clayton86

Like a bow mounted trolling motor or just a hand controlled clamp on one? Dont think its been been done but I would imagine you could do it. Maybe fabricate something for the plate area in the back. Or put a 2x4 across the hull fastened to the rails clamp it onto that.

If you lived near me I would say drop it off and I'll have it up and going in no time. Did I'd you get right off the water when it happend? With glass boats when people crack or put a hole in them and continue to use the boat the water will hydrolic into the layers of fiberglass. What looks like just a 6" crack is really several feet in every direction of delaminated weak glass. We have had guys bring boats into the shop expecting just a quick patch job but then we get into it grinding and cutting till we get to solid glass to start the repair and it's a much bigger repair then they expected. Take it to to a local shop and have it estimated and then decide if you want to spend the cash on the repair or attempt to diy.

I got it figured out now to learn to read and interpret the sonar and down imaging.

I have not because I don't have a computer to do it with. I've tried looking at Lake Ontario I'm pretty sure the Great Lakes have been mapped.

I just got a dragonfly 4pro with the navionics + package. I can't for the life of me get the navionics to work I guess. I can pull up the 3 different maps but when I try to look at contours of the lake it shows absolutely nothing just a very undetailed blue block of a lake/river. Do I need to download and register the card on a computer to get the detailed maps?

Siebert outdoors sniper for me I have several in each weight they are offered in. I like black and blue and bama craw for skirt colors and pair them with rage tail baby craws for a trailer.

I put mine on Siebert outdoors shot caller swim jig. Crushed smallies on it last year in our state championship on the last day driving me from dead last to 3rd.

No problem, if you venture towards Niagara Falls you will be fairly close to the oak and johnsons both are roughly 45 minutes east of the falls. When in the finger lakes check out fuzzy guppies between Seneca and cayuga at Waterloo harbor he's got kayaks you can rent and float the Seneca canal and there's no shortage of smallies there.

Where about in NY? No guides that I know of but if it's WNY I can show you some spots or point you in he right direction. Oak orchard and johnsons are both loaded with smallies. Both creeks are in orleans county

Yeah he is him and I have gone back and forth in a few tournaments trading the lead only to have him edge me out on the last day by half an inch. I think he was the only one to catch a limit both days of our state championship also on Oneida lake.

I don't see pedals as that big of an advantage. For the advantage of being hands free to fish while on the move you have more disadvantages of the weeds and structures that's gonna slow you down or break your drive. We have a few pedal guys in the NYKBF series mentioned and they don't always win most the time they don't with the exception of Greg Blanchard but that guy can flat out fish. I however will be moving to pedals this season going from the ATAK to the radar 135. Im still on the fence about motors though NYKBF doesn't allow them but I allow them in WNYKBF since it's only 4 events and there's a few guys with them. I see it as a unfair advantage and at the same time don't mind I feel you still gotta know what your doing wen it comes to preparing and executing on tournament day. maybe as the sport grows and more people have motor drives they can split and have own category in events. However with torquedo sponsoring KBF I don't see motors ever being banned from it.

How's the southern part of the state looking? Specifically Kentucky lake I have the KBF national championship there in 2 weeks. Would be nice to take home that fat payday how's the fishing been down that way.

Everything froze back over sunday lake Alice had 1.5" of ice at the launch, johnsons creek locked up solid I walked across the thing. Oak was mostly froze except at the mouth of Ontario so I fished that with no luck from the kayak. Checked johnsons on way home found a spot under the bridge with open water but not much and managed to pull a steelhead out of it.

You do not have to participate in all events. I'm another tournament director but for the WNY series. State championship will be any 3 live events to qualify so could be one from Felix one from myself and one from the finger lakes series. There is also AOY for each series so you would want to fish as many as possible unless you don't care about AOY @Felix77

75mph winds today new structure to fish anyone lol

It's so depressing I was out a week ago the creek was 47* went out over the weekend and had 2" of ice on it I wanted to cry

Xcalibur xr50 in red craw is my go to.

Got into them last week on johnsons creek next to oak orchard. Water was 46* a little stain but not much. 6 bass 1 northern 4 trout. Got into them last week on johnsons creek next to oak orchard. Water was 46* a little stain but not much. 6 bass 1 northern 4 trout.

I got my first six smallies of the year last week Friday. 3 on a inline spinner when targeting trout once I realized small mouth were in the creek I tied of a lipless and got a few more and found the trout with the crank. Water was 46* a little stained just up stream from Lake Ontario.

Yes it's quite a few miles up though probably 10 or more miles. There's a few beaver dams and farm bridges across the creek but they have pipes under them for fish to go threw or over when it floods.

Throw a lipless crank or suspending jerk bait SLOW. We had ice last week this week everything is open I hit the creek yesterday and got into them. I fish a small tributary off Lake Ontario this was all within a mile of the mount to the lake and in 46* water temps and raining on and off. Fished 3.5 hours got 6 smallies 4 trout and 1 northern.

I fish a Lake Ontario tributary that's absolutely killer on smallies. Got out yesterday first time this season since last week we had ice. Water last week was 35* in the section I paddled but yesterday it was 46*. I was crushing smallies on lipless cranks. They stay all summer though the bite does slow tremendously and you gotta really look for em but they are there.

Haven't hunted from any of the ones you mentioned but I did a bunch of diver duck hunting from my ATAK 140. It's a blast I might set up my ATAK just for hunting and rig the new radar for fishing.

Yeah it's a hike. Three of us are leaving Tuesday night driving threw the night then pre fishing wed and Thursday. I'm pumped hoping to order my new fish finder and some stuff this week for the trip.

That's the issue I don't want to be compliant lol. Gonna go with free float hand rail, fixed skeleton stock. But I want a pistol grip and detachable mag but that's where it gets dumb in NY