Great_Laker

Hand pulling copper in Seneca Lake for lakers and the solid copper broke in my hand, about 300’ of line lost with Pflueger. A week later was pulling down rigger ball in the mud for lakers and snagged my 300’ of copper, tied it back on the spool and was back in action! Dropped my sunglasses off the boat while trolling in Oswego, 30 mins later, checking down riggers and the sunglasses somehow looped around the Downrigger line so I got them back.

I fished from 60-300 today in Oswego. Didn’t pick up a fish till we hit 70’ looking for browns. Piles of bait in 60 degree water at 70’. Only action was a double, one 7 lb brown and one 14 lb king. Both on downriggers with spoons. Nothing on leadcore or dipseys. Washing spoons most of the day. At the fish cleaning station charter captains were bringing in coolers of salmon so they found them somewhere.

Yes, you can crank them down as hard as you want. There is also a tab you can pull out on the Scotty pinch pad that makes the tension even tighter. No problem

Thanks for reporting the tagged Laker. If you want any information on it, send me a private message with the tag info and I can give you all the information I have on that fish if it’s one of ours. If you search for the post from Gambler about catching a tagged lake trout at Sandy Creek, you can read why we are tagging lake trout and what we are doing with that information. The external tag you saw indicates it has an acoustic tag inside the fish which is how we track them around the lake, sort of like underwater GPS.

In Lake Ontario (both US and Canada shores) Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) treats tributaries for sea lamprey. COVID shut down the border and the Sea Lamprey Control Center (DFO) could not treat US tributaries of Lake Ontario because they could not cross into the U.S.. Lamprey wounding increased quite a bit during those years but started to decline in 2023 according to lake wide assessments. Sea lamprey are only in their parasitic adult life stage for about a year so changes should be pretty rapid once treatments resumed.

Electric USCG approved flares. Buy once, keep your old expired chemical flares as back ups. https://www.amazon.com/ResQFlare-Electronic-Distress-Replacement-Pyrotechnic/dp/B08FBJJBQ5/ref=asc_df_B08FBJJBQ5/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459508398918&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4904768036541490503&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005104&hvtargid=pla-945538896395&psc=1&mcid=f442d50a36733212b8f7d30ff3c07930&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIp-LwpLHihQMVdzMIBR30igq1EAQYAyABEgKJxPD_BwE

No problem. A single NOCO 10amp charger that has three charging banks on it. Your 20 amp chargers will work just fine.

Yes that is ok to do. On 36V system we have all three LiFePo4 batteries charging at the same time without disconnecting the jumpers with a NOCO smart charger. When its colder than 32F the batteries will not charge FYI. The built in BMS shuts them off for charging, but they will still discharge it temps colder than 32.

Anyone run a thru-hull transducer in an aluminum boat? I’d like to be able to scan at 20-25 mph and my current Lowrance 3-1 transducer isn’t capable of doing that off the transom. I have it as close to the engine and as low as it can go without interference from the prop wash. I run a 20’ center console with Lowrance electronics. Looking for some advice.