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Come on Justin... In no way can you compare King Salmon to Walleye other than the shared water they swim in on certain bodies. Wire is used to improve dive curves in your dipseys and arguable fish attracting hum when trolled, not to mention that many use snubbers (stretch). Copper is used to stealthily achieve depth with an undoubtably unique action at the business end, not to mention a 30-50' mono or fluoro leader (stretch). Kings wear themselves out (especially dragging 300-600' of copper through the water) and the key is in a quality drag set at the appropriate settings.

You bring braid on my boats and you'll be asked to put your rods back in your truck. Lol that stuff is never allowed on my boats. That's how strongly I feel against it. Even if the eyes fought identically lb for lb in Ontario and Otisco, they're a lot bigger here so you may not be seeing the poor results of braid. I enjoy the busting, but fact is you just can't compare river fishing, otisco, or any other lakes to one another. I grew up fishing Erie and have caught a lot of walleye out there in the western basin. Notable differences to the eyes in Ontario.

Ask anyone who fishes Ontario, real Lake Ontario not jigging or dragging bouncers in a river. You won't find any braid. I still hate it. It's good for perch. Bout it.

Maybe your eyes don't fight much on Otisco and you can get away with the no stretch without losing most your fish. Every fishery is different use what works for you but if you come up to the big lake you better bring some 10lb mono! Lol

Fished a buddy's new-to-him boat as of Friday for Kings on Saturday. Zip. Could not get anything to fire. If things don't improve in a week or two I'd say we're in for another year like last or even worse. Frustrating, disappointing, and confused. Way it goes sometimes I guess hopefully things improve. Oh and the fleas are absolutely ruthless this year. Hate em.

Slept in today and took the wife out for perch this morning. Spot #1 was dead, Found them in spot #2 and picked away at em for 2 hours and headed in. Ended with 32 in the livewell. I couldn't keep up with her for quite a while. Between putting minnows on hooks and taking the perch of em, it was a full time job for about a half hour strait when it was hot. Nice day.

Oh and the fleas are absolutely TERRIBLE this year! so frustrating I'm sick of it. Trolling anywhere around Henderson, Stony, and way out in the big lake they cannot be avoided. They're attaching to Downrigger cables now. All over the dipsey wire. Everything you put out gets covered.

No need for a split shot - they weaken the line where attached so avoid them unless needed for depth in shallow divers (large split shots). A regular sized thru-hole bead on the main line side of the leader knot/swivel will catch the debris and keep your sticks clean. A must!!

Haha was Nasty weather last weekend man. 6-8 footers and putting the boat to the test. Not fun. Half the crew was hanging over the side of the boat. Had a few Kings on and came unglued. It was hard enough to stay on your feet let alone fight a king. Probably won't do much fishing this weekend if at all - just me and the wife up.

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Lots of chum slicks from the pukers over the weekend! Been rough out there. Hit some Kings a week and a half ago. They moved out since. Once the lake calms down from all this sustaining winds things should improve.

I have a brand new Lund and tried track mounted riggers. DO NOT TRUST THEM! There is too much flex. I lost a rigger last year when the mount broke at the base. Cannon replaced everything, but I learned my lesson. My tracks are reinforced on the backside with 5/8" marine grade plywood with very large washers on the bolts. They will still flex off the gunnel. I hard mounted 2 Scottys behind the tracks using the same backing and they are solid as a rock. I run 14# weights with no issues. I have 1 track mount cannon I use as a 3rd rigger when needed. I remove it from the mount every time I run or transport, and never run more than a 10# weight off it. The only thing that may stop the flex with the tracks is maybe adding more support bolts directly under the rigger mount, but in my opinion just hard mount them to the gunnel.

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hahaha sorry for laughing but I remember the day this happened we were behind you headed in to pillar point from stony.  Still awesome that Cannon replaced everything with new.  

Nicely set up mid-sized rig for someone at a great asking price.  Best of luck in the sale!  Should go quick!  I know a few folks looking for something like this I'll point them to it.

There are some tricks to the TX-44, and inlines in general. For all inlines, fighting a fish should have the rod pointed horizontally or into the water. Rod tip down, board nose up.....right up to the point that you lift the board out of the water. There is no pumping of inlines, just brute force shoulders down reeling. You actually are using the board for leverage against the fish.

Second tip (for the TX-44). You HAVE to put the pin on the bottom, and clip your line in the bottom slot. These boards are designed to be either port or starboard. In either case, you have to use the bottom slot for your line, and the pin must pull down towards the water.

Third tip on the TX-44. Take the weights out of the board, cut a slot in the foam which will allow you to double stack the weights slightly forward of center. Drill new holes in the bottom through the stacked pieces of lead, and screw the screws back into these stacked pieces. Your TX-44 will now pull 30 degrees further up the side of your boat then they previously did, and will pull much more effortlessly, and will be easier to retrieve.

If for some reason you have an inline board dive, stick the rod tip into the water and open the bail on the reel and slowly allow line to peel off the reel while thumbing it. The board will quickly pop back up to the surface. Re-engage the bail and start your retrieve again, with your rod tip pointed into the water.

Great tips here for folks learning how to use these Inlines effectively! Still - I'd much prefer a release off the big board tow line and a screaming king on the other end and fighting the fish not a board. Catch ratio has always been so much higher in my experience. That includes walleye, etc.

Reduced Price Again - Need to sell! I'll be up at the campground this weekend Friday 3:30pm - Sunday 5pm and will be able to show it.  Give me a call and let's make a deal.

I run the Offshore orange or black releases and bury it (yellow won't hold).  Haven't had any premature releases using them.

I've been putting my big boards out not too far from the boat maybe 75ft max and sending a copper all the way down on each side to widen my spread. Was deadly last weekend. It worked well will be doing that from here on out. I hate Inlines.

I prefer the 720/60 setting so if you wanted the option to play something in slow motion down the road when editing it isn't so choppy.

Once I'm setup and the spread is out I turn it on and leave it on for the whole trip. I have 3 batteries on hand.

Fleas were pretty awful off Stony and the finger last weekend.  To the point where you WOULD loose fish due to eyelet clogging quick.  I had them on my dipsey wire set-ups and rigger rods running 25lb P-line.  Nothing on either 45lb blood run copper set-ups.  Have to check your set-ups more often to ensure they aren't all gunked up.  it's a pain but a must.

That time of year but definitely seems a lot worse then last year already.

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too bad the fishing wasn't better... sounds like tons of great food though!  How many folks actually showed up?  Seemed like lots of drop outs last minute.

Current was all over the place and heavy in spots.  it seriously varied every 100 yards or so.  At one point was going 3.5mph surface just to get 1.8mph down speed (which is slow)... most of the time it was only off by 1mph or less from surface to down speed but it was sporadic out there.

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Went out to try for Kings yesterday NW of the finger and found some. Only boated 2 with a random Laker on the 500 copper. Missed 6 others that were undoubtedly Kings. Don't understand why so many were poorly hooked. Everything fired yesterday - all 6 rods were screaming at some point. 300 and 500 copper. Riggers. Dipseys. Didn't matter they hit it.