capt ace

Tim with all due respect do you think that the extra pound of weight 16 vs 15 has some effect as well?

Here's both sides of the uv 2 face e-chip. We did not do all that well with it on the east end. Given where the temps were most of the time and the water color, whites and whites with green did much better for us.

We run black 15lb sharks . They really have their place when fishing deeper in the column with over 140ft of cable out or more. Also, if you check out the shark website you will notice that the price has come down considerably from where it used to be. http://www.sharkcannonballs.com/superstore.html When fishing really deep the sharks exhibit the least amount of blowback among all the rigger weights that I have used.

Our team was very active this past season in most if not all of the Lake Ontario tournaments whether they were open communication or not. Communication really had no influence on why we wanted to fish them. In fact, some of our team members prefer closed communication over open, but not all. We fish the tournaments because we enjoy the competition and all that goes with it. If there are differences between one end of the lake to the other regarding this matter, so what? I think one of the biggest reasons that the east end of the lake numbers are down has to do with economy but also the time of year. I know personally as a charter boat operator that June is typically a very slow month for charters. Come July however, business starts to pick up all across the lake. With this depressed economy a lot of charter captains are finding themselves having to take the "sure" money by running charters and getting paid. Having to rely upon winning a tournament to cash in is just too risky. Let's not even talk about the costs associated with participating in a tourney in the first place and all that goes with it. To the best of my knowledge there were no open communication violations in those tournaments that were run that way. I sure would like to see where Mr. Hilt's got his information regarding this matter to support him making a statement like that.. Perhaps he would like to chime in. When it all comes down to it, it would be nice if we could all just get along and knock off the B******it.