Oswego - thursday rookie report

[Yankee Clipper]

Well it was the maiden voyage and Lake O shakedown cruise for all of my equipment and boat. We got on the water about 6:30 am. We ran into more then a few glitches and had to improvise. The big one is “your downrigger won’t work if you spool the SnT coated cable on backwardsâ€

[T_barb]

Everyone makes mistakes when they are starting out... They key is learning from them... Sounds like you did... I imagine your hands and shoulders are a little sore today..

[Born to Fish]

I spooled mine on backwards too. Still that way, it works fine except the counter on the rigger goes backwards and the switch works opposite.

[Nemesis]

Would free spooling all the cable out and then hit the up button solve the problem????

[Yankee Clipper]

Mountain G -- I would have thought so to - but it looked like it was binding against the top of the housing near the spool. I have Canon Mag 10's and I got nothing when I hit the up switch :? .

Nemesis, that is a great idea and we had thought of that - but I chickend out it do to the fact that I also had an expensive Canon SnT dangling down there :shock:. I would have had to trust the knot I tied holding the cable on the spool and at that moment I was not trusting anything I had done :roll: !!!

But as T_barb said I'm learing and it's real on the water experiance. Plus we caught fish too .. and added bonus~~