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    Yeah if you run a Water Wolf camera, you would be amazed at how many fish follow a bait and never hit it. The last time I used it was on a downrigger line with a spoon. 5 completely different fish came and checked it out. They swam withing 1 foot of it and just swam with it and then peeled off (one did take a swing and a miss). That was just 2 hours of camera time and only 1 rod.
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    I catch alewives behind my boat in the slip and then package and freeze them. I then take 1 or 2 ever time I go out and cut it up. I put a small piece on the hook for flasher/fly setups and then I rub the spoons with the other pieces before sending them out. Not sure if it helps, but it helps to get the human stink off.
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    Hook it up to a Raymarine MFD/chartplotter....I only touch the wheel twice every trip. Docking and pulling away from the dock. The best is doing a 180 turn in whatever width you want.
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    EV200 here - best thing ever!
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    So what about one for dragging on the bottom aka bottom bouncing. What would you make a lure out of so it is more neutrally buoyant instead of floating?
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    Hey I see that you have an eBay link on your site. Send me a PM if you want to hear more about some services that I can offer you.
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    Burbot

    vetting replied to EsoxAC3's topic in Ice fishing

    Its the best fish out of Lake Michigan besides coho. Have to be really careful cleaning them. Take only the white meat from the backstraps and do not let anything touch skin when you skin them. Cut into cubes and boil in sugar water or 7up and water. Boiling them gets the rest of the oil out of them. Cook them till the float, season a bit, and then dip in melted butter when you eat them.
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    Burbot

    vetting replied to EsoxAC3's topic in Ice fishing

    Biggest one that I've caught in the last few years - got it will going after perch with spawn near the bottom
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    SOLD!
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    Unit is sold!!!!
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    So what do you run? I run all church walleye boards but have had issues last season with some not sitting in line right running 3 to 4 boards on a side
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    How far are you letting the boards out?
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    So they arent planning out to the side like they should? You adjusted the weight on them right? What leadcores did you run? Any difference between different amounts of leadcore? Are you letting them out 30+ yards?
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    Just sent you a PM about all of the spoons.
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    Pending sale locally - Draggin The Line is 2nd in line
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    2 Okuma 45D reels with original boxes - upgraded drags $135 Both reels have only been used around 20 times. Both are in nice cosmetic condition with only minimal boat rash. Both reels were just rebuilt, cleaned, and upgraded with Drag Master carbon drags by Tuna Reel Troubles in MI. New these reels sell for $80 each plus shipping. These are better than new with being freshly serviced and having the drags upgraded at a cost of $25 per reel. Purchase with confidence - I have an 8000+ positive comment rating on eBay and over 40 transactions here on this forum.
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    Raymarine A77 Mulit-Function Display with 50/200KHz sonar, 7" color LCD $470 Raymarine A77 Mulit-Function Display with 50/200KHz sonar, 7" color LCD Model number: e70165 Internal GPS so no need for a GPS puck. Best part is that it is fully touchscreen so no more pushing buttons to get through the menus, marking waypoints, or expanding the chart. Comes with Navionics+ MicroSD Card- US, Canada and Coastal Coverage. I always just used the lighthouse charts for Lake Michigan. Used the unit for 2.5 seasons and upgraded to a different unit Unit is in great shape with only slight scuffing on the back of the unit. Just put a brand new silver bezel on the unit for the cost of $30 Just add the transducer you want or use your existing compatible transducer. I ran it with a P58 transom mount ducer with great results. Includes original receipt. More specs here http://www.raymarine.com/view/?id=5020 If you need the mounting bracket (if you arent surface mounting it) its an additional $20. Its a brand new one that I just purchased for $50 from Raymarine. Price is $470 shipped without trunnion bracket or $490 shipped with the trunnion bracket.
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    Yeah I've been on a trip with Lonney Goman from Trophy Ice Fish. He has something like 50+ different shacks and moves them around to find the fish. Has an entire crew of helpers.
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    I run Stealth Core and couldnt be happier with the results. Never had any issues with breakage and its nice that its only black and red.
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    Just have reels with specific length and have a set of rods that you can easily swap different reels on them. For all of my leadcore and weighted steel I have 6 Okuma CPLC-70CT rods. The last time I got a 4 pack of them for $75. They eyelets are larger to allow large knots through. Just reel the swivel right through them and slap a different reel on. I run a max of 3 per side on boards and just swap the reels that I want onto the rods.
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    Moonshine blue flounder pounder RV on Lake Michigan. Thats all you need. The original one I had caught over 100 fish on a single spoon before a buddy snapped it off on a big king. It had so many teeth marks on it the UV tape was almost gone. I've added a few more to the spread since then and it always takes fish on leadcore.
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    Just run the normal hot water lines off the unit to the heater core and place the heater core right in the cabin. All its really doing is blowing hot air over a coil that is warmed by the engine water.
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    Upgrade drags on newer Daiwa Seagates and Sealines? Due to the lack of safe ice in Wisconsin I've been hunting around for deals on reels and have amassed a bunch of new daiwa reels. I ran the 4 of the newer Seagates (orange body) and Sealines (all black body) reel last year. Before I realized it, adding reels one by one over the last 2 months I ended up with a total of 15 reels. Only the seagates come stock with carbon drags. The drags are ok when fighting a fish, but I dont like them when Im setting up inline boards. The drags seem to be more difficult to get set properly. On my other reels the line pulls out nice and easy when you pull on it by hand but dont leak line every time a board hits a wave. On the sealines and seagates, it seem like I have to crank the drags down a lot tighter in order to get them to not leak line. I was thinking about doing the drags myself. So just let me know if you think replacing the drags would improve what I mentioned above. I'd just have Tuna do them but that would be almost $400....so going to try to tackle this one myself if upgrading the drags is worth it.
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    So are you willing to sell the spoons/spin Drs/flashers now and ship them?
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    I did a ton of research on this subject and the general consensus was that at trolling speeds they just dont produce heat. Better off just running a buddy heater - just dont pass out
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