Fishstix

Stinger thanks for thinking about me. I didnt make it down to the NYC boatshow I couldnt find anyone who wanted to go . My son lived on the N fork of LI. Everytime I went down I went boat shopping. Grady, Robaldo, Key west , On and on ,the dealers were all down there. Every type of boat you could imagine.Ill keep my 21ft arima. My next one will be a 22ft arima .If my ship comes in.

If you scrounge around you can find Mason brand wire line.Buy the 1000 ft spools. Last yr. I respooled with new mason wire[ive always used mason]One spool was silver colored wire one was brownish colored wire.The silverish colored one attracts less fleas than the other.I also seem to do more fish on it.

We had this discussion on the other board but its very important to get the line tight on the reels. I roll out the spool tie it to a tree and reel it on the spool.Its hard to crank in 1000ft with steady tension on the line.Then go out in the lake and tie on a 1lb weight let it all the way out .Put the boat in gear and reel it in against the pressure of the boat going forward. Nothing is worse then getting a loose loop under wire that is tight on top.

I usually respool my wire rigs every year. This yr I think Im just going to reverse the wire off one reel on to the other.

I had a few fish stretched out over 700ft last yr.So you need the 1000 ft.

You will like the blue diamonds if you have enough room room in the back of the boat to handle a 10ft rod. I run the 9ft leaders behind the dipseys Ill do fish on days other guys wires are not fireing.

I give the tekotas a a+ .

Buy the strongest rodholders you can find.

Retie the wireknots every couple times out.

DONT beat me in a derby with my own info.

It doesnt say if its oil or acrylic.It was $4 a can. 6oz. Ill give er a whirl today.Ive been wanting to do some copper glow stuff also.

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Im awalys checking out the paint departments of various stores.I like getting spoon blanks and painting and tapeing them up and getting them working. Im still running the metal dodgers. Well tonight I was at Wallyworld in Ithaca and found some glow spray paint. I dont know how long its been around but its the first Ive seen it.Its made by Krylon its called GLOWZ. I havent tried it yet Ill be painting up some dodgers tomorrow and Ill bet a purpleglow dodger will be putting lots of fish in the fishstix boat next yr. Yea Ill do some spoons up also. Here I go talkin purple again.

Mods This is done with humor only in mind. I dont participate in the Pro Ams. I cant get enough guys interested. If this starts a firestorm please delete it. If it goes over good Ive got another.

If your woundering about why old cutbait hasent been posting much lately Ive been proweling the dozer boards. This is my latest purchase. It doesnt look big but its got a 10ft blade.Thats my JD450 parked next to it.It dwarfs it. I bought it to build a few ponds and fix the roads up on my property. Fun to run. Get a blade of dirt and just goes.I know its not fishing related but you are my extended family and you should know whats going on. The Pro Am has taken up the board .I dont do Pro Ams.I did a couple photoshops up for it but didnt post them . It seems to be a touchey subject.Any other dozer guys out there?

It would be nice to have a "coffee shop" section on the board for this kind of stuff.

That one did. I bought mine thru digitaldagger .com. They had free shipping on reels at the time 151 delivered to my door.I dont know who is the cheapest right now.

Ive been thinking about switching over to the 500 lc for spring time planerboard reels.Ive lost some real nice bows to the poor drags on the other mfg.

Test Test why are my post appearing?

Sodus Pt If you go to the end of Rt 14 and turn right. Its in town there on the right hand side. The guy has stuff , lots of stuff,even vampires. optimisers and old metal dodgers. My kinda stuff.

I like "Fishey Fishey in the brooke come and bite on Fishstix hook"

It gets said everytime on the water/

I dont know whats gonna happen . But I do know a big snowmelt sure helps the brown trout fishing in our area.

I was up New Yrs day. The old shop looked dark . I figured he just was not open.He probably should put a sign in the window.

Jeeezz shoot me a Pm I dont live that far from you. If you want some info. on salmon stuff you could come over . Ill show you what works for me.

Dave I need the length to get out and over the down riggers.Especally if the winds blowing.

They are also a great speed indicator when running dodgers . Rod tip will pulse.

Hermit I dont really know what to tell you.Somedays the riggers work. Somedays the divers work. Some days they both work.And somedays nothing works.

My best setup is two riggers and two divers.I run 12lb balls and short leads.Usually less than 10ft.I also have better luck on larger size spoons.

As for the wire setups .{Im on my 3rd setup} I m running the 10ft roller rods and Tekota linecounter reels.I usually run stuff back 300ft.None of us guys are spring chickens and 300ft is a lot of cranking but its not to bad with the tekotas. Most of the guys I fish with wont touch the wires when a fish hits. To much work.My best fish seem to come on the wires.I know nothing about braded line. I tried spiderwire once didnt like it. I think there is someting electric about wire. Ive never ran inline planerboards.Ive never had much luck with the smaller dipseys but Ive never given them the run time I have the largers.

Ive got a slidediver setup that should work but I cant say Ive ever taken a fish on it.

I guess if you wanted to mess in the top 50fow a downrigger would be best. You can awalys use a dipsey and try down and out off the riggers.

I personally would not skimp on a wiresetup.

Yea we worked that mudwater . We thought thats where the fish would be. It was loaded with debris . Couldnt really troll in it. Also it was a few degrees colder than the main lake.

Thats a neet picture you got from Cornell.

Big Dave I cant give up all my secrets. But I do think they swim around the lake .You either find them or you dont.

I cant find them during fishing derbies.

A couple brns from Cayuga today. We wasted half the day running boards.Did catch a couple pike on sticks off the boards. Moved out deep ran riggers and divers not quite as good as day before. I would like to have this brown during a derby.He is still there swimming around.

Some of the bait piles Ive been seeing deep. they go on for miles. Huge clouds.I think this is why the shore guys are doing poorly . The bigger fish are on the bait. The ones we catch are lively and healthey.

BTW that spoons a Stinger Tuxedo. Happy New Year

Ive got some good pictures in the camera from yesterday. I never unhooked the boat so Im ready to go this morning. Sometimes you gotta have some pink on the spoon not just copper orange. Ill get a spoon pix today.

RD nice picture! Thanks

I could not find my rubberbands yesterday.

I pinch the splitshot on with my fingers.

Let me explain what Im after. You know how your trolling along and you mark a big fish high say 20 down. So you run a rigger long and high trying for those big high fish. Then your long high stuff just rots in the water. So you drop your rigger back down and "hellow"another big high fish appears They are the ones Im after. I was thinking maybe down and out was the answer.

Ive got a slide diver rig . But I can only run 4 rods . I would not give up a wire dipsey or a rigger rod to run a slidediver.

Copper,pink and orange was the spoon color that took half the fish . The regular dodger fly colors we always talk about did the rest. 80 to 100 ft down. 2.1 sog

I tried a couple different setups off the wires today. I ran out about 100 feet of wire then clipped a lg.splitshot on the wire then clipped the cheater line above it. On the other side I used a stacker releice.Both seemed to work pretty good. I never took a fish off the cheaters on the dipsey wires.But there will be a time when they will work.

I like the splitshot better than the stacker less junk in the water.

Blood bath on the Stix boat today. All lakers largest around 9lbs most all keeper size. Dodger flies off the wires. Stinger spoons off the riggers. Still deep.19 fish

No brns or salmon. We are going again tomorrow I think they may have moved near shore.May run some boards.

Anyone got any good ideas for running fixed cheaters off the wires? Ive been thinking I should try this as the spoon would be running thru virgin water.I usually run flies off my dipseys. Im thinking if the cheater slides down it will be a tangled up mess.

I am going o try rubberbanding them today on the Little lake Cayuga and hope to get something perfected for next spring.

Thanks for posting the pictures.Its good to see someone doing something in Albany . Hee Hee.