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Just got back from fishing Olcott. We typically fish Lake Erie so quite new to salmon fishing. Caught several kings and some steelhead. Thanks for all the help/tips on LOU. Everyone was very helpful! (Btw...mostly fished about 300 ft and caught most on NBK spoon with one on glow hammer fly with yellow/pearl spin doctor.)

Have used the Picardian also. Worked well. DEET doesn't seem effective at all.

I did watch a youtube video where they used a snubber to ball to bottom bounce for lakers. They sometimes used two snubbers which kept the lure about 2ft off the bottom. But they didn't mention if it saved them any on lost gear.

Okay. That would be good. (Eliminating insulator). I will see if I can get a few downrigger snubbers delivered Saturday prior to leaving. Thanks for all the tips.

I am about out of time to order supplies as leave for lake Sunday. I do have the Cannon 10stx. Perhaps can buy one those snubbers at Boat Doctors in Olcott? If not would doubling up the heavier snubbers used for fishing work? Or use two of them even. I may run a snubber between snaps on each side of the insulator also as a backup. It just seems concerning that the probe, weight etc are all being supported by that small piece of plastic.

Think I have it fixed/correct order now. But was wondering...how reliable are the plastic insulators at holding probe, ball etc? Anyone using any backup cable etc in case insulator breaks or are they pretty reliable?

Okay. That makes sense. I don't need to increase tangle odds. Plus I won't have the issues with the breakaway chain not fitting the insulator. Thanks to everyone for the assistance.

Just rigged up Fishhawk X4D. Only problem I had is the Breakaway swivel snaps won't fit through holes on my cannon insulator. Has anyone else had this issue? So I moved the insulator above the Fishhawk probe. The ball will still be below the insulator. From what I read the insulator is mostly for the autostop feature. Is that correct? Also, will the fishhawk probe orient itself properly once in the water? It spun a bit on my downrigger cable/swivels. I wouldn't want it going backwards. I suppose temps would be correct but ball speed wouldn't read. I may be overthinking this but 1st time user of it. Attached picture showing my insulator above probe. Thanks!