Sk8man

Great event today, with lots of good bargains and fair prices on most stuff from what I saw. It was the first time my son has accompanied me so it was special in that regard as well. We both found a lot of items of interest although I did regret buying the 4 40 oz Seth Green weights so early and then carryng them around for hours but they were hard to pass up......kinda like lifting weights all day It was really a lot of fun and I was glad to finally meet in person many LOU members and be able to chat first hand. We truly do have a great bunch of people on this website and we were well represented there. It was also gratifying to see the many vendors there and especially my buddies at Great Lakes Lures, Iron Duke Flies, Fishy Business and the other LOU folks selling there. I do think if this thing gets any bigger more space will be needed as there were a lot of folks there but I also noted that the line outside moved very quickly this year. To those of you that didn't happen to catch itor weren't able to you missed a heck of a show. Heres pics from right before we left when things had thinned out enough to even get a pic...

I don't think you'll find a better bracket than that one either and it is a real good price. A number of my buddies have had them over the years and I think they are the best bracket out there for normal purposes.

I've always had the hunch that both copper and leadcore do things in the water that gets attention of the fish.I think the whipping action of the leadcore both horizontally and vertically attracts them to the vibrations or commotion and I suspect that the copper may vibrate and possible interact electrically as well and some fish have great sensitivity of their lateral line to pick up on it as well as vibrations.

Nice going Billy

You had some really stellar weights there and if I didn't have mine already I would have jumped at them for sure....they are in a class by themselves

THe problem with gobies (one of them anyway) is that they are thought to concentrate toxins and also may be a source of botulism. So if fish are consuming large amounts of them over timeyou have to wonder what that means about eating the fish.

The reason I said sculpins is that I don't see the big wide fin down the middle of their stomach...although it is hard to tell from the pic.http://www.feenstraguideservice.com/sculpinvgoby.html

I have also run them as rolmops described but in salt water not for lakers that way. What I found was that because I was initially running them way down deep that the lakers were grabbing plastic (no hooks) much of the time as they probably aren't able to see them down there like when they are more suspended in salt water. I started putting all hooked baits and it stopped happening but they also were caught on other than the center trailer bait then. I sholud also add that when I used peanuts behind them I only caught the smaller lakers....may have been coincidental but it happened.

I've fished along side this rig out there and it is a great fishing machine with a lot of comfort and room as well. Ted takes real good care of his stuff so somebody will be a really "happy camper" with this one

I think they may be Sculpins (Stonecats) rather than gobies

They can be more trouble than they are worth in my view. I have used them on Seneca for lake trout. You really don't want to use leaders on them. Many of them are set for 5 lures and you can attach the lure directly to the snaps on the umbrella or very short leaders at most. 5 lures with trebles. If you use leaders they usually tangle together when trolling at normal speed. The rigs are actiually better for drifting with live bait on short staggered leaders. I don't think I'd care to have multiple chinooks going different directions on one

Hey Jim - You might want to consider having John Mann at Sodus Bay Canvas make you up one fit and customized to your boat and fishing circumstances. He knows every possible version of these thngs and that way you would be more likely be a "happy camper" with the result. (315-871-6400). Maybe have him take a look at the boat while you're up this way when the weather breaks?