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Diver rod weight
sherman brown replied to hookedupf7's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
I like a 10' medium rod for running my lite bite slide divers on walleye on Erie's central basin. I want some give in my rod. I had some nice fish pull the hook even using my medium rods. I have been thinking about trying to find a med/light 10' rod on eBay but I haven't looked yet. -
for sale : usa Looking to buy rod holders with tracks
sherman brown replied to slow rollin's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
if you can't find anything you want on here and decide to go new I recommend the Cisco tracks as they are high quality at a cheaper price than other name-brand tracks. I do recommend getting the ratcheting rod holders. I use Cannon single axis so I can adjust them just a little or a lot. the dual axis are great holders but to adjust them left to right they have a pin and hole setup where you have to go all the way to the next hole which can be too much. the main reason I use the cannon is they can be set up and down using one hand. all the other brands doesn't have the one-hand feature on it. but the Cannon only has 5 or 6 up-and-down and down settings. the traxstech is my next choice. They can't be set with one hand but they have 17 up-and-down settings starting below 90 degrees and then rising up at very close settings for the ultimate adjustability up or down. -
it doesn't really matter on ours. I use a Panther electric tilt on our boat and when we installed our motor we tightened the clamps down as tight as we could get them with both the little handles facing inward then placed a lock through the opening on the handles. plus we drilled two of the mounting holes out on the tilt bracket and installed SS bolts. it would be a total pain to even manually remove our kicker.
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I ran mine off the second outlet on the F/W separator to my kicker. I'm not 100% positive on this but I read someplace that legally I had to have a manual shutoff valve on the line going to the kicker. I haven't installed it yet but before she goes back on the water it will have the manual shutoff valve installed.
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I have been running 3 rods per side for many years for walleye on Erie. I started with a 24" track but they worked but were close together. I got another 24" and added it giving me 48" of track with a large enough gap to remove my rod holders giving me an extra 4". As far as I'm concerned all I want or need is enough space between them so I can get to one rod without another one interfering with it. just guessing i would say my reels are about 4" to 5" apart. I go more about the space between my reels as they are the widest part and need the most clearance. I run Cannon Ratcheting Holders with the 1st track being Cannon. but the second section of the track is Cisco because the price is much less than Cannon tracks. and use the lite bite slide divers. my oldest son and I went together and bought a 1989 26' Sylvan glass boat that has a lot of space for tracks. I added another 24" Cisco track. now i have extra room for my used Traxstech 45-degree fixed holder we use for our nets. we have a net on both sides in case things get hectic. plus I have an extra rod holder just in case one fails.
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when you click on new posts like i do up in the righthand corner there is a bell for notifications and to its right is an envelope for and messages you have not read.
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for sale : usa SOME ITEMS FOR SALE
sherman brown replied to sherman brown's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
I will get them the next time I go down to my pole barn. but they are almost identical to the sg17lc3b. the color of the metal ring that goes around them are different. -
for sale : usa SOME ITEMS FOR SALE
sherman brown posted a topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
I was down in my pole barn and came across my Daiwa sealine sg17lca reels I no longer use or need. these are small reels and older than the newer sg17lc3b reels. I have 5 working reels and 3 more for parts to repair these reels or repair any of the 5 that might have problems in the future. these reels served me very well for walleye on Erie. for the price I'm asking you could buy these and have them already set up for walleye fishing. I don't think they hold enough line for salmon but if you walleye fish or thinking about walleye fishing you should buy these. or if you know someone who wants to start walleye fishing this would be a great way to get started. 200.00 TAKES IT ALL AND I PAY SHIPPING. -
Rod angle
sherman brown replied to SmokeyNBandit90's topic in Questions About Trout & Salmon Trolling?
I fish Erie for eyes and run 3 rigs per side. all 3 of mine are 90 degrees straight out the side and parallel to the water. I run my short diver in the back with lite bite slide divers with this one set on 1.5 the middle one on 3 and the front one on 4.5. I set them all on my front one. if I let out 200' of line then I only let out 15' or 20' less line on the middle one the 15' or 20' less than the middle one on the back rig. I have been running my rods this way ever since I started trolling the central basin with divers. but one thing I like to do to give a little more space in the line close to the rod tips is my front rod is 9' my 2nd rod is 8' and my back rod is 7'. I don't know any reason for having them tilted up unless it makes it easier to remove the rod from the holder with a fish on. with the cannon ratcheting holders I use on walleye it's no problem getting it out. I just lift on the rod and the holder ratchets to the upright position and just lifts out of my holder. I have never tried using the slide part of the diver. instead, I use a 7" fluro leader tied to my snubber that's attached in front of the lite bite arm. -
you are a great person, KUDOS to you for being a great sportsman. I had a 21' cobia glass open bow boat with a 5.7 Vortec motor and I had used plates for many years. then we found a set in the road near the marina. after trying to find the owner with no luck my son suggested we give them a try one day. it took us a few minutes to figure out how far back to run them and have them work like they should. these were 36" bags. We fish for walleye on Erie and troll with the wind which pushed us very fast but those 36" bags were great. with both bags out we had to bump the throttle up to get up to trolling speed. and some days we only used one bag then on very calm days with my motor idled down to 500 RPMs we didn't use any bags at all. if at all possible it's better to have bags that are a little larger than what you need. it's always better to be able to go too slow than not slow enough. you can always bump the throttle up to get up to speed but there isn't any way to get slower if your bags are too small. another thing you can also use the wind to help control the speed when using bags,
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South Carolina stripers and wild boar
sherman brown replied to Kevin J Legg's topic in Big / Small Game
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if it bothers you go to Google or YouTube and search for wiring up the radio you have. I haven't wired up a VHF radio for years but the best I remember I only used the plus and negative wires. I believe the other wires might be for external speakers or a PA system. but don't quote that as I'm not sure about any of this except just using the power and ground wires.
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it's really hard to suggest one over the other. all of them will be good riggers. what I would do is look at what each one offers like speed, auto stop, and how they stop. I bought new Big Jon pro tournament riggers with auto-stop. the auto stop on them is a bead on the cable that trips a switch on the rigger boom. on our 3rd trip 1 rigger stop didn't work. the next day the other one stopped working. I believe with the speed they go when they start up using 12# weights the soft plastic beads holes were enlarged to a point they failed to keep working. no need to repair them as they wouldn't last. now we just watch the counters and stop them manually.
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for sale : usa Differents things mostly Lowrance
sherman brown replied to Andre wallyandre's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent