Way to go Lee, Julie and Anthony.. Awesome job catching. Hope it's justed a busted shear pin or something Lee.. Nice pictures...

Nice pics Lee that one crappie you are holding has a little striper pattern.Hows the boat have you figured out whats wrong?

Thanks guys...
We've been getting white with the blacks. Not sure what's wrong with the boat and don't even know where to start. I put a call into the insurance company just incase whatever I hit did some damage that is unseen. Going to drop it off at mechanic on Tuesday and see what's up.

Lee - I'm about ready to pull what little hair I have left out with all the automobile problems our family has been having lately. This last Wednesday $1200 on Rosa's van and we have an appt. scheduled for Tuesday to have a roof leak fixed, hoping that isn't very expensive... On the way to fishing the Big O this morning my throttle cable snapped and being the hardore fisherman Iwe are Todd and I left it over on the intersection of 316 and 31 til we got done fishing and then I called AAA for a tow back to Rome. The fishing was pretty good in that we caught a nice mixed bag of crappies and one shy of a limt for two of keeper eyes, we released all the fish. I love Todd's new Lund, what a beautiful boat she is.. Thanks Todd for holding my fishing gear at your house for me, there's no way I would have been able to carry all my umpire gear and my bat bag, thanks buddy. Well we caught 6 walleyes jigging in deepwater on the Big O and about 10 or so crappies in the canal.

Here's the pics

Tim great pics bud its a good thing you have the second job to take care of some of the repairs on the vehicles.It was nice fishing with you today. I hope that throttle cable does't set you back to much let me know when you have more time and we will take the lund on another voyage to a different body of water.Good luck Tim talk to you soon.

Well Tank and I are back from 3 days down the river. We fished for a few hours friday morning. We ended up catching a dozen eyes. Heres Tank down river on "his" rock netting one...

Things were winding down and the heat was cranking up. We were getting ready to head out and I got on the rock for a few more cast. Nailed this 27 incher

Fat, healthy, and released! Tank is getting better with the camera but clipped the top of my head off...

After that we headed down to camp. 6 other guys were there and we had a nice lunch then hit the beverages and started throwing horseshoes. Tank with his softnball pitching form...

Him and I teamed up and won about 10 straight then I believe the drinks kicked in and we lost 2.
This momma and bambi made and appearance and the little one needed a drink...

We had a big supper, went down the river for a swim, then hit the hay. After a solid breakfast we loaded the gear and were off...

My cousin Steve with the first fish of the trip...

Shortly later I got the pool winner at 22in. We put in 2 bucks apiece on the biggest fish. Easiest 14 bucks I ever made, lol...

We canoed and fished down to where Dad and another guy met uswith the food, the grill, and the rest of our gear. A quick lunch and we were off another few miles to where we cammped for the nite. Fishing was kinda slow as the river was low clear and warm. We did get enough eyes to have a big meal riverside though. Also caught a bunch of bass and chubs...

After a bad night sleep on some hard ground and big breakfast we pushed off again and fished our way down to the pick-up. Caught some eyes, bass, and chubs again. Ate, drank, fished, and laughed a ton - had a ball . Got a tad too much sun also...
Heres a shot of my cousin Randy up on a large rock. He caught 2 nice smallies from up there. As I was ready to take a picture of one the fish made a last ditch wiggle and made it to the water...

Nice fish and reports everyone!!!

Now that's a great weekend Jay, those walleyes are gold and buttery... I am taking tomorrow off, we got a call and Karen's water broke so I should be a grandpa in a few hours or so... I'll post some pics from the hospital tomorrow.

Canaderago was tough . . .especially since my engine decided to act up. Got an oil alarm about 2 minutes after taking off. Knew I put the boat away with a full 2.5 gallons . . . hmmm barely any in the reservoir. Finally found a guy on shore that had a gallon to spare and went on my merry way . . . kind of. Could not go faster than 10 mph without getting the alarm. So fished the best we could. Weighed in a limit eventually but not much weight . . . ended in 6-7 place out of 20 . . . no money though. Most fish caught on a chartreuese XPS rattletrap type crank. Biggest just under 4lbs. They were spread out all over . . . no pattern really. Also caught a nice walleye on the northeast end on the edge of the channel.

Real quiet in here guys!? Any reports from the 4th?
Beth and I spent the day/ evening at a buddys cottage on Cayuga. Just relaxed, ate, drank, swam. ect. No fishing till me friends 3 year old asked me to help him catch a fish. First cast with his "spiderman" light up rod I hooked a rock bass for him to reel in. Messed around a little more and got a few gills and perch...
Heres some picts...




Not the best picture but wow was he excited. At first he wanted to cook it on the camp fire but then I convinced him to let it go to get bigger...

Beth and I...

Some fireworks... Not a very easy thing to photograph as I discovered...

Nice pics Jay looks like you had a good weekend .Timmy should have a couple of sunrise pics from yesterday morning that should look cool.We went out on the Big O and it was slow very slow.

Been out on the boat a couple times, but haven't fished much. Coming back home from the lake on the 4th, we had an encounter with a deer. What a mess the van is! Man those things can do a number on a vehicle. Heading out today, hopefully we'll get into some fish.

Great pics Jay. That looked like a fun trip!

Tim, hope all's well with the grand daughter.

Todd, heading out today?

Cheff, where the heck are you!!!

Well my two youngest daughters were up over the weekend and after a long drive from New Orleans, they wanted to give Dad a belated Father's Day gift . . . so they got one day licenses and we headed to Delta. Yes the old dead sea . . . NOw you would think that after putting over $500 into the boat it would be good to go . . .but NOOOOO. It would not go into gear! So I used the trolling motor and batteries to their optimum capability. The "girls" (27 and 24) were good sports and said it was all about the people. Awwww, yeah I know they were looking for money. Anyway, we trolled off to the back sets and on the way found a couple of perch and then . . . a nice school of Delta craps!! Between the three of us we C&Rd about 30. So a succesful day and fish were caught too. As for the boat . . . I will shortly be the owner of a new ZX190 Skeeter with a Yamaha 150 4 stroke. Thought I would go green and maybe even save some money eventually. Pictures in the next couple of weeks.

Wow Frank nice boat and good story about the craps, they should be fun this winter and I hope there growing. Frank came down and showed me the pictures of it and with that Yammy on the back it should be a good runner for a long time.

Jay nice camera shots horizon and fireworks. I still have to find time to post the pics from Todd and my trip this weekend, unfortunately I have been very busy with other things had to run out and pick up a car for my daughter last night in a villa between Seneca and Cayuga lake and didn't get home til 10:30 p.m. last night. Have the late game tonight in Floyd and were still in 1st with a 7-1 record just registered our team for a wood bat tourney in Ilion in August. Got my umpire schedule and I am working from Wednesday straight through til Sunday. On the the way back from picking up Karen's car I talked to Scott Brauer and Maki's site has gotten a facelift, check it out, the ordering has gotten very easy. Scott say's hello to all the crew here and thanks for your support.

Congrats on the new boat! The four stroke will make a big difference on the wallet.

New Orleans! That’s my old stomping grounds. I sure do miss what it used to be.

Got the bad news on the van $3K! OUCH! I’ll have to harvest a lot of deer this season to break even on this one!

Here's the pics from Saturday morning. Fish weren't on for us so we got off the water early, lots of boats naturally...

Sunrise on the Big O..




Fish On!




Nice 22" Todd..




Nice eater released..




Here's a couple of small craps released..






Good time as always Todd!