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Congratulations of the placing!! Epic fishing and unfavorable conditions. Well it was too rough for me to want to head out and do walleyes on Saturday. Sunday I get to the marina and other Captains and boats are coming back and saying its just to nasty. Of course after the kids beg to go and they don't care I of course give in. We headed across from the Isthmus into a welcoming 5-7 whitecaps with some occasional bigger. The kids love the ride and are hooting and hollering. Fun right? Once we get over to the trench it is a little bit better but the wind is straight west. I dropped in 130 fow and temp is all the way day down. Its rigger one down, starting on #2 and we are up and running on #1. This went on from 7:00 am -8:30 am and my niece and my son are bent over the sides not having the best morning. Usually the action trumps getting green but the kids were not feeling to hot. We boated 5 matures and a beautiful male coho, killed 4 of them. It was a chaotic hour and a half and the fishing was lights out. It would have been another epic king trip. My son caught his personal best 43" and I had 31 lbs on the rapala scale, big thick male. No I didn't have the kids in the LOC, my bad. We planned on going walleye fishing. I always get the seasonal registration but all the anglers were not registered. Oh well. Looks like the weather is going to hold for another week for us. I will post a couple pics. He is 4' 11" and had a hard time getting him off the floor, lmao, picture never does them justice Nice coho

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Can that be turned into a tiller? Is it a long shaft?

Wow I didn’t see that coming. You didn’t pull it yet did you? Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Was out Saturday at the lanes. There were some kings available but a lot of boats struggled. Killed 5 matures, lost count of the lakers and released most. I did most of the damage on the dipsies out 325 at 3. FF and glow green cut bait was my best. A couple of other boats did good on the straight spoon program. Some hits on spoons, for me I couldn't keep the shakers off the spoons so I went FF and cut bait around the horn and the lakers liked the bait as well. Big slob greasers. We dropped more than our share of fish as well, way more than normal. Temp was 90 down on the cable 50-54 degrees. Not EPIC like it was but challenging and still some good catching.

Ok so upon further research: Daiwa Sealine Sg47lc Carbon Fiber Tournament Drag Washer ... www.ebay.com › … › Fishing › Reels › Reel Parts & Repair Find great deals for Daiwa Sealine ... This Drag Washer Kit is not compatible with the older Daiwa Great Lakes GL47LC The kits that are available for these reels that are the correct ones are very incognito. I have not been able to find them. The bushings are findable but the drag kits seem to be obsolete at this point. I guess I should have not procrastinated this project. Sorry for the bad news and hopefully brought some closure to those in need. So long to my two Daiwa Sealine Great Lakes 47 LC's

So I just looked on E-bay and there are some drags available but these reel in hard so its a combination of both so no sense in moving forward. If someone comes up with bushings for 2 reels then maybe I will pursue the rebuild.

I tried to get Tuna to send them but here is what Andy's responses were: As far as the Great Lakes 47LC reels go, I'm afraid we're unable to still help out with that model. As of a few years ago, Daiwa discontinued all service parts for that reel. Sorry about the bad news on that one. Thanks again, and talk to you later! The Great Lakes 47LC is unable to utilize carbon fiber as a drag material due to the lack of surface area on the actual drag washer. We've tested carbon fiber drag washers in those reels before, and the drag pressure isn't up to where it needs to be, and the drag creeps out in high pressure settings. Hello again, We no longer manufacture that carbon fiber set for that reel. The drag pressure of the result didn't match our expectations. Sorry again. So its retire and move on as those reels definitely don't owe me with 25 years of service or continue the quest to keep them alive and in service.

Those are browns in the pics.

Very silver and the ones we fought battled like 30 lbers. I didn't get a lot of pics yesterday but here are a few, I know everyone loves seeing the proof. I didn't have them downloaded earlier.

After contemplating from 5-6 AM Sunday morning we decided to head out into the violent wind and waves on the east end. I need to ask the question, does anyone have record of the NOAA weather report being accurate? I just get a laugh out of it. 14 miles NW of the Stoney Light it said 1 foot or less. Let me tell you it was 5-7 footers coming from 3 different directions and we had only one option of fishing the inner part of the trench. So we set up in 80 ft off the high rocks and started our troll towards the wall. We picked off a few browns on the way towards the wall. Once we got past the light house it was consistent 5 footers with a healthy mix of bigger. We tied into 3 screamers and after 3 hard fought battles dropped all three an arms length from the net. Got a good look at them all 18-20 lb class. I decided to pick up and head back toward the cut as I just couldn't get a presentation I was happy with. Pulled and headed back set up where we started and focused the rest of the morning inside a little bit. We ended with 3 kings, and 8 browns. Left dock at 7, fished until 1, 80 fow was best, temp was 60-65 down, all spoons, 10 color was good.

Well, not sure what to do now. I have these two, they are in good condition, drags sucks and are very sticky, they crank in an offshore board twice as hard as a penn, or daiwa accudepth and three times as hard as a tecota, I reduced them to only flatline duty but broke off some big fish with them because of the drag. I hate to see them go to bone yard they have great line capacity and a lot of good memories.

Well if anyone has a lead please share. Currently stumped Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Hey gang I have a pair of these and wanted to update the drags on them. Contacted Tuna and Andy said there is no update to be done to them. The carbon fiber material doesn't work on them due to the lack of surface area on the actual drag washer. Any avenues out there with anyone else we can steer towards on these? Thanks in advance

Awesome good deal happy for the crew!!! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

50-54 It kept changing, along with current/down speed.

Riggers were 75, 80, 85, 90 down, dips were 245-285 nothing really on fire there. 120-160 fow

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Out Saturday and still pretty good. Not as EPIC as it’s been but still good. Fleas are not horrible, temps remain consistent, mostly spoons bite. Glows early and naturals when the sun is out. Did take a few on FF on the wire. Boated 11 Kings, 2 steels. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app