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  1. jobsite
    I managed to pick up a pair of planer reels... Figured Id give you a "bump" on these and let you know at the same time.
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    Exactly what was said above... Cheaters only attach to your fishing line... not the downrigger cable. If you are talking about adding a second rod, and therefore a second release, to your downrigger, then you either need to reset your auto stop bead, raise the ball manually or use a sliding release system that hopefully releases from the cable on its own when it hits the pulley and clears the auto stop bead as it slides down.
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    Scott, if you don't sell this as a set, I'd be interested in just the rail-mount reels (which look like Bert Tackle reels not Big Jons??). I will try texting you too. CraigB
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    Sk8man, thanks for the idea. I have some longline clips that may work very similar to the photo you posted.
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    I sent an email to Fish Hawk at the same time I wrote this topic here. I just received an email from them saying they were sending a replacement on Monday. They also mentioned they use a secondary clip on their personal units too. So it sounds like Im not the first to have this problem. Maybe they should add a heavy duty clip to the initial sale to save from doing replacements. I would think it would be a lot cheaper. I know the replacement I receive will have a second clip prior to use. Lesson learned. I was surprised to get a response on a weekend... but to also be told I would be getting a replacement made my day. Great customer service.
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    Purchased a Fish Hawk TD and was very excited to use it for the first time today. Hooked the unit to the downrigger cable with the included clip. Sent the rigger ball down to 50' in 65' of water. Brought the ball back up to check what the unit would say. Unit was gone! I definitely hooked the clip correctly. Did not even come close to hitting bottom. Lot of money gone in ten seconds!! Never even got to use the thing. Not happy at all. The reason for my post is to warn anyone that owns or buys one to NOT trust the included clip. Install a better one or at least a secondary clip. Otherwise you just might lose a $140 unit in mere seconds too. I may someday buy another to try, as its a great idea. But I will definitely install my own clip. Very frustrating.
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    PFD Law?? We were just there for three days... spoke with some DEC workers while in the boat... never knew or heard anything about a floatation law. How would we have known? You would think it would be posted at the ramps or something. I guess we were lucky and the state boys that saw and talked with us didnt care?
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    Thanks for the input, everyone.
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    Hey folks, I have a set of Riviera planer boards... the yellow ones with a styrofoam back. They pull a couple of lines okay, but if I put much leadcore out they start drifting back on me. Im thinking of adding some weight to the bottom edges of each "board" to see if sinking them a little will get them to bite harder in the water and plane out further and not pull back as easy when I run some leadcore. My thought was maybe cutting out a bit of foam and epoxying duck decoy weight straps (flat strips of lead) at the bottom edge, but inside the molded plastic where it wouldnt cause extra drag. Figured Id ask to see if anyone else had tried this already. Any thoughts? I like how the boards are lightweight and collapse for easy transport. I just need to get them pulling harder and I will be a happy man. Thanks for any info.
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    Id like to buy lots D and E. Will send you a PM.
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    I will second the Savant Jakes! Have caught many a fish on those. Im horrible at lure names, but the reddish orange ones with black dots are steelie killers, the goby imitation and the yellow/green (maybe called the Oswego?) are great on browns. For spoons, Ive run 12 pound test with great success. The water is so clear that the fish do get line-shy in my opinion. When the fleas are around you gotta go up in line size or deal with constantly pulling and cleaning the lines. But when the fleas arent around, the light line often times is the difference between catching and not catching. Another thing I do is put a ball bearing swivel at my leader/main line connection and then just a light wire snap from the leader to lure. This makes lure changes easy while also keeping the size and weight of the connection small. No loss of lure movement and less terminal tackle for a finicky fish to see.
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    Just echoing some of what has already been said... Those reels will be fine early season brown fishing and will even handle kings - you just have to fight them longer and use the drags appropriately. All my 27s are spooled with 15 pound main line. When fishing browns in spring I add an 8lb fluoro leader. If I use them on the downriggers for "line-shy" kings I go up to 12lb fluoro. However, with this size line, I only run clear spoons or body baits. I go up to at least 20lb on 30 series reels for flasher/fly combos. For planer board rods, I use 7'6". They are just easier to maneuver on my boat. I find that they are long enough to fight the fish near the boat and keep it out of the motor. As long as the rod has a good action, you can go with whatever length you feel comfortable with.
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    Ohhh... rigging up a new boat is so much fun! Or am I just weird?? I dont know why, but I enjoy the rigging almost as much as the fishing. Haha. I agree with an above post... sell one of the downriggers... put that money into something else. If it were me, Id put the money into buying a set of planer boards. You can find deals on used ones for about a hundred bucks. Early and late season, those planer boards are gonna be handy! You dont even need to spring for a planer mast right away, just tie off the boards to a bow cleat. Those boards will allow you to get a few lines out to the sides in stealth mode. Youll be able to use them for trout, salmon, pike, walleye... whatever species you are after. They really open up the spread and put fish in the boat. I would concentrate on downrigger, dipsey diver and planer board lines before leadcore or copper. These will cover your needs to start. As far as seating... in my old boat, I removed the passenger side swivel seat and put a big cooler there. I bought a cooler seat pad off ebay and made that cooler my passenger seat. Two people could sit there comfortably and it held all the ice, food, drinks, fish, etc. No wasted space. Have fun and best of luck.
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    Thanks guys. You nailed it. He saw my msg a couple days ago while he was away. He just replied with his website info. Looking forward to trying out some of these lures.
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    I tried sending Bfuller a PM about his spoons. It says he read it but no reply. I assume this means he doesnt sell to the general public? Anyone know for sure? Was hoping to try some out.
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    A dozen will allow you to put six lines out and not have to pull in an otter boat to retrieve used clips until youve had six hits. Unless the fish are hitting fast and furious a dozen would be fine. I have a couple dozen... but its very rare that I have used that many before having an empty planer line that I quickly haul in to grab the used releases.
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    I use OR 10 and 14 releases. I see they keep going up in price though. I love them, but not sure I would pay five bucks each for them. Unless I have my outside otter boat line set in some special way (like really short/shallow for getting way up near shore) then I will just slide out the inside lines and reset the fired rod on the inside. Gets to be a pain to rotate a reset back out to the outside... but sometimes the situation requires it.
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    Have you ever followed someone on a bumpy road that has a kicker motor mounted on a bracket? More times than not, that little motor is bouncing and banging all over the place. At the very least strap that puppy down tight... But what I did to ease my mind on long trips was to install a quick coupling for both my gas line (piped to main tank) and my electric harness (used a trolling motor male/female from walmart). This way, I just unhook my motor and lay it on seat cushions during longer drives.
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    For cheap money you can make your own prop shroud out of aluminum or stainless. I wanted my shroud to be nice and roundso I had a metal shop run it through their radius bender. Then all I did was drill holes through the shroud and my cavitation plate and bolt it on. You can buy these from Cabelas too I think but a lot more money. Not only does it keep a swaying downrigger cable out of the prop but also fishing line while fighting a fish at the back of the boat.
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    DoubleG... I set a spoon about 3' down right at the end of the turbulence of my prop wash. Depending on speed, wind and water conditions, that can be from 6 to 12 feet behind the boat.
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    I do the bead trick too. Not only does it allow you to reel the line tight at the end of the day, it keeps you from accidentally reeling the swivel into the twili tip and causing damage while fighting a fish. Each line that we put in the water (mono, braid, copper, wire... even the downrigger cables) give off different vibrations or "hums" that may attract fish one moment and repel them the next. Some days the fish adore a braid line dipsy, while the next day all they hit is the wire dipsy. The fact that you get to feel every tug of the fish, due to zero stretch, is my favorite reason for wire. Only downside to wire is if you're fighting another fish on a mono line and it crosses your wire line... the mono often cuts off... bye bye fish and whatever you were running for hardware.
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    Premium East works well. I'm in NH and it covers all waters I fish from the sea coast to Niagara Bar. We used it a few days outside Toronto Harbor and found no errors in the cartography there either. Also, for $9 (if I remember correctly), I bought a Navionics App for my cell phone. The cartography seems just as good, self centers, shows direction to a heading, allows downloads of only the waters you're interested in (so you don't overload your phone) and is with you at all times. It does tend to eat through battery power quickly, so have a charger handy.
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    Well, you certainly have my interest picqued. If the pricing is right, I can see this added to my arsenal. What I like is that it appears it would be easy to move the system from boat to boat, assuming the receiver unit can be wired with some sort of quick connects without losing signal strength. Looking at the website, I see it says pricing is not available at this time. When it IS available, I hope you will update this post. I'm interested to see the pricing as individual pieces AND as complete systems. It appears to be a neat new product. I'm happy to see its gone through 7 years of testing and upgrades. Hopefully this means we, as purchasers, aren't having to deal with "new product" issues that commonly happen now-a-days when companies hand off the "test phase" to the consumer. I'm looking forward to more info. If possible, would you try to convince the owner of this product to put up a video on his website showing what an operating unit looks like... ie: wiring of receiver and what the phone screen display looks like/shows. Is the speed being given by the probe a SOG or a true Speed At The Lure ? Last question, how long does a typical Android phone battery last while using this product? Thank you.
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    As said above, I also enjoy running lines off otter boats as there is then no additional weight on the fishing line to take away from the fight. When I first heard of running a lure in the prop wash, I was hesitant. After I tried it, I was hooked. I almost always run something in the prop wash now. Its amazing how some fish are attracted to the boat when most are repelled by it. The prop wash lure doesn't seem to be a hot and heavy hitter for me, but the ones I do get there are sure fun. We try to run as many lines as possible, but there are also the days that less lines take more fish. There's nothing like a football brown on 8 pound line. I like orange or bright green rapalas or smithwicks off the planer boards in murky water and silver/black or blue/black in clear water. But, of course, we all own the full realm of color options, right?! Haha. Lure collecting... its what I do.
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    We fished the same depths Friday afternoon with the same scenario. Tons of bait on bottom and plenty of kings and browns willing to play. Most fish in the 80 to 85 foot range for us. Saturday we tried out deep looking for the bigger kings, but had limited success. Sunday morning we picked at them out in the 130 to 140 foot range, but ended up back in the 90 foot of water range. Tons of bait still there and fish at the 75 to 85 foot range. Best part of fishing shallow is we were mostly alone. The fleet was packed out past the 110 water most of the time.
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