garrymny

My favorite eating fish is cod but from your video they are protected?

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Yes Thursday off Olcott same thing. For the number of fish displayed the hits were relatively few. I think they must be so full of alewives they aren't feedings.

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I have to say the new Auto pilot changed everything for me solo fishing.

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I lost a $70 net last year. This year I added a 2ft piece of a pool noodle floaty looks a little gay but it keeps it afloat.


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Is wire ok for fleas?

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On 6/21/2017 at 11:12 AM, rdebadts said:

Here is my trip from a few weeks ago...

 

 

 

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nice video, finally got a chance to watch it. Looks pretty calm that day. Steady action too. Gotta love saltwater fishing.

I believe Sat morning- waves 1-3 feet will be okay. Plan  to take a newbie with me, so I hope so

QUESTION guys.???  I have a rod with 10 colors of lead core, and it has been a successful rod. Usually steelhead hit it though. I use a spinner rig, it has about 6 or 8 prism/chrome spinners in line, and behind that I put a 36  inch leader, and a spoon.  I wonder, is it effective to just run a spoon, with no spin doctor, or paddle on divers and lead core? Or do you most always run a paddle, or SD when you use a diver or lead core (copper too I suppose). Thanks, I have always wondered what the  standard was with lead core and divers.

10 hours ago, Zinger11 said:

I have a 25' wellcraft with a honda 9.9 kicker that pushes my boat at 5.5 mph full throttle . My buddy has a 17' aluminum boat that has the same exact honda 9.9 and it pushes his boat at 5.5 mph full throttle and my boat weighs almost 3 times more. It's all about hull speed and I wonder if you go with a 15hp the only thing you'll get out of it is adding more weight to your boat

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Amazing isn't it? I tried my 9.9 at full throttle today, and my speed was 6.5-6.9 MPH. I use 3, yes 3, Deep cell batteries in my boat. Two are connected in parallel, and run everything. One is connected solely to my new Raymarine ST 1000 Autopilot.So far, no problem at all, even though my 9.9 has no charging system......

Left Olcott harbor went east towards smokestack. Started at 125 FOW, and trolled for a couple hours. Lots of bait and hooks showing in top 50 FOW. Caught a couple shakers. went out to 300 FOW caught nice steelhead on the way. Circled back toward shore and had a good one on the 10 color lead core with a spoon. Tried to land without a net an it broke off- RATS!  Should have used the net, but last Sat when I lost my net overboard I was forced to hoist them in, and it worked so well, I  Thought I would try it again. Live and learn. So then  I caught one on a chinook diver in 200 FOW 200 feet back. SD and green fly.  Small chinook. While I was fighting it the rigger went 100 feet down with a SWR rod- SD and Fly. Big Fish. taking line real fast. I reached down and tightened drag too much, and you guessed it, broke off. So, 6 hits, landed 4, threw two back. Kept a nice SH and a nice Coho. Maybe 10 boats out there, most around 125-250 feet. Water is 62, and is 50 something till you get down over 100 feet. I also saw some bait balls in 300 FOW, but definitely was marking more fish 150-250. But in the morning,  6-7, they were not biting as good as I had about 8-9 am. weird.

Thanks so much for the information. I'm going to try a trip next summer. What months are best?

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Steering with a kicker engine alone will be difficult when turning into the wind. The main engine lower housing is an auxiliary steering rudder and gives you better control . The Panther Z bar system is all right and does not suffer the EZ Steering disabled problem such as when working over the stern to reconnect it. Twice I lost the EZ Steer bar and ended spending big bucks to replace it. A good trick is to slide some foam tubing over the tube to allow it to float after you drop it in the water.


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I am also considering replacing my 9.9 Evinrude kicker even though it runs perfect. I want a 15 hp ( better for emergency?) with charging and also will add electric throttle control. My old Evinrude cannot accept the electric throttle system. The carb is buried under an air intake on front of the motor. Anyways, I am interested in what folks have to day on this topic as well. I find it interesting that my research shows that the HP of the kicker is irrelevant, you will only get 5 or 6 mph because unless you get on plane, you are limited.

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yeah, I gave up on the arduino after the second model of compass circuit would not work. I was close to getting it all working, but I really got tired of not having an autopilot. So i took a chance on this Raymarine and it works great.. 

yeah 20+ miles is a fair stretch for my 1974 Johnson that pushes me along at 19-20 mph.  It runs great but...not sure if the 9.9 kicker would get me back. I haven't ruled it out yet though!  I always like to it myself, if feasible. 

I went last weekend for haddock. 25+miles out but very good dishing. We kept our 4 man limit (60) and caught many more


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Hey garrymny.

Your boat would be fine, just need to select the right day weather wise.

I see many boats your size on the bank.

The Haddock are on the middle bank and also in the north west corner currently.

You could launch out of Gloucester, behind the high school, nice launch...think it is $5

Also could launch out of green harbor in marsh field ma.

Both launches to the bank depending on location are approximately 20 plus mile run.


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thanks I will try that. yes I can see those types of spots on my fishfinder which has charts.

Good luck to everyone, headed home yesterday early morning.

I might be back not sure.

I am going to fish for stripers and Haddock next weekend.

Haddock fishing has been very good on Stellwagen bank, best I have seen in years as I have been twice and easily caught 100 plus fish with my friends.


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That's a beauty. I was fishing same place yesterday. Started at 6 am never caught fish until 11 then got 3.

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Ok fished all day yesterday with no problem at all. I Just have a tee in main gas line, and connect the two hoses from outboard and kicker to the tee. Both hoses have a primer bulb. I did put a shutoff valve in the main gas line before the tee.

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Great set up!

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Tire stores. They have old wheel balance weights. That's where guys that do bullet molds get their lead.

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Ok, so if I am on Lake Ontario, and strike out with Salmon so I want to try for Lakers to save the day, what depth should I troll at? I see I need to be on the bottom, but, as a starting point, what fow is a good place to start? I have never seen any fish on the bottom on my screen after trolling hundreds of miles the last two summers.

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How could a brined fillet cause a problem? And I don't think herring are native fish to Ontario are they? And yet they can used.

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