Tim Bromund

What I've done for years on my rigger rods is fill the spool most of the way with 17 lb Trilene XT 300-350 yds or so, then splice in 120 feet or so of 30 lb big game with a back to back uni knot to cover the length between the rod tip and the release, then a small (50 lb test, #8 I think) spro power swivel and 6 feet of so of 20 lb fluorocarbon with just a snap to the lure. it's the best of all worlds, no flea issues and you have adequate line on the reel for when you get a serious screamer on the line. Works for both spoons and flasher fly rigs, haven't lost a fish due to break off ever that I can recall. My rigger reels are Shimano Triton TR200G's. I use these the same way in the spring for running the boards along the shore for browns, except I drop down to about 10' of 10 lb fluoro at the terminal end. The large diameter 30 lb keeps the stickbaits from diving too deep and hanging bottom in the shallow water. I've used FF on other people's boats and never cared for it myself. Tim

Oh yeah, there's that too. It's been a long time since I've owned cannon riggers. Tim

Can't go wrong with the Daiwa Heartlands with a twilli tip. My 9.5' Heartland wire diver rods are at least 13 or 14 years old and look and fish as good as new. Tim

just toss it over the side, water pressure/drag from the spoon will hold it in place on the main line once it's in the water. Tim

I believe, like the Depth Raider Probe, the Moor probe shuts itself off when it comes out of the water, no need to remove the battery. I'm certainly no DC/12V expert, but that other issue sounds like a bad ground to me. Tim

did you blow the inline fuse, maybe? (it IS fused, right?) IIRC, Screwy Louies in Fair Haven is a repair center. Tim

It changes from day to day, as Richard said, I let the fish tell me what they want. Some days, before it's all said and done, I have spinnies on every line in the water. Tim

here's what they said above step by step with pictures http://www.lotsa.org/Wire%20Line%20Knot.htm never use crimps, causes a weak spot in the wire, as you've already discovered I run both wire and braid and for whatever reason, my wires always take a lot more shots that the braids, regardless of what I'm running on them. Tim

myth according to WD-40.

mud hens are what we've always called dark, slimy staging and river kings

According to the marine forecasts, there's been several days of a light east wind, so that may have brought temps up a little, so you may want to stop short of 150. I'll be out of Olcott in the morning and I plan on stopping in 60 fow and taking a look there first. If I see any kind of picture at all I'll set lines and troll out from there. Last thing you want to do is run out over the fish and it really doesn't take long to troll out to 150 from 60 fow. Your 28 and stinger size spoons will work fine, though I've had better luck with the stingray size than the standard stingers last couple seasons. From what I've been hearing the king bite has been mostly flasher/flies, not so much a spoon bite, but the steelies will still hammer the spoons. Good luck out there. Tim

Nick, if you don't already, try doubling the autostop beads (2 right next to each other on the cable) I've had Scottys since 2003 and have always done it that way. I would imagine it would be tough to lose both of them at the same time. The only time I've had to be careful is of there's a lot of weeds/debris in the water, if enough salad hangs up on the cable above the beads they can jam up at the front pulley and slide the beads down the cable. Tim

I always let my starboard diver out first and let it slowly fish it's way out, creeping out on a light drag as I'm deploying the probe rigger. You'd be surprised how many times that creeping out diver gets whacked up high out of temp before I can even get the probe rigger in the water. Then same scenario on the port side. Cores and coppers go out after the divers and riggers are set. Tim

Jack, they are Awesome. Super smooth and almost scary fast. Couldn't be happier with them, even if they ARE run with a rubber band Tim

all of the above, riggers, divers on 2.5-3.5, plus, leadcores, steelhead are typically in the part of the water column that are easily targetable by 2 color to 10 color cores. Don't be afraid to run short leads on your riggers, 5-6 feet. Steelhead are aggressive fish. There's nothing like a steelie hitting a short lead on a rigger 50-60 feet down that comes rocketing right to the surface so fast you have a fish jumping 3-4 feet out of the water, 20 feet behind the boat and you don't know which rod it's on because it came up so fast the rod hasn't stood up yet. straight spoons, no need for a flasher in front of it, though steelies will hit flasher fly combos, spoon feeding steelies is more fun. Tim

go out over deep water, 400'+ fish high in the water column, top 50 feet troll fast bright flashy lures, lots of red, orange and pink.

BUY A VOLVO So what was that, the boat version of buy a fishhawk ????

Larry, as long as she performs no act that could be considered an act of "fishing" she'll be fine. Keep in mind, that includes driving the boat AT ALL, so if there is a fire drill in the back of the boat and she HAS to take the wheel, that could technically be interpreted as "Fishing without a License" should a DEC Officer happen to pull up alongside to check licenses at that particular moment in time and push the issue. Tim

OK Ray, I'm convinced

don't worry, what you heard from slurpee is totally illegitimate and quite honestly, a steaming pile of horse ..... stuff. Tim

ok, I didn't have a camera with me yesterday, but here's a retread from the past And WHERE, have we see THIS before

funny how that "rubber band" still manages to last a heck of a lot longer than either a big jon motor or lame, cheesy bouncy boom.

Absolutely and completely not true. You have absolute and total control on the ride down, you can let it descend as slow or as fast as you want by how far you pull the clutch release lever. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Tim Bromund / FishStyx ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):7-1-12 Time on Water:0630-1230 Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction:15-20 wnw Waves: 2+ building to 3-4' Surface Temp: 76 Location: Olcott LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 9-10 Total Boated:9-10 Species Breakdown:kings, steelhead. brown Hot Lure: SD/Fly Trolling Speed: bouncing all over the place Down Speed: ?? Boat Depth: 65-170 Lure Depth: 50-80 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== FINALLY put the boat in the water yesterday. a buddy joined Dad and me on the shakedown, headed west out of port to find the marine forecast was a load of manure as usual as we were running into 2+ footers out of the WNW at 6:30 am and built as the day went on. Set down in 70 fow and started setting lines on a NW troll. Fished both west and east of port between 65-170 fow and ended up with a half dozen or so skippie kings (all clipped), a small brown, a small steelhead and a nice 25.5 lb king. Hot rig was the Starboard rigger at 70 feet with mountain dew SD and green crinkle Howie Fly (4-5 skippies and the big king). Port Rigger at 55 feet fired several times as well with NBK SS on both main and slider. One bite on a 200 copper on a yellow tail glow top R&R razor spoon. Wire Divers and 300 copper went untouched. Not great fishing in crappy water/wave conditions but it was good to finally get the boat in the water. Tim