justtracytrolling

I have inexperienced families all the time and it's an art to coach up people in a non-aggressive fashion and have them do it right. I run both depending on situation and make the best decision I can for the group. I can easily run the walleye boards way out and get them in without em diving no matter who is on the rod for the most part, but it's taken me years to refine. Incidentally it took years to perfect my big boards. For your application I'd run big boards too!

Did you look up north in town? The fish are around and active out of temp.

Well they are biting from shore... maybe someone forgot to tell the rainbows it's too warm. Some real nice bows caught Tuesday evening.

I know how to test it. I hear nothing but opinion and "ideas" everyday and I trust my process and until someone else can come close to my results here I only trust my process. I completely understand why you use the braid. I've used the braid before more than once, but It has never shown any immediate positive results, and I can't just run something with customers. I have to get past feasibility at a minimum for it to even get tested with customers. Constantly taking the braid off for customers is too much work. I have to at least catch a fish on it somewhat regularly on my own time first. It's actually quite simple to draw a definite conclusion, but you just need data. No matter what I will have to keep testing for the different water clarities because the light penetration goes from near 100% like Ontario in spring to dark 24/7 in summer with the algae bloom and slowly back to near 100% by winter. I would bet the steel helps during the bloom if I was the guessing type. Unlike recreational anglers I do 70-80 hours a week lines in....I will get feel for it as time goes on assuming I catch a fish tomorrow otherwise it's off till next summer minimum. Today, the braid rigger was down all by itself and never took a shot for hours while I was catching on the boards. As soon as I dropped a second rigger which I kept way above and way behind the braid rigger the braid rigger got bites. Then went back to just the braid and bites stopped. Added the steel with the identical setup and both took shots. Easily could be coincidence or an anomaly. It's up to the fish to decide not me... they will...and then I will have my answer. If anybody was catching like I am they wouldn't change anything, but they would never catch like that here without constantly evolving. My rigger program is already setup to catch the mature bigger fish. There is no quantity of better fish in the lake to catch than I'm catching now, but now I can only get those fish regularly with 1 and only 1 rigger in the water. Solo once a week I out fish the other 6 days when it comes to quality and quantity If I could put 2 in and get both going or even 3 I'd have something ridiculous. That 1 rigger averages 7-8 lb walleye and pulled almost all the 9-11 lb walleye I've caught all season on it....Over a dozen. So it has to produce tomorrow or it's done for now.

Rigger never budged till I put a second rigger down without braid. Test continues tomorrow

A lot of guys don't run riggers on eyes and I can't imagine not. Short cores with long leaders off a rigger has produced 8 of my 10 biggest eyes this year and they take no work to keep clean and running. I have noticed if I put 2 or 3 riggers down I don't get the big fish I do when I put 1 so I know the cable hum etc has a negative effect. I put braid on my center rigger for tomorrow. If it gets hot I'll do the others on the water or perhaps in the morning early.

Have you tried the riggers with braid on walleye? I've been meaning to throw some on mine to test it. I run core off em so I only need 25' of braid on each rigger to test it....might try it tomorrow