Yankee Troller

My apologies...I grabbed the number off their website. End caps falling off is not a new problem to any company that uses them. I don't think the kit price is terrible, but that shipping quote seems high. I paid 20+ bucks to replace the little arm on my Big john planner reels earlier this season. $15 of it was shipping to me! I work in a supply chain, and I have friends who work for shipping companies. Those cost keep going up and up.

Call Cannon customer service. They will get one out to you. 800-227-6433

Cannon has discontinued their SNT unit/probe. Straight from their brand manager I was told that their second attempt at making one didn't pan out like they were hoping, so they want to stick to what they do best. That's building downriggers. When it worked right we had the probe data displayed on the screen on our DT-10s, and with the CannonLink we had it displayed on our Humminbird 1198c. As of late we could only get a signal to the Intellitroll display head by putting a wet towel over the antenna. I would bet if you take a wet towel and wrap it around the downrigger boom and antenna you would get a signal. I know guys hat have to do this with Moor and Depth Raiders too. When the signal goes out just spray the towel with water.

Rule of thumb for leader length is 3x's the length of the paddle. Vary it to what the fish want.

Cable snapped from a weak point I guess. We are now proud owners of a Sub-Troll 9000. Used in on Sunday, and I must admit I like it. We've now owned the Cannon Intelli-Troll, Moor Sub Troll, and the Depth Raider. When the Cannon worked the way it was intended to it was AMAZING. The Depth Raider was nice. Kind of a small display. The Moor has a nice large needle to display. However, the housing is kinda chintz on the display unit. Tell me about it. He is still swimming out there. He took a meat rig off the rigger, so he didn't get too stressed.

Nice job guys! You beat some good fisherman!

nice job bud!

Sunday 6/24 - Today was one of our last days off until mid September, so we took this opportunity to grab the old man, and some friends and go have a relaxing day of derby fishing. We left the dock around 5:30/6 o’clock, and motored down to the ladders. The intention today was to scrape kings off the bottom in 100-150’ of water looking for a derby leaderboard fish. The picture got better the further East we trolled. by the end of the day the best picture was from the Glass House to Devils Nose. We ran our three Cannon DT10’s pulling meat and flies, two wire divers pulling flies, and three coppers (300, 400, 500) pulling meat and spoons. The water got colder as we trolled East, and when it was ideal the screen lit up. Big Kings were hanging in the lower third of the water column. Our downriggers took some nice fish on meat, but it just wasn’t grabbing as many as we’d liked, so we pulled the meat on them and sent down 10†Dreamweaver Spin Doctors with an A-TOM-MIK B Fly and a Hoss Fly and started to light up the big guys. Our divers were taking whacks with green chips and A-TOM-MIK green crinkles, a Dreamweaver clear green dot Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer Lime Live, and a Dreamweaver Green edge Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Pro Am. Lastly, The long coppers had a pretty good bite going on with meat. We took some really nice fish. The biggest Salmon to hit the deck was 27lbs. Our catch consisted of a nice mixed bag of fish. We landed 15 Salmon (all year classes), two Lake Trout, a few Steelhead, and a beautiful 11lb Brown Trout. It was a very relaxing day with a nice lunch afterwards at the Black North Inn. Currently, our fish is in 6th place, but I don’t see it staying in the top 20 by the end of the Summer derby. Tripled on sharks! Check out this guy!

Saturday 6/23 - Started back up with charters after a long three week tournament schedule, and it felt much more relaxing. We scouted Friday night on a friends boat and destroyed the 2yr olds in 200’ of water, so that was our game plan for this morning. We left the dock a little after 6am and headed NE. The flats was where we saw our best picture the night before. We set up short of there and trolled into it. We set out our three Cannon DT10’s with spoons and sliders, four wire divers pulling flasher/fly combos, and two coppers. Our Cannons were down 65’ to 120’, our wires were out 225-325, and we ran a three and a four hundred copper first thing. We sat for a little while looking for that first bite. Boy was this slow morning unexpected after pounding on two year olds the night before. Talking with a few other captains it was obvious it wasn’t our program as many were struggling. However, as the day would go on the bite would pick up, and make up for the slow morning. Northern King Copper NBK’s and Dreamweaver Lemon Ice were the MVP’s of the day on the downriggers. On the wires the Dreamweaver Gator and 42nd Spin Doctor paired with their respective flies from A-TOM-MIK were good. The 300 copper was quiet for most of the morning until we put out the new Stinger UV Gator, and it became an instant Steelie stomper. The 400 held it’s own throughout the day with a white/green Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Pro Am fly. We never slammed a big guy, but we had a few teenagers, and some really nice Steelies. They got their fish before the end of the day, and left extremely happy! Nick, the little guy in the pictures, wore us out with his questions throughout the day, but you could see how exciting this trip was for him. I look forward to seeing these guys back again soon!

4c"s marina has non-ethanol gas. Not sure you'll find a roadie with it around there.

He's from PA......

I received some from Bfuller, and they look great! I am going to get them wet this weekend. His paint jobs look incredible, and I think he is one of the few that may be able to come up with some really nice color combos. He seems to be very open minded. I also had an order into DW since late Winter, and they are finally here. Captains Cove has them, but most are sold. I was in there last night, and saw half a dozen on the shelf. Fat Nancy's is supposed to be receiving some also. I checked yesterday and they hadn't received them yet. If you local shop wants them the DW code is 518 for the silver back, and 2518 for the gold back. Check them out....they look awesome!

It's all there ray. Lol [ Post made via Android ]

Tyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Sweet man! I'm kinda glad tourneys are done, and I can get back to chartering this weekend. The Oak is no joke! I hope your happy with your move.

We bought too much and it has been sitting in a cabinet on our boat for a two years. Don't need it, and want to unload it. American Fishing Wire Surstrand is the brand. You can find it here - http://www.americanfishingwire.com/surfstrand.asp Retail on the web looks to be $150 plus shipping. Will let it go for $100 picked up in Rochester or at the Oak, or buyer pays shipping.

You have no clue! If I still had a trailerable boat that's where I'd be going for the next few weeks!

LOL

LOL....yup....that was the year we had a teenager flop iout of our cooler on day 1 and go back to swimming. We could only weigh in 11 on day 1. I'm not taking anything from Pete. He's a friend. He worked hard, and deserved the win! However, those .22 ounces are just so tight. You should have seen his face when Yvan and i went up to him after weigh in and said we were doing a re-weigh.....LMAO

No water allowed in the cooler. Dry coolers only. So just block ice. Trust me....it's still stinging!

Friday Practice - Unlike many events we fish this one was only going to allow us one day of pre-fishing. Vacation time for many of us is running low as more and more tournaments are popping up all over Lake Ontario. This really isn't a bad thing either because Lake Ontario has a great fishery! A good friend of mine gave us some starting points since most of this water is very new to all of us. Our observer Jim (who we found on Spoonpullers) also fished with us during practice, and he was very knowledgeable of the area. We started right out front Friday morning because on the way in Thursday evening we saw a ton of bait out there, and we took a nice low 20's King Salmon right before it got dark. It wasn't long and we had those A-TOM-MIK flies fooling fish into taking our rigs. We fished flasher/fly combos on all three of our Cannon DT10's, and also behind our divers. We ran three coppers anywhere from 300-600 depending on how much water we were over. All of them smoked fish. These rods were loaded with meat behind big paddles. We were surprised at the class of fish we were on, and the fact we had very little pressure around us. As we trolled East our observer Jim told us we were getting close to a "dead zone." We joked about it at first, and then a triple on big Lake Ontario King Salmon happened! However, after that we would rot for the next hour. OK, so Jim was right... We picked up and ran 5 miles East to the Nuke plant. We set down, and as fast as we got the rods out more big Lake Ontario King Salmon were ripping our gear apart. We worked 90-200' of water picking away at some real nice fish, but we were still looking for that Tyee! Closest we came was 27lbs. After beating up on those fish a little and creating an area filled with waypoints we figured we had better go check out from the filtration plant and West. We picked up our gear and headed down there. When we sat down the bait on that piece of structure was more than we'd seen in a long time. It was actually comical. We had 30 minutes to fish, and it wasn't long before we were doubled once again. We noted that the picture was a lot better in our last spot, but we also saw that out presentation had to compete with the real food. Sometimes that's a bad thing. What we fished over! Saturday Tourney Day - We left the harbor and headed about 5 miles East to an area we had littered with waypoints from the day before. The picture was not there, but we sat down and began to fish it anyway. Our first bite took almost 30 minutes, but it was a good one! We picked away at a few fish, but it just wasn't happening. Two of the fish were real nice ones, and they ended up being part of our six fish box, but we knew we had to make moves. When we set lines we put flasher/fly combos on all three Cannon DT10's, and behind our divers. We let out one copper with meat, and once we were into our day we yanked a rigger and put out a second copper with meat. About 9:30 we picked gear and ran to the West waypoints. We set down and people were cranking in fish all around us. It wasn't long and we were doing the same. The amount of fish coming over the gunnel of our boat was hysterical, and tossing back 20-23lb Chinook Salmon because they were too small was even more hysterical. We were all having a great time even with five big egos on the boat for this event. We came close to our first Tyee of the year weighing just under 30lbs. Our 500 and 600 coppers were smoking as long as we could get them back in after they took a fish, and our two riggers were on fire as well. We fished 80-130' down on them, and put our wires in the same zone. In the morning white/green paddles were good and as the sun came up it was chrome/green paddles. The A-TOM-MIK flies that worked best were various Hammer patterns, Hypnotist, Ultra Green Glow, Sweet Peas, and Pro Ams. We knew we had a good box with about a 25lb average, but we knew a lot of people were catching fish. We were one of the first teams to weigh in, and when our fish hit the scales we had 153 pound with six fish. We were in first for a short while before team Vision Quest came through and beat us by .22 ounces. That stung a lot, but we figured we still had at least a top 5 box given the amount of 130lb boxes being weighed in. Towards the end of weigh in team Get It Wet puts their fish on the scales and beats our box by .14 ounces. Another kick in the family jewels! When it was all over we took third place, and ahead of 4th by about 4lbs. The three of us sat atop the leaderboard separated by ounces. That was the closest we've ever come to $25,000. I would like to thank my brother Craig, Casey Prisco, Captain Chris Lopresti, and Captain Andy Bliss for a great weekend. We laughed more than anyone should, and we butted heads as was to be expected. However, we got the job done, and that's what matters at the end of the day. We lost 4 fish on tourney day and probably put 35 in the boat. A stellar day by anyone's standards. Congrats to Pete Alex and team on a great win.

That's great! I took one in my Kayak a few years back when the Salmon started running Sandy Creek. It pulled me around pretty good. I could only imagine what a fresh Lake King would be able to do.

Maybe this thread will make his head big enough it will explode........Then we have no worries.....I got dibs on his boat!

I plan on it next season. Already warned the wife... Let me know. We could use you for both West end events. [ Post made via Android ]

No, but for a price we can wipe out his spread so we all have a chance........for the guys on here with no sense of humor I'm kidding!