FleetTracker

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Come on Justin... In no way can you compare King Salmon to Walleye other than the shared water they swim in on certain bodies. Wire is used to improve dive curves in your dipseys and arguable fish attracting hum when trolled, not to mention that many use snubbers (stretch). Copper is used to stealthily achieve depth with an undoubtably unique action at the business end, not to mention a 30-50' mono or fluoro leader (stretch). Kings wear themselves out (especially dragging 300-600' of copper through the water) and the key is in a quality drag set at the appropriate settings. You bring braid on my boats and you'll be asked to put your rods back in your truck. Lol that stuff is never allowed on my boats. That's how strongly I feel against it. Even if the eyes fought identically lb for lb in Ontario and Otisco, they're a lot bigger here so you may not be seeing the poor results of braid. I enjoy the busting, but fact is you just can't compare river fishing, otisco, or any other lakes to one another. I grew up fishing Erie and have caught a lot of walleye out there in the western basin. Notable differences to the eyes in Ontario.

Ask anyone who fishes Ontario, real Lake Ontario not jigging or dragging bouncers in a river. You won't find any braid. I still hate it. It's good for perch. Bout it. Maybe your eyes don't fight much on Otisco and you can get away with the no stretch without losing most your fish. Every fishery is different use what works for you but if you come up to the big lake you better bring some 10lb mono! Lol

Oh and the fleas are absolutely TERRIBLE this year! so frustrating I'm sick of it. Trolling anywhere around Henderson, Stony, and way out in the big lake they cannot be avoided. They're attaching to Downrigger cables now. All over the dipsey wire. Everything you put out gets covered.

No need for a split shot - they weaken the line where attached so avoid them unless needed for depth in shallow divers (large split shots). A regular sized thru-hole bead on the main line side of the leader knot/swivel will catch the debris and keep your sticks clean. A must!!

Great tips here for folks learning how to use these Inlines effectively! Still - I'd much prefer a release off the big board tow line and a screaming king on the other end and fighting the fish not a board. Catch ratio has always been so much higher in my experience. That includes walleye, etc.

I run the Offshore orange or black releases and bury it (yellow won't hold). Haven't had any premature releases using them.

I've been putting my big boards out not too far from the boat maybe 75ft max and sending a copper all the way down on each side to widen my spread. Was deadly last weekend. It worked well will be doing that from here on out. I hate Inlines.

Fleas were pretty awful off Stony and the finger last weekend. To the point where you WOULD loose fish due to eyelet clogging quick. I had them on my dipsey wire set-ups and rigger rods running 25lb P-line. Nothing on either 45lb blood run copper set-ups. Have to check your set-ups more often to ensure they aren't all gunked up. it's a pain but a must. That time of year but definitely seems a lot worse then last year already.

Current was all over the place and heavy in spots. it seriously varied every 100 yards or so. At one point was going 3.5mph surface just to get 1.8mph down speed (which is slow)... most of the time it was only off by 1mph or less from surface to down speed but it was sporadic out there.