EarlyRiser

Yeah, we had a good fish fry!

Vacationed on Keuka last week and trolled a couple mornings . We did a slow evening pleasure cruise around the W branch of the lake early in the week to scout things out and then we found the fish in those same areas both of the next 2 mornings. We caught probably 15 lakers Wednesday in four hours of fishing and then Thursday morning we dialed-in on them right away, boating 20 lakers, including 15 keepers, in just two hours. Only lakers and none over about 22", but it was a lot of fun. 40-45' down over 120-160 fow was best for us and our best lure was an orange/yellow spoon.

had 40-47 degrees in southern third of the lake on Saturday

Ttt

Thanks. Yeah they're definitely tough, simple riggers that reliably get the job done and are pretty easy to maintain and repair. Bert's custom tackle still sells their parts and some riggers. I've run Walker electrics for about 15 years now and would still be running them this year except I'm switching over to manuals that I transport back and forth on our new boat. It seems my wife, daughter, and non-fishing friends didn't like having downriggers and rod holders in their way all the time when we would go pleasure-boating : )

yeah, the auto-stop feature has a silver metal plate with magnets and wires on it mounted right under the cable at the front edge of the rigger body that serves as the sensor and then magnets are clamped onto the cable in the appropriate position where it signals the drive motor to shut off when those magnets reach the sensor. I've never seen the kit for the auto stop sold separately to know if and how hard it would be to add to a rigger without it

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