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I have a few of them too. I have used them and caught fish on them. I like to mix them in with the glow program. They are pricie.

I bought two Diawa 47LC this past summer for salmon fishing. I was not all that happy with them. I used them on my downrigger rods. They seemed too small. The crank throw is too small. I am replacing them with something else next year and will use them for walleye. I bought them because I have two older 47lc that are much better.

Andy, I use the Walleye Boards 3 per side. I changed the clips on my two outside boards to a clip with a pin in the center of it. It holds the braid line better. I am not sure of the name of the clip but they are red. I also adjusted the weights on the boards 0 on the outside, 1 in the middle, 2 on the inside. I numbered each board so I could just look at the board to know where it is used. So the board that is pulling the shortest line has the weight in the center. The board that is pulling the longest line has the weight all of the way in the front. This system works very well for me however I cannot take credit for thinking of this. I learned it from Mike GLF. Thanks Mike!

Ken, I have a smaller boat 19.5' Starcraft and I use one bag in rough water to settle the boat down. It really does a good job. I have not noticed any marks on the side of the boat from the bag. I have been using it for about two years now.

I have been shrink wraping my pontoon boat for 4 years now. The snow slides off, it stays dry and clean. The shrink wrap is still in perfect condition when spring arrives. If you keep it out side shrink wrap is the way to go.

Looks like you and Pat are going to return with sore arms. Nice job!

That sure is an odd looking fish.

If you remember this odd looking fish from our trip to Lake Ontario. Pat had it mounted and a little color added to it. It came out really nice. Take a look.

Nice job Pat!

I have 2 of the Penn GT2 330. One is two years old the other 1 year old. I like them a lot. I use them for lead core. The drags are very nice and they seem to be holding up well. I also have a GT2 320 I use for 5 color. So far so good.

Contrats on the new boat Ken, can't wait to see the pictures. This is a lot like having a baby! You know, congrats & pictures.

Welcome Terry, you are not alone here. There is no cure for this disease but you can find help here. I fished Oak Orchard Creek the first week of August 2009. It was my first trip and not my last. The fishing is incredible. I have not fished the river it will be interesting to hear how well you do.

Welcome aboard.

Tom

Here is a 24# from my trip to Lake Ontario the first week of August 2009.

Congrats Adam!

Great Ken! Welcome to your new roll.

Nice job Ken, it has been a great year.

I had a bird like that hang out with me while we were in Manistee two weeks ago. We were about 5 miles off shore. He hung around for about an hour and actually took a nap.

Nice job on the first kings Dougs Wife. You are hooked now!

Love that Lake Ontario fish porn. Thanks Richard.

Way to go Andy. Great to get out with the familey. I had my daughter on board this past weekend and really enjoyed it. She out fished all of us!

Nice job Frank, very nice Pike!!

Thanks Mike. Growth is a good problem.

Nice job Matt. We have not tried the SWR yet but after our slow day that is an option. Keep it up.

We had a slow day in Manistee today. Didn't get out til 3pm and ran to the north. We picked up one salmon on the down rigger set at 80 down on the Red meat rig. A little while later we had another hit on the same meat rig. That was all. We marked fish but could not get them to play. Pulled lines about 8:00 and called it a day. No skunks this week The weekend looks like conditions will be less that ideal.

We got a Salmon yesterday with a lampray on it from Manistee.

I have a pretty clear understanding of the nets, and have them marked on my GPS. There are only 5 nets now and they are to the south of the port. One good thing about the nets is they do provide some structure that attract bait fish. I don't fish them that closely, and I don't let them stop me from working an area. A few years ago there were a lot more.

Mark, we took a NW heading out of the port of Manistee and set down in 120 fow and pointed the bow tward the sun. (West) At our furthest point we were about 8.5 miles from the port. The lake starts to drop off in that area to over 700 feet. The nice thing is we were the only boat out there. We had a freighter flash its lights at us as we were pulling lines!

Very nice day on the water today. Started @ 5am 135 fow. Warm water down to 90 feet. Slow start only two fish before first light on glow stuff. Area 51 & white glow meat rig with a small white glow fish catcher. As it got light we just slowly picked away at them. We worked our way to the south and continued to mark fish in the 135 range. When we got off the water around 3pm we had 8 fish. Not the 3 man limit we had hoped for but a nice box. Got some food then back on the water by 7 til well after dark. We ran to the north to stay away from the crowds. Once we got the glow program going it was fast action. We had 4 fish in the box and lost at least another 4 and two meat rigs and flashers. When I looked at the graph we were at 478 fow.

We have been here fishing all week. Got out every day except Tuesday and caught fish every day. On Tuesday we could not fish because of the weather so we went up to Tippy Dam. We checked the dumpster at the fish cleaning station. It was 1/4 full of Salmon. So it looks like the fish are in the rivers now as well.