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i traveled rt 5 west (skyway) from buffalo at 4pm today, up 200' on the skyway I could ice as far as Sturgeon pt and as far as I could see to the north as well. No open water at all

I travel the skyway to Buffalo daily and it gives you a nice 200' high view of the lake. Yesterday and today I saw a coast guard cutter out there working the ice. Hopefully that will help speed things up and the boom can come out.

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Diawa Seagate 60, new reels I just put 450 & 550' of 32# Blood Run copper with the spro heavy swivels and 300 yards of 30# braid backer

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I just bought 2, one with blood run copper 32# at 550', 30' of mono then backed with 150 yards of 832 braid, The second one same but only 450' of 32# blood run copper

Dacron it is, thanks for all the input

Scott

I have home made double boards and am still using the (very) old hi vis green braid to pull them. I've seen at a show some heavy mono which I think may help the releases to slide out. Any one using the mono and what pound, and do the releases slide out better?

Scott

don't pay attention to blow back affecting the sub troll speed reading. I've had a sub troll since they first came out, got to be getting close to 20 years now. Every few years I take it back in to have it serviced or just checked out. I was talking to Duane & Hank (owners) and he explained their testing on blow back. What happens is due to the fact that the ball is so close to the probe it pulls the probe level, I had my doubts on that but he told me they did some kind of testing to prove it. Anyways like said get to trust it and pay attention to it and you won't leave home without it.

if you loose that much gear at one time I would hit my GPS ASAP and get a hold of a diver to (attempt to) recover it. There are a lot of dive shops that I'm sure could find you a diver if your not over the 100' or so. You run him/her out in your boat and who knows, being a past diver, you may even find someone to do it for the challenge

20# is fine, it depends on the reel and how you have the drag set, I have a light weight setup with 12# for spring

tie in a 15' section of 50# mono to attach the board too. I would think that the clip on the board slipped down on the PP to where the copper was attached and caused it to break at that connection, just my guess on the break

Cannon Dual Axis are great holders, but I do miss the adjust-ability of my Cisco's. That being said we did bend one, and break one Cisco over the 3 years we ran them. I have yet to damage a Cannon Dual Axis beyond repair. Cannon built pieces into their Dual Axis that will break before the rod holder becomes damaged.

What broke/bent on the Cisco, from what I understand they carry a lifetime warranty. Did they stand buy the warranty?

Scott

Hey everyone, Im looking for a good way to store my spoons and came across a spoon caddy. Roles up and looks great, but cant find one. Anyone know where I can get 1 or other ways to store large salmon spoons.

I had 2  roll ups that were 3 rows high and about 12 spoons wide, they worked pretty good except that, like said, you hang them up. I had my hanging towards the front on the gunwales but everyone kept getting the hooks caught, so I stopped using them...may still have em'

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This is a box that I made to keep some of my favorite spoons in. It's just a plastic box that I bought at Staples and a plastic grid that is used under floresent lights which I bought at Lowes. I cut out 6 layers of the grid placed on top of each other that fit perfectly in the box. This holds the spoons in a way that they can easly be identified.

very nice set up, I like it!

My Traxtech's are good

 

My Cisco's are better

 

even my machinist is impressed with their quality and workmanship

great reply

Just bought two Cisco's for my brother's Lund, very high quality but not cheap.

your right with price, all of them are $$$$ not shopping price....but price conscious

I want to buy one of the three manufactures rod holders, I saw them all and Cannon at the Buffalo NY show. Will be installing either triple or quad rod holders on each side. Looking for opinions, So far I'm leaning Cisco. thanks Scott

this is the guy who has the downrigger board for sale.my boat has a7'6" ft beam and the board is 7' 6"let me know if interested

need 8', thanks

8' could be a little more, no more than 8' 6" it's in storage right now. I would be interested, thanks

keep the wires out side of my mounting board.

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I like the looks of your rigger board, is that a custom made? I need to do the same and span across the back but none of the big name guys will say their track will span 7.5' unsupported. I'd love to see a couple more pics of it, thanks

I see your point about the outboard and being able to use year around . Something to think about .

I think they also give you more cockpit space (in a 18-19') so you don't have to jump around a motor box to grab a rod

depending on how often you want to use it, outboards you can run year round.

thanks for the quick responce

From what I understand ice coverage has to less that 250 sq miles or about 3-4 percent of the lake coverage before the boom is removed. I thought there was also a date that they have to start taking it out by, anyone know that date?...............just found this info, interesting

Lake Erie has an average depth of approximately 60 feet (18.2m) Lake Erie will during most winters freeze completely over creating 10,000 square miles (25,900 sq. km) of ice. The Niagara River is only 23 square miles (60 sq. km) and could not handle such a large volume of ice.

With or without the ice boom, only 2% of all ice from Lake Erie enters the Niagara River. The remainder (98%) of the ice pack melts in Lake Erie.

The ice boom does not prevent the ice in Lake Erie from melting any sooner or later. Studies have shown that the ice boom holding back the ice pack on Lake Erie has little effect on the daily weather in Buffalo, New York.

Each Spring, the International Niagara Board of Control determines the date when the ice boom is removed. The decision is based upon the amount of ice remaining in Lake Erie and the weather conditions. Normally, the ice boom has to be removed by April 1st of each year unless there is still more than 250 square miles (650 square kilometres) of ice in the eastern portion of Lake Erie. The earliest removal of the ice boom occurred on March 5th 1998 and the latest removal of the ice boom occurred on April 25th 1997.