Steve.e

If you don't like snubbers, here's a little trick I read about concerning rigging loss due to salmon slams on dipsey set ups. Set diver to desired depth, put a #15 rubberband on the wire just ahead of reel(one end of band slid through loop on other end) . Loop other end of band to reel handle. This allows you to loosen the drag on reel.Slowly loosen the drag untill the band starts to stretch, test elasticity of band first, so you will know the braking point. With a diver out deep and with salmon speeds for trolling, there is way to much tension on the line which requires a heavy drag setting to keep the line from pulling out. Hence, salmon wacks the already way too tight drag and you loose rig and possibly pole and will probably rip the hook through his lip. With the rubber band you can loosen the drag to about 3-4 lbs which should be plenty to set a hook on a pig king. I haven't tried this yet but it sounds logical to me.

Not getting a warm and fuzzy with this guy.

Gen river walleyes are disgusting. They taste like the river smells up by kodak. It is fun though in may-june up by seth green island. Water gets in the 70's it shuts off.

I don't have much luck with midrange fish either. I check out bigfoot charter's journal on line and he seems to get them early am only then goes deep. He doesn't give too much detail. He rarely catches any bows or browns, just lots of lakers. Check him out. I'm on the east side by the olney place store, maybe we can hook up sometime and combine ideas.

Put the bells off the back of your weights, and run your spoon 4 to 6 feet behind. No more drag and it works just as well getting hits.

With riggers, I always run a lake rig or cowbells off the ball. then set the suttons 4-6 feet behind the attractors. This time of year fish about 10-20 ft off the bottom in 100 early morning then start moving out at 10 ft increments every hour after 7:30, fish 5-10 ft off bottom. Fishing gets slow late morning till late afternoon. I like to troll the edge of the shadow cast by the west side hill(either branch)from 4 till sundown. I'm fishing the east branch 2 mi south of viking. Note to trolling speed, slow it down to 1-1.5 mph for lakers. They are generally bottom feeders and lazy.

i was down there 4th of July week, lots of fleas and some weeds in am in the middle after a calm night. Should be illegal for people to rake seaweed in front of their place. Anyways, I'm going down for a week Aug 4th. I have pretty good luck for lakers. Go out pretty much every morning. I can update you from there.