horsehunter

My young friends have to work weekdays and my older friends want to hold down a couch. To make netting fish on my own easier I would like to set up 2 shorter dipsey rods as I have problems with my 10 foot rods which I will keep for when I have crew . In the basement i have 2 okuma copper leadcore rods with a moderate action and 2 MH Diawa downrigger rods with a slow action both rods are 8.5 feet Which rods with the addition of a twilly tip would you think would better suit my purpose? Do you think 8.5 feet will be any easier than 10 when solo ( enough to make the effort)? My current wire rods have Convector 45's but I have 2 unused Convector 30's will they work for 1000 feet of wire? Thanks

May be worth checking out if you are at all close would give you a lot of flexability

This intrigued me I have never used 19 strand or even seen weighted steel out of the package. Why is the weighted steel followed by 19 strand rather than just more weighted steel if the sink rate is the same and ist the reel filled or is there another braid or mono backer? Are there differences in 19 and 7 strand sink rates? I do sort of recall hearing somewhere that 19 strand was more forgiving of kinking than 7 strand but more prone to fraying .

I don't know but if your main motor is a 4 stroke I would just go with a pair of bags. Your looking at adding a lot of weight to one side of a 16 foot boat and the height looks a bit much for a 20 inch shaft. 25 inch extra long may be hard to find.I'm assuming your looking at a tiller and it looks like the previous owner didn't use it much. Borrow a small motor and hang it on to see where everything sits.

Facts don't matter ask any politician

So now I'm thinking out loud could you get a 2 colour to anywhare you want it by putting a snap weight on your backing and varying weight and placement on the backing. Possibly using snap weight numbers and adding 10 feet.

So I've never done it but I'm surprised at the weight before the leader I would have thought you would want a snap weight at the beginning of the backing so as not to kill the action of the leadcore. But Like I said I've never done it so what I know can be written on the back of a stamp.

If you can't find Spap Weights try snap weights

Leadcore with a 10 colour you can let out as much or as little as you like as long as your not putting it a release and fish behind your riggers down to about 40 feet. I understand the new thinner leadcore will fish even deeper. I suppose you could use jet divers with your current set up with the depth obtained dependant on the size diver but a collection of divers might cost more than the lead core . Then again there is always spap weights.

Just curious if the base is 4 inches what prevents it from working in a 6 inch track . I have used them on a friends boat without really paying much attention. I think I like them better than my Berts but not enough to justify the cost of switching out 6. I have 36 inch tracks behind my riggers and two 6 inch ahead of my windshield which have only been used once for a net holder.Kinda useless when the top is up but work ok for step pads.

I was referring to Ontario the province rather than Ontario the Lake. I think John 1947 was looking for a fourth rod on the American side of the pond.

I think stocking the browns at night may give them some protection from the birds which I think must be watching them load at the hatchery and following the truck to it's destination. The problem with browns is that they don't disperse but just mill about just under the surface waiting for someone to feed them. As for 4 rods in Ontario we are only allowed 2 per angler and I don't even want a third my favourite spread is 2 riggers and 2 dipseys even when a third or fourth person would allow more but I have a small boat and am not paid to produce fish for clients and prefer fishing with one other person.

If you really want to be confused about spooling a spinning go to You Tube . As a muskie and more recently a salmon troller 98% of my fishing is done with conventional reels. So much so I was still using my 50 year old Dam Quick 110,220,and 330 reels which I feel are as good as anything I see in the stores today at something more than I paid for my first car.I had always spooled these reels with the line coming off the side of the spool. I recently bought a Diawa baitrunner reel with the idea that if I got to the marina and it was too rough to venture out I would try to catch carp. This was something I had never done and found the idea of sitting in a lawn chair with a sling shot rather appealing. Imagine my surprise to see a diagram of spooling the way I had always done it with an X through it and telling you to spool with the pencil method.So now I trek to you tube and see some of the arguments pro and con Coming off the side of the spool only works if the spool is the same diameter as the reel You want to put the line on the reel with a twist so it untwists when it comes off the reel Some European carp guys soak the spool for an hour in warm not hot water spool the reel then walk out the line more than a cast length stretch the line then reel it back on the reel then some resoak the spool before fishing. So I've decided just put the line on the reel any way you can because as soon as you get a decent fish you're going to get excited and reel against the drag and twist the damn line.. Starting to know why I like conventional reels.

I think a cormorant cull would go a long way to helping both the Alewives and the freshly stocked Chinooks. I have been present for several fish stockings and the birds are not long sending out the email. Possibly night stocking would give better survival

I love Kings but I do like lakers especially for us guys in the north east corner of the lake in April and May. I would much rather a 20 pound laker than a 3 pound brown. I don't know where all the browns the OMNR are stocking in the east end are going but I don't think they are getting the return for the bucks invested.

That's not likely with their effort being focused on restoring native species Lakers and Unicorns

I have fished muskies for 40 years I'm used to 30 hours per decent fish. That's why I started salmon fishing I was liking double digit days.

So are they saying the stocking will be reduced 60% from what it was 4 or 5 years ago. I'm assuming the OMNR will be reducing the numbers by the same amount on our side of the puddle. I guess we fish like hell for 2 years then see what we can get for our boats.

My minds made up don't confuse it with facts

Taken from the 1952 magazine article....Lake Ontario flooding is not a new thing Dr. Langford, of the University of Toronto, summed it up: "Whether or not we learn all the answers about lake-level fluctuations and erosion control our present hue and cry about high water should impress one lesson upon us: to recognize and respect the realm of the waves. When water was low for many years people came to regard that low-water mark as the permanent level of the lakes and began occupying lakeshore land that rightly belonged to the waves. Lake levels will periodically rise six feet above their lowest ebb. and storm waves can reach another six feet above that. This twelve feet above low-water mark is the realm of the waves we should never overlook. The waves may abandon it for years at a time, but sooner or later they will reclaim it again. "Much of our present grief is not due to high water alone. We have encroached on the realm of the waves and now the waves are striking back When the waters too high I cant launch or use my slip, when it's too low I risk bottoming out in the inlet and can't retrieve my boat. Like Goldielocks I want the porridge just right.