Ivan

The Lightfields are approx $13 a box.

I shoot Lightfield Exp 2 3/4 12ga through my rifled slug gun barrel. I tried several brands and they had the best groups, by far, for me and my buddy. We both have Hastings barrels, if that makes any difference. I haven't bought any for a couple years, but don't remember them being super expensive. http://www.litfld.com/products/hunting/

Cool topic. I like your idea for the tourney. We've caught several big species, incidentally, while muskie fishing. Dad got a 35 pound flathead that ate a 6in muskie bait at 5mph. I got a 7lb Chautauqua smallmouth on a 5in shad bait at 5mph. But to answer your question, my personal best walleye is a 13lber i got on a 10" straight believer while trolling for muskies on the st lawrence. Weve also caught big walleyes on 5" shad baits like tuff shads and boss shads. Got a 10lber on a Boss Shad at West Branch in OH last spring. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Nice fish choo-choo. The St Lawrence produces some of the largest, if not the largest, muskies on the planet. Low density or numbers go hand in hand with that. The resource/muskie population is very fragile and important there.

I thought the original poster was talking about the slick plastic strips you put on top of your carpeted bunks. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

We bought them for the trailer for our previous boat (aluminum Crestliner and Eagle trialer) and didn't like them. We took them back off the trailer right away. Made it too slick and wore the paint off the bottom of the boat.

Nice! Great story. I happened to catch that you had those two fish with just the leader in the water. Im surprised nobody commented. It 's not a very widely used technique. Most guys would consider 10 to 20' short line trolling. We do it quite a bit in the spring in OH for prespawn fish in 2-6 fow. Leader right against the tip of the rod. We run side rods like that too. Quite a few guys over there do it. You are probably already doing this, but i usually like to run a lighter drag than normal on that short of a line. Helps if they can pull line kind of easy and not jump. I once caught one over 30 some fow with no line out. They are crazy fish. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I agree with Mike that the size and quality of fingerlings stocked has the biggest impact on survival rates. I gather that the pellet fed hatchery tigers are pretty dumb, for lack of a better term. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app