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Usually better on incoming, outgoing is often good too. Slack is usually not good. We troll out of Kingston and/or run live or chunk on sliders. You can catch 20+ schoolies trolling with large females in the mix depending on the day. Striper techniques and slider baits change a fair amount from the mouth to Troy.

Fantastic, what a memory you two share.

The thing is made of schedule 40 cpvc ,a piece of vinyl board, and some Berkely rod holders. The bottom is fitted into pipe flange mounts bolted to the side framing. The key to this design though is that it's fastened to a HD stainless canvas frame at the top and middle of the uprights and it doesn't stick up above the canvas. I can travel @50mph w/ that canvas up as long as the back and front are open. I'm close enough to the fishing that I don't need to go any faster than that. Canvas stays up all the time- front and sides come off and it's a bimini - but mostly I use this boat for late fall, winter (finger lakes) and early spring.

Get a tide chart

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This is for anybody who is all dressed up with no where to go.

2nd that. I spend a lot of time in the woods with my sons and no deer in the world would entice me to shoot through heavy brush. Remember the golden rule of firearms safety 'Know your target and what's behind it'. I'm 6' 2" 220 and uh not for nothing but I couldn't even begin to count the number of deer I've killed with a .243. I do have a 30-30 lever but I don't hunt with it much outside of a little drive hunting here and there just for the simple fact that I've shot some of my best bucks walking out of the woods at dusk at ranges I'd never trust a lever to make a responsible, clean kill. Just food for thought.

Looks like if you waited a minute until they lined up you could make it a '2 fer'

A relatively light 45-70 lever has pretty serious recoil. IMHO the recoil will in all likelihood be a significant factor in making a predictable 75+ yard shots unless you put in some range time adjusting your mental game with that combo.

New John Mann Canvas last year.

We've caught big females trolling out of Kingston. Here's a couple things to keep in mind: You really need to keep the boat in the water down there because you need to fish the tides, not be trying to put a boat in the water & that winds up meaning you need to have a camper down there. This what we do. It can be tough to find the Stripers w/o a thru hull transducer because they move around quite a bit and if you have to slow down to a crawl to get a picture on the screen it will take time but that is what we have done up till now. I would start out trolling because you are set up for it but we have learned to use whole live/chunk too once we have located fish.If you want to fish bait you will have to go up a creek to catch them on sabiki rigs(remember to take the last hook off to be legal in NY) and have a very large recirculating tank because the herring are not very hardy. It's kind of a big commitment to learn this short lived fishery but it is exciting. If you have more questions feel free to ask.

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Traxtech track is cheaper than Bert's. Getting ready to get some for my new rig, roughly $55 for a 12" w/backer plate, so not really that expensive compared to other stuff. It's the rod holders, & rigger swivel mounts for the trax that really get ya. If you really want to spend some $ get the Cysco units, they are the best, but....Still you don't want cheap diver rod holders unless you don't care about a king tearing the whole kit cat and caboodle into the drink

This post made me realize that I should have stated that I only use my trees for board lines. I run my diver rods in Bert's adj holders set in Trax.

Nice shooting!!

I have these on my little boat. They are great!! No reason to blow more $$ on big brand name products for this application- save it for stuff that really counts.