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Thanks for the backup Rod. Glad you didn't tell this friggen guy we had to weed through about 30 or so average Browns to get the three trophy fish we got that were mixed in with the smaller ones on our last outing. You would have become part of the GAME HOG crew and give us a bad reputation. I'll be doing alot of fishing during the spring LOC if you want to get out. Plan will be to find um, dial um in and hurt as many as we can. Glen

My pleasure CC. Just in case you decide to go with the Flea Flicker, it is pricey but I get two or three seasons out of a reel full so the cost is justified when evrything is said and done. Good luck.

I consider EVERY FISH that is hooked, battled and released, as having the potential of dying. No matter how careful we are handling them. Would you feel different if there was proof every fish released died? I don't have the proof, just like no one has the proof THEY ALL LIVE. Take the emphasis off CATCHING and get back to fishing! If every pass a certain item is catching a small fish, do you take it out of your spread? Maybe a magnum lure will only target the trophy you are looking for? Maybe only going out a little deeper will find the bigger year class? If you have limited out, and are just weeding through the dinks, you already have those fish figured out! Why sit there and keep catching and releasing ? Just so you can brag you caught three or four times your limit? Would you be bragging you killed three times your limit, and can't wait to go out and do it again tomorrow? You can always "pull off" the fish, change your whole spread, and target a trophy ! Then you won't have your rods firing EVERY pass...but you might educate yourself into being a better fisherman, not just a game hog. Now I'm a game hog. Just so I can brag. Interesting. Since you can't dispute my previous statements and you can't prove yours you start with the name calling. Sweet. You a liberal by any chance? Again you start with the move out of the fish, change your spread, your killing all the fish and then dream up some hypothetical situations that fit your argument to a T which could or couldn't hold a dam bit of merit. You want to run all over the lake so you don't hurt fish, good for you. Do what ever the hell you want. And make no mistake about it I fish to catch fish. You spout off like this is something I should be ashamed of. Take up knitting pal. I got no further use for you. And Hasbeen, thank you for another extremely intelligent addition to the conversation. "Do dead Salmon sink?" Ya thats why they call them FLOATERS.

Ya there are a hell of a lot of lines out there. And you will get more different opinons as there are line types. LOL In order to keep costs in check and preserve my marriage I find something that works and just stick with it. Period. For Browns I spool my reels up with 20 lb flea flicker and load a couple hundred feet of Stren flourocarbon on top. I find with the floro I can get away with a heavier lb test and still catch fish even in shallow gin clear water. With mono I used to run 6 lb and 4 was better. Now I can run 8 and 10 lb test and still get the bigger fish to bite. In the east end we are sometimes fishing Browns right through till July before the salmon show up. As the fleas show up I shorten my floro leaders to about 15 ft and the flea flicker keeps me fishing even in horrible flea infested water. Any longer on the leader and you will get fleas loaded up on the horizontal line. Salmon with attractors I run 30 and 40 pound Ande and I run it straight to the attractor. I also have a couple reels spooled with 30 lb flea flicker with 30 lb Ande to the attractor. Again this keep me fishing instead of clearing fleas off the line every 30 minutes or so. Some guys have problems running the 30 lb flea flicker and hate it, I don't. Spoons and plugs for Salmon. 30 lb Ande to 20 ft of 20 lb test Stren floro. Good luck in your choices. Glen

I posted awhile back about the hole being 3/4 in center to center lower than the originals. Thats the dimension Big John gave me at that time when I ordered the second keels. Anyway I did it and it works fine with the double keels and copper and didn't effect the functionality of the board when I'm running the single keels at slow speeds with light lines for the browns in the spring so I'm pleased with the modification. Good luck guys. Glen

I keep telling those dam guys I'm easy going Chris. I seem to be much calmer this year without the tournament team training going on and all. We got to get out soon. The Brown fishing has been nothing short of spectacular. Glen

I have dropped a few at the dock while unloading the cooler...EVERY ONE SANK. There is no reason you have to quit FISHING after limiting out quickly. you could always change species, techniques, location ? If you are spring shoreline brown trout fishing, you can go out and target salmon? Mid summer salmon fishing, go in and target browns, or head out to deep blue and try to find some steelhead? Late fall staging salmon...catch and release as many as you want! They are all dead anyway. Or keep going through your numbers and catch 70 brown trout releasing them all , and killing more than you would admit. Your thoughts are all well and good Raven. If I was in a position to wander down to the lake and fish whenever it suited me they would makes sense. There are always two sides to every discussion and in my circumstances yours are not realistic. Please email me your waypoints for the 70+ Browns thing. I want to stay away for those areas. Thanks in advance. Also curious as to how "YOU" would know how many fish are not surviving after release and that it would be more than I would admit? Please educate me. Don't know about you but I would have a hard time finding a crew to split the fuel bill if I drove away from a hot bite because we were catching to many fish. At times the fishing is almost to easy but that kinda would make up for the times there aren't any around wouldn't it? Fuel is also a huge consideration here. Let see, I can stay in tight to port and catch Browns with the hopes of weeding through the small ones and tagging a trophy of a life time or I can point the boat Northwest and burn all kinds of fuel in hopes of finding a few salmon, and in my area of the lake during spring and summer, probably 2 year old fish which by the way will battle every ounce of energy from there bodys. And when and if I find them should I drive away from those fish so I don't hurt them? Good fishing. Glen

Use barbless rubber hooks !!! Although maybe good ideas, how realistic is setting up fish reviving stations with multiple coolers, ice on a hot summer day and maintaining water temps. Christ. I wouldn't have any room or time to catch um with all this going on. I also don't see driving 4 hours after work on a Friday to go out and quit fishing after 45 minutes Saturday morning so I don't hurt any fish. Besides, I really enjoy hurting fish. Don't take this post personal just getting back to reality here. Now, do dead Salmon sink or float? Glen

Gone! Out of business... That really sucks. Seemed like a good guy and stocked alot of parts guys needed. Are you sure he's not just seasonal ? Thanks Glen

Probaly only need the copper colored circular shaped spring Chris. They crack over time and lose the tension. Thats why I'm always hollering at you guys back there to turn off the clickers when retrieving lures for lure changes. When theres a fish on, I like to hear the drag screaming so I don't bother you guys. Back to your original question, just pull the side plate off and make sure the rest of the mechanism slides back and forth alright and don't fall apart. If it does all you need is the circular shaped spring. Call me if you have any questions. Good luck. Glen

Easy to fix Chris. Remove the side plate and one screw holds the clicker in. Call Diawa parts and they will probably send you one free but there only a couple bucks so get a spare or two. The ones I got are for the 27's and I'm not sure they are the same size. Glen

yes, connect the wire/mono with a #8 spro power swivel 20 feet of mono/FC seems about optimal. X 2

Pretty cool. Mount it solid so it don't take off in the wind.

Nice fish catching. I kinda like the hat. Glen

You will get more cable intake per revolution of the spool with a full spool relative to a half full spool. You will also be able to fish deeper and have extra cable just in case something happens. It will change the accuracy of your counters. Good luck. Glen

Go here and ask about the area you are going to be in. Go to the Salt water section. http://www.maanglers.com/forums/index.php Good luck Glen

No problems with thestop beads or cable. You do want to use a special solid antenna for the Scotty riggers as the stop beads WILL tear up the spring antennas. Glen

Rod is a top notch, experienced observer as well as a team mate fishing in a few proams. A team would be fortunate to get him. Good luck Glen

I've seen seagulls feeding on dead salmon on the surface a few times before. I've accidently dropped a couple dead ones in the lake getting ready to fillet them. Circled and netted them back up. They floated. Was out with Chris (Traveling man) one day and we both wanted meat so we kept our three salmon a piece. Water was like glass. He was handing them to me and I was cutting. When we got done there was 6 equally spaced carcusses over about 1/4 mi or so, all in a nice neat line with a slight turn that the boat took. All six were floating Dropped a dead Brown in one day taking a picture before filleting and that one sunk. Certainly not any hard core evidence, just what I've seen over the years. Glen

If you got to use a net you got to use a net. Lots of HARD CORE c&r fly fishermen use nets all the time. In this case it's what happens after you net the fish will determine the chances for a successful release. Plop the fish on the floor of the boat and let him beat himself half to death probably aint a good thing. What do you think Ray. Glen

You will catch fish all the time with scars from eels all over them. Some die most don't. These fish are not as delicate as some would have you believe. Proper release techniques have been discussed at length on this board. Do a search and you will get all kinds of information on this topic. Glen

Where are you fishing and what are you fishing for? Glen

We were right next to you near Catfish, Sunday. We did pretty dang good, but there was more fish on the the side of the plant, but more boats as well. Heard of tempers being pushed to their limits there. I don't find a need to deal with a lot of the ignorance out there. Just got to do a little work and find some fish out of the traffic. It's worth it. Good fishing. Glen