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I've been using BigJon's for 20 years and never had a boom break and I'm using 12lb'ers. You must of had the sections threaded near the end of the rods with only a couple threads holding for that to happen. To bad.

Big Jon makes quik-slide mounts that work great for your application. Compare the prices of the ginble mount ( $50.00) plus upgrade the rod holder vs quik-slide mounts ($80.00). Nice thing about the quik-slide mounts is that you can put them in several locations on the boat for different uses and you won't have a big long gimble sticking out the bottom for trailoring/storage.

There is something to be said about taking your best friend out for a day of fishing. My Wheaten loves the boat ride as well as the fishing part. The worst thing she'll do is lick the fish, but mostly just looks at it trying to figure out what it's doing. After a few hours she had enough...

I usually have a full tank or nearly full. I use Sta-Bil Marine formula year-round and kick it up for the winter storage. I have one of those 48 Gal. Translucent Plastic Gas tanks and have never had any water in my fuel-water filter so I just keep doing it the same way every year. I store my boat in a large unheated garage with a concrete floor so the temps are slow to move in either direction. I think that rapid temp changes are the bigger issue with condensation in fuel tanks.

I think it's called "Wishful Thinking"

You sure it's not electrolysis from running all that copper?

How effective would eel traps be when they run the creeks to spawn? It would have to be a every year event to trap as opposed to lampricide every now & then.

Ditto

Your not alone on this happening....my post a couple weeks ago.....> viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35301

...so what's with the eel attachments on rigger balls? A couple of you have mentioned that it has happened to you it in the past few weeks. Well, Sunday I had two occasions during the day that there was a eel stuck on my rigger ball (12lb sharks) and the second time the ball came up with an eel on, it had 2 on it. These bad boys are are mature ones, say 14"+. Not sure when they hitch on but my set was between 100' & 120' down. I was hoping one of you fishologist would chime in and educate me (us).

Short version: It would be a lot cheaper if you just take a couple charters to get those screamers you crave and it won't jeopardize the friendship/client relationship you have.

That is one of those "Ford vs Chevy" questions.

I generally use the #2 setting and it gets me out plenty far enough. I don't have any tangle issues at that setting.

I have the Mercury 9.9 4 stroke (which is a black Tahutsu) 6 seasons now with about 470 hrs on it. Works just fine and humms all day. You'll probably get your best deals on a Nissan/Tahutsu in that class engine so I'd say go in that direction.

......when it's frozen!

Good catch. That's what I would have like to report. As you may have read we didn't do so well on the other Cayuga Lake.

I have the same feeling. Not even a dink salmon. I went into my box of spoon tricks and the only one that worked was the one on how to load my boat on the trailer and go home

No,.......more like

After reading your report I felt a little better with my results yesterday (misery love company). Pretty much the same report, same area. No spoon fish and only a couple dink lakers. My fish came off the dipsey in the green/white family also. My weed clump episode was with the rigger. The weed clump almost stopped the boat till I cleared it (someone wasn't watching for weed clumps ).

Algae bloom

Well, I did my own field testing with the 30lb Big Game line yesterday. Ran 2 rods side by side off the riggers. One with 20lb Flea Flicker and the other with 30 lb BG. The 30lb line failed miserably . It's better than the regular 12lb for sure but still picks up fleas enough to say, "why save your money". The only flea attachment on the Flea Flicker line was at the knot on the swivel connecting the leader. Now I know why RR goes to 50lb.

: ....and also assuming that your teeth are close enough together to strip`um

Good read,.....thanks

New antenna cost about $50.00. How much time & money are you going to spend scabbing the broken one back together? Here is one for $37.00 bucks > http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-5206- ... ne+antenna