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MohawkRiverDan -> RE: Ponds (5/16/2008 10:09:44 PM)

Sweet fish bro.....
Whats the differance between a brookie and a splake ? Sometimes big lake brookies look like small splake to me . . 
serious question .



backin79 -> RE: Ponds (5/17/2008 2:19:55 PM)

prtrout, that is a sweet fish nontheless, be going up and fishing all around this following, me and friend going for walleye etc. browns doubtful those brook ponds i will reserve later this spring.. will try to catch something to post when back.  I think a splake is a hybrid of a laker and brookie if i recall.. caught only one 12" in the ausable many year, nothing to brag about or  like a real full breed native brookie though!  Got my partner and crawdad going up the quickway! roger out! lol[:D]



clamshell -> RE: Ponds (5/18/2008 7:43:16 AM)

Tuna:  First pic looks like a certain pond in the St. Regis primitive lands!  My heaven on earth.  



prtrout -> RE: Ponds (5/20/2008 2:19:37 PM)

Hence the name right clam



backin79 -> RE: Ponds (5/21/2008 6:57:18 PM)

We just got back from 530miles round trip  sat-eve to this pm. We made camp at site, early 3am drove another 60miles north and used rapalas before sun burned the fog. I was shunked and friend had a keeper eye. We had breakfast and went the north end for bait.. tried the mouth until the rain/wind  blew us in... went back below and fished through the eve and by 3:30am between rain from a shoreline we manage 5 keeper eyes.  alot of throw backs both raps and floated leech rigs. Slept till about 8am in cab and made it for a welcomed breakfast and back to catskills. fly fishing very sporatic not much bug on windshield/few caddis/rainy windy conditions and the headcold didn't help. We checked a few holes along the upper del. and took the crawdad out in a brookie pond. I caught the only one about a lb. on a leech tied to a slip rig drifting until again, the wind and rain pushed us in. The walleyes were great , I filleted them and fried them in pancake mix and used horseradish mayo for topping. One thing sucks about colds is you can't taste nothing! lol esp. these delicate fish. still two sandwiches left and a brookie for tomorrow.[;)]



backin79 -> RE: Spot Burning .... (5/21/2008 7:06:04 PM)

I bet it is easy enough to guess where i was 60miles north of del.side catskills? The pond I caught the brookie is too precious and rare a habitate to expose online. And nothing selfish about that! The walleye spot is not the susquahana either.



prtrout -> RE: Spot Burning .... (5/22/2008 8:52:22 AM)

Backin
Sounds like a good trip.  Sorry the weather wasn't any better.  You may need to fill me in on how to catch walleyes.  Other fish I've seemed to have figured out, but those things I can't get with any consistancy.  What's the secret?



backin79 -> RE: Spot Burning .... (5/22/2008 1:34:08 PM)

prtrout, still recouping from this nasty cold, anyway, yes it was weird the weather didn't bother getting out on any of the three reses. we normally troll this time of year for pic. trophies.. I assure you I will get that 15lb plus someday though in my catskills. The walleye spot is really seasonal thing imo.. otherwise these fish are simply far few between.. We found out a few local secret spots where the fish just pool up this time of year. We like rapalas and learned to use them over the years..i suppose all quality stickbaits will work just as good. The trick is knowing the depth you are fishing,where and what the fish are feeding and of coarse getting that lure down to the fish. This was a spot in a section of river in broome county. We will be trying for walleyes again in june sometime camping on oneida lk.  hopefully. Honestly though , I was very impressed with the native pond brookie I caught on the way back using a leech drifted on a barrel egg sinker before being whipped inshore by thunderstorm. Leeches are great live natural bait for all game fish. even the pain in the A little pumpkinseeds were hitting them.



backin79 -> RE: Spot Burning .... (5/31/2008 10:04:34 AM)

Can any of you experienced digital camera photographers give me a tip for whats best for self portraits ? noticed  the terrific pictures here. I was looking at the canon A 590 IS but sometimes I;m alone and want to do self portraits of these big ones I release. What compact camera /combo kit should be good for me? thanks in advance



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