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One alternative is an Evinrude 25hp e-tech. The weight issue is no longer much of a factor and you will have one the best engines on the market it weighs 146 pounds , the next would be a 4 stroke Tohatsu at 157 pounds and the price is more reasonable. If you worry about the extra weight , you can always move things around in the boat, like putting the battery up front . For towing, the extra 50 pounds are really an issue because of the extra weight in the rear of your boat, you may end up having too little tongue weight.Remember that any extra weight will slow down your boat specially when it is in a strategic spot and the weight of the extra five hp may make a 20 horse more attractive speed wise. On a final note, by what I understand from your question ,you want to go fishing and not racing , so you might not care too much about the 2 or 3 mph difference if you go fishing.

Nice try. The only problem with your statement is that a president is supposed to be a statesman. The president is also the representative of the United States to the rest of the world. At this point he acts like a bad second hand car dealer. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Most brake off gear hanging on fish jaw will cause that fish to die. Add to that the damage caused by the barb when removing the barbed hook and you will see how much you increase fish survival when you remove the barbs.

When fishing with the grand kids and when fishing for relaxation I go barbless. During tournaments not yet. It does give fish a much better survival chance both with catch and release and break off.

That goes to show that there are interests in the lake beyond fishing. My main worry is that big business is getting ready to make pipelines in order to pump water out of the lakes and transport it to California, or tanker ships that will load up in Lake Ontario and transport the water to Saudi Arabia. That last one was tried before and stopped at the last moment. But it's business so its good for America and some of us might dream about the trickle down effect happening in Lala Land.

Maybe,but let me enlighten you. A Carnegie Mellon is a research grant handed out by the Carnegie Mellon foundation. In fact, less than a week ago the U of R (Meloria!!) was rewarded one million dollars for their humanities research. You will read about it in the papers not so long from now.

Is this the one with 2 spring loaded sliding bar holders or does it have just the one?

Does anybody apart from Gator and me actually know what a Carnegie Mellon is?

Whoever voted for him is responsible for the destruction and pollution that will soon be with us. I wonder how many people working for government agencies and research facilities will soon be added to the unemployment lines. Gator, I wish you lots of strength trying to get another NHA grant. It is a good thing that Carnegie-Mellon is still around. The Lakes will loose out for sure. The biggest winners are China and India because this is where the great and inventive research will be happening.

You might want to save that picture. With the intended 17% cut in the NOAA budget, this service might very soon become a thing of the past.

If I did not have the Penn available I would have gone that way as well.

I use a Penn 345 level wind. It holds 250 feet of weighted wire backed by 300 feet of 19 strand and another 400 feet of 80# power pro. The full 300 did fit, but it was close. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United I did color mark the line every 50 feet.

Copper will go farther down as well, because of the weight of the 19 strand wire, but not as much. That's because copper wire isn't as tightly woven as stainless and its resistance in the water is a bit higher. All sinking rates of leadcore, copper and stainless are measured with the high end of the material at surface or just below. The sinking will continue as more backing is let out until the point where increased resistance of the backing (amount let out) and /or the speed of the line relative to the surrounding water column. (not boat speed) will cause the line to stay level or even come back up higher. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Marine plywood is nice and expensive. In this case any bcx plywood will do. The B and the C are the quality level of finish on each side and the X stands for exterior. That means that the glue that is used to glue the plies together is water proof so the plies do not come apart. If you paint the boards and the edges with a good oil based base a couple of times and then finish it off with rustoleum oil based paint in order to seal it you should be ok. The side that you want to go against the shell surface should not be painted. Instead you must paint it with fiberglass resin (with hardener) and also put some resin onto the fiber glass itself. You can bolt it in as well.The resin will penetrate into the wood and act as a glue between wood and fiberglass. If you do it that way,you will not have to deal with vibration noise.

The restriction of gobi as a baitfish is the result of an effort to stop the spread of invasive species. I remember reading in the regulations that whenever you catch a gobi you have to kill it and it cannot be returned to the water. Anyway, they are a bit tricky to use because they do not have a swim bladder and they are very poor swimmers. Most of the time they lay on the bottom and they move swimming upward and sinking back down a few feet away from where they started. Not a very good pattern for trolling, but a great idea for jigging .

Good luck with your twins, when my daughters were twelve, it didn't take them very long to turn from being twelve to into twelve going on thirty. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

When the water out of the creeks starts flowing in at a good clip it will create pockets of warmer water near shore that will attract bait. you will find the lakers mixed in with the browns chasing the bait. In my experience it is the best time of year for fishing with live bait with spin casting methods.

We mostly use strips of cut bait/herring and troll with it sometimes by itself, sometimes with a flasher . I sometimes use live herring and troll for lakers at speeds of less than 2 mph. Maybe the system you you used in Puget sound works here just fine. Try and let us know.

S&R is a great little store. A family store as well. Many of you guys do remember the dad and maybe 12 or so years ago the son took it over. I try to buy everything I need from there. Just remember that it is a strictly cash only store. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

The shape of otterboats rounded. I didn't really value that until one day two springs ago, my boards and those of another boat crossed each other. The line of the other boat just slid underneath my boards, the boat dipped forward and the line slid under through. Boards with bolts sticking out or with sharp angles will catch the rigger line and cause havoc. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

The 19 strand wire is light enough to stay in the air, although if the distance from the boat to clip gets very long it will drag a bit more than mono. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

There may be a problem with the wire getting damaged by the clips. Mathew of Torpedo recognizes this and suggests using rubber bands.