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Had reports of 3” to 18” off of Dunkirk ny last week, on the smooth ice out of 18 mile creek we saw 20-24” thick ice before a large area of ice shoves that I would assume are closer to that 4-5’ mark.

Gotcha thanks for the ideas. And I should have been more clear, what I was recommending was for musky and not other trolling species. Generally people don’t troll with as much gear out for musky so it’d probably be easier to stop the boat was my assumption. I certainly am not stopping my boat for walleye, salmon, or laker revival as mostly they end up in the cooler but would stop for a musky. Other thing while trolling musky, take your boat out of gear/slow wayyyy downs when hooked up, and use stout gear to hoarse the fish in. The musky won’t get as tired and more likely to survive as well, hopefully negating this whole conversation. Shorter the fight less lactic acid builds up in them. Also helps to only target during cooler months for best survival chances, hot water wears them out fast

Are you trying to do this while still trolling? If trolling I would pull spread and still opt for the hand pulling/pushing method on reviving the fish WHILE boat is stationary. Do this until you feel confident fish can swim. If boat is moving your putting further stress on the fish when doing the push pull method. You can move plenty of water across gills doing this alone. It does take a significant amount of time sometimes. Also I’m curious on your boga grip method, are you bringing that line back in and then opening it and seeing the fish swim off while boat is stationary? Still trolling and leaving fish behind regardless(bad releases happen not trying to bash). How far behind boat? I’d certainly try it for my next laker trip if it works and I know a little more. I’d be concerned with this method for muskies due to their likeliness to thrash, thus resulting in damaged jaws, and for the same reasons musky shouldn’t be held vertically as their anatomy doesn’t allow for much vertical support(continuous pulling from mouth seems a little stressful imho).

Various lure lots, prices and description in pics. Shipping might be a little more if needed or can meet(located in south Dayton ny area). Just trying to cleanup some stuff as I have too much

I am signed up for the brawl, not signing up for slam as I’m gonna mainly stick to ny water@Gill-T

Fish USA still has chicken pox in the shallow bomber, not sure if you were dead set on the deep

for the most part leadcore, but Dipsey divers, jet divers, 50+2 snap weight method, and downriggers can all be utilized to catch walleye, even experimented with some copper line last weekend. If you have any questions feel free to pm me

Just a heads up the “big fish Friday” portion of this event starts lines in the water at 6am. Luckily boats can depart from any port so it won’t be as crowded as Saturday will be. I’d probably still plan to fish dunkirk or Barcelona to avoid most of the crowd (edit didn’t see mr580’s comment)