HB2

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 .

It was iffy from the beginning. Which is why I bought the boat I bought , so I could easily fish alone .

After my guy cancelled I went out Solo to beat the wind and rain . Found a good screen 120 to 150 and worked it . Temp was way down . 55 deg at 115 ft of cable I went 3 for 5 . All good kings landed . Best was a 18# king .Deepest hit was 125 ft. 3 shots on a Bullfrog Glo 11" flasher and Gary D rig . That's been my best flasher this year . It's usually white but they won't hit it . Also got a double on 2 stacked spoons , A Carbon , and Glo Frog . It was lonely out there this morning , nobody's lines to cut off

As for me , unfortunately, I did not cut anyone off either. But next time I will make a concerted effort and try harder . I did have a few boats bearing down on me and make me turn off . I'm thinking about having a paint ball gun onboard and firing a few rounds on those that need it . It sure would add to the fun 😊 😊

Not me . I keep my boat at my cottage

I was out solo First light ,80 ft hit on a big bullfrog flasher rips out some line and gone . Put it back down 20 min later release and nothing . Trolled around for a while and got pushed out so I decided to head north . carbon goes , rod bounces a bit and gone , put it back down 5 min later 18# king And a Skippy on a Glo frog slide diver . He Gator , did you cut anyone off this week ? 🤣

The migration has begun

I got 2 small fish in 80 to 110

I have stacked for years and there are things you have to watch out for. If the top lure is not back far enough , it can tangle with the lower line by grabbing the blowback of the top line so keep a lead of at least 15 ft . If your riggers are fast when you send a flasher down it will come back towards the ball more than the spoon above on the way down and tangle with the top line . When I stack I loosen the drags enough so as to keep the lines tight and there isn't a lot of bow to the line on the way down to create tangles . My riggers are slow and I still sometimes stop it on the way down every 15 ft or so to let the lines straighten out . Especially if there is a flasher below . Which I don't do anymore because or tangles. Also a single hook lure on the stacker has less chance to hook the lower on a release . This happens more than I would like . A fish hits the bottom lure and the top lure grabs the line as it clears back . I Usually stack 20 ft apart and run say 1 rigger at 70 . The other at 80 . So I have 80 , 70 , and 60 covered and have vertical separation to avoid tangles on turns . Especially running big flashers

I have 12# cannonballs

I had a Fish hawk and now a depth raider with same cannonball . There is a little more blow back with the coated but not enough to make a difference . The probe is smaller on the depth raider . I don't think it's noticeable till you get down past 90 ft. And that's the rigger I run my flashers on which adds to it . I'm very happy with the depth raider so far at half the price . But we will see in the long run .

The bass are there , not as many but bigger. Much bigger . We use to go to Sodus and Fair Haven and drift 10 to 25 ft with 1/8 hand tied brown bucktails and do well . I go to the same spots now and don't get a hit where we use to catch 100 bass in an afternoon . I fish the outlets of the bays and tribs now with good luck but once the water gets warm , they roam the lake. And they are deeper .