Chas0218

Would regular bilge pump tubing work? That stuff bends real easy and tight. I would make sure and check it yearly as they can chaff and develop a hole but definitely more flexible than that clear poly tubing.

Thing looks like a grass carp it's so big in that last picture. Truly a dinosaur right there!

Not sure if you have given it any thought but you could wrap it all in vinyl if you wanted instead of painting it. It would probably last a little longer and it looks like you have plenty of room around your doors and drawers where it wouldn't interfere wrapping it around to the inside for a clean look.

Good to know, I wasn't sure and have heard a lot of good things about it. I know if done right the stringers will last enough for 2 owners or more but myself being an AM. I'm not sure it would be done right. haha.

Thanks guys, it was tough fishing we didn't fish in just one spot I think we covered close to 15 miles of water. We were all over the bay. Started by Point Salubrious trolled down the side of cherry where we picked up our first eye. Headed out into the lake looking for some warmer water made the turn towards Pt. Peninsula had some good screens had one hit but dropped it before we could make it to the pole. Decided to head back up into the bay had another taker and dropped it after a couple reels. Lots of short strikes this past weekend, had hits on riggers with spoons but no one was home. I'm guessing the fish were turned off on Sunday because of the Bar. pressure switch and finally started getting back into it Monday after it leveled off and there was a slight chop. Wanted to fish Monday but had to work on the FIL outboard on his newly acquired boat. He went out Monday evening after I headed home and got a nice 8 and a 3 pounder. All day Monday the bay was like glass with high sun basically the worse walleye conditions. The bay is frigid still with our best surface temps around 50* so over that deep water it has to be mid 40s. There wasn't any real pattern they were hitting more than another. Bay rats, Smithwicks, Storms Jr. and Full sized, and Matzuo all took fish, I we had a Yozuri that took the silver bass but can't remember for sure. I think anything with a wide wobble would have been good.

We had a great day Saturday but today not so hot, planning on hitting it again tomorrow. We almost managed our 2 man limit but three one my son caught fell short. Managed a nice pike and silver bass too. The 2nd picture of a walleye (after the pike) weighed in at 10lbs. 6oz. And the 5th picture the eye weighed 7lbs. 15oz. All in all good opening day. Sent from my SM-G930V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I don't mind when I'm fishing, The driver last year was top notch and in 2' seas got up next to me with 9 lines out and no need to pull any. CG got on board and I left the helm and he about freaked. He said I needed to stay there and steer, told him my auto pilot would take care of that. He looked at me puzzled then showed him and we talked about that for about 10 minutes until he signalled to get picked up. Good guys and never had any issues he did say to check the date on my flares but he never looked at them. I told him where everything was and he didn't bother looking.

Yeah chop will be plenty but the cold water off the lake will be blowing into the bay which is going to shut things down a bit on top of the building pressure from Friday night. Ugghhhh another difficult opener.

You need to make sure it is below the bottom of the boat slightly, I can read depths at any MPH. Mine has the flip up mechanism that if I hit something on the bottom of the boat it will flip up out of the way so it isn't ripped off the boat. I have had it release a couple times in rough water when the boat skips waves. Usually when it releases I will get some wacky readings like 1000' of water and lots of "noise".

Yeah FIL is up and gives us daily reports. Right now intellicast is saying no waves except on the SW end.

Sounds like you have a busy schedule, and sounds like a lot of great fishing. Good luck!

I heard it was brutal, it looks like it is warming up a bit. Hoping this weekend is good. I would like a little cloud cover and a slight chop.

I can attest to the ruined docks. I was there last week and their finger that goes out to the floating docks was under water, I'm not sure what the deal is with the launch dock unless the one that was under water was the launch dock.

Curious as why you didn't go with the Sea Cast stuff? It seems a lot easier to work with as you can pour it where you want it. I Could see the floor being an issue but the transom and stringers would just need a form and you can pour it it then cover it. Either way it looks great, I will be needing to do the same to my boat next winter. I need to first build the garage to do it.

Yes it is, the eyes were in the bay in large numbers until the middle of July which is unheard.

I don't know, the one year the bay was cold there was no bait but the eyes were there and ready to eat. We were limiting out (3 man) in an hour. It was insane. I think that year i caught close to 100 walleye. Sent from my SM-G930V using Lake Ontario United mobile app