hunter7x7

As all fishermen know, if you ask 10 people the same question, you may get 10 different answers. I like a longer leader. 12-15 passes on a level wind reel. At approx. 6ft per pass, 75-100ft to start out.

North/Northwest side of the lake. Target 90-100+ FOW. Fish deep with cowbells and sewn minnows. Husky jerks and rapalas just don't do the same. At least for me. Have had some luck with yellowish green (Monkey Puke) colored spoons in the smaller walleye size. Also UV spoons did well a couple weekend ago. Hit the lake early to avoid the boat traffic. Remember these are typically smaller lake trout. 6-7lb or less make up the majority of the catch although larger 10-15lb fish are caught at times. Good luck. Let us know how you do.

I do not use the heavy colored snubbers however we run the clear twisted stealth snubbers on all our rigs. Maybe some people can do is successfully but one time we forgot to put snubbers on 2 rods and both rods broke the 50lb test mono fly line when the fish hit. Granted it was August and the bigger fish were around but I can't see being successful without using some sort of snubber. Just my 2 cents.

Twist the line around where the rubber tubing is. One twist will usually stop the fireline from slipping and will straighten out when the diver releases.

I am new to this board and have a general question. Is there a classified section where I can list my duck boat for sale? Maybe I am just overlooking it

IMO you are better off tightening the clips way day, cinch the line as far back in the clip as possible so they do not release. If you are running copper or lead, set your lightest rig to the outside and your heaviest rig closest to the boat. For instance from the boat out: 300ft copper, 10 color lead, 5 color lead. When you originally set lines you should always set the outside first, then middle, then the one closest to your boat. Lets say you hit a fish or have to reel your outside rig in, you can still set it back out without bringing all the other rigs in. Simply let you core (or copper) out as you normally would and clip on your board. Now, drop it in the water and let it free spool with just enough tension to keep the board sitting upright but not tracking to the side. Let it fall back until it looks like it will easily clear the other lines. Once it looks like it's out far enough, let it go out another 100 plus ft further. You can always reel it back in a little. Take it off free spool and place it in the rod holder. Once it has tracked over reel some line in until it's tracking where you want it. If you are trying to reset the middle board, simply let the outside board out further and bring the inside board closer to the boat and do the same thing then once the middle rig is tracking where you want it, adjust the outside and inside rigs back to where you want them. We typically run 3 copper or leadcore rigs on each side and do it this way all the time. You can add the "Stinger Dive Bombs" to run your rigs deeper if you need to get more depth out of your rigs. We have leadcore rigs of 10 color, 8 color, 5 color and copper at 300ft, 200ft & 100ft and use dive bombs as needed. For innstance a 5 color leadcore rig with a 4oz dive bomb will be slightly deeper than a 10 color leadcore. The bonus with having multiple leanghts of lead or copper is that you can run them high or low and adjust accordingly with dive bombs depending on where the fish are. If the fish are 30-40ft down and all you have are 10colors of lead or 300ft of copper you only have 1 or 2 rigs that will run in the right water column. Same goes if the fish are 80-100ft down, you can use dive bombs on your lighter rigs to adjust and get down deeper where the fish are. If you have any questions or need some help, send me a PM and I can call you. Good luck