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Depth Raider will this work?
BrokeOff replied to BrokeOff's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
that was my next question: does the exposed wire at the knot and swivel need to be taped? or will it work fine without -
If I strip the coated cable on my downrigger and tie a wire knot to a stainless snap/swivel, like you would for a wire dipsy, would the signal on the depth raider work? This way I could avoid using crimps or clinchers.
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Leadcore sink rate flatlinning after 50-60' ?
BrokeOff replied to mcny's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
not sure you can fit 450' of 45# copper on a CV 55L anyway. Maybe you can with very minimal backing..... I have 400 on a clarion 553 and that thing is packed full -
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Seneca 6/2/13.....10 foot rigger was hot!
BrokeOff replied to apb's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
I like short leads behind my cores 15-20 ft of flouro max. With the 3 color you are already back 90' behind the board without considering your leader legnth. Leadcore gives the spoon more action with shorter leader (rising and falling much more than with longer leader). -
Mexico Bay
BrokeOff replied to BrokeOff's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
tried the brownies this morning in 40 fow just east of the plant at 530. had a few promising marks and bait balls but no hits. Ran 6 rod spread 2 riggers 3 cores and a dipsy later changing out the 3 color for another dipsy. When we got in front of the plant we quit browns and started pushing out. We fished 110-150 mainly and went 3/4 today. All 3 were steelies, we got them pulling cores off boards on stinger stingrays. The fish we lost hit a rigger 130 down in 132 fow. UV taped pro troll and shred hammer fly trailing. This was a good fish never got to see it but it peeled line and popped the hook.... KING! Cotton on the water and the other floating debris almost cost us fish today, and left the planer lines a complete mess for next trip out. Divers were a waste of time and so were riggers (minus the 1 hit). Didn't see anyone netting fish around us but im sure someone figured things out and did much better than us. Saw a flock of boats out more towards Oswego in a tight group.. -
Mexico Bay
BrokeOff replied to BrokeOff's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
antney you did better than us we got the skunk. What time did you get your fish? Met at the boat at 6am and took the long windy drive to get to the lake from the marina. Lake was very flat and we decided once again to skip browns and go for kings lakers whatever out in front of the plant. Got set up in 85 fow and pushed out. Ran a similar spread as antney (6rods) 3 riggers one with a spoon/cheater spoon, one with a white f/f close to bottom and the other rod an R and R 6" flasher with a spoon 30" behind. Two wires with mag divers one with a dreamweaver spook spoon and the other with a green UV pro troll with green fly. Started with them only 100 and 150 out. Farthest we sent them out was 300' divers on 3 settings. Last rod was a 5 color core pulling a UV gator stingray off the otter. All of this would get switched out until there was nothing left to throw at them. We tried spinnys, small spinnys, tons of different pro trolls, spoons of every size including mag NBK which was our hottest spoon last year, moonshines, stingers, nks, bobby fullers, r and r's, cheaters, uping our speed, slowing to a crawl, swapped the core for a 300 copper, raised a rigger to 15-20 down with orange slurpee spoon 100' back. Nothing. Our screen was lit for most of the day until we got below 100 fow right before we gave up and we still marked a few fish in there. Tons of bait! the bait is in for sure. 2 weeks ago we saw very little now its all over the place. Countless times we dragged our deep rigger paddle right through the bait. Maybe the fish are to full to hit. We had several times where we said get ready there are so many fish on the screen in just the right places near our gear its gonna happen. Nothing. Deepest we got was 220 fow and the screens looked better inside so we turned around. Guess we should have tried browns but the water looked pretty clear in close and there weren't that many guys chasing browns today. The wind died totally and then we had to deal with the bugs and tons of floating junk on the water, cottonwood, sticks, algae. We called it around 12 or 1230. Saw one other boat come in when I was at the dock and they said 4 fish all browns. Didn't get any other details as I had to shout over as they drove by. There weren't too many boats out there but we didn't see any nets fly at all. Water temp at the surface was 59-60 in front of the plant. Wish I could give a more positive report but they were totally shut down. My friend had never been skunked out there so that was dissapointing. -
Mexico Bay
BrokeOff replied to BrokeOff's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
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those laurvicks pull pretty good. i have run 5/7 color cores off them. last time out we had a laker hit the 5 color with a UV gator stingray and not even trip the laurvick. farther back you put the line in the release the harder it is to release it.
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i missed the 1st one which sounded the best. 2nd one was ok. after that trailed off... not renewing membership. Would rather spend $30 at a bait shop and get new UV stuff or stuff that has already taken fish in our spread. feels like they are just scraping them together they already have our membership $$
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Saw a towboatUS boat on Oneida last night. Wasn't towing anyone just going from river to main lake right before the lightning storm
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Another running 4 dipsy question
BrokeOff replied to BrokeOff's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
when you say 3, im thinking you mean 2 on one side 1 on the other. or do you mean 1 on each side one down the chute? -
Another running 4 dipsy question
BrokeOff posted a topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
I have been reading some old threads on running 2 dipsys per side. Never tried it, but have all the setups to do it. Most people are using the same size dipsy for all 4. Longer rods toward the front of the boat. And spacing the dipsys 2 #'s apart. for example a 1 setting on the inside and 3 setting outside. What about the angle of the rod? Should the outside rod be set higher off the water than the inside rod? Would that help pull the dipsy out to the side more? We always run dipsys close to touching the water sometimes touching if to much weight is on one side of the boat. Do 4 dipsys really take that many more fish than 2 dipsys? -
If I have 2 boats are they both covered under one membership? (ones for fishing, ones a ski boat)
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i havent caught a fish on spinny yet this year. been all pro trolls
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