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    How to connect leadcore to mono backing?

    in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?

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    I think most people back their LC setups with braid, but it depends on how many colors you're running. 12lb mono backing is prolly fine for shorter brown trout LC setups (1-3 colors) but anything you plan to target salmon with I use 30lb or 50lb braid as backing. I don't use the alberto knot but I do my tie my knots the same way by removing lead and tying to the sheath. 

    Other than reel capacity why not mono backing ?


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    Meat rigs

    in Tackle and Techniques

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    Lots of opinions on this one to be sure but I’ll start it off. We use frozen cut herring. Used to use familiar bite but now use the stuff from Rigged on this site. His stuff flat out catches fish and holds up well. We throw a tray in the cooler and go all day. For rigs we have a bunch. Most are Twinkie rigs and we usually run behin an 11” flasher or paddle. Minion on here makes great rigs. Troubles as well does quality. Both are good guys to work with
    Pop a strip in and pin it with a toothpick. Break tooth pick off, drop her in and make sure you have a good roll then send her down and get ready. Meat rigs have really come a long way and really have been killer on big kings. From May to sept we always have one down. Most days are big fish come off meat
    Hope this helps



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    Advice on cheaters please...

    in Tackle and Techniques

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    Here is a video I made a few years ago...
     

    Top secrets video is excellent of wanting to use free sliders. That is exactly what we use. Excellent producer most trips on big steelies and occasional kings too. Just remember when using a free slider or cheater and the rod pops You need to reel like crazy. A lot of fish are lost because the rod pops and the guys on the boat thinks you missed them when in reality you need to reel the slack up quickly then game on. You will love them


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    Sodus 7/15 AM

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    Steelies usually hang in the top 1/2 of water column. From surface to 50-70 ft.
    Many use reds/oranges but standard king spoons will take plenty of them too.
    Good technique is to run a deep spoon for kings with a free slider which will nail your steelies.
    Bump your speed too.
    I’ve caught them on meat and FF but generally spoons is the ticket


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    Gambler Rigs?

    in Tackle Description

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    Yeah another shout out to Brian and gambler rigs. All his products produce. Just started running Death traps and they are amazing.
    Pleasure to deal with and incredibly fast shipping.


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    Spoon storage

    in Tackle and Techniques

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    I looked back. I bought mine from Doug (Dhm) here on Lou. Might want to send him a pm I am really happy with mine. So small and handy
    If you go with spoon pads make sure you know the size you are buying and figure out where you are going to hang/store them as for us that created a problem of its own


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    Spoon storage

    in Tackle and Techniques

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    I have a bunch of the spoon pads from Amish outfitters like the ones above. They are okay but I must say that if you are dealing with space issues these are not exactly small. We went that way and after 1 year we went back to special mate boxes. Too much hassle with the pads for us. We have two big special mates then a small one that holds about 40 spoons that we take on the boat with us
    Far better in our opinion for small space considerations but again everyone has a preference


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    Bald eagle

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    Out Saturday with a full boat of guys who don’t fish much. Dropped in 170 and concentrated on 170-240. Bite was steady from 530-noon with spoons and meat for us

    Anything with blue on it was hot

    10 color w mag spoon took our second biggest mature while meat rig took our largest off rigger parked at 99.

    Healthy mix of steelies on top and kings beneath.

    Dropped quite a lot of fish this trip but landed plenty enough to keep group happy.

    44 degrees down 65 over 120-240 is what we seemed to find

    Tried downspeeds of 1.8-3.1 but our best zone was 2-2.4. IMG_7591.JPGIMG_7592.JPGIMG_4038.JPG

     

     

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