clayton86

Got this one yesterday he broke my fish grips and mangled the hooks on my plopper.

Went out for 2 hours after work this morning didn’t do half bad.

Bass were chasing blue gill hard in the Seneca cayuga Canal so naturally I threw a bull gill swim bait and on the 3rd or 4th cast this fatty crushed it in about 2fow. Lost several others on a savage gear blue gill after I casted off my bull gill. I’m really tempted to drive the 1.5hrs back there tomorrow and hit em again.

I’ve been using my immortal 72m that Ghotti built me for them with good success but I also love that rod for shakey heads and sieberts sniper jigs. I’ve been wanting to build a judge for some time now. Next week Planning in ordering the judge and an eternity MH for jogging around cover.

I’m looking to add a rod for cranking mostly square bills 1.5s up to some 8.0s. Also throw some other treble baits as well. The main rod I’ve been leaning towards is the judge 70Mcg or the 710Mcg cut down to 7’6” off the butt. Any experience with this blank? I’ve already got a reel seat and guides and notified a certain some one I’m gonna need another masterpiece made up for a handle soon.

Personally my entire crank box specifically my square bills are 99% knock offs and they catch fish tons of fish. Actions are all good my only ones that aren’t knock offs are my 8.0s I've got a bunch of whopper plopper KO as well and they work great. My S wavers are about 50/50 KO to real thing side by side they swim the exact same. Yeah maybe theres some super subtle differences but maybe that’s why it works its got a subtle difference from everything else they have seen

Bloomfield and you can get a pass to fish boughton Park there’s a bunch of fatties in there. Bloomfield and you can get a pass to fish boughton Park there’s a bunch of fatties in there.

Decent morning for me on johnsons creek after work for a couple hours.

Finished up the rod that Scott built a grip for me for. This is the grip he posted a few weeks ago. I put it on a Phenix USB790H blank with the alps textouch seat, Fuji guides in a spiral wrap with 30* transition, used fish hawk candy apple thread with no CP to finish it all out. I’ve paired it with a Tatula HD. Wish we had some sunshine to get better pics but on this January 102nd this will have to do.

What part of up state?

The warm rain and sun yesterday kicked the creeks up a notch in productivity. Calling for frozen mix all weekend though. Bout sick of this weather though it’s good for work(tow truck driver)

ATAK 140 pros insanely stable high weight capacity fast for as big as it is 3.5-4mph with out even trying I’ve hit 5.5mph on a sprint several times and it wasn’t hard I’m just fat and out of shape to keep it going for much more than 30 seconds lol. Built like a tank I’ve had mine for 3 season now used it for everything from shallow skinny rivers, big lakes, diver duck hunting on Lake Ontario in January “dodging” ice bergs though it is said to be a flat water boat it handles the nasty stuff with ease. Twice I’ve been duck hunting and been caught in 5+ foot waves the last time this season it was 5+ with occasional 10 according to the weather bouys page and mixed duration. Little scary but the ATAK held up and got me back safe guys on the pier videos said that it was a major selling point to them wanting a kayak that it didn’t flip during my trek back to safety. Though I wouldn’t recommend doing that in any kayak but the wind and shifted and it got bad fast. Seat is extremly comfortable I did a tournament last year that was 5pm Friday-10am Sunday all night and day I only left the kayak to go number 2 and pound some hamburgers Saturday night. Sheds wind extremly well. Watch guysbin ataks when it’s windy they “stay put” so to speak I heard it just a day ago fishing with a buddy in the wind he was jealous I was “staying put” as he got blown all over in his pursuit. It has a removeable skid plate the flex pod is nice and conveinent for your electronics just two latches and you can take it with you or swap between other wildy boats woth the flex pid I think it’s sexy looking cons its built like a tank it’s heavy the Metal carry handles can get hot in the sun the cup holder area on the 140 doesn’t have a drain and can fill up with water at times. Not cool when you put your phone in there occasionally. Its fast so you leave your friends or gf behind when on paddle trips (could go in the pros section also)

His rods are TAAR a rod company based in buffalo I believe.

Another trout today this one on a shakey head and worm. My buddies PB trout.

Swimbait eating brown today on sandy creek while the bass were all hitting trout beads and jigs.

I hit sandy creek Saturday afternoon as well as the creek in Leroy. Few small hits in Leroy on a 2.8 kietech and I missed them between lite hit and guides and line frozen I couldn’t reel. I was just letting the wind and currents take me and dragged the 2.8 Keitech. Sandy creek had something slash at a custom painted bull herring I had done up. I was mostly just testing the swims on a bunch of big swimbaits I bought in the off season. Something slashed at my neon pink herring I saw the mud swirl and felt it but no hook up. Could have been a trout or a smallie idk. The guy next to us was using a neon pink gulp worm floating it like a float and fly and got two smallies out of the same area I had the one swipe at my bull herring. Ive been out twice this year skunked both times though the first time out I had one throw my swimbait after a short fight never saw what it was but it was pulling hard trying to dig back into some cover. Then I had a pike bite the same swimbait off soon as it hit the water. That was on johnsons creek about a month ago when we actually had some spring like weather.

They fit in rod holders yes

I’ll go out in crazy conditions I just change where I go. I’ve got enough places to put the kayak in around me I can almost always fish protected waters regardless of the wind. Last March we got hit with a huge wind storm bringing down trees and telephone poles think it recorded 65mph winds Rochester was out of power for a week because of it. During the storm I was out in my kayak completely oblivious to exactly how bad it was till I got in my truck and started driving and trees were down across the road all over. I knew it was windy 30-40 when I left work so I hit a small lake tributary that’s shielded from west winds like we had.

I’ve been installing the savur floats on rods I build for my kayaking buddies and retro fitting them on existing rods. Pretty cool design and concept not big bulky foam floats like all the others. https://www.savuroutdoors.com/

Thanks again scott! New river its for a swimbait rod its going on a phenix usb 790h

The purple paint sounds like property markers. I’m some states a purple stripe around a tree of fence most serves as a posted sign.

If he harassed you while your hunting you can have him charged with hunter harassment. Sounds like a real piece of work. Each state varies but if you shoot a deer and it goes on his property he doesn’t have to let you get it sole states though say they have to let you though might want to check into it.

I haven’t checked into the basement forums in a while glad to see you haven’t been killed by a laddle wielding Chinamen.

I’ve watched that video like 4 times tonight. I plan on using a revo toro winch for a reel so it would be wide. Also plan on doing it as a spiral wrap.

Straight flouro more than likely