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Here are the capacities of the 60 Series vs 800 Tekota, the mono capacity is identical so it will hold what an 800 holds. 60 Seagate 40/370 Mono 60/700 Braid Tekota 800 40/370 80/640

Here are the new Diawa levelwinds geared towards Great Lakes copper fishing in size 50 and 60. They rolled out two reels, one higher end and one a tad more affordable. Both High Speed 6:1 reels. Looking forward to them, I'll be selling my 800 Tekota and replacing with the 60 Seagate, less expensive and hi-speed. Yankee tipped me off so I checked Diawa's site yesterday and saw them figured I would let you guys know. Seagate- http://www.daiwa.com/reel/detail.aspx?id=693 http://www.tackledirect.com/daiwa-sgtlw60h-seagate-levelwind-reel.html 149.99 - Same capacity as 800 Tekota. Sealine- http://www.daiwa.com/reel/detail.aspx?id=694 http://www.tackledirect.com/daiwa-slw50h-sealine-levelwind-reel.html 109.99

I would pound that inside, it can be tough but those inside fish will go no matter what you just have to wait them out and work em hard. Don't be afraid to put the speed to em, I've had some great bites at 3.0 at the ball you have to tick em off a little bit. I do better working the inside with spin docs and fly's for whatever reason.

You definitely want to get yourself a wire setup, get a dipsey rods, install some twili tips and get a Diawa 47 or similar real (convector 30 or Tekota 600 same size) and load it up with 1000 ft spool of 30lb wire. Learn the Lotsa wire line knot http://www.lotsa.org/Wire%20Line%20Knot.htm and you'll be good to go, wrap your spool with either electrical tape or some mono prior to spooling and keep it tight. Wire divers are the bread and butter program that you should absolutely run. They saw off the fleas and catch fish, IMO a must have.

Fished the 2nd trip from Ohio this past weekend. Found some active fish near where I fished last weekend at the 29.5-31.4, Saturday worked a long stretch north to south. Sunday worked a small .5 mile circle that was pretty loaded a couple clicks east from Saturday's spot. Saturday we struggled for bites but got a couple big ones one came offshore late morning and the other evening after break time for lunch Saturday I think we boated 15 fish or so all day for both morning and evening trips and sunday was great action boating over 20 fish by noon mix of big steel (3 just over 10) and one mature at 20 with some smaller kings. Saturday the two big ones @ 26lbs both came on the spoon below, 3 setting between 151-181 took the big boys and some other fish, other spoons that worked well were DW Glow metallic frog (frogs been hot), 42nd, and pink alewife in mag mupped on a 66 rigger. Temp was good down between 50-70 so the 3 setting on wire was best and the mupped spoon 10 above seem to take the most fish. Chrome Green Dot Spinny with Billy V Green Ghost took a bunch of fish, as did Nuclear Green with Green Crinkle. Actually pulled a nice fish on White Green Dot with Hammer as well. First trip running a 300 saltist, reels is great and worked well running it on a TX 44 board, I need a shorter stouter rod but overall it worked very well, great drag and great pickup on the reel, I wish the 800 Tekota picked up line as fast but that reel isn't a slouch either. Last weekends trip was all friends this weekend took my Dad and my Mom's cousin and a friend Adam to help run rods, family haven't fished together in over 20 years and my mom's cousin hasn't ever fished Salmon so he was loving it, they were ear to ear smiles all weekend. Be back in 2 weeks for round 3. I hope the weather is equally as good, totally spoiled the last 5 days on the water.

Have you guys pulled TX44 boards with that rod? How does it do? I just added a 300 saltist and tried a cheap 9 ft rod and it was hell fighting a mature on the rod. I need something stiffer and shorter and was considering that rod. I'm almost thinking 8'6 is too long. Anyone know how the 8ft Talora is for pulling inline boards with copper. I have the 9ft Talora and it's an awesome chute rod but no idea what the 8 is like and would like an opinion before I drop the coin on one.

Green dot is normally a goto for me but I didn't pull fish on it last weekend fishing 32 hours over 3 days and I ran it early and late. I did however pull on Green Dot chrome. Nuclear Green pulled a couple big boys and NKB Dew Chrome did good, Livewire also pulled fish as did Showtime. During high sun I run color and chromes seems to get them fired up and they can see the flash when it's bright out, then glow during morning and evening hours. Mnt Dew on White Glow did really well too. I'm going to give the frog some time this weekend as well as Gator.

Amen Tim, that's why I like Olcott, never to much traffic and fish can be caught anywhere, even when the inside bite is on you have miles of good water to work.

Yeah I'll be back up for Saturday and Sunday, offshore bite is a for sure thing I will probably skip trying to get bit on inside waters unless I see killer marks, I'll go in for lunch and finish off the day inside.

You can always make one that slides into a short 12 inch piece of track mounted on your gunnels, I've seen this setup before looked good and functional. Wood is cheap, tracks aren't bad.

Awesome steelies guys, I'd love to catch one high teens - 20's.

Saturday evening we had 2 steelies, 2 shakers and 2 matures. Our best marks and bait were 1/4- 1/2 mile west of Barn. One mature on 240 wire on a 2 and the other was 450 copper. Both matures came on spin docs, all 3 days they seem to show a preference to brighter whiter flashier based flies, hammer for the first time ever didn't catch me one fish since I've been taking my boat up for the past 6-7 years.

It was weird the inside had great temp current was strong Saturday and Sunday but I thought for sure the inside was gonna be on. Hindsight should have ran offshore Sunday morning ohh well. I hope the inside is good this weekend I don't get a bite by 8 I'm leaving

Here is a 13.2 was in 5th ealier today.

Friday- Fished 100-200 slightly east of the harbor both early in the day and after lunch till dark the, area had pockets of good colder water between warmer water that seems to be where the best bites were coming from the water changed for Saturday though and the pockets left. Pulled 6 matures and a 13.2 steelhead sitting in 5th right now a kid beat my buddy for daily so that good for him. 42nd on 450 copper took the first then Silver streak metallic glow frog took over doing 2 football browns, a mature on 65 rigger, 42nd in silver on copper. Saturday- Started in the same zone but couldn't buy a bite, went offshore and worked 27.5 to 30, pulled nice steel, a couple 2 year olds and one 25lb mature on a nuclear green spin doc with billy v green ghost 83 down on a rigger. Went out in evening took a troll with the ENE wind to past the barn and picked up a teenager on wire 240 down in the thick bait and marks, then the 450 copper starts screaming, boxed a 25 pounder out of that run. Sunday- Once again couldn't get the inside bite going so went back to where we day fished Saturday, steelies and couple 2 year olds, temp came up so divers were good on 3 setting for us, gold cup 42nd did good as did chrome green dot spinner with green hammer fly on wire 160 back, 84 down on nuc green spinny took some shots. All 3 days I couldn't get the wire divers to shine they took some fish and a couple matures but not like normal, they are normally my best, gold and copper spoon did better than silver overall but we caught fish on 42nd in both, other goto's didn't work. By far the MVP was 450 copper with hairy bush nun, it's a spin doc fly combo we just have a stupid name for it, but it took what seemed like half our fish. I'm getting another copper rig asap and regret not bringing my big boards I would have got one saturday. No monsters but 2 @ 24 , 3 @ 25, and some other nice low 20's and teens and had a few steelies over 10, great weather, good time, I'll be back next weekend. Ohh and thanks to the guy who let me borrow a 4 way and jack Saturday night, boat trailer picked up a screw got a flat.