Yankee Troller

What makes this board great! Nice job guys!

There's no telling what chowin' down on some Goobies may do! Time will tell.

Other states have this law. PA is one of them if I am not mistaken, and the boats out of Erie, PA would crush the amount of boats out on the south shore of Lake O on a nice summer day. I think it is smart to educate boat owners. Especially new ones.

Great report! This weekend cant come soon enough.

Yes it will. We have run 50/200 ducers on our birds fur a few seasons now. [ Post made via Android ]

Bob - any clue if we are getting our whole allotment this Spring? Also, what temps are in the creek? Think we will be holding fish for long in these pens with such warm weather?

Those 28 Bayliner trophy boats are nice fishing machines! [ Post made via Android ]

Agreed! Lets see some pics!

199.99 here!

LOL....My brother has been out of there a few times this Spring. He has a line that gets him out of there with no issues. We are in our little aluminum rig which drafts next to nothing.

Nope, pick a line and pray! LOL

Fished for an hour before we pulled lines and went to work on the boat. Water was dirty except for a little patch of grey/green water off the point. No hits, no runs, and no errors! As Scotty B would say it sucked! I'm all set with our aluminum rig. Time for some glass. Goin' in on Friday, and it can't come soon enough! Bruce - My brother wanted to play chicken with you today. We were the little yellow boat that was aiming for you before we picked up and went into Braddocks. So, next time you see him you can slap him around a lil bit.

I'd put on 600, and mark it every 50' or 100'. This way you can be versatile and run it at multiple depths down the chute without having to buy multiple combos or reels.

Nice video bud! What software did you say you were using?

When we first bought them we watched a few fish follow for quite some time. I even watched a Coho go from 15' to 90' to hit my rigger in a Niagara Pro Am event. I don't think they are going to get fish to jump into your boat, but sometimes changing up a dead program with one has helped a few guys. It's one of those things we can't prove, but if it works then roll with it.

Well said! [ Post made via Android ]

I've been fishing on this lake for 25+ years, and I've seen a lot of fish, so my opinion might be skewed. Fun topic though, because everyone has their own definition of "trophy." I know mine is on the smaller side of the scale when it comes to whitetails. Salmon - For lake fish I have one on the wall that was 32lbs. Next one will have to be 35+lbs. If I were to mount a Fall run fish it would have to be 35+lbs. Steel - For lake fish I have one just over 17lbs on the wall, so the next one needs to be larger than that. I want a 15+lb stream fish for my wall badly. Brown - We screwed up here and tossed back one around 17/18lbs last Spring, and had a customer eat a 17lb fish last Spring. Basically, the next Lake run and Stream run Brown over 15lbs is going on the wall. Lake Trout - Another screw up last season. We caught a 24lb Laker in the Sandy Creek Shootout. No ice on board, and it was an all white ghost by weigh in skewed my view on getting a mount of this done. So, the next Laker over 21 or 22 pounds will get a seat on my wall. I have a 6.5lb Largemouth on the wall from Conesus, but I could never get a Smallie from Erie over 5.7, so a 6+lb Smallie is also on the hit list. I'm still waiting for my 40" Pike through the ice.

Awesome fish! Congrats!

Perfect! Enjoy your trip! Lots of good fisherman down there!

IF you wanted to go with a thru-hull, and your a trailerable boat, go with the Airmar B 60. Thru-Hulls are much nicer ducers in that you can see a whole lot more when your cruising. However, run what they gave you if you want a transom mount ducer. No need to spend the extra coin!

Yup, our friend Finders Keepers is putting it on. He will even show you how it's done in his tournament boat!

FYI.....I'd bump that trip back a few months of your going for just Salmon. Although, there have been odd Springs when a decent King bite develops in OZ.

I've never used these Torpedo's I just think you can take two wire rods and be so versatile. You can either run two more divers, or run Torpedo's.

I am not affiliated with Torpedo, but they make different size torpedo weights. With wire line you can fish them from 10' to over 100'. We carry a pair of coppers on our boat from 300' to 700'. That's 9 copper rods. With the Torpedo approach you just need two rods and two sets of those Torpedo weights. They have a dive chart already documented, so it cuts that learning curve down considerably. Run one off each otter boat to get them away from your wires and riggers just like we do with copper line set-ups. One word of caution would be to deploy those things SUPER slow. You don't want them dropping into your wire or your riggers. The size you would use depends on what depth you want to achieve. Kind of like if I want to fish a flasher at 80' I know I need my 400' copper. If you want to hit 80' look on their chart and choose the right Torpedo, and the amount of line they recommend.