hero shot ;D

If I had to get rid of my 7'6 hvy flippin stick I would sell my boat and take up golf

Sorry, but thats just a d*mn shame...One smallie like that swimming around in a lake is worth 50 of them on the wall. With the quality and accuracy of fish replicas out there these days there is no reason to ever, ever, kill a trophy of that caliber. JMO

My rule of thumb is that you should never have more horsepower on your boat than on the rig that you tow it with. When I first got my drivers license I tried to tow with my 18ft bass boat with my jeep wrangler and it was hard to tell who was towing who goin down the road