chuck527

Congrats Les! Haven't seen the final results yet but I'm guessing a new derby record for you. Very cool.

Can't fish the Derby but count me in for BFF.

I believe Honda has a model with everything you mentioned but it comes with a lofty price tag well above 4K. I have a 9.9 Honda with most everything you mentioned but instead of an auto pilot I use a Terrova I-pilot in conjunction with the kicker and it does a fantastic job. With the remote I have complete control while setting up or anywhere in the boat.

Just installed the sea star adapter. What a difference!

Thanks that's helpful. Mine works but I did just order the hydraulic adapter.

Can you guys possibly throw a pic on this thread showing how it is attatched. I have a Honda 150 with sea star hydraulic steering and I'm wondering if I could hook it up better. The Honda has a front extension that the ball stud screws into but I'm afraid that if I oversteer it will interfere with the hydraulic steering. Thanks, Paul.

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Only has the wood names on the bottom. Sossong is the makers last name.

TTT

8 Rapala CNR's , 1 x-rap and one regular crank bait. All are new in boxes except one without a box. $50 for all. $57 shipped to your door.

Brand new Diawa sealine 27 LEFT hand reel. $80.

TTT new price $70 for all. These list for $35 a pair!

Several rod and reel combos.. 1. (Sold Pending Payment)Older pair of diawa sealine reels and rods. Reels work fine and rods are rough. $30 for the pair. 2. Pair of Okuma Stratamaster combos. Like new. Set up with 30lb mono backer and 5 color lead core on each. $75 each or $140 for the pair. 3. Penn 320gt. Set up for lead core with power pro backer. Lead core neads replacing. Okuma 8'6' new rod last year. $75 4. Penn 330 GTi Set up for ten color core. Core and backing was new last summer. Cabelas 8'6" rod $75. I will list more combo's and some jigging set ups later. 585 three 01 - 594nine.

Primarily because of the warmer compressed water column on the bottom. South and deep is a pretty constant migration of bait in the winter. The only bait I really marked was south of mid-lake and 200ft right on bottom. I have some pretty heavy jigs and next time out I'm gonna give those a whirl.

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Thanks Les! Anytime Chris. As far as the feeding patterns go I don't think there concentrated to once a day but later is almost generally better as the bait tends to move more later in the day which seems to drive the feeding. Even some of the die hard perch guys I know told me a couple weeks ago they struggled all day and the last hour of light they caught over 50.

Started around 10am on the 23rd with some perch fishing that was somewhat lackluster. Decided after an hour to target some trout. Trolled North from midlake marking some lakers tight to bottom and not much suspended. The heavy predicted winds just died and we decided to work some jigs. Started on the fish we marked in 100fow but they were pretty negative and we finally did boat one about 6lbs. Ran a bit north and set up a little deeper and it didn't take long and we got another about 8lbs. We had a string of grabs after that and landed 4 more from 5 to 10lbs. Kept two for the smoker and called it a day. Headed out about the same time on Saturday with the intent of breaking in the new kicker and sticking with the trolling game. Threw a few jigs for about an hour and switched to trolling. Hit the same points from the 23rd and it started kinda slow. Noticed the deep rigger rod bouncing a little and Chris (Bass Pro) reeled in a nice laker. That would pretty much set the tone as we landed two more that never even tripped the releases. The odd part about the whole thing is when I wired in the kicker to the battery and started the humminbird back up it was showing the bottom depth as 125(numerical value) but on the graph itself it was showing the bottom at around 100ft on the horizontal depth lines?? As best as I can tell the numerical depth appears correct or at least closer in reference to the gps map side by side.

It was made by a local guy here in Canandaigua and I just don't remember his name unfortunately.