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  1. sherman brown
    both you guys are as crazy as me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  2. sherman brown
    I would have loved to have had an offer like yours a few years ago when we bought our 89 26' Sylvan. I have always wanted a hardtop, but it always seemed like I was either a day late or a dollar short. good luck of the sale of your boat.
  3. sherman brown
    the Cisco's are cheaper and are just as blood. or you might try going to the muddycreek website and check their price. i just ordered 2 36" title loc tracks as they were cheaper than anything I could find. as far as quality on them I will know once I see them. Cisco has them cheaper on their website than anyone else.
  4. sherman brown
    I gave all my old title lock rod holders away and installed cannon tracks to start, then added Cisco tracks later, and went with cannon catching rod holders. But I believe Traxstech has the sturdiest ratcheting holders, as I tried them because they have 17 up and down adjustments. But I went back to Cannon as they are one-handed operation. But I fish for walleye and believe the Traxstech might be best for salmon. I didn't have a clue and started with 24" tracks that worked for my 3 divers on each side with the Sealine Sg17lca reels, which are small. However, they were still cramped, so I added another 24" track in front of the ones I had. However, when we got another larger boat, I added another 24" track. The price has gone wild on tracks. I just bought an old 18-foot glass boat with a 14-HP Mercruiser to use on Erie's central basin when my son doesn't go with our 26-foot boat. I may have made a mistake and bought Tite Lock tracks for it. I will have to check them out, and if I'm not happy, I will return them and get Cisco or Muddycreek tracks. I got 36-foot tracks, which should be long enough for me. But in retrospect, the 3 24" tracks work pretty darn good, but cost more than 1 long one to start with. I recommend you mount them as far back as you can. Get the longest track that will fit on your gunwale. with the 3 24" we run 3 in the back for our divers plus 2 more for spares plus 1 fixed at a angle out that we use for our nets. And I don't use my riggers in the tracks as I have them mounted as far back as I can and still reach them. Hope I haven't bored you to sleep.
  5. sherman brown
    I was where you are at about 20 + or _ years ago. But I lucked out, so when I started looking to upgrade to electric, I had a little money saved but not a lot. eBay had 2 Big Jon dealers having a price war. I ended up getting 2 of the pro tournament riggers with auto stop for 500.00 for the pair, then checked with the other guy and got 2 more for 525.00 for a pair. These were normally selling for over 800.00 each. But I had been cranking ever since I started salmon fishing, and still doing it later for walleye. But I did drop to 2 for walleye. I am 74 now and couldn't do manuals now. But it was like kicking my behind for waiting so long to switch, but money was always tight. The boat my son and I bought came with 2 cannon riggers that still work. The auto stop on my Big Jon's had stopped working, not long after I got them, so we're using the Cannon riggers. But I just bought a nice cannon with an extendible boom and auto stop when the ball comes out of the water. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but I paid 200.00 for it, including shipping with PayPal goods and services, and sent an extra 20.00 for fees, so I'm protected if it doesn't work. I bought this for my side of the boat to make it easier on me on the side I cover. But if I find another one similar for a similar price, I may get it. You should be able to find 2 riggers for 400.00 to 500.00 that you can pay using a payment service like PayPal or Cash App for goods, then you have something like 90 days to file a dispute, and they usually refund your money. But never pay that much money in cash or to friends and family unless you know and trust them.
  6. sherman brown
    If you haven't lost at least one net on the big water for salmon, trout, or walleye, you were never a rookie and never took many out with you, LOL. losing one over the side or the back or off the top is one thing but losing one while trying to net a good fish is humbling. Here's wishing all fishermen that go out on the big ponds the best year they have ever had. enjoy the holiday weekend coming up but remember the reason for this holiday and give thanks to all our vets but mostly the ones when never came home.
  7. sherman brown
    I have a couple of nets on the bottom of Lake Erie that we put on the top of the Bimina top to get them out of the way, but handy. They were missing when we went to use them LOL. Now I use tracks and 2 fixed rod holders and store a net on each side of the boat.
  8. sherman brown
    How does the autostop work? Would you be willing to ship at my cost?
  9. sherman brown
    Just a guess but with water in your oil and compression loss it could be a blown head gasket or a cracked or warped head. in my opinion you would be much better off buying a new or rebuilt long block from Michigan motors and forget about your old motor. but remember this is just one person's opinion.
  10. sherman brown
    that's a great price on those riggers when compared to buying new ones.
  11. sherman brown
    those cranks looks awesome. I like lures with purple the best for trolling Lake Erie's central basin but I would love to try a couple of your cranks as they should kill the walleye. if you need someone to test them midsummer just mail me a few, LOL.
  12. sherman brown
    where are you fishing. i haven't fished the western basin lately but back when I did after the jig bite was over most boats started trolling. when I started back in the early 80s most did cast and count down but all we dit was let out a lot of line off our spinning reels and just drift, and very few days we didn't get a 4 man limit. but later when the water cleared and not as many fish we switched to trolling. But later, we started fishing the central basin out of Geneva, Ohio, and trolling was what everyone did. i believe a few guys have been drifting in the central basin since the great influx of new walleye but I have no idea if they are catching walleye.
  13. sherman brown
    i thought the whole purpose of using fluro was so you could use heaver line without spooking line shy fish. if 8# fluro is invisible wouldn't 15# fluro be just as invisible? I went to 20# seaguar premier leader line for my leaders trolling the very clear water in the central basin and I have never looked back and didn't notice any less hits than I was getting with 12# fluro leader. i did this after having 2 huge fish break my 12# leader in rough water.
  14. sherman brown
    the 1st bait would be Steelhead killer and still catch walleye trolling the central basin of Erie out of Geneva Ohio. and I wouldn't count the last out until I gave them a good try.
  15. sherman brown
    when we went to the central basin at Geneva Ohio to fish for walleye. we didn't have a clue about fishing there. we took a charter out and he started letting us help by lunch time. the 2nd day he set the lines and then turned it over to us. if we had a big problem he was there to get us going again. on the 3rd day, we were on our own running 3 dipsies per side. We did manage to get some whopper tangles, but it was usually caused by doing something wrong. However, we did enough on the charter to be able to fish on our own and catch a lot of fish. the charter we were on put us through school so I'm 95% sure if you ask around you will find a caption to take you out and let you do the rigging plus you may get some good advice that will help you in the future. but the most important thing is he fishes almost every day and could put you on fish and tell you how they fished and what worked for them. if you go out on your own you may spend half of the day searching for fish. I feel 100% that your catch rate would double with a charter. his recent time on the water fishing would help you get started fishing without searching for the fish. i wholly recommend you find a charter willing to let you fish on your own without any help other than his advice you would be so much better off.
  16. sherman brown
    after using 13# pancake weights for years, we forgot to load them in the new to us boat. we found a pair of 8# dredge weights and had no choice but to use them. I was amazed at how much less blowback we got with the 8# weights over the 13# pancake weights. i have purchased a set of 10# dredge weights but haven't got to use them yet. i don't know if the side fins pull them down, but I'm a believer in the dredge weights. also called Herbie weights. hope this helps give you a little insight into weights with side fins.
  17. sherman brown
    I was using 13# pancake weights and forgot to load them in our new used boat. found a set of 8# herbies and had to use them. To my amazement, they had less blowback than the 13# pancake weights. I went on to buy a set of 10#, but the 8# was working great. but I just wanted to see how the 10# blowback would be. I haven't had a chance to use them yet, but I'm looking forward to using them. bottom line is the pancake weights are better than the ball weights, and the herbies are better than the pancake weights. I bought a set of 10# weights off another member on this site.
  18. sherman brown
    If the jack plate you use has at least 5" of lift, I can't think of any reason it wouldn't solve your problem. As the 25" is 5" longer, if you can raise it 5", you should be good to go.
  19. sherman brown
    it is listed as the back one set at 1.5 and 20' less line out as the middle one.
  20. sherman brown
    what choices in color do you offer?
  21. sherman brown
    the dredge is the best I've used. I was using b13# pancake weights but had to use 8# dredge weights on one trip and had less blowback than the 13# pancake weights. I bought a set of 10# dredge weights but haven't used them yet.
  22. sherman brown
    you can't worry about the cost! if you figure all the costs involved in fishing and not catching you will never pay even close to the market as you will spend to go fishing. but that's just my opinion. LOL, for what it's worth. I look at it like this if the rod is out the side it may have a little more stress because it's at 90 degrees. but I use Cannon ratcheting rod holders and can set the front one tilted up and the middle one tilted about half as high as the front one then the back one set at 90 degrees will spread the lines out at different angles, but that's using 3 divers per side. I use 3 lite bite slide divers per side for walleye fishing on Erie. I run all of them at 90 degrees out the side and I don't have any lines tangled while trolling. I do use 3 different-length rods which makes it easier to read the lines. I have a 9' in front and the 2nd one is 8' set 20' less than the front diver set on 4.5 and the 2nd diver set at 3.0 then the back one set 20 less than the middle one and the diver set at 1.5 this keeps us from having tangles when letting an outside diver over the inside divers.
  23. sherman brown
    just wanted to add I am very pleased with the 10# dredge weights I received!!!
  24. sherman brown
    I'm just a bit confused by the 30 degree not being as stressful on the rods and reel seats. I would think the pull on the rods and reels would be the same as the 90 degree holders unless the 30 degree is 30 degrees straight back. I run 3 lite bite rigs off each side and I need the 90 degree holders to keep the lines from getting tangled. but that's just me. I'm not trying to start a dispute about them just giving my input on my way of thinking.
  25. sherman brown
    whacker just made a post with a link to buy holders for flush mount holders. you might want to check them out.
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