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  1. chowder
    Excellent post, full of honest, specific stuff. Great job out there. I've had the same screens and frustrations- you are not alone and you guys had a good go!
  2. chowder
    Nice job hanging in there and making it work!
  3. chowder
    If you do not need to mount riggers and equip them with swivels and you already have places for board lines I can't see why you would need to spend $ and time putting trax on the vessel. It's a no brainer when there is nothing on the boat and it needs mounting capacity but from what you describe I can't see why you would do it unless you wanted to completely change the setup. 2 Bigjon or other type adjustable fixed in place rod holders / side would get you dipsy rods horizontal for salmon wire applications (for walleye we just put our 2 diver rods/side in the rod trees since they don't have that much tension on them). I'm in the process of switching boats (I have trax on 2 other vessels) and the only reason I'm putting a 12" section of trax on either side of my new to me is because I want to be able to take the rod trees on and off.
  4. chowder
    I'm hoping to get a bit more tug out of wally with the short copper off big boards. Snap weights and inlines don't lead to much 'fish' feel
  5. chowder
    Just a nagging consideration: Waldo doesn’t pull much so you will need to stay very attentive to ‘pullbacks ‘ i.e. strikes.
  6. chowder
    Thanks for the feedback mr 580. Yeah, for me no sense taking all that time to deploy and reel in the 10 colors we've been using off the boards. I have a couple Okuma 55s that were wire reels that I'm switching to Highspeeds so there's the reels and I don't care what the line counter says, once the copper is out and the power pro is in the release I know where that line is running. I had the same experience you may had with short coppers vs leadcore in my winter time finger lakes fishing: just did not have the same results as 4,5,6 colors off the boards. Let's stay in touch, sounds like we fish near each other on erie, I'd like to hear how this works for you. -Andy
  7. chowder
    I'm going to put together a couple walleye Bloodrun copper rigs. One will be a 250' and the other will be a 200' to target eyes down 60-70. I'll be running these on Erie out of Dunkirk, Silver Creek and Buffalo. I will need to put some power pro on behind this copper but I was hoping to not put a whole lot more on than what I'd need to get the copper into the water a bit and out to the board and then a little on the reel. I'm only going to use these on Erie for eyes so if you have set these rigs up let me know what you did. Thanks!
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    TDD 13s

    chowder replied to justtracytrolling's topic in Walleye

    Am I missing something- I don't see them for sale anywhere? I've built up a decent collection of deep diving cranks: husky jerks, bandits, taildancers, and P 10s and 20s and flicker minnows but haven't seen anything like what you are talking about.
  9. chowder
    Anybody know how much mono you put on a Okuma cv45DS before the 1000' of wire so the depth counter reads accurately? Thanks!
  10. chowder
    SOLD
  11. chowder
    I will post more pics on 5/9 if it's not already sold. Several individuals are looking at it. The boat is located between Sodus and Fairhaven. PM me for more details if you actually have the money and are really going to buy a boat. Thanks!
  12. chowder
    The Islander can be purchased along with the old arch as pictured. I was getting the new Atlantic T-top installed when I ran into a boat deal I couldn't refuse.
  13. chowder
    1997 191 StarCraft Islander: 4 cylinder I/O, new bellows & gimball bearing beginning of last year. 8.8 Big foot 4stroke Yamaha kicker with New Ezee steer to main on adjustable transom mount Simrad autopilot 2 New Cannon Mag 10 downriggers New Fishhawk X4 New ThrottlePro remote digital kicker control New Atlantic towers T-Top Arch with rod holders Bert's tracks and rod holders 1 new 3 blade prop, 1 new 4 blade Solas Amita prop Lowrance Sonar, Lowrance gps Global map Price $7000 with T-Top. $5500 with out. PM me if you have the money and are serious.
  14. chowder
    1st come/ 1st served guys. I will edit post when sold. Several people have told me they are taking it but I don't have any $ so.....
  15. chowder
    Gents: The first one that actually pays for the arch gets it.
  16. chowder
    I texted you. arch attaches directly to gunnels well ahead of my Bert's Tracks running alongside the fishing deck area.
  17. chowder
    The arch is 90" wide. Front and rear supports are adjustable
  18. chowder
    Selling the old arch off my Islander( see picture below). I replaced it with a T-Top and electric planers. Arch mounts on flat part of decking. PM me
  19. chowder
    I’m thinking the ones I am using are 2 1/2”
  20. chowder
    Fish USA has them. I like the brown trout candy color pattern
  21. chowder
    Doc and I seemed destined to fish under adverse conditions this year. Continuing the trend was our outing yesterday. For a very brief 15 minutes all seemed well after clearing the break wall and then quickly things deteriorated as a nasty west wind freshened up and breakers formed as we were getting lines out. We lost a first fish to a break off and then struggled to hold course westward eventually giving up and trolling south. Somewhere east of the break wall we got traction on the browns and slammed some real beauties. After realizing we were going to limit soon we turned back towards the launch which left Doc to handle the last couple by himself due to the necessity of clinging to the wheel on my part. Similar to my last outing the fish seemed to be podded up with out a clear connection to anything. This trip the bay rat BT took 1/2 and the black silver yozuris the other 1/2. Our fish mostly came in 12 fow, speed was ‘ god only knows ‘
  22. chowder
    Doc and I seemed destined to fish under adverse conditions this year. Continuing the trend was our outing yesterday. For a very brief 15 minutes all seemed well after clearing the break wall and then quickly things deteriorated as a nasty west wind freshened up and breakers formed as we were getting lines out. We lost a first fish to a break off and then struggled to hold course westward eventually giving up and trolling south. Somewhere east of the break wall we got traction on the browns and slammed some real beauties. After realizing we were going to limit soon we turned back towards the launch which left Doc to handle the last couple by himself due to the necessity of clinging to the wheel on my part. Similar to my last outing the fish seemed to be podded up with out a clear connection to anything. This trip the bay rat BT took 1/2 and the black silver yozuris the other 1/2. Our fish mostly came in 12 fow, speed was ‘ god only knows ‘
  23. chowder
    Place is 5 minutes from my house. The folks mean well but overpromise and underdeliver. if you make a deal for something they have right there you an do well if they need $ right then. Never give them $ without getting the product.
  24. chowder
    Nice post- have to try the divers next time out
  25. chowder
    No docks, just dropped it in and motored over to a rickety ‘dock’ behind the north to pickup the crew and then power loaded apon return. Not bad at all. Water is a bit low.
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