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I have some new electronics sitting in my family room waiting for me to start the installation.  Just looking for some do or don't tips.  What I have is a Simrad NSS7 Nav Pack with 3G Radar and a high speed GPS antenna.  Bought the chartplotter to replace an old Garmin 130 GPS but the price was so good we decided to add the radar also.  Anyone want to offer any install pointers?

It must be warming because it was 9° at the Mason-Dixon Line this morning.

We have 48" Traxstech track on the gunnels with good aluminum backing plates and run long arm riggers on swivel pedestals using 15 pound torpedos and have had no problems.  I think the tracks are fine - the key is solid mounting.

We had two combos that worked best for us - 42nd Spinnie pulling a Moonshine Smitty fly and a NBK Spinnie pulling a Green Glo fly.

We did three charters before we ever launched our boat and all three times we told our captains what we wanted to do.  We asked lots of questions and got great answers.  The captains and mates even explained what they did and why without questions when they figured out we were really serious and would probably understand it pretty good.  The first time we put our boat on the lake we felt like we had an idea about what to do and we have been pretty successful.  There are lots of great captains who are willing to teach their clients how to do what they do.

We need a popup when we hit the "POST" button that says "By submitting this post you risk pi$$ing someone off.  Do you want to continue?"

Size isn't important unless you're fishing.

One of our best spoons this season was a Luhr Jensen spoon with chrome tape.  It took fish on days we couldn't buy a hit with anything else.  We did good with purples and oranges also.  My biggest disappointments were Carbon 14 and King of Sting.

Nice photos.  Been 10 years since I passed that way.  Great scenery.

What's the need to make contact with the set screw on a manual rigger?  I did not do that with my Unitroll and have not had a problem with it and a Moor Subtroll in four seasons.  Maybe I have been lucky - just looking for a little info.

If you use a release like a walkers you only need to remove enough coating to install an electrical termination ring. We use Cannon Unitrolls an have one set up with Torpedo uncoated cable and a backup set up with the coated cable



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Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

Pretty cool that you are still fishing.  Me?  I winterized the swimming pool, put up a shelf in my daughter's garage and changed the oil in my granddaughter's car.

We usually pull only  one big board, but sometimes deploy two.  We just leave them out till last, turn the boat in to them and crank them in without any trouble at all.

Wonderful fish.  I always fear that we are going to hook something like that and I am going to have to get it in the net.

I have found the guys on Lake O to be extremely helpful - and I mean all the guys - from the weekend warriors like us to the charters who make their living on the lake.  Much more so than the fishermen on the other body of water we fish - the Chesapeake Bay.  Down there it is like we are in competition for "their" fish.  If you give anyone any help down there you are "spot burning" or "lure burning" or "technique burning".  Radio chatter is often abusive.  Stories like this one reinforce the positive image that people like me, who get on Lake O for maybe 10-15 days a year, have about the people up there,  Keep it up!

You could rent out that deck for conventions.

This thread is exactly why I clean fish on the boat whenever wave conditions make that possible.

Overall we had a good season - caught fish every trip out of the river and only had one blow day off the water.  One thing I was going to mention was that last Saturday we had one brown trout we caught on a three color lead core in 400' of water on a steelie dan spoon off our big board.  I wonder where that one came from.

Our last day for the season was probably our best. After another typical day of fishing every depth from 100' to 550' on Saturday for a couple of browns and steelhead and one teenage king we set out on Sunday morning in 55' of water. Saturday's bite had been an all spoon bite so we set our riggers and our port side wire rod with spoons and had just got that gear in the water when the wire went off with a brown. We reset that wire and it immediately fires again with another brown. We got it set again and then set out the starboard wire with a NBK spinnie and green glow fly and it was down on a chinook diver out 70 on a 2 setting for less than a minute when it fired and we had our first king of the day to go along with the trout.

That wire fired again and the fight was on again and my grandson was on the business end for an hour to land our largest fish of the season at 25 pounds.

The same combo also netted him a 24 pounder a short while later.

We got so busy that even I had to get on the fish landing our only spoon fish of the day - on a mag flounder pounder on a 100' lead down 45'.

We finished our day with five mature kings and two browns in the box. Tired but content crew and boat are now home in southern PA making plans for our return next July.

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We have been using the Chinook on the starboard side of the boat this summer.  A feature I really like is that it does not change dive settings from handling like the Walker's we use on the port side.  I will probably go with all Chinooks next year.

Good report - thanks.  We will be up again next weekend - hoping for good weather and lake conditions.

Boats only break when you use them.

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Do what I did. Keep the CC and buy the bigger boat. You will miss this beauty.

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Glad you are finding some.  Takes the edge of the earlier frustration.

Hope you get out soon but don't take risky chances.