john1947

after thursday the forcast is south winds.Should be good fishing.

Hi,

A few weeks ago I installed the sp110 sitex on my 1987 searay.It uses a octopus mechanical drive unit that has been in production for 20 years.Its canadian made  not chinesee junk.It seemed like a tough job that might need a installer but after reading the instructions several times and contacting the manufacturer everything got done .Now I could do it in about three hours at the most.The unit works very good and have no isues with slow speed problems  that were reported.

Its alot easier now to troll with the autopilot.

went to 40 lb big game  about 200 ft a reel and few fleas.I hear that the fleas tend to get bigger and often 30 lb. is not enough later on the season.

Keep your baits up .This year at least 18 in off bottom and youll avoid the dreaded gobie.Oh if you happen to catch a small one the bass hit them well.Do it all the time.Going out now.

Great fish.We caught a would be derby winner many years ago the night before the derby.It was a 38 lber .This was the largest we ever caught in many many years of fishing the kings.

thirty or forty pound test keeps the fleas to a minunm

have you had any luck using 40 lb test line nick?

fleas were heavy monday.I did find a good spray for biting flies.Deep woods with deet kept them off pretty good ,Just had to spray every other hour.The fish off pultneyville were deep 90 foot or more.Hope you guys all do wel this weekend.

bass is alot better now that the water warmed up. Try lookin around water intake piped along the lake.Also driop offs and look for bait around dropoffs and ledges.I have good luck searching for them first with my color garmin 178c and then fishing them.Make sure to keep bait off the bottom at least a foot.

I bet your son realy liked the big fish.Reminds me of when my sons were his age.You got him hooked of fishing now.

The kings are around more than you know.Just got learn to call and flag em in to your spread.Honk,Honk

hi how was the water temp,it was cold near shore around pultneyville today

lookslike the lake did a flip,lots of fog  near pultneyville,ne east done it every time

did a nice job looks great.it will alst you awhile just dont let it stand uncoverd or the ply will rot like mine did.

back in the old days everybody simply bought silver bullets .Diamond kings were hot to.Always fished silver bullets chasing diamond kings caught boat loads and it was cheap.Nobody ever even used copper orlong lines.The good old days.

hey nick,

any plans for repeat tournament for the vets this year.

john

Just figured I'd post the progress on this as it moves along...

I ended up having to sell my last small aluminum boat a few seasons ago and have missed it ever since. I primarily used it every month through the winter on the Lower Niagara and for shoreline trolling when the ice wasn't too bad. I love my bigger boat, but missed the mid-winter fishing.

I ended up finding a 1987 SeaNymph FM161 (Fishing Machine model). She was pretty cheap but needs some work. The interior is almost shot so she'll get new plywood and carpet. The hull is in great shape and is my first aluminum hull with absolutely zero leaks.

When I picked it up-

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I already have new seats, marine carpet, and plywood. Figured it should probably have a cover before all that work so got busy with the industrial sewing machine and some Sunbrella I had left over from my last cover.

In the works-

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Complete-

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I planned on keeping everything "budget" for this boat, but how am I ever going to troll without a little kicker? I hated spending the cash but the security of a second motor is priceless when it's 10 degrees out and you're on the water.

Added a 5hp Tohatsu-

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That was all done over the past few weeks.

Future work-

Paint the interior and exterior. Replace floors and carpet, Mount two of my riggers that I can borrow from the other boat. Mount my old planer mast (thank God I saved it). I'm sure I'll think of something else to add... lol.

hi got a weak floor also aroud seats.plan on covering some day with coosa,synthetic board an leavinf rootn wood.it's expensive but needs no fiberglass or vinyl

hey dick i bought one should be here today.have to wait  to install cause my shoulder is to sore.

hughes area looked good. i blew my shoulder sunday so i won't be fishing for awhile.glad you found them,kings are there also

Hi,

I have a 26 ft. searay that Im planning on putting a autopilot on it. Sitex has a unit that attachs to the mechanical steering on the mercruser,p110

Any of you had experience with sitx autopilot would be welcome

I also put a auxilary 9.9 outboard on it. I adapted a aluminum plate so I could get to run deep enough to work.I took it and it trolls good with the wind.

thanks

150 was good for me also.Many large lakers around this year.Glow in the dark chartuse and silver for me.I was north of hughes marina.Did mark a few large fish deeper out at 200.Thursday should be a good day after the weather were getting now

Hi we  went last night at Art-park and got our limit by 1000 PM.Smelting started running about 9.00.I also found dipping was  better without using any lights.From what some locals told me the run just started and has about 10 days to go.I stayed at the motel in Lewiston down by the river. which has excellent rooms and very resonable

Hi sorry i decided to keep it for now.

thanks anyway

I just heard the smelt are running at the park.Ill be down wednesday night.I went there last year but hit the run at the end.Caught some smelt but  hope for a better run this year.Hope to see you all there.

It's a long walk down the stairs but it is safe.

it would be wise to move the second season to run in january.The birds for two years now have shown up after the regular season.