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    Minn Kota Powerdrive V2 12volt 55# with ipilot

    in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent

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    For sale: Minn Kota Powerdrive V2 12volt, 55# thrust. This is the model with remote Ipilot, no foot pedal. Shaft length is 54” (from the bottom of the head to the bottom of the sled). Works as it should. I recently upgraded to 24volt. $500. I’d rather meet somewhere over shipping this thing. It’s awkward and heavy so it would cost a good bit. Don’t mind the dust, it’s been in my garage for a few months! IMG_4898.JPGIMG_4895.JPGIMG_4897.JPG

    2018 Tracker Targa V-18 WT setup

    in This Old Boat

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    On 5/19/2020 at 8:08 AM, Brad Hoffee said:

    When I set up last year my first thought was to use the versa track. I spent the money for some good brackets and when I got the first downrigger set up It looked so weak and sketchy that I didn’t even try it. My riggers are through the gunnel with a solid backplate that extends from rod locker in gunnel all the way back to transom. Yes you do have to get some new hardware and remount the rear cleats.


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    I did this same thing, but didn’t go  past the cleats towards the transom. I also use mag 5’s with the short booms to limit the torque on the base. It flexes a little, but so far nothing noticeable with stress or anything. It may be one of those “what just happened??” Moments when it all let’s loose and goes to the bottom, but I doubt that. I use 12 or 14lb sharks that have had a fair share of bottom, rock and tree hits in their life and never had a problem yet! I did try the versatrack mounts from brocraft and honestly never made it out of the garage with them. Two chrome plated bolts holding the whole thing on didn’t sit well with me. 
     

    I have half a thought to get a 1/4” thick plate of aluminum, paint it black and make it the same width of the top of the gunwale, and through bolt everything to a long plate under. That may spread the stress out to the edges where the structure meets the top and limit how much pull is on the thin middle. I’m no mechanical engineer, but it makes sense I suppose! My whole setup is flush mounted now, but I’d really like to get 6” pedestals under them to limit the lean out to hook the line on. That will be an over winter project this year unless I get a few good days at home with nothing better to do!

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    2018 Tracker Targa V-18 WT setup

    in This Old Boat

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    Glad to wake up from sleeping for working nights and find all these replies! I was hoping when I wrote this thread someone could use it in the future and it worked!

    My reason for pulling the floor was a double dip. I had all my electronics to run to the back (fish hawk, sonars) and Tracker helps us out so much and bread ties the factory installed stuff together under the floor. It’s not zip ties, but literally long bread bag wires. When I tried to pull the Lowrance transducer cable back through it just wasn’t coming. I also had to remove the u-bolt for clearance issues. That may or may not have been left off after the fact. [emoji51]

    I use my kicker solely for pushing and currently have a Minn Kota powerdrive with ipilot for steering. It works well, but the autopilot still doesn’t like an outside push from the kicker and does lose its mind from time to time. I just ordered the terrova with ipilot link to network to my Humminbird. Supposedly that’s pretty slick, but time will tell once I can get out of the house for non-essential stuff!

    An after thought where I mounted the kicker was I didn’t think of turning clearance where it is. I can’t get a full turn out of it without the tiller handler hitting the side of the boat. Not a big deal for me since I use the electric to steer, but just be aware if you use the kicker to steer.

    And the Tohatsu! I had a an 8hp 4stroke on my previous boat and that little motor ran like a champ. I didn’t have electric tilt on it and ended up just ordering a merc 9.9 kicker for the tracker to match the main (pricey OCD issue!) I heard they were made by Merc also and it seemed to run like it. I had a remote throttle controller with it and you could dial it in nicely.

    Cayuga south end 9/13

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

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    I was using a black dipsey, #3 setting to pull it out away with the o-ring. My leader from the dipsey to the lure was probably close to 10 feet. Also ran a shorter leader and that one never got touched. I ran long leads the whole time to try and be sneaky behind the balls and dispeys. Even my leadcore leader is 40 or 50’. Seems to help.

    Also the Fish Hawk was pretty important. The south to north troll was really far off from the north to south troll because the current was pretty fast in the fish depths. At least a MPH difference depending on the direction compared to what the GPS was showing as speed.


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    Cayuga south end 9/13

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

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    Got out from 7am to 11:15am before the wind and waves came up. Went 16 for 17 lakers and salmon. Most lakers were the 7-8lb range, all the salmon were sub legal. Speed at the ball was 2.2-3.0. 70-250FOW. 10 color leadcore did the work, but dipseys at 130 and riggers at 45 and 60 both took fish as well. Bright scorpion size spoons and standard DW’s in black/silver were the tickets. Light fleas, top water was 68, below 60’ down was mid 40’s. Every fish we got was super fat, healthy and were ready to go back in.

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    Releases for braid

    in Tackle and Techniques

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    I am having some issues keeping braid in my current clips.

     

    I just put Sufix 50# braid for backing on my copper and leadcore setups for chasing kings. Normally I don’t need the extra line in the finger lakes, so it’s never been an issue. I’m currently using Laurvick clips and Scotty mini’s on my planer lines. The braid will not stay in these for more than a few minutes no matter how deep into the clip I set them up.

     

    Can anyone offer some insight on different clips to hold the thinner braid? These clips work great for mono backing, but didn’t have the same luck with braid.

     

    I’m going to venture a guess and say the regular (non-mini) sized Scotty clips are what I’m going to need. At $10 a pop I wanted to make sure it’s what I need before I spend that kind of money on releases.

     

    Thanks!

    Treman 4-29

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

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    We put in at Dean's sunday. Got one Laker and Pike. Had spoons get slammed . None in the boat though.First Pike for me. Also saw something large rolling. Musky?IMG_20190429_153312186_HDR.thumb.jpeg.b41fac36a3f2f086bd3c8af347e27e59.jpegIMG_20190429_143904627_HDR.thumb.jpeg.bd9e075d5186fb77abd44a485a991872.jpeg

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    Nice! I was wondering where you came from. That doesn’t look like a pike. That looks like massive chain pickerel!

    I hate those toothy critters. Fun to catch, but they are slimy, smell and the teeth can tear you up if you aren’t super careful.

    We had one line yesterday get taken, pull a bunch of drag and it was heavy, then nothing. Reeled in a snipped off line that looked like it was chewed on a little. I bet it was one like you got there.
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    Treman 4-29

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    Did a second day in a row out of Treman. Weather forecast said below freezing temps and ENE wind. Expecting little to nothing for fish action. Boy was I wrong.

     

    Launched and motored up the east side around 730. First fish was 5 minutes after the first rod was in the water. Steady action all the way until 1pm. 5 color leadcore, flatlines, dipsey diver at 165 out and riggers at 25 feet. Spoon and cranks. Didn’t matter the color or style. The fish preferred a deep diver rapala shad, but we caught fish in everything we had out. Tooled around between 30FOW and 150FOW. Water temps were still only 46-47 degrees.

     

    Ended the day with around 20 fish in the boat. Mostly salmon 14” to 25ish” and a couple Lakers. Biggest laker was just shy of 10lbs. We lost multiple fish that were bump and goes or only only for a bit and pulled the hook out. Had 1 broken line and another fish pulled a split ring apart from getting wrapped up. Even caught an orange rapala with 150’ of line still attached.

     

    The 2 coworkers I brought along have never been out fishing on the lakes. I hope they don’t expect this kind of trip every time they come along. They had some fish for the freezer and we threw back most for another day.

     

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