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Posts posted by killerbe20
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if you are worried about the safety of eating the fish i think you are just fine. The lake is so clean now we are worried about the alewives surviving. Salmon only live in the lake for 2 maybe 3 years. Browns and steelhead a bit longer. Lake trout do live much longer but they are not sitting at the power plants sucking on the discharge. If we were in California than it may be a different story and every fish caught would come with a warning "This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer." That is my non-scientific opinion!
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if you only use them twice a year a Okuma Convector will be just fine. If you want a little better reel then an Okuma Cold Water. The Shimano Tekotas are very popular and a great reel but you are looking at $60-100 for the Okumas vs over $200 for the Tekotas. I run Cold Waters on my charter boat. They are very smooth and stand up very well to day in and day out use.
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looking for Okuma Solterra reels. Redesigned for 2016 and looking for older style
also looking for ugly stik cal1101 7' med/heavy rods. discontinued model and looking for a few more
thanks!
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sold pending payent
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On February 3, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Legacy said:
Problem is guys that you want your reels filled to full capacity. If you are using Okuma 30 series reels then you will need to put a couple hundred feet of mono (or anything) as backer plus 1000' of wire to make the spools full. uni knot or an albright knot will work for that connection.
agreed, and many of us have switched to 45 series Okumas or larger Tekotas for a better retrieve rate on a larger full spool. Definitely want to use some mono backing. you should never see the bottom of the reel so the connection is not as important as with other set ups. I just do an overhand knot with the wire and a uni knot with the mono
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I am, that was what the move was for. left the Caledonia fire dept for the Chicago fire department. First summer was spent in the fire academy for six months then a home build disaster occupied the next year including last summer. Throw in a three year old and running charters...... All good now and back to normal-ish!
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Been a long hiatus from the site. Moved from Racine to Chicago back in 2014 and the life changes have keep me from a keyboard. Never stopped fishing Lake Michigan just slowed my troll on the internet the last year and a half. Life is all settled down now and plan on being around on a regular basis again. Looking forward to talking with old friends and meeting new ones!
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Congrats to Profishent on their first place finish in Saugatuck this weekend!
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Congrats to the winners at the Saugatuck Big Lake Classic! Team Profishent won the pro, Reel Sharpie took the Am and Win-N-Angel won "The Big One". For complete results check out the Saugatuck Forum Page here: http://fishingandhuntingforum.com/showthread.php?2951-TT-14-Saugatuck-Big-Lake-Classic
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Captain Tim with another good catch this afternoon. The lake trout just under 20lbs makes the 16lb king look small!
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Fishing is slow all over the lake right now. Hopefully everything stabilizes quickly and we can get back to the fishing we are used to. The nice thing about Racine is when the salmon aren't around usually the lake trout still give you a great opportunity to catch fish.
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Thanks Gabe and Tim for putting in so much work while I was a away last week. You guys did an outstanding job and put is in a great position going into the second day of the PFC Geoffrey Morris Memorial Fishing Tournament. Unfortunately my return Saturday brought us bad luck. Until next year as that pretty much concludes our contest fishing for the year.
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Good luck to the boys (and my wife!) tomorrow fishing the PFC Geoffrey Morris Memorial Fishing Tournament in Winthrop Harbor, IL! This will be the first contest the First In fishes without me. Its going to be killing me all day wondering how they are doing but I'll be there tomorrow night to check in on them
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Downrigger Weights
in Salmon Pro's Connection
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I'm very happy running 15lb cannon ball style weights. minimum blow back above 100' and Not too much blow back down past 200'