Thanks apb. I just try my best to give guys the best quality, best service and tips to run my stuff. I modeled my business after Atommik. Tom Allen does a great job and puts out very quality gear! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
Bleeding fish, skin off and take the brown/red meat off the back side of the filet between the meat and the skin. Trout, salmon and walleye all taste better without that meat on the filets. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
Great report Abe! The feedback on the Death Traps has been awesome so far! Hopefully WTP opens back up so I can make more. Inventory is starting to run low!
They are famous for eating plastics. Someone posted a picture years ago of a laker that ate a foot of a dead animal. I believe it was a raccoon foot. I will see if I can dig up the post.
The perch population should be ok. When alewife populations fall, perch populations rise. The lakers may be eating small perch but without perch fry predation by adult prespawn alewife, perch numbers should be ok.
All this downtime has helped me get better at painting. Custom Hammerhead Cowbells I painted up the other day. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app
Switch the rigger to a different plug on the other side of the boat and see if the problem still exists. Sometimes the plugs go bad and this can happen.
Speed all depends on the lures you are running and less than the time of year. Colder the water, usually you will want to troll slower. If that is the case, make sure you are running lures that will work properly at those speeds.
An easy way to keep them from dying is bring them up slower. The slower you bring them up, the less chance they have of blowing up. I also burp them and send them back head first. We have very few floaters a season and those floaters are given away to a neighbor that loves them.