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I have a depth raider and it works great and it's a little cheaper than the fish hawk. But I used just gps speed for years with great success. But the fishfinder speed wheels I don't like because they never give the right speed.

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Are you wanting down speed or speed of your boat?

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Hello Gents,

just bought a new boat early this month a 1990 sportscraft fisherman 23" with a 5.0 mercruiser. When trolling i can get it down to maybe 2.9mph and it stalls. If i get a trolling plate will it slow down alot so i can have the boat go faster so rpms are higher and wont stall?

ANY suggestions on how to slow boat down would help.

thanks

My friend has a trolling plate on their 60 hp outboard and it sucks in the wind its hard to stay on course with the wind blowing the bow. I have trolling bags for my islander if I need to get slower, normally don't need them only when fishing shallow and I don't have as much gear in the water.

It does sound like you need a better mechanic. It should stall at idle. How do you back out from launch and dock the boat when you return?

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Ok thanks. But the new episodes are not on Pursuit channel. Not according to my dish network info.

Well dish network must have something screwed up because their info for today's show says its from January 2013. I must be not looking at something right. I clicked on the link to watch the new shows but there is nothing there to click on to watch.

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Well when is the new season going to be on the pursuit channel.

Well I have had my dvr set to record new episodes since last year and there hasn't been any new episodes yet

. They're from last January.

We fished up there last Saturday. At St. Ignace and got 3 kings and a steelie and lost a steelie. What depth of water were you in on the backside. We were in over 100fow.

I ran a 6 rod spread for years. I would always put at least 1 flasher/fly down on my deepest rod. Always ran flasher/fly on my dipsies. Spoons on the other 3 rods mix of smaller spoons and mags. Then when a fish was caught I would change up lures that were not getting bit. But like everyone else has said it depends on the day what they want to hit.

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Usually run your deep riggers are your 2 center riggers and the high riggers are the outside riggers. Lure behind the ball is shorter on the deep riggers and longer on the high riggers. As for dipsies, make sure you have the setting on the bottom of the dipsy to 2-3 if you want it to go away from the boat. Make sure you have the dipsy on the right side of the boat so it will go out to the side and not underneath the boat. Don't have a leader on your dipsies long than the rod so you can net the fish

I run spoons 30ft on deep riggers and 40 or more ft on high riggers. Flashers are 15-20ft on deep riggers. J-plugs 15-20ft. But sometimes when the fish are high in the water column my leads are farther if I don't get bit closer to the ball. I have run a spoon as far back as 100-150ft on a high rigger to catch steelhead that were spooking from the boat.

But the temp break this time of year is deep and northers is no surface temp break. So how can you find the temp break if it is a mile from the bait? I fish the thermocline and fish the structure and there is usually bait near the structure. I did notice the last time I fished the clone started at 130 down so we fished at 130 in 150 fow because that's where the salmon were schooled was close to where the cline meet the bottom.

I've never heard of washing lures except while I'm fishing. There is no need to do that if your no t catching fish your actually just washing lures.

How far behind the ball are you running your lures?

Remember there are just some better fisherman than others and also some that have more luck. If you know you are on fish and not getting bit but other peoPle are you need to change speed,direction of troll and sometimes your whole spread of lures. But sometimes you just can't buy a hit. It happens to me too.

Don't feel to bad if you are catching fish in the morning then it's not your boat. It is probably your speed or the distance you have your lures from the ball. One thing to remember is that you are not a charter boat and don't have the rods they do and don't fish everyday to fine tune your presentation. I only fish once a week also and it's hard sometimes to get the truth from other fishermen on where and what lures they are using. If I were you I would become friends with one of the charter guys. But sometimes that doesn't help. I started doing my own thing the last half of this summer because I was getting bogus information and not catching fish.

I guess if someone would have something go wrong with something it would be me. I've had to retie it 3 times already. And I only fish once a week. I do troll at 1.6-1.9. The 1.6 is when we are binging a fish in and sometimes get a hit going that speed.

I have noticed they are firmer when u fillet them when they are half frozen then put them in brine overnight. My buddy do our last batch and they were not as firm.

They're already filleted. But some have been in brine for almost a month and the others in a different jar for a couple weeks. But they are just as soft ad they were when I put them in the brine. I went ahead and salted some of my homemade fillets for a few hours and they seem to be firmer and a little tougher. So maybe they are going to work. I will just keep them frozen until I need them and then put back in the freezer the ones I don't use.

If the strip is firmer before brine, brine is not strong enough and your never gonna be able to use homemade strips for more than one fish. store bought strips are basically jerky they are salted so heavily, but that process also absorbs alot of the smell.

I'm not worried about getting more than one fish on a strip just that when I don't get bit or do get bit and miss that they don't come out of the head.

I have only had a salmon have the meat rig just inside the mouth. I use the walker releases that look like a tube of chapstick. But like I said every fish that I lose the hooks are tangled together and the line in between the hooks is kinked and has a curve in it so the back hook will tangle again on the next fish. So I then have to waste fishing time and retie.

I've never fished TC before. But if I were to guess where to fish would be out in front of the boardman river where the other boats are. Or go farther out in the bay and find some colder water with some structure.

I guess those staging kings don't care about water temp. I fished an area where they are not even close to be staging and they were all inn the cold water below the thermocline. I could actually see the cline on the graph. It looked like one of my rigger balls it was such a temp change.

I don't know. Both packs came from the same place and I asked about them and they said they received them packed in dry ice. The herring I have is a little firmer and tougher than when it went in the brine.

Do you think if I were to take them out of the brine and cover with pickling salt until they firm up? But do I put them back in the brine or do I need to freeze them. And then I would have to refreeze them after the day of fishing. I have done that with the pre cut strips I've got from the bait shop.

Just wondering if anyone using John King's 2 hook meat rigs are having problems with after a salmon hits and the trailing hook going up and over the first hook and onto the leader (tangling the hooks together)and causing you to lose fish. I've lost fish right behind the boat and have also had a release and brought the rig in and the hooks were tangled with each other causing the fish to not get hooked.

This has happened to me 4 or 5 times now. So I'm going to retie them with one hook.