Tim Bromund

I think it was the shortened growing season this year. If you remember in 2006, half of January and all of february was unseasonably mild, and the fish likley strapped on the feedbag for half the winter. Considering that these fish put on a pound a week when in full feeding mode, that would explain the 5-8 lb larger fish we saw last year. Tim

yup, I have my 10 color on a Penn 330 gti and I have 300 yds of 30 lb power pro backing behind it. I sure hope that will be enough :shock: though we had a fish take the core in the fairhaven challenge a couple of weeks ago that was all of 200 yds into the backing and not even close to slowing down. Tim

I have 2 each of both the 30 lb wire and 50 lb power pro (also 2 30 lb mono divers). The only real difference I can see between the wire and the bariad is that braid is a flea magnet, so my braid divers stay in the cabin once flea season starts. That, and the fact that my wire divers seem to take a lot more shots than my braid divers. Both take plenty of fish though. Tim

yeah,'cept it aint cut :roll:

Got out sunday morning, just me and dad, had a pretty good day on the stagers. We ended up 6/8 with 4 matures between 18 and 26 lbs. We were fishing in 70-80 fow both east and west of the harbor. Lots of bait balls and hooks tight to bottom. Our best rig was the familiar bite whole alewife on a familair bite chartreuse daisy chain (their name for a twinkie rig) behind a black fish shaped blade with double pearl glow tape (I got it from the Familiar Bite guy at Great Lakes Tackle Supplies) about 50' lead on the rigger down 70. That took 5 of out 8 bites. The other 3 came on mountain dew SD green crinkle fly off the 60 foot rigger (2 bites) and the smallest september shaker I've ever seen on the chrome/green SD and mirage fly off the wire diver 180 back. This baby king was only 7" or so, I can't believe that there are any still that small this time of year. What a difference a day makes, sunday was nice and calm, monday morning greeted us with 1-3 footers first thing in the morning and built to 4-5's by 10:30 when we called it quits. Tough fishing as well, we went 0/2, one bite on a mag blue dolphin stinger on the wire diver. this fish hit as I was letting the diver creep out from 100-130 ft of wire. The other came on the familiar bite rig. It is amazing that with 1 large single embedded right in the alewife and a second treble dangling just behind that a fish could bite it and not get a hook in its mouth. Not nearly as good a picture as sunday. Tim

you can still get new transducers for that unit from Lowrance's parts company LEI-Extras. New one costs $51.95 the one you need is the HS-WS in the upper left corner of thpage on the link below. http://www.lei-extras.com/store/search. ... cers+20%B0 Tim

Hey guys, Daiwa scrapped the Accudepths and came out with the Accudepth Plus this year. They have the same guts as the Sealine, just in a lower priced body. I got 4 this year to retire some old GL47 LC's and they have been great. Cant beat em for 49 bucks. Tim

funny how different boats fish differently, I catch fish all the time on spin doctors but cant buy a bite on an e-chip to save my life. Tim

WOW, I guess there has to be a first time for everything. I know a LOT of people running Furuno graphs and have never heard anyone have anything but pure unadulterated glowing praise for them. Never heard anyone complain about either the ease of use or the accuracy. I've seen some Raymarine's and they are very very nice as well, but when I retire my old dinosaur Lowrance LMS 350A I'm realy not considering anything other than Furuno, the only question is which model. Not trying to be argumentative, but I've never heard that said about Furuno units before. back on topic somewhat, I have a Garmin 172C color chartplotter and it has been awesome for me (doesn't have the 3D charting ability, though). Tim

Same day as the Fairhaven Challenge?? Tim

The 8" Assassins are now available on R&R's website. I'll be adding several more to the pics and shopping carts over the next day or so, but the ones displayed are available now. The 10" "Assassin Jr" , 11.5" "Brat" and full size 13" Assassins are also available along with quite a few spoon series. R&R Tackle Tim

yeah, I HATE catching fish that fight back

Used to have cannons, now I have Scotty's and would never go back. I just fished on a boat the other day with new Mag 10HS and DEFINITELY prefer my Scottys over them. Tim

Team FishStyx fished it last year and we are planning on doing it again this year. I gotta get up there one of these days and visit Chris at Anchor Resort and register. Tim

The problem with places like Dicks is that they figured out that it is much more profitable to sell 1000% marked up sneakers and sweatpants produced in some southeast asian sweatshop than it is to sell, well...... sporting goods. Tim

I've been running my Scotty riggers for 4 years now and no problems. Mine cam with the fixed position tubes mounted on the swivel bases, which had the rod angle too high for my liking, I prefer having my rigger roods almost flat to the water. Last year they cam out with the extender and adjustable rod holders (both horizontally and vertically) to replace those fixed mout ones, so I got 1 for each rigger (I seldom if ever stack) and after two seasons they have worked flawlessly for me. I don't know about the quick draws, but the ones I got http://www.fishusa.com/Scotty-346-Exten ... VP1UFFEN3D have been great. BP never trust your diver rods to ANY plastic rod holders, they put way too much strain on them. Tim

no crimps , knots, crimps will always break, it's just a matter of time. Tim

yes you can. tie tie wire off to a #8 (50 lb test) spro power swivel Use the same wire know that has been posted here before. That swivel will slide right through the guides and level wind onto the reel, then add 40-50 feet of 30 lb mono that the slide diver will run on. I add a bead shain swivel on the other side of the slid diver. Then I just clip a slider leader onto the bead chain when I fish with it, easier to store that way since you can reel the diver right up to the rod tip and not have the loead hanging off of it. You can set the slide diver anywhere on the mono, that short length of mono in front of the wire won't have a significant effect on the depth you can get with the wire. Best of both worlds. Tim

Took some friends out saturday, had a decent morning out in front of the microwave again. We were marking a ton of bait and high hooks inside in 40-60 fow but couldn't ghet anything to go, so we headed north. Ended up 6/11 with 3 steelies to 10 lbs and 3 kings to 18 lbs boated. We dropped the first three bites so the average definitely picked up after that. most of our action came between 200 and 240 fow. SW troll was the best, it seemed like every time we hit 230 on the SW troll another rod would fire. Gold blade kevorkian on the 50' rigger went 4 times, R&R Frog on a wire diver went 3 times, silver and red evil eye mag went twice on the 200' copper, green glow SD/Atommik TG Fly on the rigger went once and the green pro chip green hypnotist Siggs went once on the wire diver. Divers were firing at 150 and 180 back on a 2. The lake got a bit bumpy by 11:00 and just as the last steelie was netted we had a bit of drama when the engine died. A bow line somehow came undone and got wrapped in the prop. Luckily I was able to get it loose by popping it into reverse, wasn't really looking forward to climbing over board and trying to untangle it hanging onto the swim platform in 3 footers. Had 3 fish come aboard with large lampreys on em. Here's a couple of pics of the kings my buddy's son boated: Tim

Here's a link to a series of pics I took a couple of years a go on tying the wire know. it's a piece of cake and I've never had one fail. http://www.lotsa.org/Wire%20Line%20Knot.htm Tim

http://www.loc.org/derby/leaderboard/currentadult.asp

not necessary, copper is soft and will not score the guides like stainless steel wire will. Tim

here's a little of skeiner's photoshop magic you might enjoy Tim

Hi Adam, Yeah, she fought hard. Dad and Jeff were already on the 1st 2 fish of the triple when the third one hit on the port rigger, Dad had the diver fish just behind the boat (which was also a mid teen fish) and she blitzed right into the diver rig like a spastic coho and tangled us up, helping the diver fish to get off, so then I took the empty diver rod and handed the rod off to dad to get her in. all sorts of bulldogging and rolling and all that fun stuff behind the boat, I thought for sure she was gonna shake the hook. Obviously she didn't. The Mountain Dew SD took 3 bites yesterday, the chrome green SD on the wire diver took 2, spoons took the other 14 bites. Tim

woulda had a brownie on the board yesterday out of Olcott, except some moron (OK, me) forgot to get my brother in law registerd for the derby before we went out ( I was thinking about it on the way out there and then drove right past the Slippery Sinker to the marina without stopping). It was around 14.5 on the boat scale. (see the fishing reports). Tim