Sk8man

Thank you Chad for all that you do to keep this website the high quality forum that it is. Happy New Year to you and your family as well as to the entire LOU family

Just an FYI the reels are Daiwa Sealine 47H's They also make newer Sealine 47's but with a different designation SG3B etc.and they are a different reel. I have a dozen of the 47H's and they work great for riggers and outriggers etc.if taken care of.....very versatile reels.

The "usual" spot for fraying is near the actual terminal connection so your spot brings up "wire integrity" as a possible issue.. You may want to carefully check over the rest of the wire to determine its integrity. If other questionable spots detected - replace the wire. If not, and you re-terminate I'd snip off a few feet of the wire before doing it and carefully crimp a crimp sleeve to whatever type of connector you are using making sure it doesn't have "wiggle room" in the sleve itself. Make sure the crimp sleve is tight enough diameter to fit the doubled strands of wire without excess back and forth movement of the wire. Crimp it in two places (e.g. from both sides of the sleve). One of my downriggers has had the same connection for 30 years, the other I put new wire on about 15 yrears ago and that connection is still good.....so the system works. You didn't mention the type of downrigger connectoryou presently have but follow the instructions for it and crimp as mentioned and you shouldn't have any problems.

Come on Rob....you always have those 50 lb salmon to look forward to...snap out of it

I all probability it is the same as pictured above. The emergency handle on later models had two fittings that were offset in opposite directions. The Marlin was a saltwater version of the Mag 10A.

The neat thing is the basic muskybob recipe is so solid you can add things of your own to your tastes without spoiling it

I'm quite sure it is the one for the electric Mag 10A. I may have inadverantly thrown out 2 of them embedded in the styrofoam boxes the Mag 10A's came in back in 1984 or 85 when I purchased them from Canandaigua Fishing Tackle. (I'm sure some still remember that store and greatly miss it) The handle designed for the downriggers after that point was a different design and won't fit or work on the older downriggers.

horsehunter - To answer your question about the steelhead vs. rainbow. Basically there are various species in the rainbow trout family - some of which are "anadromous" which means they are born in freshwater and then migrate to salt water as adults where they roam during their adult lives, and then return to freshwater to spawn (often multiple times throughout their adult life contrasted with the Pacific salmon (e.g. Chinook and Coho) which spawn only at the end of their life... Some of the rainbow trout egg varieties stocked in the Great Lakes came from places (e.g. Pacific Northwest) that were hooked up to the ocean via rivers and those fish exhibited the typical anadromous behavior in those places, but when stocked in fresh water did not have access to saltwater so they are called "steelhead" because of the typical blue-green color noted on their heads. Some of the so-called "indigenous" rainbow trout species found in the streams and lakes of New York that haven't had salt water access may have seemingly different coloration and slight differences in appearance, and their roaming and feeding behavior may have differences as well as spawning cycle (e.g. Summer/Fall for "steelies" rather than early Spring). I'm not a biologist so I hope this adequately describes differences. Great Brown Whaler1.