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So I was wondering if anyone out there using the walker auto stop has tried to use it on braid instead of stainless cable.  If so how did you put it on?

Holy crap Les, That is awesome.  Good for you.  Nice to see nice things happen to a good guy.

We hit Bear yesterday.  Went 30 for 31 mostly on Bay Rats green and silver and black and silver.  Same depth as you.  Great day a lot of small ones though. Tight lines

great catch 

Can you say I'm a walking thermometer.  Wow thanks for the post. Back to packing my colon with venison Keep in mind all fish have certain levels of mercury in them.  Even farm raised.

Nice day

14 hours ago, Tradman said:

you will want to use a self etching zinc chromate primer on the bare aluminum, DuPont variprime is a good choice

Ditto what Tradman said.  I did a complete restore 8 years ago on an old StarCraft walk thru.  You definitely want to use a self etching primer.  For that small of an area just use the stuff that comes in a spray can.  You can get it at lowes or Auto Zone.  Then what I did was use non skid paint on the gunwales.  I don't have the boat anymore but know who does and it still looks great.  

great fish.  hope he heals up

5 hours ago, bondouley said:

its the garmin striker 4 with the ice pak.  I just bought it right after the holidays and i absolutely love it!

How is the sensitivity on it as far as picking up you jig?  and to what depth can you see that jig?  I assume you have the straight #4 with 200 pk rms.

On ‎1‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 5:10 AM, bondouley said:

we fished out of lewis point last sunday in 30 ft of water and samething all dinks.  We moved out to 40  ft and found the bigger fish out there but they were suspended between 10 and 20 ft.

Bondouley what depth finder is that?  How do you like it?

The Genny Launch is okay. We used it today.  The water seemed to be down a couple of inches.  You could walk on the dock and not get wet.  However, that will change with a northeast wind. BTW that is with a 33' boat.  Two other guys launched there today both with decent size boats over 20'

Gents and ladies FYI as of 5pm yesterday, the towns of Irondequoit and Webster passed emergency town ordinances for the speed limit on Ibay until further notice.  The law is if you are within 500' of shore you are to be at IDLE speed, which means in clutch, NO WAKE.  Outside of 500' the speed is 5 MPH, NO WAKE.  The Sheriff's Office is going to be out there as well as the USCG and DEC.  The law is in effect until further notice.   This is 100% happening.  Be safe and obey the law.  Tight lines

• The kids make it all worth while.  Very nice.

Cool good for you guys. Tell the kid to smile lol.  It supposed to be fun catching fish. 

Nice wanted to get out myself but honey-do list got the best of me....uggh

for stream fishing I use 8-10lb mainline mono with a simple surgeon's knot to 4,6 or 8 lb flouro leader.  On the lake I use power swivels like the other guys. 20lb mainline mono to 12lb flouro in spring time 15 to 20lb flouro the rest. IMO but I am a hack in comparison to the other guys lol

What body of water were you guys fishing?

very nice how deep did you get that laker ?

took the day off, clean fish clean boat etc

1.8-2.0 or so.  slow in the cold water

Capt, I will definitely take you up on that invitation in the next couple of weeks. If you PM with contact info, Ill give you a call.  I really appreciate it.

8-20'

We went 13 for 13 all sticks blue over gray and black over silver awesome day and it's only gonna get better. 

nice job.  We got a couple on plastics but the other few came on fatheads.  We will regroup and go back probably next when it starts to warm up again.  Are you hard anchoring or drifting

I guess right now my biggest question is if I have them hooked up right.  I know the 998 is but both units are supposed to be linked together.  When I go to settings to pick which transducers the units are receiving from it shows 958 bow and 998 helm.  Do both units need to be set to 998 helms transducers.  Because if the 958 isn't than I don't get nav charts and waypoints only depth.  If they should be set to read from their own ie the 958 is set to 958bow and the 998 is set to 998helm then I have a problem with the 958 somewhere.  I hate to sound like a moron but this stuff is way to over my head at this point in my life.