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In my Ranger walleye rig I have 4 batteries , 3 for my 36V Terrova 101 bow mount and a dedicated cranking battery and Ranger ships and sells there boats both bass and walleye boats with a 4 bank charger (if ordered with 4) hooked to all 4 batteries. Lund, Starcraft, Skeeter, Crestliner, Warrior, all of them do and almost every walleye and bass guy I know set up there boat this way if they didn't buy there boat this way. In my opinion this is the only way to do it. I do have other stuff hooked up to my main battery as well and I've yet to go dead in the water even after 16 hours on the water you have to keep everything topped off and charged this is the point of a 3 or 4 bank charge to keep them all topped off all the time. I highly recommend you get a 4 bank charger and hook all 4 batteries to it and keep all 4 charged and topped off all the time. I often times don't do allot of running and fish near shore and don't use my kicker at all (run bow mount slow trolling for eyes) so my main battery doesn't get charged on the water so therefore need to keep it charged all the time. To be honost I have no idea why you wouldn't want to hook it to your charger, if you have an I/O your trolling with and you run it all the time I could MAYBE see or a full inboard an outboard you troll with all day but you said you have a kicker motor you troll with like I do so your main engine isn't charging anything while your fishing. Hope this helps. Hook up and charge em man.

WOW what a horse.

Never used #50 power pro I do use 40/10 now on Erie, how does the #50 do with the fleas? I want to respool my Erie setups to use in addition to wires for Ontario, for pulling double duty instead of having 2 sets for two lakes you know.

Does anybody know where he can go and buy a Transducer for a Eagle Fish Elite 502? I would image anywhere that sells Lowrance/Eagle products would have one. Maybe a Gander, West Marine or Boat Shop or Boat Dealer's nearby. Please respond ASAP with name's of places and or phone #'s if you have them! Thanks guys he'll appreciate it big time.

I run alot of black but if fishing is slow I'll switch up and low and behold when I did that throughout the days I fished on lake O this year I got some action. Kelly green with a yellow ring has been HOT for majors for me, same with flourecent yellow with white ring too a couple big ones. Purple tiger with glow bottom ended being awesome too. As long as it's not chrome I'll run it, I hate the flash they give off. I'm with Billy V, it's not suppose to be the attractor but think a little color doesn't hurt, depends on the fish I think, but you can never go wrong with black.

Run them the way the manufacturer intended them to be ran, otherwise you'll compromise the action....now on the otherhand if your walleye fishing or running scorpian size stingers or regular size stingers adding a split ring does increase the action of the spoon but sometimes to much I have doubles of alot of my favorites for Erie and sometimes they want it with the ring sometimes without but I tweak my walleye presenations to death. Salmon spoons I run them out of the box I've played with adding rings and always go with running them them back to out of the box. my .2

Yep Atomik and you get a 4 pack of unrigged fly's as well, gloutdoors has it for 593 and you get free shipping so either way take your pick.

They don't slip and as long as you use them properly they never will, just tighten the lever with one hand and your good to go in any position you want, I've been running them for years and so have all my friends and not one failure yet, they truly are the best rold holder on the market IMO. You can order them direct. PM sent http://www.ciscofishingsystemsltd.com/601.html

Anglers Advantage is another one I would check out, the insure Tourney anglers and Charter Captains only. I had to get insurance through them because of tournaments, most insurance companies will not insure a boat if it's used in competition. I went from 1500 a year with allstate to 600 a year with these guys, and I've covered no matter what. http://www.anglersadvantageins.com/

I have a pile of 8's but next order thinking about getting a couple 10's. Anybody running them? when do you bust them out? or just another trick in the box like everything else just to mix the program up a bit from the norm.

I caught a 38 1/2 inch fish last weekend that weighed 27, to put it into perspective.

Z-Man makes them, designed by Joe Renosky or Renosky Baits. http://www.zmanfishing.com/store/products/chatterstick

Selling my Engine Mount (EM) 36V 101 lbs of thrust motor, unit is a little over 2 years old works great no issues, I purchased this for my last Ranger walleye boat and used it often but my new rig has a Terrova with AP so this unit never gets used figured I would sell it. Unit runs in the neigborhood of around $900.00 new Selling for $600 OBO. Will Entertain offers on this unit because it's a big ticket item This unit mounts to your main engine and is controlled with a little box with a dial to dial in your troll speed to the tenth of mph, great unit to slow troll with or even slow you down in big water, mounts on any outboard on any boat.

Yeah the sickness is starting to get to me real bad in more ways then one...I love walleye and got them figured out so well as you know and love my Ranger but everytime I go to Ontario my mind starts to wonder real bad and find myself looking at carolina's, rampage's etc and think how I can tourney rig one for around here and get a big boat to do all the things I need a walleye tourney boat to do but have it be trailable and versatile to fish Ontario, next thing you know I'll be jumping into the Pro/Am's on Lake O. You know how I love the compentition Now I have to plan for Hogfest and where to find more big wet socks I've made 3 trips to lake O this year might try and sneak in 1 more but my woman's patients are wearing thin and so is my time in general, don't know if it's in the cards or not. My Vectors do look sweet on the 621 though! and work very well

Airmar are real good transducers, you should have no problems with it. Just curious I have a 38HD with a shoot thru I've been running going on 3 seasons with zero issues. Are you having failure with a transom mount? Those do go bad alot. If you get a shoot thru I bet you have less problems and the 37 will perform alot better and give you a much better picture, less clutter and you can mark fish on plane better and at higher speeds, even bait.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Carnage ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 15th 16th Time on Water: Weather/Temp: HOT Wind Speed/Direction: Not much Waves: calm Surface Temp: Location: Off Wilson/Olcott LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): 29 N =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: lost count Total Boated: lost count Species Breakdown: lost count Hot Lure: Carmel Dolphin Trolling Speed: 2.5-2.9 Down Speed: ? Boat Depth: 470-475 Lure Depth: 30-70 ==================== Fished off Olcott again this weekend, started inside and didn’t take any shots but didn’t see any boats staying either so we pointed north and kept going in hopes to find some active fish, in 330 FOW, we hooked up a big screamer on copper rig on a dodger and glow squid the fish broke the leader we circled once and nothing we kept going north and rods were pretty quiet then we found the mother load I believe we fished the 29 line in the 470 FOW range when we got there, we found debris and scum lines and wicked currents then all hell broke loose, from afternoon till around 7:30 we couldn’t keep our rods in the water, it was Steelie city with the average fish going 8-10 pounds with a few over, we didn’t weigh any but had 4-5 in the 31-33 inch range had a few real nice Coho’s going and the Kings were firing as well biggest one took a Carmel Dolphin DW off a fixed slider that fish went 22 pounds, had many other kings all different year classes, we kept our 12 fish with a mixed batch of big steelies, kings and coho. The hottest set up was by far a SS DW Carmel Dolphin on a free slider with a mag NK (color didn’t matter they wanted the slider) rigger was parked at 81, that spoon took a beatin Saturday with shot after shot, the color was the bread winner all around I guess it is a good colors on sunny days afterall. Throughout Saturday between our limit and careful catch and releasing of steelies and kings (fish in net standing in transom well between 2 outboards) we probably caught close to 30 fish or more and took in the neighborhood of 50 shots all together, action was sick we couldn’t even keep track of how many we caught. Sunday we knew exactly where to go and got out there pretty early didn’t take long for rods to start moving and quick, we started off running mostly spin docs & fly’s and one 10 color leadcore. (5 rods total) First fish in the morning took a Moonshine Carbon 14 off the leadcore I was up to bat, fish was screaming hard I looked down and was in the 700’s mid fight on a turn at the fish we pop a monster coho now we’re doubled up, friend landed the coho in a hurry, awhile later I land my best a hair under 27, next a wire with a mountain dew revelator with a crazy B starts screaming we land another mature king after that it was more non stop action 42nd combo took 3 shots on a 2 off wire at 160 two solid kings and a big steelie then 42nd DW mag off the rigger parked at 46 takes a shot we land another mature sideways the free slider got wrapped around the fish it was meant to be I guess, we took a shot at 130 on a 3 that screamed off 250 and came up with a 20 inch lamprey that was weird, we don’t know if we snagged the lamprey or if we hooked the fish and the fish came off then hit the lamprey after the hooks pulled from the fish, left us scratching our heads that’s for sure. We ended up with boxing out at shortly after noon with I think 8 kings 2 big coho and a couple big steelies with 4 solid kings, 2 solid coho and the rest good grillers and smoker fish we were letting steelies go trying to box out with all salmon but ended up keeping some toward the noon hour because we had to make it home at a decent time. The action all weekend was just ridiculous, you know it’s good when you don’t leave the back of the boat (Sunday I didn’t even change programs all 42nd on my side) and loose count of how many steelies you caught, lost and tossed back and when your fun fishing just looking for more matures, best trip to Lake O to date out of the 3 years I’ve been hitting it, my learning curve got shortened a lot this weekend and we went out and had the weekend we’ll be talking about for awhile, nice to be on my buddy’s 24 Express Rampage as well a lot more comfy for all day fishing instead of my 21 ft Ranger walleye tourney boat, glad I talked him into dragging it up there for the weekend. You guys are spoiled rotten, we have a sick walleye fishery and steelie fishing is awesome too but the fishery that Lake O produces can be just out of this world. By the way we just used the legal limit charters fish older, we didn’t fish with them. The size of the steelies below, we must have caught 10 around this size. and the one pic shows 13 fish, we were taking pics at the end of the day as one came in it hit the floor for the pic and it went right back in, I know how some guys are about pics and I'll clear that up right now before I get harrased. SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ====================

Nice fish, it's a truck that's for sure.

If you do have a little walking room in the boat one thing my buddy showed me on his boat (27 sporty) when hooked up to a good one is stand in the back of the boat and walk back slowly, then walk forward and reel up the slack WITH keeping rod tip high and tight tention, easier than trying to reel in a 20 plus fish while trolling, this works great for captains that like to keep the speed rolling. This helps BIG TIME On my boat with little step back room I have a kicker motor and slow down after the initial run (hopeing for a double) then back off to around 2.0 or 2.2 then when it's net time 1.6 or so just to keep everything moving. Wire doesn't stretch so it's a fine balance of muscleling the fish in but without horsing it so you don't pull the hooks, but always keep the rod up, after the initial run take the clicker off so the drag goes out easier when they make a mid fight run(s). I do try and pump a little bit but never take the rod down past my eye level.

I picked up some Eagle Claw 4x strong 2/0 for mags seem right to me, for mags it's either 1/0 or 2/0

The plot thickens, ask 10 people get 10 completely different responces, I know some walleye guys that are pro staffers from H-Bird/Cannon and I get the "real" scoop and everything I've been told they have been rock solid on everything from products to support on both the rigger end and the electronics end, alot of my Erie buddy's run Cannon's and love them, a friend has digi trolls who I fish with alot, he has had some issues but the service on getting them fixed has been great, he hasn't complained once. I know all the guys switching from Lowrance to H Birds in the walleye world are glad they switched, service is A-1

Good thing I didn't end up with the new white tourney series Cannon's then and went with the Vectors. I got a thing for all aluminum construction, Big Jon's were next on the list.

Don't know if this is the right place to post this but ran across this today, Xtackle.com has the Big water edition on sale 13.00 bucks save 43% I order just about everything they carry, salmon and walleye guys can use just about everything they have like WPT tape, Seaguar, Spro, Church stuff, Dave's Lures, Reef Runner etc Some other stuff on clearance as well, figured I would pass along a real good buy for the folks that don't have this book. Even with shipping you still save a good buck. http://www.xtackle.com/precisiontrollingbigwater1.aspx

Cisco Fishing systems are the best on the market IMO. Infinite adjustability and lifetime warranty, pricey but they will last a lifetime and will never need service. They have 2 different cradles which are awesome for divers or you can get the tube style. they have a ton of different mounting options for any boat and set up your choose.

For a starting point of reference at 3.0 mph GPS 2 setting big diver with ring 30 pound wire full spool 1000 ft on a 47 LCA 185 back we ticked bottom last weekend in 65 FOW, so figure 200 back on a 2 is about 68-70 down. 220 would be about 75 down or so. This is on a low profile boat with hardly any line out from the rod tip to the water. Maybe 3 ft. If your running a big charter style boat add a few ft to compensate for more line out before it hits the water. Hope this helps.

I always buy local if I can here on Erie or order stuff from local shops but they don't carry salmon gear for the most part. I have ordererd from GLoutdoors.com a good number of times as well as A Tom Mik happy with both. GL does have awesome prices on everything he has and free shipping over a certain $ amount. When I travel to NY I do buy stuff local just to support the local economy even if it's just a little here and there per trip.