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    Wow that was memorable day to salute the holiday, congrats on your banner day. Am I reading your hawk right? 39* at 46ft down, Brrr
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    Very nice guys, a big thanks to all that had anything to do with all the pen programs!!!
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    That theory works well, and for $800.00 you can but a lot of pencils and paper. LOL. Keep up the good work you will do just fine. One thing I'm a firm believer in is, time spent on the water is the biggest education you can get, learn from mistakes and move on, no one is perfect!!! Best of luck and tight lines to you!! PAP
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    Looks and sounds like your doing just fine. Depending on what type of line your using you will achieve deeper depth than the charts show. Depending on the size dipsy they usually use 10-20# mono, so if your using a braided line you will get deeper than the chart shows, if you hit up with X amount of line out you should keep a record of this for your own knowledge. Next time out you will know with X amount of line out I was this deep, just keep the same pole with that dipsy. Speed will also get you deeper, the chart should read X type line at X mph again it's usually charted at 2mph so at 2.5 mph you will get deeper also, lots of factors that come into play, the charts on the back of the dipsys usually get you in the ball park give or take. The temp devices play a vital role when you find suspended fish, the fish that are suspended in their climate zone usually are active fish that are catchable, other uses are to find the right temp that meets the bottom, and you see hooks tight on the bottom those fish usually will strike at the right presentation. A lot of guys that just fish the hooks will somtimes be wasting time and fuel, not all fish suspend in there climate zone. There are some guys that will give up there sonar before their temp and depth gauge, that you can bank on!!! I have the Fish Hawk 4xd. I mainly got this to eliminate the guess work out of where my rigger ball is, just because my rigger says I'm 75ft down doesn't mean that's where my ball is. Blow back and strong currents can lift your ball 10-20ft up. A couple of years ago we were fishing 80ft down with hooks all at 80ft and deeper and we couldn't buy a hit, noticing that our cable had some angle back to it we decided to drive towards land till we hit up, with 80ft of cable out we didn't bump up till we were in 65ft of water, so we were fishing 15ft above the fish, not good, with the 4xd it has a pressure switch which tells us how deep our ball really is. Since I got the Hawk I run 95ft of cable out to reach 80ft in that same area with more hookups than before. It's a expensive device that some say they been fishing 50 years without and some will say they won't leave the dock without it. I feel it has helped us a lot. It's a decision that you have to make. I'm not Mr salmon buy any means and I'm sure I left some vital info out but that's a general idea of it, I'm sure there are well more experienced guys that will hits some different high lites for you on this topic. Tight lines to you!! PAP.
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    Nice to see the young guy out with you!! Thanks for taking a kid fishing!! Congrats to the both of you.
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    Are they the one's that have the square base with 4 hole to mount base then a Allen screw to hold the rod holder? If so you will need a base the fits your track system and mount the tite lock base to the sliding part of your track system.
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    Lake looks nice, congrats on the Atlantic, looks nice and healthy, clean also
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    Nice fish, look nice and healthy, clean congrats to you and your catch!!
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    Sweet, where did you find them?
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    Black River bay is anywhere from 4ft to 36ft. I fish from the last can to the concrete pier on left heading away from river, try the bouys if the wind is out of the southwest from the last can in on either sides, or the north shore start close 10-15 and work out to till you see bait and hooks, troll down to the first point, we had 3 eyes within a hour was going to head back and come through again but blew lower unit. That put the brakes to our eye fishing, I'm on the home stretch with the rebuild, tore off the main shaft.
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    Congrats on your day, some nice. Looking stleelie's also. Great report!!!!
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    Absolutely beautiful Fleet, think I'll be going for Browns also!! LOL. I tell ya those stingers really produce for us. Congrats on your banner day!! PAP.
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    Yea, X2 what Fleet said!!!
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    I'm sure you will get different views of how to, and what not to, but this is my set up, starting first with the riggers, I run 4 poles off my riggers, maybe not all at once but I have them set up the same. I use a 45 series reel, and I have Berkley Big Game 30# test as a backer and on top of that I have 150 yards of 30# Blood Run Sea Flea line, then I use a #8 SPRO barrel swivel and depending on what I'm fishing for I use a flurocarbon leader usually the length of the pole. The SPRO swivel will fit through the eyes of the poles which allows you to reel your fish into the boat or if using a dipsy you will only have to deal with the leader after the dipsy. (Hand line to the net) OK here's where the mixed opinions will come into play. Some people like braided line and some hate it, I like it especially on my dipsy rods as there is no stretch which in my mind makes for a solid hook up, some say it tears the hooks out, but after you let your dipsy out and you want to do this slowly so they don't get tangled up, I set the drag lite and let them creep out to my desired length then I tighten up the drag just enough so they won't creep out on their own. I use 30# Power Pro and a #8 SPRO swivel and the fluro leader and on the business end I use a #2 duo lock snap to the spoon or lure, if I'm using a dipsy I use a heavier SPRO snap swivel to the dipsy and of course your (I use) 20# fluro leader with a #2 duo lock snap to afix whatever your going to run after the dipsy, if your going to run a spinner and fly or a dodger and fly/spoon I use a heavier snap swivel. I also use slide divers and for those I like 30# Berkley big game, with the Lite Bite slide diver I find mono is easier to use. So that's what I use. There are guys that run copper and wire lines and and they are very good also and hopfully they will chime in and explain how they work. I also use lead core line which I use a lot. I use a 3-5-7 color cores and use snap weights to fill in the voids where some guys like 2 through 10 colors, that's one's personal choice, it starts to get very expensive to have all the paraphernalia to cover everything. I'm a firm believer in keeping it simple, for one of many reasons, if your the only guy on the boat that understands all this you WILL have your hands full where if it's more simple more guys will get the hang of it quicker, and if the same group sticks together, then you can incorporate the other lines. Hope this helps and good luck on the water!! PAP
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    What exactly is happening,when you say hard to shift, do you mean to pull the lever from let's say forward to neutral while the motor is running, or the shifter moves hard either way? All the above answers are right, but if you can't pull the lever out of gear while the motor is runnung, like LakeBound mentioned it could be the cables stretched I would try by adjusting the cable the goes to the lower unit. You want to shorten that cable but I would be leaning towards the shift interrupter, and that stumbles the motor for a split second to allow the gears to be pulled apart, if this is out of adjustment you won't be able to pull it out of gear under a load, and like you mentioned you needed to kill the motor to pull it out of gear. If you over adjust it the motor will stall in between shifts. Mine didn't have an actual adjustment I just had to bend the little piece of spring steel that activates the switch. Then the other answer about rpm's could be the issue also, should be around 900rpm at an idle and 600 rpm in gear at an idle. If your at 1300 rpm in gear the shift interrupter won't come into play to assist the shift. Just some things to check out before you pull your hair out. LOL.
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    Why did you get run off, that makes no sence? Only tippy canoes in the river or the launch? I guess I'm going to dig my creation out and give it a go as I have friends that own properties in the Clayton area, soon as I get my lower unit back together, and after the hulagans go back home from beer cation ill be up!!! Till then tight lines to all and have a nice holiday. Pap.
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    Well that sucks to say the least!! Seems you hear more and more of this crap happening. Hope he gets it back, that's wishfully thinking.
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    Otisco 5/19

    Xxx replied to MeatHunter737's topic in Walleye

    Yea by all means get lights on, not so much for rules or to sound like a Ahole, but the goons over the holiday will dive over you.
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    Nice mount why are you selling it, did you catch a bigger one!!! LOL
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    The FLW Pro Walleye Tour was won by Ross Rothe on the Detroit River, he was hand lining using a 2# ball with a 3 way swivel the floating worm harness was 28" above the ball, they wouldn't say what the leader length was. I made a rig up using a big fly rod reel with auto retrieve and mounted it to a short piece of rod just enough so it sits in a rod holder and used 1-3# balls depending on depth and current. I used 80# Power Pro for line and a fluorocarbon leader of about 10ft. There is a place on the Delaware River that has a deep hole that's about 50 yards long, it falls almost strait down and the other side is the same, it's shaped like a oval bowl, we have been successful there using this set up catching nice eyes and trout. The auto retrieve is nice to pick up the slack line. I have used this method on the Black River also and it worked well down by the islands where there is a big rock that drops into 30ft of water and strong current. I recommend using a batters glove as the line will cut your hands. With handlining, there's no pole to fight the fish so if it's a bigger fish you get jerked around. It's a way to get baits down in areas that conventional tactics just won't work. If I see fish in a hole a lot of times I just put the worm harness out first then the ball slowly let out line until I feel the bottom and let the current do the trick, also when trolling you just want the ball to bounce off the bottom, not just drag along, although I have dragged the ball where the bottom was flat and sandy or muddy, this sometimes triggers a strike. I haven't used this method in years, but will give it a shot if I get to the St. Lawrance River!!!
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    Welcome aboard Chuck!! First off everybody has to start somewhere right? There are lots of guys on here willing to lend a hand or give useful info. There's no such thing as a dumb question, "unless you ask the same question 3 or 4 times LOL" I fished with a buddy who had a 115hp jet on the Delaware river, that's one sweet ride go anywhere you want if you got 6" of water. I don't know how that will work on the big pond, but hey give it a shot. I will try to help where I can so don't be shy. There are many good days ahead of us. PAP
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    I think the most dumb thing they ever did was make it legal to catch and release fish that aren't in season, like mentioned above these regs. are for a reason, now you can pull a huge female off the nest just for fun? Go back to the way it was a folks might be hesitant to hold up a huge smallie for a Kodak moment!!
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    Ha-Ha, yea I thought of that also, made the paper no denying that, what ya think?
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