I think if you smoked fish and had a fish cleaning service in the Olcott , Wilson area you could easily make a go of it. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
X2 is use the probe on the one your having trouble with. If your resetting you zero all the time you have something slipping. I set my zero when I put my riggers on and have never had to touch it. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
Take a 5 gallon bucket and wrap a string around it at the bottom of the bucket, then measure it. Then take the string and wrap it around the bucket half way way up the bucket and measure it. How much difference do you have in the lengths ???? And every revolution it’s getting a little bigger diameter. The math is probably really close with 80 feet of cable out. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
Sounds like you have too much wire on your spools. If your riggers are designed for 150’ of wire and you out 250’ of wire on them the counters will no longer be accurate. Your balls will be deeper than the counter says. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
There are no Walleye in Lake Ontario!!! Land shark is off the team! Just kidding. There are some walleye there but there all blind. Go to Erie there are way more of them and there not blind. There are a lot more Walleye on the other side of the fence in Ontario. The habitat on that side is more walleye friendly and I think they never have to migrate to the south shore to find enough food and water temperature. Erie on the other hand is shallower so they migrate to follow the bait and cooler deeper water. Making them easier to pattern. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
Welcome aboard. Where on Erie do you mostly fish? Wilson bay. Tuscarora state park has the cheapest dock rentals that I’ve found, there 21 a night with electric and water. There about 12 miles or so? from the bar by water. The fishing out front of Wilson is on fire right now. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
We also went out of olcott this morning. Was setting lines by 6:15 had boated 5 fish by 7:30 with a few throwbacks, fished out front in 100 - 130 FOW down 40 to 80 down, all small walleye spoons. They were short hitting the magnums all weekend and wouldn’t stay buttoned up. They inhaled the small spoons.
We fished Friday Saturday and Sunday morning, boxed every day but had to work at it.
Tried flasher fly, meat, plugs, and everything else I could thing of, small spoons were the best. We even caught 1 king on a worm harness. Lol. All in all a great trip.
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Would also like to give a shout out to a guy that goes by the handle ( Batters up ) great guy! Pointed me in the right direction on Friday. Thanks man. [emoji1303]
I saw them in person at a show. They are well put together. They didn’t cut any corners. I’m a mechanical and electrical engineer, and have a machine shop in my garage. They also had a video playing of them testing them. In the video they were lifting 100 lbs of weight up and down about 15 feet (in air at full speed) very impressive. That’s my next set of riggers! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
Those little 4 bangers run for ever. I would definitely get it running and see what you have. And if you decide to go with a out board at least you could sell the inboard and out drive for something if you know it works. As for the 90 hp outboard, if you go that way, I’d sell it also. That’s a lot of boat to be pushing with a 90hp. I would think a 150hp at least. I would concentrate on getting the one in the boat running. Points and condenser, distributor cap and rotor, plugs and wires. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United