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1 hour ago, Last One said:

Went to salmon school in Pulaski last month, two out of three of the charter capt's loved the Garmin Panoptix's

They showed a video of trolling, seeing the fish live, looked great. Added it to my boat last week, cant wait to try once we start fishing a little deeper.

Glad you read my post carefully LOL. I’ve had the PanOptix for 2 years. 

I have had the Garmin PanOptix system in the rear of my boat now for 2 years. I see things on it that I don’t see on my Lowrance HDS/ Airmar sonar system AND vice versa. ( very inconvenient to have customers ask “ if those are fish right now in your riggers, why aren’t we catching them “) ANYWAY: given I have the PanOptix + Lowrance HDS/ Airmar system facing essentially backwards what theoretical benefit is forward facing sonar for a trolling boat. Thanks for any experienced comments 

I still don’t understand this whole thread. I have no problem with anyone starting a business. I have a business too. What I do have a problem with is the disingenuous way this thread is being played. If someone is selling a product then answer a question about price. It’s as simple as that. Don’t post a bunch of pictures and get friends to do the same and throw out some smoke and mirrors about quality. This isn’t a Facebook page. It’s supposed to be a fishing forum. If someone wants to start a genuine thread to help others learn how to buy blanks and paint lures - right on, but don’t put up pictures of stuff that you are trying to sell while packaging it in BS and then not answer questions about what you’re product sells for. 

15 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

Zach is a long time member of LOU and has sold tons of musky lures to LOU members.  It is legit.  Why question his new venture?  

Are these baits for sale? It doesn’t say so. Why not just run an Ad?

Apparently these finished baits are not for sale. Frankly IMHO this seems like a strange post due to the fact that very very few people on LOU have the technology or the very specific knowledge to paint baits. The price of blanks is really a moot point. Just saying

Lakers do. They’ll eat anything somedays. 

I have 3 Cannon rod holders/ side for diver rods and an inexpensive triple tree for board rods. Rigger rods go in the Cannon rod holders on the riggers 

Are they priced through the roof like most custom musky baits ?

I have had the PS 30/ PanOptix setup for 2 years . I see things on it I don’t see on my Lowrance HDS/ Airmar and vice versa. Thus far it has not been a ‘game changer’ for me but frankly I probably need to figure out why others claim it is. 

15 hours ago, troubles said:

ok thanks send the payment and i’ll get them shipped.

I’ll get on it in the AM - thanks!

I’d take the adjustable rigs as priced

https://www.yakimabait.com/product-category/spin-n-glo/

https://www.google.com/search?q=worden's+spin+n+glo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

Looks like the Z man to me . Certain days it’s a killer on browns and Cohos both as well as kings from time to time. I like em

I have a smart troll system and a fishhawk setup- It’s all good information but when you think about it the important thing is to find what the fish want not to know depth and temp and down speed

Yes, I’ve looked at that stuff. Too hard to follow 

I have a GoPro Hero 7 white and a couple years ago I set myself up with the Quik app and was able to make some short videos using the app on my iPhone. I have recently acquired a GoPro 11 Black and a remote. I added the 11 to my app but besides that I cannot do anything with either camera using the app on my iPhone. 

12 hours ago, hookedupf7 said:

Bright colors will be your friend then 👍👍 

When starting out it’s usually best to run a mix of naturals and colors and let the fish decide 

I don’t ever run leaders on Walleye/Browns rigger or flat planer rods but I am not far from the Niagara river. Find warmest water you can even if there isn’t much of it. Be prepared to go slow 1.7-1.9. I would run mostly stix on planer lines. Spoons on shallow rigger and shallow diver lines if depth allows 

I use small ones drifting in the lower Niagara as long as there is bait in there. I use them along with stix trolling for Browns. I use them clean and behind small spinnys for Coho on riggers. I use large ones on junk lines for salmon all season. I always remove the front treble

Again finding the warm water was key but much tougher after a series of big blows. All stix in 6 fow.  Doubled twice on the same pass through water 1.5 degrees warmer than the fishless water we had been in. Rapalas in orange and fire tiger took most fish. Launched out of Fort Niagara 

Bloodrun here

$20,000

Finding warmer water made a big difference over our efforts a week ago out of Fort Niagara. Fish came on stix off boards, spoons on shallow riggers and spoons on shallow divers. Good times and good eats!

2 hours ago, Sean Youngblood said:

No clue but the Storm's in the boxes under your hand have treated me very well.

Oh Yar!