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  1. GAMBLER
    It has been around for a while. I first saw it about 6 or 7 years ago. I talked to fish and wild life guys and they are aware of it.
  2. GAMBLER
    I have found scents work better for lakers and browns over kings and steelies. I'm a big fan of smelly jelly in Herring.
  3. GAMBLER
    My last trip out, we took kings from 45 degree water to 72 degree water. Once the staging starts to creep in, throw temp out the window and fish the marks on your fish finder.
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    If you want to compete in big tournaments, you need a big boat. Plain and simple. If you enter a big tournament, you are rolling the dice entering with a small boat. I fish a couple tournaments with my 22 but stay away from big money tournaments because most big events will be fished in rough seas.
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    Tie the front of the bag to a cleat 2/3rds of the way to the bow. Tie a teather line to the back of the bag and put it on a cleat directly above the end of the bag (or as close as you can get) so it keeps it from swinging under the boat. This line can be used to dump the bag when you want to bring it in.
  6. GAMBLER
    The X4 and X4D is made by Fish Hawk. The old 840 units were horrible but they have really nailed it this time.
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    I have 2-28" bags and one 36" bag. Usually one or two of the smaller bags will get me down to 1.4 to 1.5. I run a boat very similar to yours. Tie them more forward on the boat and make sure you put another line to hold the bag at the side of the boat. If the bag is wandering off to the side or under the boat, you will steer all over the place.
  8. GAMBLER
    The X4 units do not eat batteries. I do about 30 trips per season on one set of batteries.
  9. GAMBLER
    Congrats Foster. I hope it holds for you!
  10. GAMBLER
    Like Tim, I do not run snubbers. I believe you get better hooks sets with a properly set drag, dipsy trip tension and quality reels.
  11. GAMBLER
    Hmmm. Last time I checked, the Giants did not win the NFC East last season. Who did? Oh yeah that's right the Redskins!
  12. GAMBLER
    Congrats on the 2nd place finish Lou. I thought we had it when we had 58 - 59lbs in 2 fish by 6am! We stuck in that inside water and kept with our deep program where we pulled the 2 big ones. Come to find out, Jay took his box up high in warm water in the same same depth range. All we could pull up high were small steelies.
  13. GAMBLER
    Nice report Brian. Glad to hear you got into some fish.
  14. GAMBLER
    Temp is down now from the NW wind the other day.
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    I do not want to see participation drop. The LOC and the other derbies help keep this fishery going. A large voice needs to bring this up to Dave. Other than a few goofy choices lately, Dave has done a good job running the derbies. There are a few things he could do to get participation up. Lowering the youth age and bringing back the rule about keeping fish overnight. I do not afternoon derby fish a lot due to the simple fact that the bite is getting hot when the weigh stations are already closed. What is this rule stopping anyways? Is someone going to try to drive from Lake Michigan to weigh in fish? I do not think so!
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    I know John. Sad part is Jason could do that to any of our boats!
  17. GAMBLER
    Scott, Rob and Keith, great job on another well run tourney! Keep up the good work.
  18. GAMBLER
    If you want to CONSISTENTLY catch lake trout especially BIG lake trout you will need to troll under 1.8 mph. But what do I know. I have only put in hundreds of hours trolling lake trout in my 28 years of trolling Lake Ontario.
  19. GAMBLER
    Most brands of cowbells are designed to run under 1.8 mph @ the ball. I found 1.1 to 1.5 is the sweet spot. .7 to 1.8 is the min and max I have found to get them to work properly. Once you are over 1.8 mph @ the ball, the blades thump too hard spooking lakers most of the time.
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    Congrats on the Shootout finish. Why is it they always hit when you are trying to take a leak?
  21. GAMBLER
    It never pays to smack talk!
  22. GAMBLER
    Started the morning in 125 off the nose. 4 minutes of trolling and only five rods in the water, we were on our first fish of the day. After an awesome fight, Keith slid the net under a 30lb 12 (loc scale weight) king. After 15 minutes of getting rods out, the 210 diver starts screaming. After a 550' run, Steve Lands a 27 and change king. At 730 we did our third king at 15 and change. After that our day took a major turn ( just like the bills we started of strong and then we faded away!) We struggled to find fish over 7 lbs. we did have a nice laker but it was short of the 30" minimum by 1/4"! At the weigh in, we took 10 th place and big fish of the tourney. Congrats to all the winners. Once again the guys that ran the Shootout did an awesome job!
  23. GAMBLER
    Nope. I do not think we will ever see the age at this point.
  24. GAMBLER
    While we are at it lets get the lake trout division back and allow us to weigh in fish the next morning. Maybe we should put together a petition?
  25. GAMBLER
    Is there a list of teams that has entered the Calcutta? Just curious.
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