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  1. Sk8man
    The pigeon didn't take Dramamine before landing on the boat and lost his lunch?
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    The hook sizes aren't always "standard" or completely consistent from different manufacturers sometimes but I'd say a 4/0 could be OK for salt water but a little big for most freshwater applications except maybe a super magnum spoon.
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    The hooks come "open" at the end from the factory. I use pliers to close them It is one of the reasons I like the Mustads and also I prefer the long point and short barb of them to other hooks because they make it easy to release fish without even touching them (just grip the hook with pliers at the side of the boat turn upside down and a small shake and they are off)
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    Nice going NIck and Theresa. Sure hope the king trend continues this season. Hey Nick - in that first pic on the first page looks like your alien nature was exposed (looks like an antennae coming out of your head )
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    Sweet! and great looking fillets.
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    Spinneys work fine on lakers or kings especially in deep applications and relatively close to the ball.
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    Most of ours on the rigs didn't do too much until they got close to the surface and then it was "game on" most of them fought like hell then and were a challenge to net. Lakers can be an underrated fish .....and they can be a lot of fun
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    Seneca Hot report

    Sk8man replied to ERABBIT's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion

    Nice going Ed. I used to watch those bows with their dorsals out of the water in mid lake near the high banks in years past gobbling those flies and they came right next to the boat sometimes as their attention was riveted on the bugs. We sometimes forget they have a fairly diverse diet....not always sawbellies
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    Great account of things ifishy. We must have crossed paths out there too the day you launched from Geneva Congrats on the fish. I learned quite a few derbies ago to get the fish in ASAP as a couple times I lost out on quite a bit of money for just hundredths of a pound.
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    http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/Search/crimps.aspx
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    Coast Guard may be closed for launching I'm not sure if it is Memorial Day that they close it through the summer months maybe?
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    baitrigger said it right on the mark...I've been using them for over 30 years on virtually all my spoons but used hardened stainless steel ones not the "cheapos" -big difference. I use the Mustad Siwash salmon hooks in sizes 2/0 and 3/0 for most and 1/0 for small spoons. If spoons such as Suttons come with solid rings I cut the trebles off and leave the ring alone and I use the existing split rings on others if they appear OK.
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    One of the questions to be asked is: "where are they going to be used"? If Lake O then the larger paddles seem best suited to large dipseys and meat rigs or larger lure setups usually for deeper water application and on the Finger Lakes they may be unnecessary drag on your rods given the absence of kings and extremely large lakers. The smaller paddles seem much more versatile to me as they are easy to run on downriggers, wire or braid behind small to large dipseys with less drag. When running spoons or normal sized sticks the smaller paddles are all that is needed. The old maxim of "Why use a shotgun when only a BB gun is needed" applies as far as I'm concerned. Others may have a different view of it.
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    Snubbers are one totally unnecessary piece of equipment kinda like "pet rocks"
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    The derby is all about catching the biggest fish not the most fish great brown and precious look on those kids faces and that is really what the derby is all about too Congratulations on a successful derby placement and really nice fish!
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    That whole family of fish is unpredictable. I once caught a lake bullhead on a Seth Green rig with a Sutton spoon over 280 ft of water on Seneca (mid lake north end) and estimate he was down about 80 ft. Thought it was a small laker until I got it up and then just scratched my head in disbelief
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    Nice going Mike and good report. Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet up but we never got that far down the lake this time
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    What I was referring to (with transom mounts) when I said "tilting" was not made clear...what I meant is that the transducer face should be parallel with the ground on most applications and sometimes if someone installs it flat with the bottom of their boat (angled transom) it needs to be adjusted (tilted) so that it is flat with the ground surface
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    Nice going Nick. Looks as though you folks had a lot of fun and that's what it is really all about
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    Sometimes you have to play with the tilting of the transducer to get it the way you want it but it may also relate to the particular cone angle of the transducer as well. For example a 50 khz or 83 khz transducer may have a considerably wider cone angle than a 200 khz so once the ball goes down past the outside edge of the narrower cone it disappears from view on the screen.
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    Wow! That is every boaters nightmare come true and lets hope that nobody was hurt and hopefully they have insurance on the boat and stuff that got messed up etc.It does bring home the point that a lot of stuff can go wrong that we often take for granted.
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    Thanks Mike. Great chatting and also glad to see your sons fish hold up too.
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    X2 on Frogger's comment
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    I've used them extensively on the Finger Lakes and Lake O since 2002 on my Whaler for Mag 10's (4 ft adjustable booms) without any problem whatsoever but as stated above make sure that the notches in the ends of the mounts "lock into" the cross pins of the recessed tubes. I also have a third Digitroll (4 ft. boom)that is mounted on a pedestal that I move around on the four insets and they each fully support it without flexing or any other noticeable problems. I do store my downriggers after I put my boat to bed though or lock them in my vehicle when staying away from home. It is only a matter of unplugging them from the receptacle and lifting them out and I have never had to drill any holes in the boat other than for my depth finder wires and the transducer panel on the transom.
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    Sounds as though you had a pretty good "practice" session John It is a great little lake to fish.
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