Yankee Troller

My experience as well. The fish I'm pulling down 150-1200' offshore in the ice water right now are next years crop.

Head offshore and target 55 degrees and warmer typically.

Call over to Dreamweaver. DW bought that company and I believe he's sitting on them. I have been in talks with FishUSA about bringing back a limited color selection. That's still TBD.

Fish Hawk X4. They just work. If you have Cannon Optimum downriggers I'd push the X4D, but realize the X4 updates info quicker since it's updating less data (no depth data). If they updated the X4D at the same rate it would go through batteries quicker.

We've always run rubberbands on our fixed cheaters. In the video below you'll see the ones I got at FishUSA recently. Those light brown ones are the medium strength. Next time I'd like to try the lighter red ones. Here's why, on my spoon rods I run a fluorocarbon leader. That creates a knot. With the coated swivels talked about above, and the medium strength rubberbands from this video there's a change they get stuck at that knot. You want that rubberband to break so it slides down to the main lure.

Hey, let's make fishing cut bait in your meat rigs EASY! We've been running these products for years. Year after year they take our biggest Salmon of the season. If we have the confidence to run these against the top boats on Lake Ontario during tournaments then they have to work! Video link is in the comments, or you can simply go to the Crazy Yankee Sportfishing YouTube page.

For wire divers and downriggers we use the Saltist in the 30 size. You can find them at FIshUSA here

Dawia Saltist 30

Find them here at FishUSA 363315351_289028977118514_1027218403958337534_n.mp4

Over the years I've recorded a lot of video that I've never done anything with. So, I decided I'm starting a YouTube playlist showing the strikes from Salmon and Trout.

200' isn't long in my book. Anything over 300' I tend to like the slower geared reels because they offer more torque.

You won't go wrong with a Saltist. I can't speak on a Sealine bigger than a 47 size. The Seagates I had wee OK, but I did not like the high speed retrieve for longer coppers.