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that mussel is on steroids! , I've been watching this for 7hr 58 min. and waiting for something, anything to happen and it's time to punch out now so I guess I'll have to tune in Monday....

try contacting Dave Chilson through the LOC derby website, link on the side of this page, his website lists a contact "ESLO" head quarters but it should get you through directly or the phone numbers are also listed there.

These two Cutco knifes are all we use on Rebel, lifetime guarentee should they ever need sharpening, have had them for ten years and they still cut through like butter. Use to use only electric knives but now I just make the noise, bbzzzzzzzzz http://www.cutco.com/products/product.j ... Group=5721 http://www.cutco.com/products/product.j ... Group=1762

2008 NIAGARA PRO-AM TOURNAMENT NIAGARA - MAY 31 & JUNE 1 So you can plan your vacations and start dreaming

It don't look like it now but in about 99 days we'll all be back on the lake trying out the new Christmas toys. Hope everyone got what they asked for and had a safe, happy enjoyable time with the ones you love. Best wishes for a limit New Year and keep the colors flying proud for those protecting it. Rebel Charters / Capt. Larry

The musky Jerry caught on Rebel Charters was caught in 80' FOW in Mexico Bay on a Stinger spoon direct tied, no leader or swivel. It was 46" and all of 40#'s+ very fat healthy well fed Muskybob. 10 colors out and LC reel at 450' it hit on a turn and jumped about 6 times, looked like a marlin. Screemed out to 1000' and took about 40 minutes to land. It was an awesome fish that we had to let go (48" to be legal) and we didn't have a camera to save the memory, plus it wasted a lot of time we needed for the ProAm on trout /salmon. We also seen a large musky floating this year off Olcott when in the Pro Am there, victim of the VHS, glad we don't have Beta too!

Great Scott, nice deer! nice, serious, "It wasn't luck I'm that good pose". Smiling would mean you were hiding something. I thought you only hunted "Silver Fox" and I didn't know it was Yankee Bowler. Butt seriously, nice shoot'n and say hey to grandpa Hans for me.

Forget it Ray, I'm just Chad's guinnea pig for the site, the things we have to do for our kid's... I don't post a lot so I might have worded things badly, especially with the "professional" label, but my intentions were to help and keep it fun. Keep posting and stay real even if you don't get it right every time it's usually witty and funny. Gambler: you are correct with not waiting till August to put out the heavy artillary, the Niagara ProAm in June was won by a Canadian Team that ran SD's , CB's and spoons. This is strickly a big fish tournament set though and not a charter catch everything set. It also struggled the first day of the tourney in Niagara currents and their spoons kept them in it. In other words, try it first and find what's working and go with what works.

Billy V. thanks for the support ol' habinero buddy. Motoman, yes running a flasher off the ball is a religion in Canadian waters, it hasn't caught on much here yet but according to one Capt. we met in the ProAm it made a big difference when targeting salmon with one as opposed to not running one. You'll need to add a back weight line to hold the flasher in line. Flashers and spin docs are imitating feeding salmon, the trailing bait is the meal that the real salmon think the fake one missed. Spins do a better job imitating a salmon strike because the loop they make more closely resembles a salmon checking the bait with his verticle line for vibrations from the bait. That said, it will also have a negative effect when fish are smaller or if your targets are brown trout because they won't want to come in amoungst those feeding salmon you're imitating, they could but more often they'll shy away.

Whoa, tough crowd, first off the "professional" by my name has nothing to do with being a charter capt for 27 years on L.O. it is some beta testing my son "BlueEye" is working on for the improvements to this site. Secondly, my point was to have fun and catch fish not to worry about if you have the right % of each lure down. Yes, I agree SD's can work under many conditions with those adjustments but when they're not firing you can waste a lot of fishing time adjusting leader length, switching holes. flies, colors, trying to get the action just right to trigger hits when sometimes a simple low cost spoon will put fish in the box even when conditions are less than ideal with a lot less effort.

The currents you are fishing should help you decide on what to put down. Spoons are more speed forgiving and will work in most conditions, if you try forcing spin docs to run in strong currents you will not generate many hits. They may work better if only run out on the dipseys in tough current conditions. Spoons have even more erratic action run across stiff currents and will pay dividends. Also, cut bait,sd's will catch larger fish so if shakers are a problem on the spoons it may call for more flash in the program. When these are firing you put less down and get more. Don't get caught up in percentages because even if this helps you catch 10% more fish you'll still have to make up 20% more lies, 30% more excuses as to what got away and 50% more gas to get the 10% of the lake that has the 90% of the fish. Go figure...

13 bones in the anal ray is a coho, that's all I could count from the picture. 15 to be a king.

Great pics guys! Thank you for sharing.

I had Jerry put another trim tab on the port side so you can ride more comfortably. How is "over night" fast? I get the easy part. You can use dinosaur sauce on fish? I thought I'd have to catch something pre-historic or a sturgeon or something. Keep the recipes coming and see ya in the east soon

Not for long though, top soil coming in a few weeks and then it gets cut up for scrap metal.

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I'd thought I'd pass along a technique Jerry and I have been using for years on Rebel. We respool all the rods every year by using a 5 gal pail with a shaft through it to hold the bulk spool. We fill it to the shaft holes with hot tap water. Why we do it is fivefold, it puts the moisture back in the mono, relieves the line memory from the spool, removes white residue from the line (plasticisers form on line surface from lack of moisture) allows for even line lay on the reel and you can put a lot more line on it (about 2400' of 14# test on a 47LC). Try it, but don't tell Jerry I posted it, he hates to give up secrets.

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