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    Yep sometimes you have to experiment when they are fussy it can help to go smaller hooks like 8's but then a lot of times the bait is easier to pull off without hook-ups especially with fatheads
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    Certainly depends on a lot of factors; method used, water depth, clarity of water, live bait or artificials (e.g. plastics) used for example. Drop shots or jigging are the most common methods used. If drop shots are used the hooks can either be tied directly to the main line or leader, or a loop can be used to extend a couple inches off the leader or main line with the hook at the end of it. I use setups with both methods and depending on conditions or results I switch off on them. The advantage to using the direct tie method is increased sensitivity, while the loop method tends to have better action of the bait and maybe less feel of the line. I usually tie the first hook up about 18 inches from the bottom (can keep Gobies off too), and the second up about 2 ft or so from that. Depending on conditions I use #4-8 hooks (gold Aberdeen mostly) For the sinker on the bottom I use 1/8th or1/4 oz. tungsten weights at the bottom of the lower hook. The other method involving jigging either bucktail jigs by themself, or small jigs of various weights depending on depth and/or water conditions which determines the weight used. Brown and black jigs have been the most effective over time for me.
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    Check out Madrivertackle on Ebay as an option.
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    We have fished quite a bit at the north end for perch with drop shots and haven't had any problems with gobies with our setups with first hook about 15 t0 18 inches up.
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    Another example of why it is good to carry two nets onboard
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    Some real familiar faces in that pic
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    I know a major concern is the effects of long term super cold weather on the water temps and YOY but I also wonder whether it would be just as bad to have the temps this warm and then have an extreme rapid cold snap reducing the water temp.
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    The unfortunate fact is that the elections in this state are at the root a numbers game and upstate votes don't really mean much these days. The state is run by downstate numbers.
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    Yeah. government was originally designed to serve the best interests of the people; not to impose your own opinionated will on others without any actual understanding of the issues involved or the consequences of those decisions.
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    Very cool! Brian deserves a good plug for his company and his efforts. He has helped out a lot of folks on LOU over the years. Along with meat rigs they are the best thing out there for catching lakers.
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    yeah no shortage of bait on that lake and chunky fish to prove it
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    To me it looks as if the Lowrance lost the bottom temporarily and is picking up the rigger weight and thinking it is bottom if that isn't a second echo above the 70 rigger which would indicate the sensitivity is set too high as mentioned . Might want to check the mount on the transducer to see if it is loose too.
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    I was offering an option if he couldn't get one of those particular paint jobs. I've used Dave's spoons for years so I understood the request; I don't know what the problems is with that.
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    I guess my point was that the ACTION of the same blanks is the same regardless of the paint job. It suggests that you can paint them yourself or have someone paint them for you.
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    WTG. That is what the holiday season should be all bout!
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    I've had a bunch over the years but the one that sticks out in my mind is when fishing one of the Spring ESLO derbies back in the early eighties it was pretty rough in the lake for my 13 ft. Whaler so I fished Sodus Bay. I was somewhere near Thornton Point when I observed something in the water coming toward me and it looked like an animal of some type but couldn't tell what from the distance as there was quite a chop on the water. I was fishing two top lines off outriggers at the time so I couldn't make real sharp turns. The thing sped up towards me and then I realized it was a deer swimming toward me. I had slowed up the motor and the deer swam faster and faster toward me. It came close to the boat and tried to get in ( I kid you not). The boat had very low gunwhales only a few inches up from the surface and I was a bit concerned he might tip my stuff out as I knew the boat itself wouldn't sink. I sped up the motor and got away from him and called the Sherriff boat that happened to be out in the bay. They somehow steered the deer back to shore and everyone lived happily ever after
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    Yep I have the X4D Bluetooth model so might consider it and use my existing probe as backup. Nice they made it backward compatible.
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    Ah got ya Thanks. I just had a quick look at the pics on the website....should have looked a little more in depth
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    So am I correct that it costs 1200 to 1400 WITHOUT the transducer?
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    Prior to the fleas I used to use 12 lb. Big Game with a 10 lb Seguar fluoro leader on both the Fingers and Lake O. After the fleas it has been 30 lb SeaFlee with 10 lb leader on Fingers and 20 lb fluoro on Lake O. During the early Spring and late Fall I use the former setups on the Fingers when the fleas aren't a problem.
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    Good going John
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