codybuehler

Was out last night (9/11), found temps down 80. Today it’s down 50. Shows 49.8 at 51 feet. 3 for 7 now. 1 salmon around 19” and I figure the rest were Lakers. They are liking small silver and black scorpions on the 250’ copper, 10 color leadcore and downrigger parked at 51’. Speed is on the higher end: 2.4-2.5 at the Ball. GPS shows 2.1SOG headed north. Biggest laker today is around 7lbs.

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I tried a few different colors and depths on a flasher and couldn’t make them take those. There was about an hour when it didn’t matter what color or how deep or shallow we were running the stuff. Everything took hits. Makes for a fun little while, but couldn’t find that school again. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I was wondering what all of you were up to just inside of us. We were playing around in the 185-220’. Saw the same current issues. All of our bites were headed west, in a wide range of depths. 45-80’ down on the riggers, 10 color lead cores and 212’ on the dipseys. Had to fight the speed headed back East. Ended up 6 for 12. I assume all kings. Couldn’t land a good hook set on the bigger fish on the dipsey. Took some drag and slipped the hook. This silver streak did most of the work for us today. Can’t find a replacement anywhere. I think it’s Peppermint Patty? The rest were green and blacks.

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And the saga continues! I figured this was worth adding to this thread. I was using some Brocraft versatrack rod holders with Cannon plastic rod holders. It was nice being able to move them, but wow did they flex bad when a real fish took the dipsey. Some measuring and thinking later, I decided to add tracks to the gunwales between the consoles and rod boxes. 36” tracks fit perfect. 2” ahead of the rod box edges and 3” from the inside edge. The port side was a lot more difficult to put in than the starboard side. I had to take a bunch of screws out of the side and pull it open. Also I had to take the bottom two rod tubes out. That’s the only way I could reach up under and tighten the bolts down. The backing is 1” thick plastic I had laying around. The starboard side I had to take off the control vinyl covered piece and also the bottom two rod tubes. Same measurements again for placement and same backing plate. This whole process tightened up everything. Paired up with some Cannon rod holders it’s pretty slick. Even my trees fit on the track and made them more solid. I had a pair of 6” tracks and pedestals for my downriggers in the garage so figured I would make those work as well. I tried the pedestals and tracks once before but they seemed to flex the gunwale too much for comfort. I used more of the plastic backing and made two sections 8”x21”. Took the back sides off and pulled out the foam. I had to take off the cleats this time also to be able to fit the backing plates under there. Through bolted the tracks in and ran the clear bolts back through the new backing. Stuffed all the foam back in and screwed the side panels back on. That shored it all up and it’s a lot more comforting knowing they have that much more of the torque spread out under there. I may get 12” tracks this winter and bolt them in to help spread it out a bit more, but for know it’s good enough! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I’m located in Orangeville, Pa but travel to the finger lakes and lake O regularly. Forgot that part.

For sale: Minn Kota Powerdrive V2 12volt, 55# thrust. This is the model with remote Ipilot, no foot pedal. Shaft length is 54” (from the bottom of the head to the bottom of the sled). Works as it should. I recently upgraded to 24volt. $500. I’d rather meet somewhere over shipping this thing. It’s awkward and heavy so it would cost a good bit. Don’t mind the dust, it’s been in my garage for a few months!

Without looking at the receipt from buying my kicker, I believe it’s also an XL. It’s a ‘19 Mercury Pro kicker 9.9.

I did this same thing, but didn’t go past the cleats towards the transom. I also use mag 5’s with the short booms to limit the torque on the base. It flexes a little, but so far nothing noticeable with stress or anything. It may be one of those “what just happened??” Moments when it all let’s loose and goes to the bottom, but I doubt that. I use 12 or 14lb sharks that have had a fair share of bottom, rock and tree hits in their life and never had a problem yet! I did try the versatrack mounts from brocraft and honestly never made it out of the garage with them. Two chrome plated bolts holding the whole thing on didn’t sit well with me. I have half a thought to get a 1/4” thick plate of aluminum, paint it black and make it the same width of the top of the gunwale, and through bolt everything to a long plate under. That may spread the stress out to the edges where the structure meets the top and limit how much pull is on the thin middle. I’m no mechanical engineer, but it makes sense I suppose! My whole setup is flush mounted now, but I’d really like to get 6” pedestals under them to limit the lean out to hook the line on. That will be an over winter project this year unless I get a few good days at home with nothing better to do!

3 for 4 here. All clones around 20”. Any size to yours? We are debating headed west of the plant out deeper.

We are in between 25-35 FOW just east of the plant with a bunch of other boats. 2 for 3. Small browns is all we got in the boat. The one we lost was bigger. Alewife black silver spoon, wonderbreak moonshine spoon and mixed veggies were the colors. 20’ down.

Very nice! We spent most of our day there also in the pack. Saw all those marks and couldn’t turn a one. Glad you found some!

Anyone having any luck this morning? Marking fish in 50 FOW all the way down on the bottom with a random suspended fish here and there. Straight out between Mexico and the plant. We have 6 rods out covering top to bottom, but nothing yet.

Glad to wake up from sleeping for working nights and find all these replies! I was hoping when I wrote this thread someone could use it in the future and it worked! My reason for pulling the floor was a double dip. I had all my electronics to run to the back (fish hawk, sonars) and Tracker helps us out so much and bread ties the factory installed stuff together under the floor. It’s not zip ties, but literally long bread bag wires. When I tried to pull the Lowrance transducer cable back through it just wasn’t coming. I also had to remove the u-bolt for clearance issues. That may or may not have been left off after the fact. [emoji51] I use my kicker solely for pushing and currently have a Minn Kota powerdrive with ipilot for steering. It works well, but the autopilot still doesn’t like an outside push from the kicker and does lose its mind from time to time. I just ordered the terrova with ipilot link to network to my Humminbird. Supposedly that’s pretty slick, but time will tell once I can get out of the house for non-essential stuff! An after thought where I mounted the kicker was I didn’t think of turning clearance where it is. I can’t get a full turn out of it without the tiller handler hitting the side of the boat. Not a big deal for me since I use the electric to steer, but just be aware if you use the kicker to steer. And the Tohatsu! I had a an 8hp 4stroke on my previous boat and that little motor ran like a champ. I didn’t have electric tilt on it and ended up just ordering a merc 9.9 kicker for the tracker to match the main (pricey OCD issue!) I heard they were made by Merc also and it seemed to run like it. I had a remote throttle controller with it and you could dial it in nicely.

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I am having some issues keeping braid in my current clips. I just put Sufix 50# braid for backing on my copper and leadcore setups for chasing kings. Normally I don’t need the extra line in the finger lakes, so it’s never been an issue. I’m currently using Laurvick clips and Scotty mini’s on my planer lines. The braid will not stay in these for more than a few minutes no matter how deep into the clip I set them up. Can anyone offer some insight on different clips to hold the thinner braid? These clips work great for mono backing, but didn’t have the same luck with braid. I’m going to venture a guess and say the regular (non-mini) sized Scotty clips are what I’m going to need. At $10 a pop I wanted to make sure it’s what I need before I spend that kind of money on releases. Thanks!

I have this barely used Airmar P66 I had for a Furuno unit I don’t own anymore. Worked fine the 1 time I used it and took it off the boat. Model #525STID-PWD Frequencies- 50/200 I’m not sure how long the cable is but that can be looked up. New on Amazon it’s $116 as of today. Will sell for $60 shipped.

1.8-2.3 on the gps. Fishhawk didn’t show much different on the surface.

Now you have! Haha What did the laker weigh? Looks like a tank!

Nice! I was wondering where you came from. That doesn’t look like a pike. That looks like massive chain pickerel! I hate those toothy critters. Fun to catch, but they are slimy, smell and the teeth can tear you up if you aren’t super careful. We had one line yesterday get taken, pull a bunch of drag and it was heavy, then nothing. Reeled in a snipped off line that looked like it was chewed on a little. I bet it was one like you got there.

On Sunday it was. Looked like a 16footer side console? Same color as my Targa