Sk8man

As far as drills go the Bosch Hammer Drill is very beefy. I have used one for years with my ice auger and a lot of guys use Dewalts. I have had the Makita and Ryobi's and they weren't great.

Nice going Mike best report I've heard in awhile. Couple friends out today never moved a rod from early Am til about 4 PM, Same yesterday.

Really tough from Rochester to Sodus to put a good day together right now no matter how far out you go. Skippies are absent as well. Wondering whether our northern brothers are doing anything over there?

This is a good example of the personal preference issue which threads through many discussions on here. You have two different views by very experienced fishermen that each have good reasons for their views which reflect their own experiences with both types of line and they prefer one over the other the other. In short, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this as it comes down to what you feel more comfortable with, or may have had better results with in the past. So it basically comes down to either trying out each and making a determination based on their performance in your situation, or "winging it"

Sounds as though you may be referring to Owasco but I wouldn't generalize that to all the Finger Lakes (e.g. Keuka, Seneca, or Canadaigua for example) I night fished fished those lakes 50 years ago and the sawbellies were attracted to the lights in huge schools and we got our bait to fish that way. There is less bait now than back in those times and that holds for each of those lakes mentioned. Seneca has bait but not the predators munching on it but I remember herds of bait that would literally run for miles from bottom to surface on each of the lakes I mentioned on my graph recorder.

The majority of stress and rubbing of the wire should be at the tip

You too

Not so much worry there only about getting Popeye arms

Luckily the fleas have been pretty spotty this season thus far but it will only take one experience of a dense concentration of the fishhook type fleas while reeling in a king or steelie to fully appreciate the comment.

Yes Mark always seems on top of things there and it is really appreciated....great public service

Go with wire. Although the water fleas can attach to anything but braid gets the worst infestations and it is harder to remove them from it.

Although it may be done it may create a premature wear situation so it would be taking your chances I guess. The motors on many of the older riggers just weren't up to lifting the heavy stuff.

10 colors as you can deploy any number up to and including that.

Good going Bill. "All the right stuff" Kudos also to the emergency folks who help folks out all the time and frequently without attention to the fact or even thanks sometimes. We do in fact have a great bunch of people on LOU who are there to help others whether on the water or on here.

They do actively feed at night for sure trolling for them in the dark may not be the ultimate way to catch them though