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Since the St. Lawrence Seaway will always remain open, Alewives will continue to persist in Lake Ontario. If you believe this premise then you must also understand that as long as there are Alewives, Chinook Salmon(Kings) will be needed to control this baitfish. Therefore, there will always be kings in Lake Ontario. In an attempt to stop Chinook Salmon from the continual treatment as a second rate "exotic" species by politicians who don't understand why an "exotic species" salmon program needs funding or by biologists who are in the hardcore "native species-only" camp. Perhaps changing the designation will lessen the burden. Sorry everyone but I have to close this puppy down. It appears the site started asking for donations. I never set up the site to ask for donations. I smell a rat.

Go ahead and kill the fish. The information gleamed will help fishermen understand daily fish movements. They probably will not get the tag back if you release the fish so make some fillets.

At the state of the lake meeting tonight Andy Todd with the OMNR presented information on a current fish tagging study on Lake Ontario. If anyone catches a tagged fish or finds a tag (large cylindrical) washed up on beach or stream, return the tag to the address posted and receive $100 from the good folks in Ontario, Canada. Not a bad deal eh?

NOTE!!! the situation at the Catt is changing rapidly. Silver Creek residents are getting ready to be evacuated according to some of my relatives down there. I would not plan on a trip out there being a sure thing as things are starting to percolate.

So it seems that a charging system will not really help with my downrigger power. What is needed is something between the battery and the riggers that help supply a consistent source of amps. Does any product out there do this?

Similar to last year. Smaller fish, higher in the water column fishing, lots of leadcore, spoon bite. The hope is we didn't lose the year class of Kings like last year. Fishing was great last year for everything but kings on the west end. 50 fish in four hours of shoreline trolling, 35 lakers in 4 hours of trolling with two rods in.....these are crazy numbers that happened last year. For me however, ........it all about the kings.

Exactly Senior Snagger! You are making my point for me. The DEC is hypocritical stocking species all over the place at their discretion. Now this has opened up wonderful opportunities for us sportsman ....for sure! So on one hand they are planting "exotic" species then take an anti-exotic stance when money is involved.....see also King Salmon vs Lake Trout. Hypocrisy. PS: Some interesting reading about what the Canadian Atlantic Salmon farming program has done to the Pacific Salmon on the west coast.

So I am reading that the 9.9 will only produce 6 amps at full throttle and the small amount of charge happening at trolling speed may not help anything. What are you seeing PAP on yours?

Let me get this straight......the NYSDEC gave New Jersey steelhead and salmon eggs to develop a PACIFIC species fishery on the Atlantic side..... If this is true HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSE TO TAKE THE DEC STANCE THAT THEY ARE CONSERVATION MINDED AND ARE PRO NATIVE SPECIES AND AGAINST EXOTIC SPECIES????? THIS IS AS STUPID AS CANADIANS FARM RAISING ATLANTICS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. I see someone mentioned the article was from 1988. Man I hope smarter minds prevailed.

I am using new Cannon downrigger power cords only. Two batteries hooked to a perko switch placed on "both" setting. Agreed on the amp/voltage draw at the rigger but how am I going to measure that?

Exactly! I like simple.....that is why I didn't get the digitrol model. A simple machine that goes up and down. I don't think my center Big Jon Brute has a circuit board.

I would like to add charging capability to my trolling motor. Specs are 9.9 Merc 4 stroke manual start. What do I need?

I don't know Pap, I have a voltage meter at the helm and I have never detected low voltage issues.

The Canadians are moving steelhead stocking to mostly Western ports of Lake Ontario because they are finding steelhead are breeding in tribs of the St. Lawrence River.

Brand new power cords, brand new connections so neither case fits the failure.

Help me out here as I am not an electrician. Where is the capacitor placed? Between the rigger and the battery? I am wired direct to the battery. The capacitors I see available are for marine stereo applications. Wouldn't onboard chargers have a capacitor built in?

So after contacting Cannon representative thru their customer service email service, the company is standing behind their less then adequate 3 month warranty. I have received no satisfaction from going down this path. Would anyone buy something if they thought it would last only 3 months? Inferior product, inferior warranty. I will look elsewhere when it comes time to buy new.

Downrigger balls in all forms rarely spin but move in a "watch-wind" motion. Given there are two metals in the cable twisting back and forth over time, their dissimilar properties are probably changing at different rates over time. Just a guess.