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  1. steelfire
    30 pound mono plain and simple has always worked for me during flea season. If running spoons use a 12 to 20 pound fluro leader. If running flashers and flys tie the mono straight to the flashers or paddles.
  2. steelfire
    Need a little help. We are heading up to Fairhaven in two weeks for our summer vacation. I always do well on the Kings and Lakers but this year I would like to target steelhead. Just curious what a decent set up would be to run for them. I know I mark plenty of them out in the 300 and 400 foot depths. There usually hanging out in the 60 foot depth range. I run 4 riggers two coppers and two dipsys. I also run cheaters on the riggers. I can never get the steelies to hit. Any suggestions????
  3. steelfire
    Try Hat trick with Jim Staves and Kevin Davis.http://www.hattrick-charters.com There out of Oswego.
  4. steelfire
    So I guess then a true measurement of where your torpedoes are would be to drop them down while in neutral (and flat calm seas) and see if the depth on the riggers matches your sonar. Then engage and slowly bring up the speed and see if the depth changes. I agree with what your saying. The only thing that makes me question this theory is that when I'm running my 4 torpedoes, if i have guys move quickly to one side of the boat I can see the opposite side torpedoes lift up and down. It kind of looks like a small mm instead of a straight line. Same thing in big waves, you can see the torpedoes rocking back and forth with the waves.
  5. steelfire
    Love the hard top power dive. Did you make it yourself??
  6. steelfire
    This is a good discussion!! I have a lowrance LCX26c. I can see all 4 of my 20lb torpedoes, even when they are down over a 100 feet. I can also watch the fish "streak" in and behind a torpedo. Most of the time I can point to the rod and it will fire instantaneously when the streaker gets to the torpedo. If sonar is only measuring distance, how can you watch this happen in real time and see the fish hit?? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I have been trying to figure this out for years.
  7. steelfire
    I purchased the Charter Capt package from Great Lakes Planners and it works great. Planner reels are in an easy spot to reach and the pulleys are high enough so that even in the roughest seas the planner line is high and out of the waves.
  8. steelfire
    Rustyrat, did you make that hardtop yourself or did it come with the boat??
  9. steelfire
    Great lakes planers made the rocket launcher system. It has made a HUGE difference. No more rods in the way while fishing, frees up the cuddy. Plus it comes with the otter boat reels and side rocket tubes to use with the boards. I put the top spot lights in myself after the rocket launcher system was put in. I use to do a lot of night and early morning king trolling in September. They came in real handy when trolling close to shore with all the drift boats out of the salmon river that had no running lights on.
  10. steelfire
    My boat the Jumpin' Jack. 2006- 19.5'Starcraft Islander. Set up with a 3 rigger spread but when I fish Lake Ontario I run 4 riggers. Love this boat!!
  11. steelfire
    Not sure if this is the right thing to do or not but the past two years I have been setting my riggers with my sonar. I'll put the sub troll probe down first,find temp then use the sonar to set the other 3 riggers around the probe rigger. I also move the the riggers around once I start finding targets and bait on the sonar. It seems to work better for me then trying to figure out the depths with blowback in the equation. I have been running the 16 lb torpedoes on my big Jon Riggers. Some days when the currents are really bad using the sonar to see where the riggers are parked really makes life easy for me.
  12. steelfire
    I run a sub troll.
  13. steelfire
    OOps!! LOL Sorry. I thought that was one of the new generation Lowrances you were talking about.
  14. steelfire
    Second what Broke off said. Nothing beats them in the summer and fall. Just look at the results from the last couple years of the LOC derby top 10 salmon winners. That says it all right there.
  15. steelfire
    agree 100 percent with beyond upstate. Its great to have the big lakers back again!! Beyond upstate, I have an older lcx 112c. Does your x4D show all your rigger weights while trolling?? I'm just trying to decide if I should up grade to the next generation or not.
  16. steelfire
    Hat Trick out of Oswego is an awesome charter boat if your looking for Browns in the spring. Check out there videos on you tube.
  17. steelfire
    This summer both out of Fairhaven and Oswego the Lakers were very plenty full for me. At times they were a pain in the neck getting into my king spreads. I'm not a pro troller at all, but it seemed it didn't matter what I had on or what speed you were at. I could target them with a peanut and cowbell set up or drop a mag spoon down and we were locked. The picture I attached was a 20 pound laker taken on a flasher fly on a dippsy. It was down around 100 feet over 200 feet of water. Find the cold water and you will find the lakers. You should be able to see them with your new Lowrance. I have an older Lowrance and can watch them streak up and chase the rigger weights. Its cool to watch
  18. steelfire
    Try casting spoons around the creek mouths in the spring. Kastmasters and cleos work good for me. 20 to 40 feet of water out of Oswego is mostly flat rocky bottom with a few humps thrown in. in the spring spring I troll mostly to the east of the oswego river usually 5 to 20 feet of water. Thats where the bait is. There are a few rocks in shallow.
  19. steelfire
    I have a 9.9 kicker mounted on the left side of my stearn. And two coolers in the boat. With the foil, I just keep trimming the motor up until the boat levels out. I no longer have problems listing to one side
  20. steelfire
    it was an easy fix. my boat will now plane at 4 mph. its crazy. It also pushes the bow down a little more and it cuts into waves better. The last boat I owned I put trim tabs on and it caused problems with my sonar. The lowrance tech told me that sometimes air bubbles around the transducer can cause funky readings. And that was what the trim tabs did. just my 2 cents as an Islander owner
  21. steelfire
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  22. steelfire
    fish behind the hotels with white jigs. Big water right now
  23. steelfire
    what did you seal the holes with??
  24. steelfire
    I have the same problem with my islander.
  25. steelfire
    found him. never mind
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