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Agree with Whaler Those older I/O are expensive to fix. Also any Transom / stringer rot which also is very pricey to fix I had a 86 Bayliner Trophy . Over the years I had the motor , lower unit rebuilt . Also some Transom rot . Also the drive to motor shaft replaced . So I would do my due diligence . But I did like the boat .

Decided the next few days looked ugly so I made a solo mission out of the Genny on a 052 heading to 160 FOW. Lines in at 0950 and out at 1535. Fished from 160-220. Went 14-20 with some nice mature kings, some feisty two year olds, great steelies, and 4 skippers. My plan was to run two riggers with spoons and a dipsey with a meat rig... Today the current was running ~0.8kts SSW to NNE...but it was changing and it seemed that the fish were very speed sensitive. Trolling angle was important.. I put the deeper rigger down 92' with MUP'd Route 18 black/white green eye'd ghosts (super mag/mag) and took a rip in 2 min while putting down the other rigger. 13# king to warm up...Nice. Other rigger has Hulk 14's MUP'd (mag/std) at 78' and starts bumping within 30 seconds of being down....Double skippers! Never had that happen before... I didn't get the dipsey in the water until 1130... 10" SD Snowflake with Route 18 matching head. Deadly lately - I may have 30 kings on this set up in the past 5 trips. Within 5 min it was smoking and took my best king of the day...20 min later the fish was released with grace and I was smoked...Fishing solo is a lot of work!!! Snowflake rig back out and another ~14# king came around within 10 min. Then nothing 1200-1300 I didn't see a rod move and I was watching fish fly through my spread (panoptix)...Water was moving...Wind didn't change much...but holy **** my FishHawk couldn't read anything and my spread was moving all over the place...I tried to find the closest thing to straight and could only manage 2.9mph downspeed or higher. I don't mind going that fast but I didn't have the right spread for that. Okay - no more meat rig...MUP over - mags down, free sliders....Steelie time. And it was. From 1330-1530 it was pretty good with some great steelies and teenage kings... Im going to try to add some videos to this post. Please be kind - Im still learning and you all have been so helpful to me. 2skips.mov Steelie4 27 JUL 2026.mp4 bestking 27 JUL 2026.mov

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Thinking of purchasing this,dealor asking 14,000.3 downriggers,ffinder,8 hp kicker,radio.anyone heard good or bad things about these? Mercury motor/outdrive.single prop,don t know whether it s alpha?or Bravo or whatever

Thanks Man..appreciate it !

Last week of August, that will probably line up with the kings moving into the trench. The trench is the deep water between Stony Island and shoreline. It wont be hard for you to find the pack of charter boats out of Henderson wherever they are. Maybe they will be in the shipping lanes between Main Duck and Galoo fishing the 'the wall'. Good Luck.

Anyone fishing out of Sandy Pond last week of August. Lake Champlain angler and boat staying there and looking for help with Tackle, depth, area to fish. Have downriggers and couple rods set up with divers. Appreciate any help. Fished Lake O 25 years ago out of Oswego so happy to be back for vacation/fishing. Thanks in advance. John F/V "The Office"

Thanks for the help.............I didn't think it qualified for Southern shore.

You might want to repost this in the US reports section.

Size 4 I believe ~~~> Dreamweaver Deeper Diver @ FishUSA