FishingFool34

I thought the same thing for a few years, trolled with my 150hp 2 stroke main with a couple bags out and it did fine. $25 a trip in gas for the main seemed pretty decent also. Then I found a good deal on a 8hp 4 stroke kicker, now I troll the same amount of time for less than $5 a trip. Not to mention it's way easier to control speed and I no longer need trolling bags. Now I question why anyone would not have a kicker...

Water is high but launching is do-able... bring boots if you don't wanna get wet.

lol... you can have the best electronics money can buy. Still won't put fish on the deck if you don't know how to use them. Fishawk X4d is very new and arguably the best probe system money can buy right now. I'm betting you're thinking about the much older fishawk 840 system, which is night and day different than what they are talking about. You're "younger than us"... a quick google search and you could have been just as informed as us too. But you chose to answer without knowing what we were talking about... not the best way to introduce yourself to forum.

Yeah slow morning here also, definitely a lot of debris out there. Ended 1/2 with a 17lb king that came on a 200 WS with a spoon in 105 fow. Other hit was rigger at 50 but he shook off at the boat (another king). We Started to see some good marks in 80-90fow but then the wind picked up pretty good and we headed in.

Bring your boots if you’re gonna launch at Mexico. For reference those are 35” tires and how deep I was to launch the boat. It was prolly 8-10” of water where the ramp started

Yeah boots were needed when I was there last. It would a bit of a ride to Oswego... or you could just stay close and fish the plant like the rest of us that launch out of Mexico.

Ill take the Mag boards... PM sent

I think I'd have to see it work firsthand before I'd try that... an untripped Mag dipsey with a ring, out 300' will rival the hardest fighting salmon in the lake.

How does the arm trip if the line is only connected to the dipsey at one point?

I contacted fishawk about RAM mounting options earlier this year. They told me that the standard flat surface RAM mount fits the fishawk mount perfectly. I have one but haven't installed or tested it yet but this is the model # they were talking about, RAM-B-107-1U-238.

Trailer to Mexico and launch from there.

That's a pretty good idea... I noticed if I don't double loop the red clips even the 65lb braid will slip through and cause the dipsey arm not to release. That prolly wouldn't be and issue using those S clips, I just wonder how difficult it is to remove the dipsey with a big fish on the other end? I could see the clip and loop becoming a little awkward to remove with an uncooperative fish on. I run inline planer boards so everyone on my boat is very familiar with the OR-16 clips and I know they come off easily under tension if looped properly.