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Happy Birthday Hank, thanks for all the help w/ the AP and the Kings!

The Okuma cv reels are easy to reel in and can hold up to 13+ colors but the reels these folks are making today have some quality issues. The inexpensive Daiwa Accudepth reels actually seem to have fewer problems. The tough thing w/ getting into lead core setups is that you need a bunch of reels if you are going to target multiple depths (example; I have (2) 2 color reels, (1) 4 color,(1) 5 color (1) 6, an 8 color and a 10 color.If you get the 7' med Ugly Stik rods they have a slightly larger than average tip guide which will accommodate a Sampo snap swivel, this makes it easy to have a bag full of reels that you switch back and forth between just 2 rods.

Yeah man! I am going to have to try that w/ my Yak & noodle setup!

Hoping to make it over Sunday! Hey Split, I thought you said it was going to rain?

Thanks Rollie, I like getting paid to fish! We had a pretty slow flasher/fly bite till late in the day and even then they were mostly 5-6lb fish. Big fish came on the gold/green Mauler spoon, down 90' over 150FOW, 30' back @ 2.0down.Got several other big lakers on spoons up as high as 30' down over 300+FOW. Lost something big on 10 colors running stix, and also lost a beast of a rainbow up high off a planer line on the Yeck Steely Dan spoon.

Mark, thanks for posting! Again, sorry for the right hand turn, was only trying to let you keep trucking! I owe you one.

Overall we had a great time at Split Shot's "Last minute Derby" on 9/12. Thank you Scott and Barney for all the hustling around and running the weigh in after the other derby was canceled! Scott I hope you are feeling better! We did have an incident late in the day that bothers me and I would like to offer an apology to any one we inconvenienced. As we approached T-Falls creek from the south in 150' one of our riggers fired and we had a big fish on (this fish wound up taking the Lunker pool). As we rounded the point, I turned around from fighting the fish and saw 2 boats approaching from the north around the other side of the point. The outside boat was bearing right at us, so w/ a fish on it seemed best to pass between the two boats, more or less continuing our present course. No response on the radio.The outside boat continued on course, seemingly intent on a shallow pass across the mouth of the creek, and we did not seem to have much choice but to move in a little (fish still on). The inside boat, which I believe was Mower's appeared to get into shallow water and pulled lines. John, I am truly sorry if we squeezed you in. We continued up the lake, landing the fish, and headed towards the Scout camp. With nothing on the screen,we turned to cross the lake. As we approached mid lake, I became aware of a boat heading north, at this point I turned slightly more south( as much as I could w/ 6 lines out) to avoid being in this boats heading, I could see now that this was the outside boat from the incident at T-Falls creek. I am not sure what happened at this point but it did seem to me like this individual was intent on a confrontation because he wound up cutting across my stern w/ less than 100' to spare. I pointed out my boards and he said "I see that but I all ready turned out around you once!" To this individual I also apologize. I will say that I did originally attempt to pass behind you, as it appeared to me to be my only real option. In retrospect I feel badly about both incidents and I will try harder in the future to act earlier w/ respect to other boats. I do think we all need to be willing to change course slightly even if we had to do so before w/ the same boat. -Andy (Blue/White Starcraft Islander)

Excellent to read "Musky fishing reports" again.Congrats on the Kings! Sorry, I'm bummed I couldn't get to the Bluegrass gig, I am so sick of tractor work I can't speak! Still trying to get up to get at the staged fish!

Priceless pics & really nice bows!

Nice pics Stan, jealous of the shorts & tee shirt, thinking we might want the heater on in the morning tomorrow out here.Hey, I must have missed something, did you get a Hewes?

Happy B-Day! Come on over to Cayuga on Saturday and splash around in the rain!

My 16' has a 40 hp Merc 4 stroke and I do need to run a bag from time to time, especially running w/ the wind) to get her down to laker speed, just a thought seeing as how you mentioned you have a 60 hp on the boat.

Greg, I can't tell you why the unit takes so long to get a signal, but I can't see how it would drain your battery to turn it on an hour> departure, unless the battery is whipped. Post the GPS issue on "This Old Boat" forum w/ the model #, etc. (hope you are getting in some archery practice what with all this fishing & rigging going on )

Pequod, I Launched out of Meyers b/c it's convenient, fish are not far from T-Falls State Park, not sure how you are set up, but I don't like drops over 90', found lots of fish around 75-85 FOW.

Both types of boards have their place. Actually the jumping inline seems to add some nice action to the baits. I don't try to run coppers >300' off my inlines, but I love them for trying a high line w/o the commitment of running out a big board. I do like the Otter boards for running copper over 300', I just added a 2cd keel to my Otters which should improve their ability to keep long coppers out to the side and consequently enable my releases(Scotty) to perform crisply even on smaller fish. For inlines I like the Church "walleye" board for 2-10 colors & short coppers and the Off Shore w/ the "tattle flag" for flat lining stix w/ long leads. One more thing; the higher your planner mast the easier it is to get your release to slide out and if you are trolling slow,early in the year the hgher mast will keep your release from dragging the planer line into the water.

If you find a great deal & there are just too many for you pm me, I'll take the rest!

Great post! I have really enjoyed following your progress. Good for you!

Yar!

Good going! You are getting the hang of this pretty fast!

Nice post Bill, I gotta get into this digital camera technology!

Still thinking of getting up to the mouth of the SR via port Ontario this week/ weekend- is it still happening or will we be beating a dead horse? Js ? depths?, any pertinent info?- assuming it's an early or nothing deal? THANKS!

Arrrrrgh!

Made a solo quickie trip in the 16' over today and Wow are there some big heavy lakers out there right now! Had to reorient myself at first (haven't been jigging since last labor day!) but eventually figured out just how far south the fish have wandered and then laced into them, best I could do was approx 31-33" but wide as a whale, released them all at the side of the boat but what a blast! Most of my hookups came on the retrieve, some up at only 20', just when you are really starting to slack off, wham!

Holy Mic, Holy Mac, what a Hog! Way to go RR!

I'm in, not sure what I'll have for a crew but I'll round up somebody!