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I've found that Traxteck end piece with the Alan wrench is sufficient. Most thieves don't carry an alan wrench set.

If anyone's interested in creating a Salmon fishing Network based around those of us who typically fish from say...Port Washington to the IL line, please send me a message and I'll start an email group. As we all know Sharing/ receiving info on up to date, daily depths where the fish are, is half the battle. I've been Salmon fishing LM for 30 yrs, recently retired and plan on going a few times a week this year.

Longer leader, etc could make it harder to get fish in boat. Look a some tracks like traxtech or berts to mount STURDY on gunnels. makes eveything easier. Use sturdy rod holders. First master one line, then two, etc. Best way is take wife or buddy along. Then try doing it all yourself first, Pick a calm day with little of no wind. If youre steering with tiller, it might be easier than steering wheel.

Check out Black Pearl Charters in Holland,Mich. They have lots of experience. I believe their pontoon is 28' and they catch salmon. Its set up with many rod holders, planer boards, downriggers, dipsies, lead core, copper, etc.

Hello, Purchased a Hewescraft hardtop sea runner late last year that came with a Lowrance Elite FS 9 at the helm, NAC1 Auto Pilot w/ sea star hydraulic steering. Got the boat out once before winter hit hard; (did have to bust through some ice at huron to get onto erie!) the auto pilot worked great making steering adjustments from the HMI inputs on the Lowrance. Decided I wanted a Lowrance mounted at the business end to be able to make auto pilot steering adjustments out back.. IYKYK. Installed a 12" Elite FS at the helm and moved the 9" out back with just power and ethernet between the two units. The 12' at helm has the transducer and NMEA network connected from a splitter. Everything syncs and works except autopilot on the 9", ALL works on the 12" now at the helm. The aft lowrance connected by only ethernet states no autopilot computer. Is it just a NMEA 2000 I'm missing to the 9" or is it a configuration setting that I am missing? Thanks in advance for any help. If you are familiar with these systems, please let me know if you need more info to provide input.

Good afternoon. Question for those of you that enjoy fishing solo: What is your best practice for netting a feisty salmon when you're by yourself? Long rod +long leaders + long landing net + feisty fish = Early Release?

Nice job , we were down there yesterday also from 8am to 1pm with the same result. Hopefully the lake clears up some in the next week or so.

Set up by the power plant around 11 am. Found 50 degree water and marked fish but after 2 hours of no bites we decided the next to nothing for visibility wasn't going to work. Moved out to 100 for and the visibility was still less than 3 feet. Tried out there for a few hours and got 2 coho on the brads thin fish red squiggles. Also had a lake trout snap on a modified blue dolphin mag near bottom, but didn't stay on long. Boat worked great and managed to burn a decent amount of last years gas off.

It was never really planned for the 2026 regulation booklet, especially after the state budget and a different but related Senate Bill posted on the same day…set us back quite a bit while that was dealt with. HB 5093 still on track.