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Did a search for opti ,the only thing that I can find is opti copper line , Do they make a 7 strand soft wire like Malin ?? Thanks

Alright Jimmy thanks , I'll see what I can afford , wish I could get away with these but maybe I can do some horse-trading !!!

Tim , That must have been a huge king !!!My problem is I'm using Daiwa's SG27LCA reels , not sure how much I can get on them , I really like there size especially for the finger lakes ! Anyone have any way of figuring how much wire the 27 will hold ?? I thought I would go with the 20 LB so I could get more on .

Thanks Tim, I couldn't remember !!

Bass pro offers two different kinds of malin trolling wire , one is marked soft stainless and the other is soft monel , which one do I want for a wire dipsey fly rig ?? I bought this stuff years ago and can't remember . Thanks http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rchResults

Jim I guess that's what drives me to catch my first king , its hard to imagine that kind of power !! that they could spool me with 500 ft. of line !!! What size fish would it take to really take alot of line like that ?? 30 pound and up ?? I still can't believe it !! That must be a thrill !!! One of these days !! I was thrilled with the 11 pound coho but a little disappointed with the fight , I was hoping I had a king on .

Ray and MISS UM You hit the nail right on the head , I'm new to the wire rigs and I picked up the eagle claws roller rods and have been trying to figure out why the wire keeps getting caught on the side of the roller on the tip , thought I put on to small of wire dia. , should I replace with twilly tips or replace the roller with better rollers??? Thanks for the help , I was afraid if I didn't hold the rod just right so the wire didn't get off the roller I would loose a nice fish.

Guys !! , why 1000 ft of wire ?? , isn't that really over-kill ?? I no some of you are running out up to 250' when setting up but if you had say 550' total you would still have 300' for him to play with .

First I would like to thank everyone that answered my newbie questions last week and got me started off in the right direction , Tried to get out early but didn't get on the water untill almost 8:00 , set-up two riggers with J-plugs and one dipsey , dodger , fly on wire . Trolled for only about 45 mins and the one rigger with a green J-plug fired and I pulled in my first coho about 11.2 pounds , had the ball down 60 ' over 100' . The only other action was a 30 '' 8.2 pound walleye on the fly rig . My biggest problem was not marking any fish , looked for them in 30' out to 125' , probably should have gone deeper , looked like the charter guys did pretty good , either they got them early or maybe out further not sure . Did anyone else go out of Sodus this past weekend ??? What else did I do wrong ?? Trolled from 2.5 to 3.2 with a fish-hawk , tried 150' to 225' on the wire and had the J plugs all over the place !!

I noticed this past weekend when I had to increase the throttle on the kicker to troll into the wind I started seeing very tiny dots on the screen , interference from the motor I assumed .

I think that the weather would be the biggest problem up there for jigging , trying to stay vertical could be real tuff , we get alot of good weather on the fingers but Ontario is a whole other ball game !!! At least you gave it a good shot ! It would be a hoot to nail one on the jig and see what happens !!!!!!!!!!!!

Lavarock , I jig the fingers a lot also and have been following your thread , was wondering how you made out , at least you had some chasers they were looking !! to bad you couldn't get one to hit !! I was wondering how interested they would be . Were getting a few browns right now so you would think you might get them to bite also . What depth did you try ?? I will be up this weekend weather permitting , if the regular stuff doesn't work I will give the jigs a try !!

Anybody fishing out of Sodus ?? I will be taking my first trip out this coming weekend , and was wondering if there in fairly close for my smaller boa( 19' ) and how bad the traffic will be ?? Does Sodus have as good a run as Oswego and Fair Haven ??

Does temp still play a part in there location with the spawn coming on in Sept. or does the spawn change everything ??

Skipper 19 , flea won't be a problem in sept. will it ??

Skipper 19 , I didn't like the knot connection with flea flicker either as it was pretty big when done , it looked good and I felt it was strong , I normally use a uni-knot for all my mono connections . Thats why I decided to just go with a 25 lb main line and a 17 lb leader , knot is still pretty big but passes through the reel ok , not sure how I will make out when the flea gets real bad , but the 25 lb should work up to a point .

I believe lakers feeding only on alwives also suffer from a thiamine deficiency which interferes with natural reproduction . If there is smelt in the diet this problem doesn't happen. Just what I have heard from those in the know.

Thats what I was thinking ,if there real shallow 10- 15 ft or less I don't think I will mark them , not only are they spooked but the cone angle from the transducer is so small its hard to pick them up .I have the lowrance x 135 , good unit , I start marking fish good in the 20 ft level and don't pay much attention to the stuff above that as my sensitivity is turned up to about 85 % to pick up the fish and my lures down deep , so there is some interference up in the 10 ft range on the screen . . I'll turn the sensitivity down a little when I get up there and see what pops out on the screen .Just trying to find a starting point , thanks for the help .

Steelfire , what depth should I target that time of year for the kings , or does it depend on conditions , are they normaly on the bottom when staging in front of the creek mouths or up near the suface , trying to figure out where to run the riggers !!

Then what leader for fall salmon??

Thanks walleye , Nice boat , can anyone else help out also ?

Hi guys , I am a finger lakes fisherman most of the time , but I can't stop the urge to come up to the big lake in the fall !! I want to try to get into some salmon off Sodus point this September with my downriggers , I thought I would run some J-plugs and was wondering if I should run a wire line ,dipsey- dodger fly set-up , will they hit the fly this time of year ?? I can't decide what line to run as far as pound test for the kings and if I should use a leader , I would rather just skip the leader and the extra knot ,but I no it sometimes is necessary to go with a heavy mainline for the flea and then a leader . Whats the best way to go . Thanks Bruce

Hey thanks Ray , there great !!!, What a hoot , I'm still laughing !! What a crew!!!

Can someone put the group picture up on the site ?? I'd love to see it !! Maybe your already in the process , thanks

Great job guys , Thanks for the effort , good to see everyone and get together for the weigh-in , sinkers in the fish , dynamite in most boats ( not mine ) probably why I didn't weigh in any fish !! What a group of guys , probably had something to do with the fact we weren't allowed in the park at Long Point only the parking lot!!!