how is fishing in buffalo

[Slapshot]

Had a change of plans. Fished off of Meyers in 40' to 45' and boxed 3, including a nice 28". use sticks and harnesses. sticks took the bigger fish.

[lineman49]

Wrestling Coach, Congrats! Great job.

[bailey]

I think the walleye got full moon fever and are putting the feed bag on at night right now. It was slow but managed 4 eaters and a 15 inch perch today also i bet this high pressure front is messing them up to boot. 6 fish is best I've heard so far today and they came off white city they found hungry fish. Capt joe not bad for you either it was a tough day.

[captainjoe]

Oh well. 2 walleye, 1 perch, 1 huge sheephead 4 silver bass. Trolled around Myers Reef. Jets - 20 & 30 on one side lead weights on the other. One downrigger. All worm harnesses. Maybe should have tried Rynoski's???

[FISHNCARS]

This was the weekend from hell.
I went out on Friday to my boat, and saw that one of my dock lines was broke.
Looked at my outboard, and lone behold, a chunk is missing from my prop. TERRIFIC!!!!!
I had my girlfriends family with me and we were planning on going out after dinner.
We ended up buzzing around on the trolling motor for a nice relaxing night cruising at 1.5 MPH.
Saturday rolls around, and with the forecast of thunderstorms, I made haste to try and fix the prop.
Woke up and went to West Marine and purchased a new prop with the catalog suggested number, grease, hub and prop wrench.
Went to the marina, trolled the boat over to the launch and pulled in backwards to make ease of the new prop install.
The prop wrench was the wrong size, and didn't fit. (1-1/16")
My tool set only goes up to 7/8", and that was too small.
I talk to the NFTA harbor, and they have no tools.
I then head over to Olson Bros. and ask him if he has a tool set.
He suggests a crescent wrench, which I'm confident wont fit into the prop.
So back to the boat to try this idea, and it doesn't work.
I return the wrench to Olson, and he then gives me a 1/2" drive shallow set.
I know the shallow set wont work, but it will allow me to determine the size needed, which was 15/16".
I return the 1/2" set, trolled the boat back to the slip.
Once at the slip, I tell my slip mates the whole story, and one buys the prop wrench off me because he has been needing one.
Now its off to AutoZone to buy a deep socket and breaker bar.
This is about the only thing that went good, got the socket and breaker bar then headed back to the boat.
Trolled it from the slip, back to the launch, and continued working on it.
Removed the cotter pin, removed the nut, tapped off the old prop, grease up new hub and prop, install on shaft and doesn't seat correctly, the fins hit my exhaust port!!!
By this time, I'm beyond upset.
I see numerous boat coming in filled with fish, all talking about how good of a day it was.
And so much for the thunderstorms, they never showed up.
I trolled the boat back to the slip, place all the covers on, and left.
I returned the greasy hub and prop with a rather delightful explanation to West Marine.
Once home, I ordered a Piranha Propeller 13-1/4 x 19.
This is a composite propeller with individual replaceable fins.
I read many reviews and watched many videos on this before making it my final decision.
Now the boat sits, awaiting delivery of a new prop.
Forecast is all thunderstorms for this week, then next week I'm going to Long Island till July 7th.
I hope after that to get back in the water and throw in some lines!

So, did anyone see a fool with his boat launched backwards fixing a prop at NFTA on Saturday.

THAT WAS ME!!!

[Wrestling Coach]

Wrestling Coach, Congrats! Great job.

Thanks! Very thankful for this great award.

Dennis

[bailey]

Thanks! Very thankful for this great award.

Dennis

Ok so what did ya win and why? Fill us in

[Wrestling Coach]

Ok so what did ya win and why? Fill us in

Lancaster High School Athletic Hall of Fame last Saturday. Graduated 1967 Lancaster. All-American football and Hall of Fame Kansas Wesleyan University. Returned to Lancaster and coached football and wrestling at Lancaster for 31 years (340-93-2 dual meet record, most wins in western NY Section 6 history). Western New York wrestling coaches HOF, New York State wrestling coaches HOF and National Wrestling coaches HOF. You asked!!

Dennis

[captainjoe]

A BIG congratulations. Dennis. I may have played against you in 67. I played for Lackawannain 67.

[Wrestling Coach]

A BIG congratulations. Dennis. I may have played against you in 67. I played for Lackawannain 67.

I have the 1966 game film Lackawanna vs Lancaster. Wasn't Ron Jaworski the QB in '66?

Dennis