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Absolutely, the 51"er that Mike caught nailed the 24" eye I was reeling in, he switched over to a silver red eye, the pike hit his red eye and put on one hell of a fight, then he just layed on to the water till he saw my net, but he snoozed so he loses, thats the fish we took to the loggers camp to put it in a freezer. This other time dad and I had a stringer of eyes maybe 3-4 hanging in the water while we were still fishing with a slip bobber when I noticed this hog pike eyeing up our stringer when I noticed he had a hook and line hanging out of his mouth. Dad said I could be ours as he swam towards us so the bobber didn't go under, as soon as the fish and I realized we had him it was game on. That pike snapped the pole off right over my hand we still got him in, he just laid on top the water, I bet you couldn't reach from eye to eye that's how broad his head was, Mike said he would would net it and he did, the fish went in head first and he thrashed around in the net and out the bottom of the net he went, and the hook pulled, mother F¥<>€~\| he's gone!!! Mike could of died. The fish ripped a hole in that net I could fit my head through. The net measured 49" in depth and we all agreed that 6" still stuck out the top. That was a fish of a lifetime!! Oh well there's more maybe some day.

I totally agree with ya on the strait six motors, I had one in a 18ft Sea Ray but that was a 140hp, I rebuilt the motor and carb. I used that boat on Erie, Ontario, that was a good motor. The old 6's on the road were indestructible also, the 200, and 250, and the 300's were hard working motors also, they lasted way longer than the early V8's, best of luck to ya!!

10/4 on the 16#ers on the old mule. Now she ain't what she used to be!!

Hey Chas, congrats to you and your crew!! A top ten is fabulous on your very first tourney!! Now you have an idea what it's all about, look out next year!! God Bless and there's always next year!! Give your little guy a hug and a pat on the back for POP!!

The boom is designed to carry the weight fully extended, what ever the max is of that rigger to lift. I fish with a fixed 4ft boom, I fish over the corner of my platform kind of a 45* angle. It's mainly a must need to extend the boom for a reason, some like to be further away from the boat. Some mount their riggers with extendable booms on the outside corner both port & starboard and 2ft is plenty over the side so that's what others do. To some it's nothing more than a personal preference. I don't believe it's a advantage to fish with a longer boom, plus they sell the best money can buy riggers with 2ft fixed booms. Basically a extendable boom makes for a more versatile rigger, designed to fit most to near all situations. I doubt you will ever hear "extend your boom there hitting better with 3-4ft of boom out" LOL if it works for you don't mess with it. If it's a hindrance at 2ft stretch her to 3ft nothing will be lost. Thats my opinion!! PAP

It depends on what you consider shallow, and at what speed did you intend to go? But the general rule of thumb is that set up would be ok for like 50ft down at 1.8-2.3 mph. To answer your question if you in 30ft it wouldn't matter if the ball is 6# or 16#. Other than the size, I can't come up with a reason as to why you can't use a heavier ball. For instance I run 12# torpedo's from spring to fall. But I do use smaller dipsys and snap weights when trying to be more stealthy. What difference does it make if you run a spoon 150ft behind a 6# ball or a 16# ball none in my book. Maybe others will chime in with reasons why you shouldn't use a bigger ball if that's all you got??

AAAHH the good OL'Days when well tuned ear could tell by the hum of the rigger cables. I remember the old paper graphs between the graphs and the riggers singing there song, and kings in the net buy the limits. Now we have all these components which 1 would cost more than the whole setup of the older guys, and wer're struggling more then my younger years with dad and pop-pop. LOL

Yes that is correct you run up 117, then you turn right you'll see the signs for chabougmau. It's all hard road now, except a short distance on dirt to the lake. Also Krux, they are right about jigging, wind will vary the jig size, I use a 1/16 oz jig or 1/8 oz take some 1/4 oz in case it blows like hell, I only use orange jigs with a wire hook, no twister tails just tipped with a piece of night crawler, and that's the only way you can get into those deeper pockets. Perch colored lures,and with the crawler harneses I never saw a pattern that out performed the other. Colorado blades size 4-5. The lake is stained dark brown, so take the match the hatch or go with out of the theory. You could use a quart zip lock bag for a tackle bag 1/16 1/8 oz jigs about 50 of each couple of silver Johnson weedless spoons black/silver baits stick baits black/silver and green/tiger and fire/tiger split backs, and a few crawler harnesses. We buy a flat of night crawlers in approved bedding!! No dirt and leeches and keep them in that Frabill leech container, keep it simple and you'll do well!!

I have fished portincourt, the camp ownes name is Andre, he smokes a pipe. That lake is awesome walleye lake, it's nothing for a 60-70 fish a day, we stayed in cabin or 8 it's the cabin along side the river that goes up to cabin 7 that's the farthest from the lodge and is on a differant lake but still fishable as that's part of Andre's lease. It is a very good day time bite. You will do well with harnesses and very well fishing leeches under a slip bobber, there are some smallies nice size perch, a buddy of mine brought a 50 3/4" northern out of there. They have ice houses up there with 1'x1' blocks of ice covered with saw dust for insulation. Ours didn't have much as we went in August also and the fishing is a tad slower, but bigger eyes. So we needed to get this fish frozen, so we went to this logging town to put the fish in a freezer. The whole lake is not deep like 40ft is the deepest we found over the years going there, the upper camps are pretty far from the lodge so he gives you the first can of gas as you will need to boat all your goodies to your cabin, this takes time as you will follow the guide to your new home for a week. The pike we caught were in the weeds, so my partner would through a Johnson silver minnow with a white twister tail into the weeds and bring the pike out of the weeds then I would use a stick bait and cast to where the fish is and game on!!! Look for deeper pockets or a shelf and the eyes lay in those areas. It's a beautiful place up there, the best walleye lake I fished in Canada, not like Erie size eyes but good eaters 18"-24" anyway. I don't know if there's a slot there, they did incorporate a slot in Lake O'Sullivan, and if my memory serves me right that was the slot. Be prepared for a 18hr ride. We split it into 2 day we left early Friday morning and got 3-4 hrs away then drove the rest Saturday, as you can't get int your cabin till afternoon. Hey have fun and fish that river it's tricky you got to hit the river full blast and as soon as you get to the top you have to hook a hard left as there is a big rock from the middle to the right, so stay left. Fish that upper lake it doesn't get fished as hard as the main, OOh it's like a little set of Rapids to get up the river. I never got into that lake as I was catching eyes like mad on our way up the river!!! Hope it's not as hot for you as our last trip in August we nearly died I went in the lake to cool off. Feel free to ask more if need be. PAP

This is the truth!! I have the 10# pancake type weights, last year I noticed that my line was wrapped around the cable when I brought them up to switch things up, at first I thought maybe it was me causing this by maybe when I put the twist to make the loop to hook on to the blacks release, I even blamed the blacks spinning on the cable, mine are free sliders till I toothpick them into position, but I didn't peg the bottom one, then I did and got the same results, HMM now what? I noticed that the cable was like unwinding like to single strands, up to 6-7 feet of the weight. I switched over to Harvey's torpedo weights and see no evidence of this happening now. I even went as far as not pegging the blacks release on the bottom and now everything pulls strait. I guess the proof is in the pudding!! Maybe if you fish where there are no currants that can spin the weights in differant directions they might work. I even gave the weights the eyeball to see if the back fin was bent, but this was not the case either.

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This might be the best bet, as mine are pre-shortstop I never gave this a thought!! Thanks W.W.I.V. For your post!!!

It depends if your going with the currant or with, against the currant your rigger ball will show more of a outward slant and the pitch of the cable will be higher, slow up, going with the currant will have a way less hum to the cable, and your rigger wire will be at a 90* or just a slight angle. I would go with the post above and start at 2.5mph in calm water and get a idea of the angle of the cable, then then try to duplicate that angle out in the lake, if nothing after a while speed up at 1/2mph till something fires off then circle around and try to do the same thing, going back the same way will be a whole differant ball game, after some time if it keeps producing then try going back the opposite way and keep the rigger cable at that same angle and remember that rigger wire tone!! Good luck.