BAZOOKAJOE

Check out the Lowe FS and FM 175 and 185. You should be able to get a 2004+ for the price range you are looking in. I have a 175 and its a heck of a boat! Not as deep or wide as the newer Fishmasters. But you'll get a newer boat that fishes great in 2's or less. The sea nymph Great Lakes Specials are nice too!

I'd pick the Sodus point pier vs port bay to cast spoons from. Mainly because you have more area to fish from. Good luck!

A one-piece is harder to fit in your trunk. But will be a little sturdier and have slightly better action. Sounds way too short for a trolling rod. I'd go 7 ft+.

Doesn't make sense to me either. But i've lost fewer diver bites sInce I started doing it. I do tighten down on the fish after i grab the rod out of the holder. I only do it in mid-August thru the last trip. The rest of the year the drags are tight and I rip their faces off!

I look at this too: http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/buoy/2014/9/8/45012.html?MR=1

I run my mags on a 2-3 setting. Never had a problem. But I run my boards out quite far.

I sharpen my spoon hooks. I usually just change my leaders/hooks on the flies after they start to get beat up. I use a rapala hook file. If you're bending hooks...your drags are too tight IMO. When I say loose on the dipsey rods. I usually have to half-hitch a rubber band (and hook on the reel handle) every so often. Maybe 15-20 minutes. Because the dipseys will creep out and break the bands. But they're cheap and my catch rate is definitely better. The salmons mouths get hard and their k9 teeth are developing for the spawn. Besides they seem to fight a heck of a lot harder this time of year! Hope that helps.

I've been keeping my dipsey drags loose and doing the rubber band trick. Has upped my catch rate. No snubbers in my boat.

Should be good till mid September IMO

Jammin and I got together to do a little derby fishing. We launched at first light out of Hughes in his 19 ft Starcraft. The lake looked like a pond from the east side of the chute...but that was not the case. As we motored east and then north to set up. We were greeted with 2-3's with a couple 4+'s to make it interesting. We were bobbing like a cork out there. Current was really strong! We set down in 190 and trolled around and through to 450. Ending 4-7 with a 23 lbs King, a decent steelhead and a couple teen kings. We had some absolute screamers dump us on the dipsey rods. We had better luck keeping the drags loose and using rubber bands. The lake did eventually calm to about a 1-2 ft chop as we came in at 3:00. Had the most bites on flashers and flies. Pig pen took the bigger fish. White/green holo/glow took 3 shots on the other wire. Mag Carbon 14 was working on the deep rigger. We targeted the 90-120 depth as that's where we saw the bigger marks.

Jammin to

Eerie dearie has 2 different kinds: ballyhoo and herring. I had both. I've been known to sift through a freezer for the herring.

Not sure. Haven't bought much bait this year. And I bought a bunch of the eerie strips last summer. I think I did get some at All Seasons in the spring.

Earrie dearie is like shoe leather. Very durable! And they catch fish!! I got some strips from Jon's little salmon in Mexico that came from Mcintyre's bait farm in Fair Haven. That was pretty good too.

Torpedo doesn't make a 10 lbs weight. You can get 10 lbs sharks. And you'll have significantly less blow back.