chowder

Welcome!! Theres a lot of OH registrations here at the lake Ontario marina in Olcott NY. I charter on both Erie and Ontario and have made the pilgrimage down to port Clinton in March a couple times as well. Check in with us here if you want to head up to sample some real salmon fishing and we'll try to help.

Okuma ML GLT rod- nice price point, use them for almost all my walleye presentations except longer cores and 300 walleye copper. For browns setups I have gone to Okuma STS Kokanee rods ( I like em but quality control seems mediocre, give em all a real good bend after you take them out of the plastic bag, send back whatever breaks)

I have pulled my 7' Shimano Talora inside diver rods (as well as my 9' Okuma Big Lake Tournament series outside diver rods) out of service in order to replace a number of the guides that have lost their inserts. Between the wire line and the fact that i store my diver rods up along the walk around wheel house, the guides on my divers rods seem to get beat up and I actually had to get some replacement rods for both my inside and outside diver setups that i hope will become backups for my refitted rods. Anyway I am planning to replace the guides on my original 7' inside diver rods 1st and see how it goes- if all goes well I'll continue with my 9' outside diver rods. I am planning to use Alps BRXSG 20-50lb rollers and keep using my existing Twilli tips. Anybody out there with rod building experience who could recommend roller guide spacing and or size of rollers please chime in. I have emailed a company that sells the Alps rollers as well so might get some help from that quarter. Oh BTW, yes I am going to be wrapping the guides myself without a rod machine and I am going to use coarse string and epoxy so these are not gonna be fashion statement rods but I think they will actually turn out reasonably clean and very functionable.

Run away from that thing! But if you need one for parts let me know...