anonymous

The length you need depends on where you are going to mount them. I have a 20 footer and need 4 foot booms to reach over the back of the boat and and still be accessible to rig them comfortably since I have a rear casting deck. If you can rig them comfortably with them mounted all the way to the back corner and still be able to swivel them to the side, then that is all the boom length you need. I agree with all the other comments about shorter booms being easier to rig with. The sectional or extendable booms are a good way to go so that you can taylor them to your needs.

Look at dirty dogs reports rom last fall he caught the crap out of the steelhead in holland last fall and so did don from Tanglemess charters

Doing what they recommended last year helped us alot. I hope to do the same this year.

Put down in dark at pier heads and made a few passes with no luck picked up and ran to 70 ft and trolled NW. Went 10 for13 with all the action between 75 and 95 ft. All small to medium kings were what we caught. 1 on full core w/ lemon ice, 2 on rigger 60 down purple and black spoon, 2 on 75' copper sunburst spoon, 3 on dipsy 80' back with glow blue easter egg and 2 on dipsy 100 back with ms tnt. Great day, good luck all!

Great job!

Good job, thanks for the report!

Not sure if you are set on a fiberglass boat, but you can get a nice Starcraft Islander for that kind of money as well. Great boats to fish out of and easy to tow. I have fished a 24' bBayliner like you have mentioned along with an older Islander and I preferrred the Islander hans down. No room to fish in the Bayliner.

I normally try to keep my speed at the ball 1.8 or above and experiment from there. My subtroll normally reads lower than the gps as well.

Great job!

Got out late this am, set lines around 8 am, went 3 for 3 before getting blown off around 10:45 am. All fish around 90 ft. 1 small laker on dipsey 175' back on 3 with a blue/orange VK flasher with a green/gold fly, 1 small laker 250' 45# copper standard NBK spoon. 8 lb king on Green Flounder Pounder plug 70' down on rigger. Ran 2 to 2.4 mph at ball. Nasty storm, glad we beat it in.

The fish will tell you if you have too much of one thing. None of us can.

No, I don't have the name lettered on my boat which is why I started using Anonymous for tournaments. I have a blue and platinum Alumacraft Trophy 195.

I would get a reel that would hold around 330 yards of 20 lb mono and use it with 3 colors of lead and it would serve double duty as a swr on a rigger. For the other rod I would get a reel like a 45 series Okuma or 330 series Penn and put either 5 colrs of lead or 75 ft of 45 lb copper. Get a couple of dive bombs or torpedo divers and you now have all you will need for deeper or shallower rigs.

Fished 6 am to 1:30pm ended up 5 for 6. Nothing early, switched glow lures to brighter and shiny lures. Heard someone on the radio mention red and orange spoons and that got us going. Biggest fish was a 16 lb king on a silver/purple spin doctor and purple fly on a braid diver 125' back. I saw the Youtube video with the mag diver behind a TX44 board and decided to try it after my buddy kept bugging me about it. We ran a 124 mm Deeper Diver 150' behind the board with a green dolphin spin doctor and blue/green fly and it took an 11 pound king (talk about drag rips!) and lost what I believe to be a steelhead (it came as part of a triple that the other two were steelhead). The rest of our catch were steelhead. One was 55' down on a rigger on a red/orange spoon I believe to be ruby red. Another was on a red/orange spoon that I have no idea what it is called on 250' of 45# copper and the last was a watermelon spoon on 300' of 30# copper. All of these fish were in a small area of 90 to 95 feet deep water. We didn't mark alot there but we started circling after our first fish and it paid off. Good luck to everybody!

I have caught fish on them when long lines were working best. Spoons are all I have used and have started with a minimum of 50 ft of stertch to the lure.

I have had good luck with 8'' chrome dodgers and either glow white or glow green squids 24" behind the dodger on lakers by the bottom several times as well.

While I don't typically run all F/F's, every day is different and there are days where that might work best. In addition to changing lure types, you need to pay attention to how close together they are both vertically and horizontally. If you make a small change because only certain lures are working, sometimes that shuts everything down. That is the reason that I try to change only one thing at a time and give it time to work before changing something else. If that small change shuts everthing down, I can go back to where I was and hopefully get bites again. Sometimes a lure that is in your spread is attracting but not getting bit. In that case, you might have to settle for bites on some but not all of your lures.

I had more than one situation where mixed veggies (non-glow) outfished nuked veggies (glow) in the dark.

J-plug mother of pearl and Lyman Lure glow wonder bread have caught alot of fish on my boat.

I agree with everything I have read here. Remember that every day is different and I have had many days that a certain color was hot and the only other spoon I had of the hot color was a different size. Normally the different size works well also. Also remember that your whole spread produces the final result and your hot lure could be producing because of something else close to it or because nothing else is close to it. Duplicate if you can and don't change a combination that is producing.

I just bought a new set of trees from Great Lakes Planers, $287.00 free shipping on EBAY. They are very nice units and are going to solve the problems of seperating the boards and let me put out a better set. Same number of rods but easier to handle. Another plus is that they act as a net holder too.

I have had mine for 2 years and love them. More adjustable than others, less costly than most. You will not go wrong with these.

Yellow Smolt has been good for me along with many of these mentioned. This one along with Flounder Pounder and Mongolian Beef have stayed on all day for me because thay kept working after daylight came.

Fished 6am to around 10:30am before getting too rough. 4 for 4, 2 kings, 1 coho and 1 laker. 2 kings right away in 50ft. 1, a 19 pounder (on a scale), on a 0 size dipsey 25' back with a glow orange easter egg spoon and the other, about 6 lbs, on a Brads thinfish, red with black sguiggles, 80' behind a board. The same Brads lure caught the coho and laker later on. Southeast wind really started howling, they were right about the forecast this time.

I have had very good luck with the surgeons knot joining braid to mono.

Although the line probably is ok since it is new, it still is a good idea to check it. While I have never had a problem with an albright knot, it is absolutely necessary to make sure you lubricate it while drawing it down and be sure to alternate between drawing down the copper and drawing down the mono and make sure not to pull on the copper and push the knot past the loop in the copper. I have had to retie a few times but I never had it fail. I always wrap 10 times also. The rest of the guys here have me thinking about the swivel because it sounds like they have better clearance through levelwind guides and that can be an issue with the albright knot.

Take the mono line and tie an overhand knot in it. Pull on both tag ends and if the line breaks fairly easily at the knot, then your mono is definitely bad. I have had very good luck with Big Game 20 pound on my copper and lead rigs.