vetting

.....the question is what do you so when an angry west side of Lake Michigan king spools you on a board on a 4 or 5 color and you cant even crank with pumping the rod. Happened a few times last week during the tournament and there is no bringing that board back without pumping no matter how hard you crank the drag. We had to thumb a few reels even to gain on fish with a board and thats with throttling down and throwing 2 bags out.

I have 6 meat rigs that I got through buying/selling/trading and they dont take toothpicks - I think they only work with pins. Does anyone have any source to just buy replacement pins?

Another vote for Shell rotella 15w40 Its what I use in my 89 mercruiser also.

Do you have a fresh water tank on the boat? Even if you dont use it, fill it up - usually its on the port side of the boat and kicker is on the starboard side. Also moving the batteries over to the opposite side helps but that usually involves redoing your battery cables.

I have a freezer on the boat - so Im thinking im going to go the petroleum jelly route and then freeze it up in small batches for 1 day use.

When running with a flasher, what types of flasher, what leads, teaser or no do you guys run?

So I had a lot of luck taking small fillets off of alewifes last year and sticking them right on the hook of flies running behind a flasher. I want to be able to put some alewife stink on spoons. My plan was to do my usually catch them with a sabiki rig and fillet them, but this time I was then going to grind them up. So what should I mix it with to make it into a paste? It has to be something that doesnt have its own scent. Would petroleum jelly work? Maybe a little mineral oil and corn starch?

Here is the list of most important and best purchases for the boat that I've made in descending order. #1 autopilot (got tired of cursing at who ever was attempting to drive) #2 Fish Hawk speed and temp -using SOG on your GPS sucks to dial in that 1.7 to 2.5 species dependent speed. #3 Raymarine chart plotter with NOAA vector charts. Super accurate and lets you pound waypoints over and over again #4 Great Lakes Planners arch system. No more doing a rod dance to deploy 12 rods. Make setting up twice as fast. #5 Boga grip - great for picking fish out of the net and not having to worry about a angry fish flopping around trying to ram a hook in your hand.

Be careful with textured vinyl since magic erasers are technically sand paper

If you contact fish hawk, they will usually help you out.

Really depends on what is inside the cable. Are there multiple wires or something like coax? Just send fishhawk and email - they usually have great customer service and are reply quickly.