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Totally Hooked

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  1. 80 to 160 but by far the best screen was 90 to 115. East of the harbor about a mile and in 95 fow the screen lit up. Caught one lost one through that area.
  2. Got out for a couple hours this afternoon in between other things I had to do. I wasn't expecting much being the middle of the day. Fished from 2:30 to 5:00 and ended up 3 for 7. Missed some dipsey shots, yanked some hooks out etc etc LOL. Bite was actually better than I expected for that time of day. 42nd spoon took three shots, Carbon 14 took a couple and a white double crush spinny with a hammer fly got ripped twice but just could not land them. Oh we'll case of the dropsies I guess.
  3. Nice job, thanks for the report. Looks like a mid-morning run turned a slow start into a good day.
  4. Currents and speed all play into it but it seems to me that 3 feet of line out sinks 1 foot. I'm sure this is not always the case but it works for me as a starting point.
  5. I run 4 dipsey rods on my boat. Two of them are wire and two are 30 lb PP. Trust me there is a significant difference in the two. Here are a few: 1) Less fleas by far on the wire, braid can almost become unfishable at times 2) I drop more on the PP than I do on wire for some reason 3) I can hit bottom in 70' of water with 220' of wire out on a #1 dipsey on a one setting, 3:1 is a pretty accurate line to depth ratio. Both lines will work well with dipsey divers as far as getting them deep so why not use the one that collects less fleas 4) PP does have a tendency to bite on the spool from time to time, I have not had this problem with wire Just be careful not to kink it and you will be fine. Good luck!
  6. Yeah I sent the motor first because I trusted the guy to send me the money but have not heard a word from him in a couple weeks.
  7. I have never had issues buying or selling on this site before but it seems I may have finally gotten screwed. I made the mistake of sending a trolling motor to the Oswego area for a user by the name of Littlefishhawk to pick up. Now for the past two weeks I cannot get in touch with him to arrange for him to send me the $80. He answered his phone regularly before I sent it but now won't even return my calls. Oh well live and learn I guess, it's $80 not the end of the world. Just thought I would let everybody else know this happened to me. I certainly hope that nothing bad happened to the guy and that's why he won't get back to me.
  8. Actually I don't. I take pics with phone straight up and down. Pics store on phone ok and I e-mail them and they are fine etc. As soon as I post them here they are off a quarter turn.
  9. Thanks Tim. He was 29 lbs 3 oz on the LOC scale and fought like a horse.
  10. Ran right out to 350' this morning and set up heading North. In the first hour we go 4 for 6 with a couple skippys, one about 15 lbs and a 10 pounder. Started to get a little bumpy out there around 9:00 so we ran in and set up 200' on a south troll to try the inside water. We lost about a 5 or 6 pound laker at the boat. Screen went blank and we did not move a rod so we point it back north cause the lake starts to lay down. We dropped one or two more and then get a beauty on a 42nd spoon down 70 over 250 fow. Ended the day 5 for 9. Here is what we had hits on, mostly a spoon bite for us. White Holo spinny and a hammer fly on a wire back 160' over 300 fow 42nd spoons on riggers down 70' over 350 fow was our hot set up with that taking 6 shots Caramel Dolphin down 65' at the same depth Habanero SS cheated on a 70' rigger Why do my pics post like that, frustrating!
  11. I don't know why my pics posted sideways like that!!!
  12. Went out around 6:30 to find some pretty dense fog. Slowed way down to be safe and ended up seeing a really good screen around 115'. Set up there and started the day off with s skippy on the 50' rigger pulling a mixed veggie spoon. The next shot we took was 28 pound king on diver set back 160' with a chrome green dot spiny and a hammer fly. We moved out to about 140 fow and the screen went blank so back in we went. About an hour later we watch a king on our fish finder streak up to our 40' rigger and take a 42nd spoon. After peeling off 300' of line we finally bring him back and boat a 32 pound slob. The lake is pretty messed up from the weekend winds but we managed a few and a couple of them were just awesome fish. Be back out Saturday morning, hopefully water will be stable by then.
  13. Fished the last couple times out between Olcott and Wilson. Mixed bite on FF and spoons, especially cheated off rigger rods (steelhead should be willing). We did hook up with three majors also. One broke off, one shook loose when he crossed another dipsey line and we landed a 27 pounder. Fishing was a little slow but it picked up later in the morning around 10:00. We were also coming off four days of east wind so that didn't help us. Post how you do, I'm going out Tuesday morning. White spin doctors with Atomik hammer flies has worked best for us lately.
  14. Spiny water fleas. They are a pain this time of year.
  15. Thanks for the live report. I was out Saturday between Olcott and Wilson and caught much of the same, 8 to 12 pound kings and a bunch steelies off cheaters. Love the reports, I think I will try to do the same thing next time out.
  16. Thanks guys I may hit Wilson around 6:30 in the morning.
  17. Anybody fish out of Olcott in the last couple days? I'm taking a couple newbies out tomorrow and I am just trying to decide where to go. Olcott? Wilson? Maybe even the bar?
  18. I saw you out there in your red boat, I run the 20' Starweld. It sounds like everybody did about the same. We went 3 for 5 with one 7 lb steelhead and a couple teenage kings. It should only get better from here.
  19. You could always go to the lower river and bass fish just to fill the void. If you had some smaller rods drifting right at the mouth of the river can be awesome. You are about an hour ride from the Buffalo small boat harbor where you could go out in front of windmills and troll for Walleye also. 35 fow they were doing pretty good. You can PM me if you want.
  20. Motorguide Four 743 12V trolling motor. Works perfectly and is whisper quiet, foot pedal control. PM if interested. $140 takes it.
  21. Fished the bar this morning and it was slow. Went 3 for 6 but nothing over 8 lbs. Cold water and not a lot of marks. Will be fishing Olcott in the morning.
  22. After the last two days - plain white glow, it's been getting slammed lately. Mtn Dew crush is my second . In case my wife reads this all 20 different colors I have in my box I really love and need
  23. Just make sure your drag is set so that just stops creeping and you will know when you are hooked up. I use with 10 color and have had no problem detecting hits. Now, reeling in 300' of lead, 30' of leader and 80' of backing while Mr. Steelhead puts on an aerial show way off the stern can be a bit of a challenge. Good luck!
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