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Good on you Gator .

Probably length and model

Sutton 38 brass and silver was a great king lure . Probably still is .

A good ass kicking could sure solve a lot of problems

You guys a WAY overthinking this . You speed probe gives you your speed at the ball . Go with it .

Thanks R . It's not for me but for a friend . He is staring a fishing club for his church with his foundation. He is a famous athlete . The boat was donated to him . We fixed it up.

What are you guys talking about ? Color definitely maters . My favorites are my favorites because the fish hit them and they are proven . Not because I like how they look . I make a point to run different color spoons of the same model . And they still hit my favorites . Some days it doesn't matter , they hit anything that moves . Most days they are pickey . And that goes for my soft plastics for Bass and panfish.

It's August, boys . What do you expect ? The winds of change

Lake was nice so I went out. Started in 90 ft . Temp was at 50 . My screen was looking crazy like there was a lot of interference . No boats around. Headed north out to 280 . Screen cleared up around 220 . I don't know what it was . And temp went deeper to 75 80 . I went 3 for 5 . Got and 11 # 5 oz steelhead a Skipper and a little bigger than a skipper . Lost a nice fish on a slide diver . All spoons . Found a pod of fish and bait around 240 where I got 4 hits .

NY

Anyone out there in n LOU land know how to register a salvage boat and trailer ?

I had an X4 for a few years and liked it . Although it started to send crazy temps once in a while . Then I sold the boat with it . But I liked it .it had both surface and down speed and temp . Bought a new to me boat and it came with a Cannon Speed and Temp . Depth Raider technology . I liked it but it started to not work intermittent. After some research, I bought a Depth Raider this June . It has worked flawless since I got it . Other than the fact at 85 ft of cable some of the insulation came off the cable maybe rubbing in itself. A few coats of Liquid electrical tape and it is fine. 549$ compared to 1400$ . And the probe is a lot less than the X4D probe . If money no object , maybe the X4D . But my depth Raider tells me everything I need to know . Down speed and temp . I don't need blue tooth or how deep my ball is actually running . That's kind of irrelevant to me .

When I'm fishing Stagers , I run 2 j plugs . If a rod fires I know it's a king , I grab the other one , pop it , and reel it in as fast as I can while I put the boat in nutural or turn it down wind and put it in nutural. I can boat the fish in 5 min that way . Sometimes I chase them down . I have gotten a few doubles as both rods went off within seconds of each other . Not real fun . 1 at a time please . I go out at first light . My personal best is 8 kings boated by 830 or so . Landed 6 or 7 many times . And got skunked more than once.

It depends Last few trips temp was deep at 100 so flasher on my probe rigger and 2 spoons stacked on the other rigger or 1 flasher each rigger If the temps 75 ft to 50 ft , 1 line on each rigger and #5 Chinook diver . . 40 to 60ft temp 1 spoon each rigger , And slide diver Staging kings 1 j plug each rigger . I prefer just riggers if possible . Better maneuvering and easier all around . And easier to net fish

And man , it sure looked and felt like fall out there .

I go no more than 45 min , but more like 30. Can't tell you how many times lure came back with hooks foulded or tangled ,weeds , etc. Even being carefull.

It wasn't that bad On the other hand this morning wasn't great . Was almost no wind on shore . So I figured I'd give it a go . The farther I went out , the worse it got with the North west wind . Made one pass at 120 . I ran go for broke 2 flashers only . Same Bullfrog went off at 100 . Bait head skld up leader no fish and that was it . One boat was next to me and I think he hooked one but I could not tell .