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1 hour ago, sherman brown said:

the sealine 47 reels will work great for kings and last you for many many yrs. the sealine sg47lc5 is on sale at cabelas.com for 69.88 each with free shipping. your not going to beat that price on a sealine reel. the sglc3b left hand reels is the same price.

Just bought a bunch of the 47’s. That is a great short core reel for the Walleye guys to. You can’t beat that price. Crazy good deal

I tell you I read about tie a mono leader on my wires on this site. I use a small spro swivel with a nail knot to my mono.  20 ft of money also helps shock.  

I previously ran two divers per side. Braid on outside wire on inside. I found dialing in my wires and concentrating on one per side was better for me. A 10color is a great chute rod and very versatile.  

I grew up fishing with my grandfather on Lake Ontario our of Olcott and although he doesn’t fish anymore we still talk a lot of fishing. In the early 90’s he would always run a lot of stick baits for salmon and steelhead all year year. Some of my best days salmon fishing was running diving stick baits bombers, smoos, rapala shad and others off boards. He also ran crystalinas off riggers stretched back. No temp probe just a paper graph and we went fast 3mph. He was very often more successful then a lot of the charters and in the summer we fished offshore almost exclusively. I was young but I remember catching giant steel head especially off boards on diving sticks. I’m now 35 own a nice boat and fish Ontario in the spring and run Walleye Charters on Erie all summer. Spent a lot of time trying to fish like the guys in the know on Ontario and wasn’t as successful as I would have liked. 

Wasnt until I started to fish like I was comfortable did I really start becoming successful. This spring I ran a lot of segmented cores with spoons and started to run less and less spin doctors. Ran bay rat long shallows clear orange specifically was great. I also noticed that I continued to catch more fish mid day.   Couple of my buddies whom Walleye fish mainly go up to Ontario also use a lot of sticks and do very especially when conditions are tough. 

My question is is do you guys think stickbaits are under utilized after the fish move off the shore lines?  Are many fisherman using stick baits more then discussed?

Ron

Now that I look at pics side by side I really like the hummingbird. Lol

I bought a new boat and have a gen 3 lowrance hd12 with a through haul transducer. I can mark bait cruising and I really like that unit lots of bells and whistles. On my older boat I had a Helix 10 standard hummingbird transducer. The ease of use was great, fishing marking was great, gps with standard mapping chip was great. They mark fish very similar but the Helix brand is much more affordable. My opion is they are both great units can’t go wrong with either. 

I have a outriggers for sale. Just removed from boat. Everything included. I can get more pictures for interested individuals. Reasonable offers considered. 

Yes. I fish both Erie and Ontario and wire is the way to go. I used to run braid but I’m finding they stay in the cabin most days and wire outperforms braid and is more versatile. 

I run wire wire to a 15 ft mono leader, then the dipsey. The mono makes it easier to store and if you need to grab the line it’s easier on you’re hands. Also works as a shock absorber. 

Lots of lakers right out front of Dunkirk. 100 ft

Bought a 2002 3000 exspress pursuit still looking for a trailer any advice would be greatly appreciated?? I’d consider both used or new. Looks like used would be almost impossible to find. 

Take a look at these I’ll never use em pick in Dunkirk. Make a reasonable offer. They are 14 ft were they slid in so I’m guess 18 ft total. I believe they are  perko. Complete setup if you help unscrew everything from boat deal will get better. 

Anyone know of anyone whom makes and or sells stainless covers for the air intakes. 

I lost the plastic cover and getting a plastic replacement ain’t cheap. Thinking stainless cover would look really cool. 

Its that plastic vented cover. 

I love the show and was sad when I heard Duffy died which just shows you how the show connects to people. 

SK8 Man, I’ve had relationship with most of the kardasian sisters and for you to criticize there critically acclaimed show is offensive to me. 

I would buy a set or two if anyone got any used ones to get rid of. 

PM me. 

Ron

Looking for a helix 10 or 12. Any one have one they would like to get rid of. 

I’m glad you kept the custom pink shoot rod holder. That boat has caught a lot of fish, she looks good. Congrats. 

old trends die hard like big boards. The simplicity of a little inline board is great. We talk about allowing no slack in the line when you hook a fish them we put a realease down a line and allow the fish releasing the line creating a huge amount of slack. 

I miss my big boards for shallow water fishing but running segmented cores off in lines are much more efficient in my opinion. 

Sea-IV thank you. I talked to the previous boat owner and he said that he had a 898 si hummingbird and a HDS 12 Gen three both hooked to the same airman thruhaul transducer. 

I also reached out to hummingbird. Will I be able to run two sonar at the same time. Or will the interfer with each other and one will need to be on a gps setting. 

Thanks for reply. 

So I bough a new boat and it had a hummingbird 898 si on the stern of the boat by the riggers. When I bought it the head unit was not included. It is all wired up and I was wondering is I could just plug in a helix 10 or is there an adapter of some sorts. Thanks for responses in advance. 

Pic is what I got coming from transducer and power. 

Loved it. Could you go into depth more on multiple coppers of different lengths on the same side of the boat. I personally run a lot of segmented cores on Erie but have always kept the same segmented cores on the same side. Typical spread would be three 8 colors on the same side, three seven color on the other.  

6 hours ago, Silver Fox said:

Rob got me running short coppers under 200' and they produce well.

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Do you find them more productive then cores run at same depth? 

If you’re going in morning two dramine night before sleep good and feel good in morning. 

Run the same depth line on same side. If running cores run same cores on same side. 

It has less to do with angle. It’s more a less a feel due to experience. Guys I fish with and my self could look at are dipsey rods and tell to the difference between 2 mph and 2.2mph. If you’re catching fish you’re going the right speed. If you’re marking fish start with a gps speed you’re comfortable with and adjust from there. Spin doctors are extremely speed tolerate. Spoons not as much so.