Tim Bromund

I'll still keep my Depth Raider, thanks anyway.

more of a general question, kind of to both of you, I guess.

I haven't used snubbers in years. A quality ball bearing snap swivel at the diver side of the leader and just a small duolock snap at the lure end. As far as the Mechanic, Jim Evarts at the Boat Doctors in Olcott is very good (corner of Rte 18 and Jackson St), which is a good thing since he is also the ONLY boat mechanic in Olcott. Tim

A lotta post spawn steelies look like that, the tails in particular get beat up digging redds in the gravel.

Why don't you eat them, summer silver feeding kings are delicious. Nothing at all like the nasty black, moldy mushballs you catch in the rivers in the fall. Tim

right here

Another super day out there . Dad, Adam and I headed out at 0600 and set down in 50 fow just west of port and started setting lines. Started a little slow for us but quickly caught fire. Picked up a couple fish inside, but kept trolling out to 200+ where we hammered em last week. Nothing at all going on out there so we turned around and worked back into 60 feet and really started hitting the fish. mostly coho and small kings, but a couple teenagers in the mix. Some really nice coho out there this year. 2 color core with a 6" red alderton and blue/green peanut fly and 3 color core with chart/orange tape baby doctor also with blue/green fly were the hottest rigs and were firing pretty much constantly. 5 color core with an R&R Magenta Shad Spoon took several fish. 100' diver took both teenage kings on different Stinger Stingray sized spoons (white glow and 42 Second) Riggers at 40 and 50 took several shots including a really nice steelhead on a Finger Lakes Tackle King of Sting and a nice fat 10+ lb laker on a lemonade double UV SuperSlim on a slider on the 40' rigger. Only missing a brown and atlantic for the Lake O Slam yesterday. ended up with 6 fish in the box, the 2 teenage kings and 4 coho including 2 that beat themselves up so bad we couldn't release em. Lost track of how many we caught but we were closing in on 30 fish for the day. Not much for size, but the action more than made up for it. One of the teenage kings typical screen on the graph in that 60' area nice coho Fun day. Good luck next week to anyone fishing the Niagara Pro Am Tim

Parachute cord seels awful thick for planer board tow line IMO. Tim

I've had the Amish Outfitters 500 lb spectra on my planer reeks for at least 5 years now without any problems. Highly recommended. Tim

the way I read that is, the strike trough text in the brackets [ ], is the portion of the original bill they are seeking to eliminate with the current one. Tim

absolutely, I've run a rigger down 200 quite a few times when marking hooks 180-220 down and always taken fish down there.

I have both a beckman and a cummings and quite honestly, I like the cummings better, much bigger hoop and with the 10' octagonal shaped handle, you don't have to think about lining up the peg and the hole when extending the handle in the heat of battle like you do with the round handled beckman, it stays lined up automatically. The beckman has been relegated to backup/2nd net duty. Tim

well then why will a green dot flasher consistently outproduce a plain white one many days?

The deep rigger was not my probe rigger. My down speed at 80 feet was 2.1-2.2 on the depth raider, which typically would correspond to 2.6-2.7 on a fish hawk.

Dad and I hit the lake this morning to find overcast skies and almost dead flat conditions. There were a bunch of boats working inside so we set down in about 50 fow, just west of port and set lines as we hit a 300 deg NW troll. Played around in there for a while and had an ok picture, but didn't move a rod and didn't see anyone else hook up so we pointed it north. First fish hit in 210 fow, mountain dew spinny with green crinkle fly on the 80' rigger, which turned out to be small king (6-7 lbs). After that we started hitting fish regularly between 210 and 230 fow mostly on a west troll. That rigger took 2 more shots and as we were starting to make a turn to the north to make another pass through that area, the other rigger took a shot 160 down with a meat rig running an MC Rocket fake bait. a As we were fighting that fish (nice king) we ended up on a NNE troll and ended up tripling up while dad was fighting that fish. After that chaos calmed down I was starting to reset lines and the 160 rigger fired again along with the 270 diver and 5 color lead core for our 2nd triple within a half hour. All 6 fish were landed which is pretty good considering there was just the 2 of us. By that time we were out in 315 fow so we turned to had back in to that area and hooked up again. finally got back in that 210-230 fow zone and ended up the day doubling up twice more. Put our 6th fish in the box at 10:30 and called it a morning. Ended up 13/15 for the morning, lots of smaller kings but enough nice ones to make it interesting. All 6 rods took fish, 3 color core, 5 color core, 125 diver 270 diver and riggers at 80 and 160. mountain dew spinny/green crinkle down 80 took for shots early when it was overcast, nuclear green/hammer later when the sun came out, white lightning hot spot flasher with a green glow head and MC Rocket (BS24) down 160, green dot spinny/hammer on the 270 diver, white glow stinger stingray on the 125 diver, silver with green/yellow tape pirate 55 on 5 color core, chart/orange tape mini doctor/bluegreen coho fly on 3 color all took fish. Beautiful morning a few of the better fish Good morning on the water Tim

I don't think there's an issue with 47's themselves. I did notice as I was spooling up a couple 47's with TD 19 strand this spring that since it is a bit thicker than 7 strand, the full 1000 foot spool does not fit on a 47, I could only get about 950' on the reel. Tim

You need a scale for perch?

I have the 50 lb berkley digital scale also, and over the years it has consistently been within a couple ounces of certified derby scales. Tim

Yeah, 3rd week of July. First week of June is a little early for Bowmanville/Darlington. That place usually catches fire the last week of June. I wouldn't start in 100 feet there, you'll probably drive right over the fish. I'd set down in 50-60 fow and give it a look, and probably set lines from there trolling in a SW direction. I fished a couple Scotty Tournaments there back when they had the summer tournament at Darlington and most days we never made it outside of 100 fow. That was some time around the 1st weekend in July. You usually have decent cold water pretty close to shore up there. Tim

there is no problem with coated cable, I've had a Depth Raider for 10 years of so and get about 4-5 years out of a cable. The cannon speed and temp unit on the other hand, has a pretty sketchy reputation

They are these odd looking flashy bits of metal with paint, tape and hooks on them that catch an awful lot of fish.