zackblain

Bought one last july and absolutely love it. I've put two hundred hours on the unit already between open water and ice fishing. No problem marking half ounce jigs in ninety plus ft of water while jigging lakers as well as tiny ice jigs in deep water as well. Gps is pretty spot on and the whole unit is extremely easy to use, pm me if you have any questions

C, I don't use tip ups, so it's jigs n plastic or cleos that produce for me.

got out this morning for a while hooked a few landed a few, too many lookers. no monsters, all fish went back to fight another day.

They have much clearer water, secret weapon rigs are quite popular out there. [ Post made via Android ]

Also, if you are looking to get into a downrigger rod for cheap, look into the basspro offshore angler powerplus downrigger rods. Slap on an okuma classic xt reel and you will be into a new, functional downrigger rod for less than 60$ [ Post made via Android ]

If you're going to use braid, you might as well use 30lb. [ Post made via Android ]

I have a savage model 93brj in 22mag for fox and I topped it with a nikon buckmasters 4.5-14x44 scope. Works well and can be had for under 300$

Zack, What line do you use on the magda 20? Jack Jack, I spool them with 10lb big game mono and use about a rod lengths worth of 10lb floro for a leader. Works well for downrigging, flat lining and inline boards. Never broke off a fish this year( fish up to about 15lbs), long/lighter action rods and the stretch in the mono help absorb the shock [ Post made via Android ]

I use the okuma magda 15s and 20s for walleye and trout on honeoye,canadice and hemlock. 7.5 and 8 ft medium lights. Work great for the combo price. [ Post made via Android ]

First time for me ever ice fishing canadice and trying to jig lakers through the ice today. Went out about 150 yards from the boat launch in 86fow and punched some holes. Fished from 9-5 hooked up about a half dozen times, had tons of followers and lurkers on the bottom. Here's the biggest for me of the day and my first iced laker ever, pretty fun fight on a light action panfish rod

on canadice I run 10lb seaguar floro leaders. Lakers 20 er so back everything else varies from 30-100 ish

whats it like when you get a fish on the outside board? clear the inside 5 as fast as possible?

https://www.walleyecentral.com/classifi ... ewer/20347

yarcraft 209 or ranger 621 w/ a 300 yamaha, kicker, ipilot minnkota, big graphs etc. Something I could use to fish for everything with and be able to drag it around with a half ton or bigger suv.

I bought the hbird 597ci hd this year and love it so far. I use if for picking out walleye that are glued to the bottom of honeoye in the summer as well as jigging lakers and trolling for trout as well. I have some pics of me using it for jigging on here and it does an awesome job picking up jigs/fish down 80+feet. You can pick up a navionics chip for 100$ and still be well under budget. [ Post made via Android ]

Uhhhh [ Post made via Android ]

dicks sells okuma leadcore setups fully rigged with 10 colors, braid backing everything you need for like 100$

Bang for the buck, it's hard to beat the savages w/an accutrigger. Dicks has em for like 250 right now, I prefer ruger 77/22's but they aren't nearly as affordable as the savages

Honeoye is still pea soupish due to the algae blooms and excess weeds [ Post made via Android ]

71 the browns were after the sun went down and there was tons of bait on top with lots of good marks below the bait balls [ Post made via Android ]

Finally got a few 2 browns last night on canadice here's a pic of the bigger one that ate a green spoon on 4 colors of lead. 1 other smaller one on a firetiger rapala and a 1oz snap weight 100' behind a planer board. Got a few lakers down deep on spoons as well [ Post made via Android ]

Hemlock much deeper than Honeoye...maintains a thermocline and foodsource for suspended predator fish very well...ahhh I mean very well, glance at your graph out there Honeoye is a big pond, warm and weedy. Hemlock has the lake feel when you are out there. I am quite sure and know several fisherman that are regulars at Hemlock, if it was stocked yearly the walleyes would likely populate the lake in a short time.The walleyes that come outta there are giants, very thick and well fed. They suspend out deep with the trout and forage. There are enough good walleye fisheries around guys, I'll hang in for a one of a kind trout fishery. I am in total agreement on the outboard restrictions on Hemlock and Canadice, keep up the restrictions!! and I would like to see it patrolled more frequently by the DEC This would discourage the idiots like the one I saw at the launch a few years back from taking home a cooler full of undersized browns. I mean the cooler was full Besides oneida what would you consider a good year round eye fishery? And I was surprised to see the state forest rangers out on their 18' lund with the big outboard on the back patrolling hemlock never seen em on canadice before [ Post made via Android ]

Think what you want. A few hundred dead snows had me more than convinced. 20$ a box ain't bad either, [ Post made via Android ]

I hope to god they never change the regulations on canadice and hemlock for the reason [ Post made via Android ]