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No need to double it. Mine are single and I have had zero failures in five years.

There are two areas I find lakers and it differs from port to port. When I fished Irondequoit Bay Area, I found lots of big lakers on flats adjacent to structure. To the west of the genesee river, lakers are structure oriented. The structure oriented fish are found in the 90 to 135 zone on the bottom. The flats fish I used to find in 150 to 220 on the bottom. Peanuts and spin n glows trolled behind hammerhead cowbells are the best producers. Fish them within five feet of the bottom at speeds ranging from .7 to 1.8 mph at the ball. If you go faster, your catch rate will drastically decrease. Find out from the locals what depth they are fishing and it will be easy to find them. Zoom your fish finder I the bottom 20' of the bottom and you will see tight hooks to the bottom. 90 percent of the time those are lakers.

Strictly an opinion and sure as hell not a fact. Not taking deer and being selective means tags left at the end of the season most of the time. Taking deer helps no matter what age because it keeps the population in check. Last I checked, over population in a deer heard is not healthy. And to answer your question, 20lbs of meat is worth it to me because I really enjoy eating venison. Every little bit is consumed and not wasted so I have no reserves on shooting a small deer.

These pics don't bother me either. I'm a meat hunter and don't care about horns. I have no problem with someone taking yearling deer. How many yearling deer do not survive a long hard winter? I would much rather see them harvested. Slow Rollin, have you ever had Veal? I sure hope not. That would be a little hipocritical.

I run my coppers with the spro swivels, haywire twist with shrink tubing, Uni knots and I also add 6' of 50lb floro between the backing and the copper so the releases hold better. I run the Scotty Power grip releases. Find the double stacker releases and cut the mono and add a shower curtain hook to the one that will be missing one. They run around $12 each. The Scotty Power grips alone run around $12 each so this way you get 2 releases for the price of one. The problem I see with the releases in Sk8mans post is the clip. Once a release comes off the copper, and you send a new one down with a line in it, it can swing over your line and wrap keeping your rod from releasing. These new Diawa reels have my attention. If the drags are as smooth and adjustable as the Saltist, all my Penn copper reels will be sold one by one and replaced. My only worry will be the line guide. Will it be big enough for the spro swivel to go through smoothly.