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The Chamberlain release might be what you are looking for. It has two settings...one for the tension of the down line and one for the tension of release to the lure. The idea is you can crank down a rod tight, but you can set the tension on the release to go off if a perch hits. Scotty releases with a tether show small fish better as well.

Mark, fish off the Catt. come mostly off the bottom. We take most of our fish on a downrigger line (worm harness W/CHEATER hook)....tap bottom with ball and bring it up quick 5' or so......12-20' leads. You have to really watch the rod to see a tell of a perch or small walleye. The second deep line is a three-way with 4 oz of weight and a worm harness. Keep checking the lines for perch, white perch, sheephead, rock bass etc. etc. When the lake is rolling, higher lines with mini-disks out 180-200' of braid with harnesses or leadcore work........I thought we covered all this Mark

Hit water off the Catt. this morning looking for fish to fry. Set up outside perch fishermen 53-55'. Worm harnesses with pink blades took three 20" walleyes (lost a good one at the boat), numerous sheep****, and a boss perch. Walleyes turned off by 9 am, so into the shore for smallmouth trolling with hot'n tots. Lots'o bass. Nice day on water....typical July fishing on Erie. Big-fish schools of Walleye have not come in yet.

Keep trolling, but throttle down. My advise would be to spend some time on others boats and see how it is done.

My hardtop is off......as is my carb so I will live vicariously thru your reports. Can I text you with what to put down and how deep?

Rod, you are going to have to rethink those new Burka-style tournament garments you had made up this year. The Big Weenie logo does not really show up too well against a black background anyway.

You can get Optitackle products from Lakemichiganangler.com. Yes, they were sold.

Break strength of Flouro 15lb is like 10lb mono. Lose the fluoro all together IMO. At 56' down you don't need it.

The problem with not having clear lightening parameters is it becomes a money issue. A 30 M Trojan having spent xxx #'s in gas getting to the sacred fishing grounds will not want to pull lines and come to port.....esp. if fishing time is lost. But what about one of the crew members who has young kids and a family at home and feels pressured not to say anything to the captain? Make it clear and safe. Call boats to port and give us our lost time back. I am sure every Captain's license course covers lightening safety.......many of us failed to cover the tenant that the captain is RESPONSIBLE for the crews' safety....radar towers be damned. For the record we pulled lines at 10:50 am when the shat hit the fan, so there was lots of time left in the day. The rain continued but the lightening stopped around 12:00????

Double Willis Knot

Leave the boundries as is. I would like to add that for the safety of contestants, if lightening is seen EVERYONE should be pulled off the water to a safe harbor until such time boats can return with time added. I was shocked once again at the Niagara event that I was the only one who pulled rods and came in early (no I had not boxed yet ) In pro golf, if the tournament officials see one lightening bolt, play is delayed until safe. Unfortunately, money makes people make poor decisions and maybe we need oversight to protect us from our own stupidity.

Someone other than my mother read that article? (she wanted four copies).

East is the least! On Lake O the cold water from mid-lake rolls west and will chill water temps. If I had to fish an East wind I would launch at Youngstown not Olcott. Fish will head into the warmer Niagara plume. If you are not marking fish, they are probably high in water column and not registering on the graph. On the east wind the game is often high/low. The cooler temps push active fish high. Conversely, I will find fish over deeper water drop down 200' +++++ and are mostly inactive. Generally, I stay home with an east wind.

Order the 1/2 keel or it will sink to the bottom when your string breaks.

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NOAA has always had it's moments but this weekend......... . I will forever take online information with a grain of salt.

How deep where you fishing? I found Kings on Sunday out over 400' but they were down 200-300'.

What can I say.....June fishing can be tough because East winds still happen. Fish are finicky when the wind blows one way one day then the opposite direction the next day. Thank you NOAA once again for your inaccurate information. Saturday the weather called for light winds in the afternoon so we made the run from the Oak to west of Wilson. It nabbed us the big fish for the AM's but that pounding we took coming back to port........well my back will not forget it anytime soon. NOAA site for temps showed warm water offshore for Sunday, so we tried a deep steelhead program for awhile. There were some DEEP kings out there ....below 250' that we tried to tease. Fish were finicky. Many lost fish due to light biting. All fish caught were barely hooked. Again NOAA was wrong, the warmer water was 180'-ish. With temps getting cooler as we went north....we turned around at 425' FOW. I love wasting time during tournament hours . Congrats to the winners......this really ended up being a tournament which favored the team with a good inside waters program......something I need to work on.

Appears there were plenty cases of men behaving badly. From the loud swearing and threats over a friggin' piece of paper......which you didn't have to sign, to a team yelling the "N" word across Olcott harbor, rule infractions etc. etc. Maybe we should follow the format of the Wilson Harbor Invitational and make these an invite only event.

.......and there it is.....open communication at its finest.

"Mooning" is not communicating unless the cheeks are moved back and forth in a morse-code fashion OR if there is visual discharge.

Now I know why you bummed a cigarette from Ray.... Happy birthday.

Looking at the weather blowing up out west heading our way has me worried about the Pro/Am on Sat. Come on NW wind keep that crap away!!!!!