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You must like those crowds if you keep going back to the zone.

Good luck tomorrow.

Should be quite a bit of snow next few days plus southern zone deer season opens saturday should be a good weekend. Wish the water would go up to about 750, that would spread the people out. Pa I too am surprised you spend so much time in the zones, I have not fished them in years, elbows to azzholes with a bunch of grown men swinging oversized rods around is not my idea of fun, seems the rods get longer and the river is getting smaller. Good luck to you, got one more day of work than put my deer stand up and try and shoot my first deer in 22 years of tring.

Drake good luck to you also, I could have taken alot but I want the first to be a wall hanger, big 8 or better. Wife is a veggie and how could you shoot a mommy dear! Just busting, blast away they all eat good.

Retired hunting for me is just about being there, opening day cold fresh air just before daylight standing in the treestand. Last year thought it was gonna be the year and the buck went right instead of left towards me. Only have seen 3 or 4 I would have shot. I hunt state land so that kind of makes it more difficult.

Enough of this deer hunting banter this is a fishing thread,cease it now!
Spent the day on the LFZ with lots of company and had some success in the morning but in the afternoon I could n't get a hit,it's not that they stopped hitting they just avoided me.Those that I played with were large and small,dark and bright,the little ones were chrome and frisky.Going to fish a couple hours tomorrow then head for home.

ORIGINAL: retired guy

Sometimes I floss Deer too

I heard there is a very short treble/snagging season for them...

ok my take.....sorry have to vent,,,,,shot my deer with the bow so when fishing, nov 10-13

i was blown away by the crowds.....fished lower river below staircase to coho hole. 10/10 until about 11 am, no strikes. about 15 ppl around .

went up river n was nuts with ppl so when back to staircase fished all the way up past the long bridge till dusk

fri am headed to downstream of longbridge. were 3 other ppl in pool before 6. by 630 ....11 ppl..including 5 OTB ( off the boat ) guys ripping. so i headed down only to find just as many ppl .....i went upriver to see how back it was...it was now about 11. i counted 126 cars( on my life) in ellis. wire, schoolhouse, north and south altmar and lfz parking lots.....i was way more crowed than late sept salmon season.....looked almost as bad as columbus day weekend,,

so i went to some tribs to find few anglers but no steel ....

sat am fished again. long bridge ,,,,did have 2 hookups on beads. lost both in under 10 seconds....crowds were not bad. could see mayb 12 ppl up and 10 down stream, went up river at noon. just as crowded as friday so headed back down river till dusk....sunday was a little lighter ppl wise. had 3 hookups . one landed, 22 inch male. broke other 2 off. 5 lbs tippet. went upriver. tressel south. at 11. walked up about 450 yards. lots of ppl aroung. 99 percent were lifting or sight fishing. i saw 7 kings on stringers. i was shaking my head. i was hoping to make a trip a month a new thing. i wont b back now till late feb. i still am in shock at the numbers of ppl....i taldk to a guy i knew that tried to get a place to stay , couldnt find a room . had to stay in oswego.....

dang internet
messin up our good fishin....oh wait

ORIGINAL: waDerboy

Thanks for giving me a srawman to blame.

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the strawman is the only one of da bunch that got in Dorothy's pants....

Fished a couple hours Thursday before heading home,landed one had another on and one frisky Salmon that broke me off.Spent more time talking to others than casting,after three and 1/2 days my tank was getting empty,the golden years aint what they claim!Overall I had a good trip,played with some fish,had nice weather,enjoyed most of my fellow anglers company.The only drawback was the number of people there,even during the week,guess if I go again in this time period I'll have to venture out of the zones,rippers or not!

ORIGINAL: Lucky13

Based on the size of saw of the splashes I saw when the weight hit the water, you got soe rippers in the zones as well.

L13

They're stealth rippers but most are fishing for them,below the bridge there are many,many slob rippers.

ORIGINAL: dimebrite

Oh yeah; thanks for the report jack... hey; why salmon river more than erie this year jack??

Two reasons dime.....very low water in Erie reducing it to puddles connected by riffles,and my Erie fishing partner was n't available so I picked the closer of the two for this trip.However,this week Erie got a shot of rain and if they get more water my next trip will be west.

ORIGINAL: Lucky13

Based on the size of saw of the splashes I saw when the weight hit the water, you got soe rippers in the zones as well.

L13

Lucky---the fish like those splashes---brings them back to a simpler time when they were minnows in the holding tank(think dinner bell).

Nice!