anthonyyost

I was told that by running smaller lures on the lines closer to the boat and progressively increasing the size of your presentations as you move farther away from the boat mimics a bait school with larger fish following, which may induce other larger fish to feed. Anyone do this, or have comments.

My dad passed away just before thanksgiving, this is a good one to remember him by.

That sounds good until you combat fish and have to try and manage 10 lines by yourself. I would love to see 15 or 20 boats in a bunch and have that go on.

You must be pretty handy.

Thats a beauty.

That looks like something that would be good for fishing in Alaska, bet it holds up better when you bump the seawall.

I like your posts, this will make for some interesting reading through the winter. Looking at fix up projects is a good way to keep people coming back to this website.

Very nice.

I like it when I don't have my glasses on.

As soon as the rod comes out of the holder I back the drag off and let the fish run, sometimes they will strip off 200' of wire. Then I start working it in, progressively tightening the drag until they are close then loosen up the drag a touch in case it makes a turn when it sees the boat. Patience is the key. I also just started running 2-12" snubbers behind the dipsey to give the fish a little more give, it seems to help.

I will be staying on my boat at the Ludington City Marina from this Saturday, the 3rd through the following Saturday, the 10th weather etc. permitting. If anyone wants to get together to go fishing and maybe share expenses, you can text me or call my cell @ 231-598-0473

Started on the water at 1:30 and went s.w. to 150 fow then turned north to the bank and got there just about 7:00 p.m. Prior to getting to the bank went 2 for 5 with a 12# steelhead and a 8# king. Just before dark had a real fire drill, by the time we had the fish in all the rods were out of the water so we called it quits. 2-20# kings, 1-18# king, 1-16# king and 3 around 8-12#.

Took a couple of friends and their boys out, had a blast. Everything seemed to work except meat rigs, no hits.

I have found that the Dipsey firetiger Mag always catches more fish regardless of what lure is on behind it.

I saw your boat and asked how you did in the parking lot at the launch Saturday afternoon.

Got on the water about 4 p.m., west to 60' dropped lines on a N.W. troll to 170'. Worked the bank in 130-170 fow from 15' to 125' down. 5 for 7, 1-20# king on meat rig, 1-18# on DW yellow glow spoon off rigger 70 down, 1-16# blue splatter back jplug on a 7 color and two smaller kings off wire dipsey flasher fly combo. Had one hit on a wire diver that snapped the 40# mono line between the dipsy and the flasher before we could get it out of the holder, must have been a good sized fish. Nice night to be on the water, fish really have some nice size to them.

It sounds like you are trolling with the current, trolling into the current let's you slow the boat down while keeping your downspeed up. IMO anything over 3.5 gps speed is too hard to troll. Too much blowback on the riggers, too hard on the dipsey rods.

On EBay you could probably get around $150 for the pair.

The coated cable broke during transport over to the lake, I leave the probe attached permantly, luckily I did not lose the probe. It was going to take too long to repair at the launch, and we were anxious to start fishing.

Finally got out for the first time this year, started about 4:00 p.m. and went n.w. to about 150 fow and trolled n to 230 fow to the stick, then stayed in 170-200 fow until dark. Went 5 for 5 with 3 Kings the largest being 14# and two decent sized lake trout. All kings came on cut bait using a Black Mamba Glow flasher with red head and teasers. The Lakers came on wire rigs, flashers and flys, no spoon bite. My coated wire to the probe broke, so we were without down temp and speed, but surface temp in 200 fow was 65 degrees.

One thing I have not seen before, up north by the stick there were baitfish all about 2" long floating dead or nearly dead on the surface, I don't mean a few there were thousands, everywhere you looked. Any ideas on cause?

The thing I do not like about the shark type is that they do not fit into the cannonball holders on the downriggers so there is no good way to keep them from bouncing all over when they are out of the water. I have not noticed much difference in blowback between any style of downrigger weight, so until I find something that does not blowback as much I will stay with cannonballs. Besides, it gets expensive experimenting with different types.

They are using the Etec technology in their snowmobiles now and they do very well as far as gas mileage and low oil consumption. Their emissions are less than most 4 strokes.

Try tapping the starter with a hammer to try and free it if it is engaged.

If you shot a buck and walked up on it to tag it and it was trying to get up, I bet you still wouldn't try to tag it. If you have ever put your hand in a net to grab a live 15# steelhead or salmon and had it drive the treble into your hand, you will only have it happen once.

I bought a wooden handle to a framing hammer, wrapped the bottom with electrical tape and drilled a hole across the bottom and tied a cotton line through it to wrap around my wrist. I smack them across the back of the head before reaching into the net (learned the hard way!)

I think that is the part I like best about salmon fishing, wacking them across the head, very satisfying.

If you couldn't find the parts, could you upgrade the ignition and eliminate that problem?