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There is only one way to reach 30 lbs in three years and that is to eat nonstop anything and everything

A couple of years ago I started running 6" Tomic spoons to reduce shaker catch and injury. To date I have not caught any shakers on them although I did take a 18" coho this spring on one shop.tomiclure.com

Screw Louie's in Fair Haven handles Cannon.

i keep mine together but if you have to break th rod down you separate the rod and put the tip end against the butt end while keeping tension on the wire. Secure the rod pieces with wraps or rubber bands

Strip off enough coating off cable. Complete wire-line knot (same one you use for dipsys) onto a blacks release. Cover connection with electrical tape. I use a 3' section of cable below the probe down to the cannonball so when I stop the release while bringing up the rig, the cannonball stays under water lessening the chances it bounce-snaps off in waves. As others have stated you may have to bite the bullet and unspool all the wire to make sure where it enters the spool the coating is off that small section. Take the rigger down to a school playground and walk off all the wire, strip some coating off and reinstall. Your cable will want to loop off the spool causing major headaches so keep cable under tension coming off and going on. Either get someone to help you or attach end swivel to a fence or tree.

This may contain more micromanagement than you wanted but I use 19 strand torpedo wire on my high divers because it is thicker increasing resistance therefore separation from my low divers which has 7 strand wire. I have tried all brands out there and the softest wire I have found is Malin but the differences are minut.

Hehehe. 10 color refers to using 10 colors of leadcore weighted line to get your bait down about 40'. 7 colors about 28' down. They do not refer to colors of lures. Our evolved fishing lingo is like a second language. Chicken wing is a black and orange pattern usually on a gold blank spoon. You are at the right place to ask questions. Oops I see someone beat me to it.

Those deep marks could be lakers but just as likely kings coming out of their deep winter pattern. They can be maddening trying to get deep kings to bite as they feed in spurts. You could troll over them 10 times with nothing to show for it but on the 11th time some rods go off

A peeping-Tom with binoculars......Yankee with the gf at the back door while fishing around the humps?? I thought this was a family-friendly site!

Full moon I sleep in and target 10:00 am - 2:00 pm same as hunting whitetail bucks

Coho bite has been "off" around Olcott this spring. I have been out 6 times this year and have caught one so far. I think this year class is the last year of reduced stocking due to "eye-up" egg issues at the Altmar hatchery so there may be less swimming around out there

I tried something similar and saw too many fish come up and take a look and then fall away. I don't want fish to key on my balls at all so now I use a green color that matches water color.

Get a charter.