moog5050

There is a fuse on the rigger that can be removed and replaced. Check that.

I will be happy to remedy the problem come bear season. Let me know. Never see any around here. lol

Good luck. Pay attention to details and you will eventually start hitting them regularly.

I am not one of the experts on here, but am slowly catching on after a long layoff. Here is what I would suggest: 1. look for water temps around 43 and fish the lowest rigger there and work up every 6-7 feet. I always start with some green on both dipsy (usually SD and fly) and lures. 2. Keep speed between 2.3-3.0, unless bottom trolling for lakers with cowbells, where I maintain 1.8 or less. 3. When you catch a good fish, check temp, speed, direction, lead and lure - try to repeat that presentation with other rods. 4. Fish the bait schools, especially if you are marking fish. Good luck. Have fun and you will start catching more fish in time. Read from the real pros on this forum. 5. IF rods aren't firing, consider moving to a new location, depth.

One of the days that it was too rough to fish the lake, we stopped near the channel markers in I-bay (thanks Pikefreak) and my 12yr old son got a 5lber on a rattlin rap. It was fun on light tackle and my wife insisted we keep it since it looked like some fish she regularly ate in Guatemala. Sure enough, it was pretty darn tasty.

Keep a loop on it.

Yep - BE had a couple of large spools there on Monday.

I know it will take time to really put the pieces together. It was the same when I started hunting, but now I know I am proficient based on the deer I am able to kill every year. Like you said, it helps immensely to have someone to bounce ideas off. I need to pay closer attention to details, but will get there. Thanks for all of the thoughts.

Thanks for the thoughts guys

Thx guys

Thx hobbit

My father and I did a fair amount of salmon and trout fishing from my early teens to early twenties out of Sodus. Honestly, we probably weren't very technically sound, but caught our fair share of fish. Mostly listened to chatter on the radio from the charter captains and copied set ups, depth, lures, etc. Always ran 2 riggers stacked or top lined early and late season. Fast forward 20 years and we decided to get back into it again. Mid summer last year we got a boat set up and began fishing. 4 riggers, lowrance, fishhawk and figured we were good to go. Began to learn about copper, leadcore, etc. but still hadn't introduced those weapons to our arsenal. We did start using dipsys and were quite surprised at how many more fish we caught on dipsys vs. riggers. In any event, I began to study the techniques used on this board and am trying to up our game so to speak. I am now trying to put together the right pieces of the pie by paying closer attention to speed, temps, etc. To my request: We have done OK since returning to the sport, catching some fish and a few large kings, but we don't seem to catch the volume I see reported here. We fish out of I-Bay, typically 3-4 hour spurts morning or evening. As an example, today we started out in 175 FOW. I found 50 degrees at 100ft down. We set up the four riggers all with spoons (NKs) - green and purple - ranging from 100 up to 80 feet. We also ran two dipsys on no. 3 at 300 and 240ft with SDs and flies (one side wonderbread and the other green). We only had 3 releases and boated a single medium sized steelhead. I tried moving riggers up and down (generally between 120 and 75ft), circling back through bait, trolling from 175 fow out to 300 and back in and varying dipsy depth. Speeds ranged from 2.0-2.9 on the fishhawk (mostly 2.4-2.7). Any specific recommendations on what I could have tried to boat a few more fish? I plan to add lead core this week and am thinking about trying to target lakers when its slow with cowbells and peanuts, but haven't yet. The 2 big kings (23 and 25lbs) we landed this year were both in cold water 43 and 45 degrees. Honestly, I am more interested in getting more action for the sake of keeping my 12yr old son interested. I enjoy it either way and am generally happy with better quality vs quantity, but I know I need to change things up a bit or he will lose interest. We simply haven't had one of those 10 fish plus outings since we started last season. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks BTW - what happened to the captain chatter on the radio - we never hear a thing anymore. Maybe its all text and phone.

Awesome - Huge smile on Ellie - great father/daughter time

Mission and the Diamond are both great choices. Fully adjustable as she grows. Good luck to her in her first season.

Went out twice in the last week and caught everything on green except one laker on a red evil eye.

Good luck Dave. Lots of fish around the mouth. Maybe I just wasn't using the right lures. Text me a photo of the deer taken. Will do the same.

Well no luck for us. Fished the mouth of the genny for 2.5 hours this morning. No takers on plugs or NKs. About 6 other boats circling and I did not see any fish caught. Did get there until 8am. I think I am done for the season. Good luck if you get out.