zackblain

monster

Interesting. I had a StarCraft 196 Fishmaster with a 115hp on it and it would top out at 32mph on GPS and a 1800 Pro V with a 90hp Honda that would only go 38mph. And those speeds were solo speeds, not a boat full of gear and anglers.

Same here, fish in a StarCraft 180 stx with a 115 that barely gets 35

I'd say drop it down to like a 150$/person entrance and give away an impact or something in that price range and guys will be more likely to enter.

What type of numbers do you see with a 90 horse? Will it plane with four guys?

That C- Dory is a cool boat for sure.

I've been fishing Hemlock for 22 years and got one walleye! It was 11 Lbs.

80 feet of water down 30. I tried for a long time to revive it, but couldn't. Made great filets!

It's surprising how much trolling we do and don't catch more of the by accident.

Nice pictures.

See you guys down there.

I have a red Lund.

We don't catch more because the DEC pulled the spring water rod and gun clubs permit to stock walleyes due to the fact that their research program concluded that the people that fish the lake would rather fish for rainbow trout than walleye. Natural spawning is limited due to the amount of predators(alewives) eating young walleye, amongst a variety of other factors.

I think it's 8' per ounce

Okuma copper rods

Walleye boards are the way to go, slide the keel forward and you can run 300s off em

Times are tough

Depends on what # test you want to use for backing, but my calculator says 1900 feet of 30 lb power pro with 300 feet of the 32lb blood run copper. That's a lot! That reel has 6.1 cubic inches capacity with the ability to hold 350 yards of 30 lb mono. You could use 50 lb braid and I could do the calculation for that.

Mark

That seems like a lot but I'm no mathematician, would likely use 50# braid

Anyone spooled up a 700 tekota with 300' of the blood run 30# copper? How much braid backing were you able to fit?

Whichever they're biting best at that day 2.5 is a good starting point but let the fish tell you

I use my m18 fuel hammer drill(brushless, 4amp hour battery) using the 10$ strike master adapter bit and a 6" lazer. Only time I've killed both batteries was drilling 50+ holes through 2 feet of lake Erie ice

They don't reproduce in there.

Not at a rate sufficient to support a self sustaining population, but there's no reason to believe that there haven't been a few that have successfully spawned.

Thanks for the kind words! I was kind of in such awe of the fish, the only thing I felt I could do was watch him swim off...

Zack - unfortunetely work is temporarily in the way of me reading the report, haha... but I'll try to take a few "breaks" throughout the day!

I hear ya on that, work gets in the way of everything.

Right, she was girthy, but didn't have that sagging gut you usually see in record fish... I wish I had a scale, I have no idea the weight. How long ago was the last stocking of 'eyes in Hemlock? I assume this fish was that old..

I want to say the late nineties to early 2000's was the last time they put eyes in there. If you ever see the gentleman with the white c-dory he can tell you all about it. I believe his name is Charlie, he has detailed journals and has boated several hundred hemlock eyes. He said he paid for most of the eyes that were stocked.

Beauty fish, if she was carrying eggs she would have been a contender for the state record. It's a shame the DEC pulled the clubs permit to stock eyes

Will take raymarine if deal falls through

Nice, have seen them in the tribs spawning quite a few different times. No mistaking a big king or coho with a brown or steelhead

I want the wire

Nice fish! Just take into consideration that the hemlock bow fishery is self sustaining with no stocking so throwing a few back now and then will only help the fishery.

It sucks

Sold

Title says it all, okuma cw453 spooled with 300' of 32# copper line, backed with 125 or so of blood run 30# mono copper backing line. Mainly used on smaller finger lakes. 90$ firm no trades what so ever. Will not ship, I'm in honeoye but work in Rochester.