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  1. The tracks arent so bad but the acce$$orie$ are another story. Rod trees, cup holders, organizers. Thats where the money is. Welding tubing is much easier and cheaper than milling out aluminum stock into tracks. Custom rocket launchers and bimini enclosures are big $$$. 

  2. I have the reels and the copper just sitting there. I still have a few 209's with 3-7 color that i use sometimes so this would have to be better than that. I would use them for erie too and have snap weights so even 50-150 would get used alot. Browns in the spring might be nice to have a few 50's. 100-150's would work for me most the year. Im just looking for ideas and im retiring all the lead core. Not necessarily trying to put on as much copper as i can. Just ballpark of backing and lenghts and thoughts on short cores to ponder over till i get to use the boat again.

  3. So its the end of the season and im upgrading and switching around reels. I have some penn 320's and 330's that id like to spool up some #45 copper. Cant really find much info on copper capacity on these reels. I was thinking about 100' max on the 220's and 200' on the 330's but not sure. Whats the most each of these reels would hold?

  4. If you have not weighed a lot of a certain fish it is hard to tell. Before i ever owned a scale i caught tons of 30+ lb salmon and carp. Had many 20+ lb pike and even caught 50+ smallmouth over 5 lbs in a day with 10 over 7-8. After i bought that first scale my fishing took a turn for the worse. The 30 lb salmon turned into 16-18's. The 20+ pike dropped to 8-9 and the 5 lb bass were 3's and the 8's turned to 5's. What a bummer reality is. 

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  5. I have a ton of leadcore setups and was planning on switching to copper for my salmon trolling. I have about 1200' ft of steel wire and was thinking of using it instead. Mainly cause i already have it and because i wont use them much....unless they preform awesome. But is there any reason i should not use it. It seems like it should work. Comes off the reel nice and kink free and less hastle then copper. I was thinking about making a 500, a 300, and 2 200's. Should i run different lengths? Also how would i connect it to my leaders or backing? I only run 2 steel diver rods and have 1000 ft on both of them. No backing and connected directly to my divers with a crimp. Should i just get the copper or could i use steel and how? I think as a kid my grandpa ran steel flatlines. But i cant remember and fishing was different back then. Just trying to switch from inlines to big boards. Deeper lines and chasing salmon more than walleye. If anybody runs steel how do you have your setups?

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