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.
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.
Also interested to see how you're breaking these rods, we have several that get used almost exclusively with church tx44 boards starting puking up to 550' coppers and have yet to have one fail.
Nowhere near 50' at salmon trolling speeds, you might be touching 25'. After about 200 or so feet out your line will actually start to level out due to the drag
A solution of bleach and water should be used on your boat and trailer when fishing different bodies of water, it only adds a minute or two to your routine and helps minimize the transportation of unwanted invasives
+1 for the online diary. I think a phone app would increase the participation immensely, especially with the younger crowd which is a dying breed these days
Honeoye is overrun with largemouths, go there for a quick limit(be sure to keep your limit), then jump over the hill to canadice or hemlock for some brown bass fishing