hawkeye625

Depends. Generally across and slightly upstream, but if others are catching fish casting downstream I try to make some adjustments to catch those fish too.

x3. I run 7' to 9' models in light action. also double for junk line rods. (pull my 300' coppers on the 7') We also run 30lb mono on them without issue.

That format is nice. I don't recall seeing any threads like this started on the East end tournaments..do you get any complaints?

Congrats to all the teams that placed, definitely a grind bite!

You have every right to voice your opinions. I think it's unprofessional and ignorant to tell a newcomer to take their ball and go home. Don't like it don't fish it? Really guys? Thought the whole point of the rec open was to bring new guys into the tourney scene. Now you tell them don't fish it if they don't like it? I wonder why participation is low?

Size of your boat and a captains license won't help you boat 20 pounders. Time on the water and a little luck will. Just enter and fish. Anyone can win. Box 3 mid teen fish and you'll more than likely win some cash.

Make sure to keep the wire tight when spooling.

No backing, electrical tape wire to spool, 1000 ft will fill the spool. Most wire comes in 1000ft spools.

If it takes the blue connector cabelas in Wheeling WV had several in the bargain cave for around $25.00 a few weeks ago. I see they have them on the site for $49 to $99. Might be worth a call to the store to see if they'll ship one. The ones in the bargain cave were all new, old stock. I picked one up for my hds unit for a spare.

I had same trouble trying to link HDS5. Seemed easy enough but could never get it to work. Called raymarine and Lowrance, both said it should work with no other connections. Finally gave up on it. Let us know if it works for you.

Thanks.

What site are you guys getting the satellite imagery from? I can't seem to find one good enough to see the plume.

Good job, we had trouble all last week keeping kings buttoned up. I'd say we were about 60% for the week.

Thanks guys, I do try to repeat what works. I'll have to try moving my spread around a little. I do know a few times we couldn't buy a bite on an east troll but the boat beside me was doing well. When we turned around we started popping rods. Not sure what they were doing different, we had the same surface speeds but they caught fish in both directions. Might have been as simple as moving rods up or down a few feet. Makes sense now that you guys mention it. Faster surface speed would move my lures up in the column regardless of direction.

To clarify, I am talking about downspeed which I try to keep the same in either direction. Should I be looking to increase downspeed too? I know the boat needs to move faster, but do my lures need to move faster as well?

Do you guys have better success trolling into current or with the current, and do you adjust trolling speed from one direction to the other to entice more bites? It seems the fish only want to bite for us going in one direction some times, just wondered if there's a trick to getting bit going the other way.

Yea that's the kind of thing that was being talked about on the radio. The boats under discussion Wednesday were from Canada, not Erie. All in all though, the bar wasn't too bad all week. I've seen it worse.