6 pm. Slow afternoon. Trolled from 240 to 357. Nothing but a shaker. Now I'm in 286 FOW. Nothing. Surface 59. Down 75 it's 42.6. no bait. No hooks. Sent from my XT1030 using Lake Ontario United mobile app
Ok depth was 220 to 240, not 340. My speed was varying from 2.0 to 3.3 with the itroll hunt mode. I was down 50 to 65. My dipseys we're back 125 to 150. Water temp was approx 42 to 44 down at the ball. In the 140 ft water I saw temp down there at 49 and 50. Fish came a little deeper for me. After the initial burst, had to work. No bait marked. No fish marked. Sent from my XT1030 using Lake Ontario United mobile app
I was out of Olcott the 25th. Caught 2 for 5. 200 to 226 FOW. Had to work for them too. Saw not bait and no fish on my my screen, but the Salmon I landed had alewives spewing out. Sent from my XT1030 using Lake Ontario United mobile app
2 for 5. 3 bigger Salmon got away. One small steelhead thrown back, and one coho kept. Just west of harbor, 225 to 340 FOW. spoons, and SD with stud fly. Sent from my XT1030 using Lake Ontario United mobile app
I'm between Wilson and Olcott right now. Caught 2 nice Kings and Lost them, and got one Small steel. 225 fow. But nothing in last hour.boats are at all different depths. Sent from my XT1030 using Lake Ontario United mobile app
I also just connected my kicker fuel line to the Fuel Filter cannister extra outlet. Just screwed a barbed fitting in there, (brass) slid the line on and clamped it. My hose has the bulb about 12-14 inches from the filter. Works fine.
My unit (new last Summer) is acting weird this year. For example, if I select the 83 KHZ frequency the downrigger ball marks a black band 20 feet wide. If I select 200 KHZ the ball is displayed like a normal thinner line. Maybe transducer? I am using the one it came with.
Seacast costs 3X more. At least that is what I found out when I started looking into my current boat a Grady White, which may need work someday. On this boat, I had to totally strip it down to fix the stringers, so using seacast would not be best because the stringers needed to be glued into the transom anyways. No benefit to using the seacast.
I bought the boat with a 135 HP Chrysler on it. It started and idled fine! But, I took the side panels off and one cylinder was badly scored. I had great difficulty finding a new cylinder for my serial number motor. I replaced it with a 70 HP Johnson, that I bought near Akron Ohio, for $250. I put my 9.5 Evinrude kicker on it. Both motors ran perfectly. I sold the rig to Mark (who posted current pictures). Mark said the lower gear went out on the 70 HP johnson, and he said the 9.5 evinrude also went bad! I do not understand why, as they literally ran perfectly for me. But the 70 HP was a 1975, and the 9.5 was a 1984. So, who knows, when motors get that old.
I got the same units last summer, Lowrance Outboard AP with HDS 7. Works great. S curves, Zig Zags, waypoints, circles, heading mode, even depth hold mode.........UNREAL. Try Hodges Marine.
All my rods have a heavy duty ball bearing swivel on them. I attach it to the spin doctor's swivel, the paddle's swivel, a spoon, a dipsy diver, whatever I am connecting to regardless of whether or not that item has it's own swivel. Never have any twist at all.
I have had NASTY twists when a big weenie spinner catches onto another adjacent line/ HUGE mess.
Thanks for taking the time to make a report. I haven't seen many yet. That is what makes the site work for everyone. You did great. Its also wonderful when everything works first time out. Very happy for you!
Hey Pap, yes, I don't think it bowed out at all when I cleaned out all the stringers and floor. Of course there wasn't much holding it at at point anyways. I put in stringers and bulkheads where the old ones were, as best I could tell. I also left a skiv of the old fiberglas floor cover sticking out from the sides and used that as a guide to put the new floor in.
Hey Mark, you got her polished up real good! I see you got the new motor mounted too. Grumpy, Yes, it was a challenge getting clamps to squeeze the transom.