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Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water: Weather/Temp: Great!!!! Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: Surface Temp: 40 to 48 degrees Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 6 Total Boated: 5 Species Breakdown: 1 laker, 3 browns, 1 Atlantic salmon Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: 2.5 Down Speed: Boat Depth: 10 to 20' Lure Depth: flatlines to riggers from 2 to 10' dwn ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== The Atlantic is above. CPR'ed the laker, 1 brown, & the Atlantic. Saved two browns for the grill!!

Big Easy; Nice looking clean job!!!

Not for you!

So if you disagree with the moderators, you are insulting them??? Sounds just like the way the POTUS operates.

EDIT - topic is not about polluting the lake. Stay on topic and try to not insult the site moderators.

A soft start is also on my bigjon brutes, the unit creeps for the first few feet. Great feature for reducing wear I tear on the system.

Please don't put anything on your gear that can pollute the lake (rubberbands)!!!!!! There is enough crap in the lake already!!!!

I have been using Shimano Tekota 600lc reels mounted on 8' Shimano Talaora roller rods for the last 6 years or so & you will not find an easier retrive system out there. The Shimano Tekota 600lc reels hold 1000' of wire perfectly with no need for backing. The longer your rod the more load the fish puts on you, the shorter the rod the more you can put on the fish. I second the comments above about the swivel roller tip, not needed. The roller rods also treat the wire much better, no abrasion/rubbing drag from stationary guides. You are not fighting the friction of the wire coming over stationary guides & twili tip with the roller rods. By the way, I have two 10' heartlands with twili tips sitting in the corner of my garage. They have been there since I got the set up's described above. These rods are obsolete IMHO.

Most of the current fish finders & GPS's have the ability to display system voltage. I have this feature turned on, on mine so I can always see the battery(s) condition. I have three batteries in my boat. This a lot cheaper then adding a battery condition monitor, & they are almost always on anyways. One less draw on the system W/O the battery condition monitor. IMHO

Great news, hope it works, as it would be great to lure them into a special trap & get rid of them. They would make great cat food & fertilizer.

Tim; You have to stop living in fear of failing downrigger booms, crappy rocker switches, retermination of suspected faulty rigger cable terminations, etc (you know the stuff you have not come clean with us about yet). Lighten up, you will live longer! Go CUSE!!!!

Tim; My point is that the weight retrievers eat up the coated cable causing unnecessary shortening of the cable to remove the damaged section. I have cut & pasted what you said, in case you forgot, ("you do have to reterminate the cable a couple times a season (probably a good idea anyways) because the last couple inches of coating gets buggered up)." Why do you use the weight retreivers instead of the Scotty tip up feature??? This would seem to stop the cable from being damaged by the retrievers. This does not happen with a Fishawk & my BJ Brutes. I reterminate the probe rigger only yearly, not a couple of times per year as you have to. Just another reason to geta Fishawk, they are just better!

Another nice feature of the coated cable used on the ST & DR, not! I like the tip up feature on my BJ Brutes, the pulley is high quality & hard, not to mention much larger dimension in diameter. I reterminate my cable on the Fishawk yearly just to be safe, but the other terminations are at least 3 years old now, & I will reterminate them before I use them this Spring.

These things are toppling over in the Fenner wind farm, it's been at least three months, & the dummies still don't know why one fell over. This is without the pounding from the waves! Besides this issue, they could hamper the cormorants!

Their inside game is sooo strong, & will be needed during the tourney! Great team win!!

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Bigjon Brutes, fast, direct geared drive (no cheesey belts to break), tip up booms for easy setting of lines, they are very low profile & small compared to the others, & they don't look like a toy lawnmower.

I fill all of my reels with flurocarbon, the good stuff from Europe, it doesn't get milky colored over time.

Tim says uncle, I guess!!!

Tim; Your comment about drilling holes in the boat below the water line, that IS bashing the X-4! but, I know you probably don't think it is. We have gone down this road before, you can mount the transducer to a board fastened above the water line, so no holes below the water line, so you have no point here. That unit is no longer available (FH-840), so why obsess about it for ever. By now, I would bet the whole world knows that you really, really, really hated your old FH 840. So we get it, OK!

Tim; I respect your opinion on your temp & speed unit(s) past & present, but there is no reason for you to bash the new X-4 because of problems you had with an older unit that is now no longer made, so knock off your comments about the new Fishawk X-4, especially since you have zero experience with it. By the way the transducer bracket requires four screws to secure it, not 3 as you stated. Maybe thats why you had so much trouble with the old unit.

Waaa, Waaa Waa!!!!

Fishawk X-4, the best out there!

Go East young man & hire Captain Ernie on the Fish Doctor, he is on the Kings daily. Oswego, his port is also very close to deep water approximately 1 mile out you hit nearly 100' of water & it drops about 100' per mile if you keep going North North West (330 degrees on the compass).

You are probably going to have to spend at least $650 to $750 to get DF & decent power.