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If all you have is one rigger and 2 divers , I would put out a couple of carbons on my 2 divers . Make one high and 1 low , try to put on above the flasher and one below . I would put a white / glo flasher on my rigger at 50 deg . If you are alone , netting a king on a dipsey and flasher will be sporty . Bad enough with just a spoon . You will know soon if the fish want the flashers . If so , put out another on a dipsey . If a big fish hits a Dipsey , grab the other dipsey , pop it and rel it in as fast as you can so you can play the fish out with no tangles . When I fish alone I use 2 riggers and one dipsey . On the hit of a good fish, I pop and reel the dipsey in as fast as I can . Sure make landing a whole lot easier

That's a ridiculous statement . It's not the main line but the tippet that is the week point . When Im fly fishing , I don't go by the fly line or backing , I go with the tippet which could be 2# test . If it keeps the fleas off why should I care what the actual break strength is ?; Back when I was the first guy on the lake ( or me and a guy in Pulaski ) to figure out that using bigger diameter line was the ticket , I heard the same more sporting crap back then . Waste your money if you want . Some guys feel they need the best . I'm here to tell you you don't . It's not the arrow , it's the Indian .

When the fleas get real bad I have 2 combos with 150 ft of Zebco 50# .

It's trolling line to negate the fleas . The cheaper line is actually bigger diameter which is what you want . I have a used the Walmart Zebco 1.69 line and never lost a fish . My tippet on the other hand is good quality mono or fluoro. If you are breaking anything more than 15# , you either had a flaw in the line or you don't know how to play a fish .

You can buy a bulk spool of big game for 9$ . Enough for a few reels. Works great . I think some of you guys just dream up ways to waste your money .

The rod isn't towing the flasher , the rigger is . So once it's on the rigger , there is no pressure on the rod . When the fish is hooked , there is no add( maybe some ) added pressure on the rod . I would use 20# min , or just direct to the 30# which is what I use on my dedicated flasher rods . ML mighty not be the best option , but it will work . Just have to play them out .

So we decided to target browns for whatever reason . Sat we were doing well and got chased off the lake early like everyone else . Probably did 10 fish .lost a few more Mostly browns and a nice Atlantic and some small Salmon Sun I couldn't see the houses across the creek so we delayed Went out about 7 30 and it wasn't to bad. We landed about a dozen fish and lost some more . Mostly browns and a 13 # king Fished 35 to 70 ft mostly. Spoons of every color 28 size . Riggers down 35 to bottom and slide divers 110 to 190 out .

I park my probe rigger at 50 deg and set lines above and below that . Temp is overated IMO . I've caught them in ice water to 70 deg . If you are not hooking up , it's probably not because of temp . But 50 deg to me is a good starting point .

Thanks to all the Vets that fought and sacrificed to give us this great place to live . For all the complaining that's done , it's the greatest country on the planet . Not perfect , but pretty damn good . Let's keep it that way.

The lake monster eats well and thanks you very much . I'm surprised this didn't happen more often .

Did the brown thing and stayed close. We landed 7 browns , 2 small kings and a real nice Atlantic and lost a few more . Riggers and slide divers both . Black , silver , glo of some sort was the ticket . Great bite early and it shut off . 60 deg top and 50 down 35 to 40 .