vetting

I think you can order them from cabelas.

Nice spoons.  I bought a few from you over the winter and the quailty is top notch - way better than the huge companies.  I need more spoons like I need a hole in the head - but also wondering if you are going to throw together a 2014 6 pack.

Bought another collection of spoons from a charter captain.  I picked out all of the Pro King spoons.

Just a couple questions.

Is the spoons on the bottom left and the ones on the bottom right Pro Kings?  They seem to have the same blank and they have the same holographic back as some of the newer pro kings.  Just about all of the rest have the highly polished back and are stamped Pro King.  Some of the most reflective spoons I've seen.  Is there a special plating on the back?  At some point did Pro King switch from a polished back to the foil/holo sticker back?

Yeah when pulling big divers on wire in the waves, you kinda need to crank everything down.  I even broke a trebble and also bent a trebble last year on massive hits.  Just a nature of the beast.

Need the curent best pricing on Raymarine EV-200 Sport Pilot Autopilot - the T70159 model.  Looking to pick one up this week and need to find the best price.  I know some places offer 10% off this time of year, but havent been able to find one.

Thanks in advance!

pending sale

Bump one time before they go on eBay.

I got it from northwoodsoutlet.net

You have to call though to order it.  Directions are on their website.

Just pulled the trigger on an X4D.  Price was 649 + shipping and no sales tax since Im in WI.

Sold!

Pending sale

Sold early this morning. 

And as long as I'm at it - here is my story of my solo triple from 2013 out of Milwaukee.

Must have been magic in the air tonight because I had the most insane thing happen on the boat tonight. Launched around 7:00pm out of Milwaukee for a solo trip. Usually I don't hold too much hope for a solo trip with only 3 rods in the water, but thought it was worth a shot given that a 36lb fish was landed today. The dog was on the boat, but he cant steer or net fish so he isn't much help

Set up in 70ft of water and headed on a NE troll towards the towers. The 3 rods were:

Downrigger with a 11" Coyote double pearl flasher with a Poseidon 50/50 frog fly on it set 60 ft down

Wire dipsey (124 clear walker) with a Moonshine magnum RV blue flounder pounder - 110 on counter.

7 color lead core on a board with a bent to crap medium size UV warrior spoon.

Set everything on the same side of the boat. Trolled out to 105 and then cut back to 95ft...then the magic happened. The wire dispey started peeling out line. Right when I grabbed it out of the rod holder the lead core starts ripping line out. Im thinking to myself, how am I going to manage netting a dipsy by myself in the dusk without making a tangle mess in the lead core peeling out. So I set the drag a bit tighter on the board to hold the 2nd fish somewhat steady. I then start reeling in the dipsy and get it wrapped around the downrigger line. I somehow free it and see the downrigger start to bounce. I thought with the 11" paddle and the fact that I just knocked it pretty good, it was just a misfire. I get the first fish in the boat on the dipsy, a 11 lb 31" rainbow. I get it out of the net and then get to work on the leadcore. As Im cranking that one in, the down rigger starts to bounce some more....yeah it was no false release - it was an official triple. I land the fish from the lead core - a 13lb king and throw that one on the deck. At this point there is fish slime, rods all over, and fish flopping around. This is all while the dog is going crazy licking 2 fish and pushing them around the deck. I then go to get the downrigger rod and start to work on that one. At this point I think its going to be a miracle to actually land a triple by myself without losing it or taking a digger due to the rods and slime everywhere. I finally get the downrigger fish in the net - a 7 lb king. At this point Im thinking...did this really happen. All of this was done while giving a play by play on the radio to the rest of the folks fishing out there tonight. Probably the craziest thing I've ever have happen and still cant believe they all made it into the boat. By the time I got everything untangled, got the fish in the box, and cleaned up the slime it was officially dark out. Trolled about another hour and then called it a night.

Well since it seems like winter will never end....here are some big ones from 2012 and 2013 from Lake Michigan out of Milwaukee.

Biggest fish of 2012

- 26lb laker caught on a dispsy that was smacking the bottom.  Took 20 min to get in it in - basically had to wait for it to bite the big one to get it in. 

Biggest fish of 2013

- 25lb king - we caught about 6 of them all around the same size

Set of 6 Dipsy Divers Size 1 (4 1/8" with ring) - $30.00 shipped

Set of 5 normal rings and 1 large ring.

Purchase with confidence - I have an 8000+ positive comment rating on eBay and over 20 transactions here on this forum.

Set of 4 Dipsy Divers Size 0 (3 1/4" with ring)- $17.00 shipped

2 with rings and 2 without.  The 2 oranges ones have the tops painted orange.  3 of them have the double ring clip and one has the single arm. 

Purchase with confidence - I have an 8000+ positive comment rating on eBay and over 20 transactions here on this forum.

Set of 2 small Slide Divers.  Just need to rig them up with some surgical tubing and you are set to rock.

These cost $16.30 each + shipping from the Slide Diver website.

Purchase with confidence - I have an 8000+ positive comment rating on eBay and over 20 transactions here on this forum.

I fit just short of 300yds of 40lb high visiblity yellow power pro.  I tie all of my line to line connections with small spro barrel swivels.  Just take out a small section of lead and then tie the dracron right to the swivel.

Its all I use - great stuff.  Never had a break off with multiple 20 to 25lb Kings last year, even with the stuff only being 18lb test.  I havent had a good way to verify actual depth, but it does dive deeper.  There was a time that I snagged a 10 color on a 15ft hump in 75 feet of water.  With a normal 10 color, I would have passed right over it.   

I have my 10 colors spooled up on a Daiwa Seagate 50LW.  I use heavy braid for a backer since mono just rots under all of the wet lead on the spool.

Please post pictures and a price. 

In my opinion, the X4D is worth it.  The depth that you really think the downrigger is at on your fishfinder, really isnt the depth its at.  It really not as deep as its saying - its really measuring the distance from the tranducer to the ball - so with blowback its measuring it at an angle. 

Where did you find one for $649?  I'll be picking one up this month.

SOLD!

Man I wish I lived out by you guys.  Just got 2 different quotes to replace the fabric top and plastic. 
First quote - $3950

Second quote - $2200

Why are you getting rid of it?

I fish Lake Michigan out of Milwaukee.  A lot of the area is flat as a pancake and we troll for fish on the bottom in the middle of the day.  I'm going with an X4D so I can get an accurate reading of how close the rigger is to the bottom.