AnglingAddict

Motors literally ran like new, super smooth - fuel consumption dropped by about 5 gallons per trip over the course of the year - I keep track of every gallon that goes in and divide by the number of hours on the hour meters each year. Over the course of the year about a 15% savings on fuel - I ran almost 2000 gallons of fuel through it last summer so will pay for itself in due time. Hotter spark so was able to lean it out a bit. Wasn't the cheapest upgrade, a little over a grand in parts, but definitely worth it in my opinion. http://www.michiganmotorz.com/delco-voyager-marine-electronic-distributor-p-142.html

I upgraded to a set of Delco EST's last year and it was unbelievable the difference it made. The motors after the retrofit almost had a new attitude and were so much smoother. In addition, at the time we did this we also advanced the timing slightly to get smoother performance at idle because 95% of our hours on the motors are spent trolling.

F11s work too. Agree with the jointed comment above. Also have had great luck on the Dave's Kabooms. which are getting a little harder to find.

Out of Oswego for a brown trout trip I would suggest the following three outfits: Primetime SportFishing - Capt. Pete Lahosky 1-610-442-4572 Kingfisher Charters - Capt. Jon Wilbur 1-860-671-1462 Thunderstruck Sportfishing - Capt. Mark Bukowski 1-413-627-9081 All three of these guys run top notch professional charters with large meticulously maintained boats, are hands down some of the best brown trout fisherman on the lake, if not THE best, and use top notch equipment. If I had to choose who to fish with for brown trout it would no doubt be one of these guys.

Good amount of people early - I sold about $1200 worth of stuff. Had some stuff I thought was a deal that would go immediately and no one picked it up - other stuff I thought I had a little overpriced and people might haggle and was swiped with no questions asked - overall was nice to clear some stuff out and then listen to Pete, Mark, and Brian discuss their techniques....

Hahaha - you got me!

I'm owed. Details and amount irrelevant to the conversation, but he never made good on it. I've given up - not worth the time to try and recover my losses.

Awesome - looking forward to it!!!

Need to run them on different frequencies or they will interfere. Some of the CHIRP models can also cause interference with fixed frequency units as the CHIRP waveforms sweep across a frequency range essentially. Another option is just to network the two displays off of one transducer if they are capable.

I had an F-200 and I ran fully synthetic in it (can't remember the weight of the oil it used) but it was close to $10 per quart. Filters are around $15 so it's not that far out of line although I don't think the Yamalube is synthetic. You can run whatever you want in it and probably do an oil change for around half that or even less - I'm not saying you should though. Just because wally world has wolfs head motor oil on sale for $1.99 a quart and you can buy off brand filters to save a few bucks too doesn't mean its a good idea. Bottom line is you have a motor worth around 13K and in all likelihood you probably can't rebuild it yourself it if fails catastrophically - I would run the best filters and best oil you can. Your kicker probably doesn't have a filter - just change oil and again use the good stuff. Lower unit is easy to deal with too - get the correct fitting to pump new lower unit fluid in and it's just as easy as an oil change.

Notice the original poster asked if 500' of 30# copper would fit - my guess is probably. 45# copper - no way.

X3 - Mike at Propellor Works is a good guy. Great work.

Primetime, Thunderstruck, Tall Tails, or Kingfisher, all on the blue dock at wrights landing out of Oswego - all absolutely top notch professional outfits.

Agree with Gill-T. One exception to that rule for me is if Browns are tight to the bottom - in that case I also like a single siwash hook as they are much less likely to get clammed up.

Anglers Avenue - hands down. http://www.anglersavenueproshop.com/

point well taken - Try the same thing with a stinger, superslim, or flutter spoon - you just have to run things together that are speed tolerant with each other... I run spoons on my riggers and a mix of sticks and spoons on boards with no issues. You have to understand how all play together with regard to speed. The guy was simply asking if it was possible to mix spoons and sticks into a spring BT spread....

You absolutely can run both at the same time. Let the fish tell you what they want on any given day and then adjust from there.

It all depends - some guys like to match them and some don't. Typically I move things around until I get a combo that starts firing and then that combo stays together until it goes cold. After you do that a while you get an idea of what will work and when. List the attractors that you bought and I will bet you will get a bunch of people chiming in with what fly goes best behind it.....