I am sure it's harder to fall off a 21 footers.(The water is warmer off a large boat LOL.) I run a 23 foot and in winter and spring I wear my auto inflatable jacket you don't even know you have it on. You can buy them for under 100 bucks. I was born and brought up on Seneca and I was brought up to respect the water.
I am not telling you to wear it the state of NY is.
Let's just make California it's own COUNTRY and make NYC it's own STATE.
Problem solved. If you ask 100 high school students what the capital of NY is 60 percent will say NYC that's said.
If you run a board all the way across it really stiffened the gimbal mounts up and spreading the weight out. My gimbals are just screws and I run 6ft booms on my downrigger no problem.
I found a nice piece of rough cut cherry
Teach the beagles to catch them. I had a beagle he would chase them down the hole and then lay on the backside of the hole until they stuck there head WAM got it
Hi all yep I have had similar problems but my slip is across from the village launch on a buzzy weekend I just sit on the boat and watch people launching it's the best show to watch all day and I don't burn a drop off gas .
Sk8man WOW copper fishing has gotten tricky. 60 years ago we put 2 pie tins together wind copper around it with a swivel 10 ft leader with a twin minnow or a fluger on the end.