Jason Barra

Albany, NY area 

I have 2 Tite-Loc Multi-Loc rod holders for sale $25 each.  Work 100%. Will ship at buyers expense, or if possible meet up to deliver.  

I have 6 Tite-Loc Multi-Loc rod holders with track adapter plates for sale, $40 each.  All work 100%. Will ship at buyers expense.  Or meet up to deliver if possible.  

I have 4, 12lbs cannon balls for sale. $25 each. I'll be in Olcott this Friday night and Saturday morning if interested.  

2 sets of piranha rod racks for sale. I got them last year but never used them. $30 each. I will be in Olcott this Friday night and Saturday morning.  

Absolutely run them on your riggers. I usually always run one on my deepest rigger,  20' behind the ball, but you can run it shorter or longer. I then stagger my other lines back alittle further so if the fish don't hit the flasher, they my fall back and hit a spoon. They might not always hit the flasher, but it draws them into your spread.  You can run a fixed stacker with another rod, but make sure it's high enough so they don't tangle.  That flasher is whipping around down there pretty good.  I would not run a slider, just asking for a mess.

I wouldn't use a dipsey snubber, not strong enough.  And you only need the one between your weight and probe, then you can eliminate that plastic insulator.  

Definitely use a snubber. 

And with the snubber, you can eliminate the insulator.  The snubber will act as the insulator for the auto stop.

Made this back a few months ago. The led light strips work great

Fished out of Olcott yesterday and had a pretty awesome day. Set up in 100ft and worked out to 300ft. The best water was between 230-250 with a northeast troll past the plant. Lines were from 100 to 50ft down. Had 45 degree water at 100, speed, 2.5- 2.8 on average at the ball. Every rod took fish! Took all kings and steelhead from big to small. The biggest king came on a meat rig, 12" uv silver, green pro troll. (Forgot the name of if) with an atomic stud rig. The best spoon of the day was any version of wonder bread. (Reg, UV, Burnt). The big steelies like the UV two face with a green crinkle flash fly combo on the dipsey 225' back. The kids stayed busy!  Took over 20 fish, they honestly lost count. Lol 😁

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2 hours ago, Ecto2 said:

Just curious how long you guys like to charge those baits up before sending them?  I usually just hold a spoon up to my deck light for maybe 20sec before washing it, and now i am second guessing how long its keeping its glow.  I burned a lot of the old painted spoons as a kid because i was never careful to get them off the rods when they weren't in the water.

I would do the same thing.  Never thought the glow would last. I would always try to put the box under a light before going out, but would forget while getting everything else ready. My last picture in the first post I charged them for about 5 minutes, and took the picture a couple of minutes after I turned the lights off.  I wanted to see how long they would last. They were still glowing strong a half hour later. 

2 hours ago, just me said:

jason bara paint the outside of the whole box black it will be way better

 

I was thinking about doing that. 

Not familiar with those lakes, but I've seen some videos in the past,  guys fishing lake Champlain for Atlantics using spoons behind their flashers. Might be a similar situation on those lakes. As for flies, start with green.  

I just thought I would share this. I don't know if anybody has tried this already. I was thinking of a way to charge my glow spoons instead of holding them to a light  before putting them in the water. I always felt that was never enough, and the spoons lost their glow quickly.  And with everything else that needs to be done on the boat, charging the spoons prior rarely happen, (I blame my mates, the kids, lol 😄😁)  

This is what I came up with.  I bought the LED light strips that have the battery pack, with a remote, and lined the top of my spoon box.  Now I can just hit the remote, and wherever my box is in the boat, the spoons will be charging.  It cost less than $20. I think it works pretty good. The last picture of the spoons glowing, the lights were only on for about 5 minutes. 

Was looking into other brands of cable after reading this post, and experiencing the same problems. I think I'm going to use the scotty heavy duty high performance cable, it's 180 pound test. Anybody have any other recommendations?

It's funny you brought this up. I saw the cable starting to fray on one of my riggers while out on the lake last week. And when I got back home I checked the other ones and found another one was starting to fray at 90'.  I use 18 pound weights with snubbers.  I thought it was from just taking a beating on the lake that day. Bought mine over the winter. Maybe Cannon got a bad batch of cable. 

Before I got my electric riggers, I had manual cannon uni trolls and ran 15-18 pound torpedo weights. I had no problems with those riggers handling those weights, and had way less blowback. I my opinion going with the heavier weight ( if your riggers are rated for it) than switching back and forth from PP to cable will be a simpler solution.  

I know it can be a pain in the you know what,  but lengthen your leader. Run at least a 12'-15' (fluorocarbon). And don't forget your snubber. 

It's definitely worth the investment. Knowing the temperature and speed of your presentation can be the difference between having a good/great day on the lake, or spending a lot of money driving up to the lake ( I'm 2.5 hours away) not to catch anything.  And yes, we all have those days where no matter what equipment we have the fish won't bite. But knowing temp and speed and that your baits are in the right spot, put the odds in your favor.  I fish more looking at my Fishhawk than looking at my fishfinder 

Fished out of Mexico today,  had 44 degree water 140 feet down.  Was going 1.7 mph on the surface,  and at 140 feet down, 3.1 mph.  Almost couldn't slow down enough. They were liking 2.8mph today.  Without the fishhawk,  never would have known that.  That was in 220 feet of water.  And it paid off! 

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