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Lots of reasons. Your hunting success taking birds. Food patterns......find what they are eating, if you do not have left over mast on the ground, they may have to hunt and peck in fields. Coyotes, foxes, and more importantly egg robbing raccoons and opossum. We have noticed our turkey population increasing with the culling of approx. 30 Raccoons, 5 opossum, and 4 coyotes.

Agreed, I have been blowing thru the cheap Chinese bearing packs within a couple of years of light trailering. Don't go cheap on the bearing packs!!!

Chas, as other fishermen have stated....Renoskys are set up by Lake Erie fishermen by upgrading the size of the rear treble and replacing the front treble with an additional split ring to balance the bait. I know fishermen who swear by this set-up recounting running them side-by-side with stock set-ups with the stock set-ups drawing dead while the modified stickbait gets hits repeatedly. There must be something to the action or the added clicking of the split ring?? Point being is it must be action related. Try different modifications and see what works.

Lake Trout from the power plant to Wilson.....as many as you want. Browns and Coho with an occasional King along the shore.

You don't need fluoro at all. Green mono disappears as good as anything.

Some fantastic fishing occurs during North wind blows between the piers at most ports. Browns and cohos move right into the warmer water that gets shoved inside.

4' boom and a downrigger with a tip up boom feature like a Scotty or a Big Jon.

Concrete King 2 check your messages.

We had similar numbers off Olcott and yes I noticed the empty stomachs on coho and lakers. The browns are just starting to fatten up. Fish are hungry!

Good move. Should pay for itself in gas savings in no time.

Apparently, when you store your boat at a marina good protocol is to remove your license plates off your trailer. To the ****'r who took mine......bad mojo coming your way with many a skunk!

Any talk of Brown Trout numbers?

You will not contact steelhead but you could contact immature salmon. Problem is this time of year they are in winter-mode, which means 150'-300' down. Difficult to get baits down that deep, and difficult to get them to bite. You will be all alone out there with no help if you get into trouble also so you may want to partner up with another boat.

Black Opti-tackle clasps rated at 30 lb test.

Stocking from manufacturer may not have distributed yet.

Wade and cast stickbaits at night off any ditch or flowing water entering the lake.

Nice work boys.

With huge smelt numbers this year expect the big girls to be on the bottom. Keeping one worm harness line on a rigger just off bottom is always a good idea.