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  1. Tim Bromund
    Sorry, that's not true about the yellow spot. It is just a natural collection of pigment that shows up in mature kings. This topic comes up every year. Guys on the NY side always think it is a mark from the Canadians and the guys on the Canadian side think it is a mark from NY. It is not a hatchery marking. Tim
  2. Tim Bromund
    Article in the Buffalo Snoose from Sunday http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/environment/could-ohios-lake-erie-windmills-renew-effort-here-20130825
  3. Tim Bromund
    Not sure, my best weighed fish in each species is as follows: King 38 lbs Coho 18 lbs Brown 18 lbs Steelhead 19 lbs Laker 24 lbs Atlantic 14.5 lbs and none have made it to the wall so far. Not sure I would put a fish on the wall anymore than I'd put a deer head on the wall. The closest I ever came was the Atlantic and a gorgeous 15 lb male brown I caught at the dirty Burt years ago on my 8' 6 wt, stream trout fly rod, but in the end, both went back in the water. Tim
  4. Tim Bromund
    Yes the new holders will mount on the 1116's just fine.
  5. Tim Bromund
    Yes, many many screamer kings have fallen to the rods in those holders. They are not plastic, the Scotty stuff is fiber reinforced nylon and that stuff is super tough, I'm not sure what it would take to break it. I've been using those same rod holders for at least 6 or 7 years now, no issues whatsoever. By the way, that's not something I cobbed together myself, those are the standard holders on the Scotty 1117's. That's what gave me the idea. I only swapped out 1 on each rigger since I never stack the riggers anyway. Tim
  6. Tim Bromund
    Pen fish should be bigger. That was probably a wild one, they smolt out of the salmon river much later than the hatchery fish are penned/released and are much smaller starting out than their hatchey cousins so it takes them a while to catch up.
  7. Tim Bromund
    Yeah, I was just going to say that slide divers are specifically designed to do what you want to do. The slide diver lite bites are super for fishing walleyes, they have 2 releases on them, the front one like a regular diver that you can set pretty tight so it isn't tripping all the time, and a rear wire arm that can be set so light that even a perch will trip it. http://www.slidediver.com/ The only downside to slide divers is they line runs through them, so they are permanently attached to the diver rod. I know some people that even use them very successfully on wire divers for kings. attach a small spro power swivel to the wire and tie on a 20' leader of 30 lb mono that the slide diver runs on, but you can really make the leader any length you like for walleye fishing, or just run em on mono or braid divers. Tim
  8. Tim Bromund
    I put these on my old 1116's, worked great, I moved them over to my 2116's as well, adjustable both vertically and horizontally. I sill like them better than the adjustable ones that come on the new ones, though they are much better than the old style you used to be able to get them at FishUSA, but I don't see them listed on the site at the moment. I'm sure they are available from other sources. Tim
  9. Tim Bromund
    I don't know, we have some pretty severe currents in Olcott in many areas. It can be insane inshore as well. The Niagara river current travels west to east, but there are back eddies coming off the main current that are flowing east to west, both inside and outside the Niagara flow that are insane. There are days when trolling east into it, I'll have the boat in idle and still have to put out a 28" bag to get good down speed and when you turn around and try to troll west with the current, it feels like your in the ocean marlin fishing, trolling at well over 1,000 rpms, showing upper 3's-mid 4's on the GPS SOG and still showing 1.2 or less at the ball. There are some days when you just CAN'T troll west at all. Tim
  10. Tim Bromund
    definitely mono on riggers. I fill my rigger reels most of the way with 17 lb Trilene XT (approx 350 yds) then splice in 120-150 ft of 30 lb Big Game to deal with the fleas. I have both braid and wire divers on the boat and the wires outfish the braids by like 3:1. Both catch fish, but I've run a 30 lb Malin wire on one side and braid (50 lb powerpro) on the other lots of times and the wire has always outfished the braid, even with similar baits on both and fishing the same depths. Tim
  11. Tim Bromund
    Jeff, which model? My old 1116's pulled 16 lb balls like they were nothing. My new 2116's have 12lbs as a MINIMUM weight are are rated to over 20 lbs. Tim
  12. Tim Bromund
    you mean Pennsyltuckians :-P
  13. Tim Bromund
    Pap, lighten up. Big Water is from Pennsylvania, and it was a joke.
  14. Tim Bromund
    That's on a 3 setting. It gets deeper on lower settings.
  15. Tim Bromund
    ^ ^ ^ this!!
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    I haven't been out since Saturday, but we did well offshore. The guys fishing inside had bait and hooks on the graph but had a hard time getting them to go. Motor out to 250 or so and troll north. We caught fish from the 24 line to the 30 line. mostly 80-100 down on various flasher/flies and meat rigs, including a 28 lb king that was on the board for a little bit and an 11lb-4 oz steelie that was still on the board as of yesterday (I haven't checked today yet, though I definitely don't expect it to make it through the weekend). here's a pic of the graph in 300 fow Unfortunately, I don't know what the fish did this week, with the stable weather some of them may have moved back inside, but there should still be good numbers . Tim
  17. Tim Bromund
    I avoid the "pack" like the plague out there. Not only because of the unneeded stress and hassles that go along with it, all that boat traffic puts the fish down. Some times it's unavoidable, but in almost all cases, you can go off on your own and find your own fish to play with. It's sometimes interesting watching packs form, a couple boats are fishing fairly close together, and other boats assume that must mean they are on fish and point the boat in that direction, and then more boats see the growing pack and do the same thing. Of course, that's one of the nice things about fishing out of west end ports like Wilson, Olcott, the Oak etc, we have active silver feeding kings to play with from late April straight through the summer and they are quite literally all over the place out here feeding on the bait pods and not homing in on and concentrated in front of the spawning stream they're gonna run up til late August and September. The only place out this way that gets really goofy like that is the Niagara Bar. Tim
  18. Tim Bromund
    If you want to catch steelhead, run spoons, high in the water column and troll fairly fast. They are actually ridiculously easy to catch if you fish FOR them. We catch some on flasher/fly rigs but if I was targeting them specifically, that's not what I'd run. Tim
  19. Tim Bromund
    The Mountain dew is a white blade and I have had that paired up with a green crinkle Howie Fly for years, the Nuclear Green with an A-Tom-Mik Hammer Fly. I have a Chartreuse blade Dew and have caught some fish on it, but the white blade has always worked much better for me. Tim
  20. Tim Bromund
    I haven't caught much on a green dot this year either. I've had 2 absolute studs this year from spring all through the summer, a Mountain Dew SD and Nuclear Green SD. I've caught fish on other blades (both SD and chips), but those 2 have accounted for probably 80% of my flasher bites this year. Tim
  21. Tim Bromund
    Are you using good quality ball bearing swivels on the main line? All flashers spin, that's what they do. Without good swivels, you'll get horrible line twist. Tim
  22. Tim Bromund
    Water gets deeper off the Oak than it does off Olcott. 540 fow off Olcott was definitely in the 30-32 line range, if not further. Tim
  23. Tim Bromund
    They are the minutes, or middle numbers of lat. the harbor at Olcott is at the "20" line, approximately. Each minute of latitude in this part of the world is approx 1 mile, so the 30 and 32 lines are 10-12 miles offshore. Tim
  24. Tim Bromund
    Scotty
  25. Tim Bromund
    This one was 11 lb 4 oz on the certified derby scale Saturday when we weighed it in. It was in 11th when it hit the leaderboard, is currently in 17th and will be off the board in a day or two, Don't worry about not weighing it in, even if it was over 10 it wouldn't have held up. Tim
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