Fishstix

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I know I can get these parts from Big Jon but I thought if anyone had bought them in the past and didnt use them I would try here first. I need a couple 8in reels, I need the bearings that go on the ends of the worm gear,and the brass gear that is driven off the worm gear. My down riggers are whipped pretty hard but Ive had the same ones since Ive been fishing . Ive got new Big Jons that I" took off" because I like the old ones better. Im keeping them for parts. Here is the reason why and dont laugh. My old Big Jons have the solid aluminum 4 ft arms. I keep my releices on the tight side. In my boat you can actually feel it in your feet when a rod goes off.

A little winter fishing advice. One time I launched at Treman and there was just some skim ice . You could poke a hole thru it with a stick. Well anyway it broke the transducers off the back of the boat when I launched it.. So beware..

We need a little more info. Like what species you want to target and time of year you will be fishing.Which port you will be fishing out of will help also. The hot setups seem to change from year to year. You made a good choice on the 30lb andes . Buy the best swivels you can find, Sampos are good. Sharpen your hooks prickley sharp[so they hang off your fingernail] Everyone has their own favorite spoons. Its kinda trial and error there.Pick a tackle shop in the area you plan to fish and make friends with the shop owner. He will lead you in the direction of whats working. I personally have boxes of stuff that doesnt work or it only worked one weekend. Usually whats working is hanging on the wall at the tackleshop or its a spoon you only have one of. Being a newbie you definately have a long learning curve.Be patient and keep your ears open. This board is a good source for info. Dont hesitate to ask questions..

Tamiron ,ya dont hear that name much on the computer boards. Ive probably got that spoon. Nice report ,thanks Im now going to dig the boat out ,and give ole Willie fish a call. Cant quite decide if I want to fish Cayuga or Seneca . Was there much junk in the water? Tamiron = Honeybee Great, great, hardware.

If I could get my boat out. { Its packed in the barn w kids stuff in front of it} I would probably run Sticks and the small sutton spoons off the planerboards. Black n silver or Black n gold. AC shiners or the small rapelas. If it was a bluebird day I would go after the deeper stuff. I was at the salt plant on the S end of Seneca yesterday and I didnt see any ice. Give er a whirl let us know how you make out.

Very sad news. Not to many Arimas around I would hate to see it leave the area. Mine will be for sale in my estate.,,,, For its size I havent seen a boat that rides or handles rough water better. Chaos Ive been racking my brain trying to find someone that would buy your boat. Most everyone I know is broke. Inc.me... BTW Stinger did you get his termination dues?

Bill I cant speak for the Lowrance havent seen one . But I have seen the Garmin unit In operation. Totally awsome. The radar overlay in color is amazing .Its almost like watching the storms pass thru on TV. The graphics and G2 options are ," I dont want to sound like a Garmin salesmen here" , but I would imagine they would be tough to beat. A garmin 3210 is on my Xmas list. First Ive gotta get this house sold.....

Here we go being different. Blk/purple with the glow bellie . Or silver with yellow ring. Also have had good luck with black or clear dipseys. Life is just better when the wires are working.

Thats not quite the gift I was going to put under the tree at first butttt... Anyway I want a new Garmin chartplotter w/ g2 chip and radar overlay.

Wowza . One in a lifetime. If your luckey.

Just to keep the post going Ive got a interesting steering set up that I had seen once. I think it was on a Robaldo boat but I could be wrong. Anyway it was air steer. It was comprised of a couple air cylinders hooked to the motor ,a storage air tank.and the steering wheel was a valve that moved air from one cylinder to another to turn the motor. The air was always trapped in the system . When I was looking at the boat I noticed a airchuck, like one on a tire ,Mounted to the back of the boat. I asked the owner what it was and he explained the air systen to me. Said he never had to add any air to it since he owned it.

This doesnt really answer your question. But a buddy of mine has a 27ft sportcraft and he mounted a 2nd steering wheel for the kicker just below the main steering wheel. It takes a lot of figureing and work for the inital installation but it is a definate solution. It will work when you are done. There seems to be a lot of "science" to get these boats to go straight and not wear out your arm when under power. I now have a manual steered out board that has anti feedback. I have no idea how it works. But it works. With gas going crazy like it is . Its easy to justify a good kicker installation.One that works and is easy to operate.I could not afford to fish if it wasnt for my kicker.

Its about time we got proper recognition. BTW Isnt that the LOUSERS holding the ballon down?There doesnt seem to be many of them.

Good luck with the new ride!!!!!!!!!!

I figured I would throw this site up. Craigslist NYC area has many boats parts, engines etc. Just click on boats in the FOR SALE section. Mostly salt water stuff but fun to look. I bought a car off the Ithaca Craigslist and it worked out fine. http://newyork.craigslist.org/

I havent posted anything in awhile so Ill pass some info on.My boats blocked in the barn with kids furniture right now or I would be on the lake myself. Im to lazy to move a bunch of stuff to get my boat out. On Cayuga Lake usually the best fishing time is the first week of deer season. Fish are usually high. The pike bite is fantastic. Usually a few good brns are mixed in. I started with seth green rigs yrs ago . They collect dust now . As far as riggers go you just cant beat one fish, one lure , on a rod. Its hard to say why you cant get your riggers going. Could be speed ,lure selection. luck, big swivels , or maybe you just havent put your time in.Some boats just dont catch fish some do. Are your downriggers balls coated?I usually try and get my lures above the fish usually about 5 ft. I dont know if its true or not but they say fish look up to feed. Down speed is important but if you keep changing direction it will be right at some point. Zig ZAg troll. So you are slowing down the lures on one side of the boat while speeding up the other. I also like short leads usually less than 20ft. rarely over 40ft. 75ft max on the boards. Awalys look at your lure in the water before you send it down . Is it swimming right? Are all the lures your sending down running the right speed? A lot of guys run small size spoons but I do best on 28 size and larger. Yea we get skunked from time to time but usually we do OK. My best spread is 2 downriggers,2 wire dipseys. Most fish come off the riggers the best fish come off the wires. I did not whallop the fish on Cayuga this yr like I usually do . It seems like everything used to work. This yr they seemd to want to hit one lure and one lure only. I would catch them all on one rod and the rest of the stuff would rot in the water.Also what worked one day would not work the next. Ive got a probe but rarely run it in the fingerlakes. They cost to much when you lose it. If something goes wrong its always the rigger with the probe on it.I dont trust a probe much anyway.Thats a subject for another post sometime. Just keep trying and paying close attention to little details and your rigger fishing will improve.

Three women. Thats odd.

Launched at the S end. Probably on the water 830 ish, Worked both sides of the lake up as far as Myers.Did not mark the bait of the fish that I expected tp see.There were small pods of bait and the occasional fish deep.120 to 160 range. Did manage to pick up a couple small brns and a couple lakers for the days effort. Blk n purp alpina diamond was top lure. As we pulled rods and were taking care of the downriggers I noticed the balls were real warm. I probably should have done a deep temp check. Im thinking with the N wind the warm water got blown to the s end of the lake.Probably should have ran up the lake to find colder water.

I really didnt fish it much this yr. Three times or so as I recall.Did OK most times out. Ill start fishing it weekends starting tomorrow. One thing I did notice on Cayuga and Ontario is my dodger fly bite has died off. I dont know why awalys used to be my hot setups. The fish on Cayuga seem to be a bit pickier than they used to be. When you find the right color combo they want you can catch them. Unfortunatelyits awalys a one of a kind spoon. You get all your fish on one rod and the rest of the rods rot in the water. I know during the first day of the Salvation army derby black and purple was the hot ticket. 2nd day it would not fire . The hot color combo turned out to be raspberry and copper on the 2nd day. I seen more bait on cayuga than Ive ever seen. Probably marked more fish than I ever have. Ive thought about going back to the seth green rigs but they are just to much work. I like the feeling of a nice rainbow or what ever on a regular rod. Ill be launching on the S end about 8. Ill be on channel 68. As last yr Ill post some pictures and a report. If I can get my dam camera download program to come up. As far as the fish not being there, they are there. If you are not marking them they are either on top or tight to the bottom......

Ray What so you do during a hail storm? I usually do what they do in England. NP when you think you will have that bad boy figured out? I looked at the 3010 s but I dont really think I need a 10 inch screen.I can buy a remanufactured one about the same price as the smaller unit.BTW fishing this weekend?I might be able to make it up Sunday.Ive been real busy lately. Selling my house ,getting ready to build a new one.

Personally I dont use dodger flies for brown trouts.I have my best luck with spoons. I dont know what water colors you are lookig at over there but if its stained or green water, chartruse is a good color spoon. Copper and orange is my color of choice most of the time with black and silver a close second. In the sprimg time you can catch them so close to shore their backs are out of the water. When they move deeper we usually catch them near the bottom. Say 30 to 80 feet of water.

Well after much checking and resurch Ive decided on a Garmin 3206c.About twice what I wanted to spend but Ive got all winter to find a reasonable one on ebay.The reason I went with this unit is you can overlay radar on your gps screen. Yes Ill be able to tell where I am on the water as well as all the boats around me right on my gps screen . That will be cool.It will show rain in real time in a different color right on my GPS.Yea I know Ive got to buy a radar antenna but thats next on the list.If anyone out there has any experience with one of these let me know...

Just my type of thinking but I think the older ones are better than the newer ones.