Fat Trout

Just put a quarter inch screw in it with sealant Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

From an engineering perspective. When the technology and manufacturing reliability becomes better and more repeatable the factor of safety can go down. That saves money. Its the same product just not as overbuilt. As far as line goes they are all pushing thinner is better so it all goes hand in hand. Bottom line you always have to evaluate your gear and tactics. Experience is good but if you keep your brain stubbornly stuck in a mindset from 20 yrs ago you may have problems Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Assuming your fishing the main lake, for safety sake watch out for debris in the lake. I'd run slower than you might normally go. Theres a lot of big stuff washed out into open water with the flood Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Stren Vanish....interesting. I have a friend who learned the hard way. We joke about his experiment with stren Vanish...….It makes your fish "vanish" is the line I came up with for him. he thought it was great....4 times the line for the same price. I told him he'd regret it. He did. In all seriousness and to try to help you. I run 30# leader on my clean bait heads. 40# on my bait heads with twinkies. 20# with spoon lines or 15# with spoon lines if its mixed fishing (not just salmon) and a softer rod. As you mentioned in one of your posts, the only reason to use fluoro is its invisible. So take advantage of that and beef up! River fishing - Drennan has a harder surface than the seguar. I caught 4 kings on 8# Drennan trolling with brown trout gear this spring .

Its either your knots, the particular brand/type of flourocarbon or combination of how hard you fight the fish and how heavy your rod is. I use seguar blue label fluoro when > 10# and i can count one hand the number of fish i have broken off in the last 10 yrs in the lake including guests i bring out. Look into better knots, wet the knot before you cinch it down. Check the leader periodically for knicks and if you gave it a good beating with a few fish consider retying the knots. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

If the data on this link is accurate they don't need to open flood gates, just open some real ones. Mid May 2017 they were over 300,000 CFS. End of May this year on this chart link below looks to be 210,000 CFS. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/dv?referred_module=sw&site_no=04264331

Last year (non flood year) I noticed more green water in the eastern bay than I've seen in looong time. I had separately heard zebra mussles were down or at least had reached some sort of equilibrium. I can't remember where I heard that but it had some legitimacy behind it wherever I heard it. Who knows. High water for sure is going to influence water clarity.

Not the answer you probably want but i ignore everything surface related on my fishhawk. As long as the probe matches up close enough on speed /temp with my FF when checked close to the surface im happy enough. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

The 25 is a big boat and a 5.7 is 250 hp if i recall correctly. I had a 232 sportcraft with a soft top and a 5.7. top end was 29 or 30 at WOT but only if flat calm. Im not sure if you have a hard top but thats a bigger boat than the 232 and 30+ yrs old it may be carrying more extra weight in water soaked decking /transom or whatever and the engine might not be as strong as it once was. Also, my current and prior fish hawk top speeds both read high compared to gps. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Lake Ontario United mobile app