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  1. sherman brown
    I don't always get my dr balls if I use light weights. I use 13# pancake weights now and usually mark them. what I did on my finder to get a good arch on fish was speed the scroll up when trolling.
  2. sherman brown
    I like 4 for salmon fishing. 2 with 4' booms out the side and 2 with 2' or 3' booms off the corners. but now I only fish walleye on erie and run 2 out the side with 6 lite bite slide divers.
  3. sherman brown
    you can try going to a bigger prop or go up about 4 degrees in pitch. you should lose about 200 rpm's for every 2 degrees of prop[ pitch. what diameter and pitch prop are you using now????? I have a 14 1/4 diameter prop on my mercruiser 5.7 motor. I had to cut part of the little trim tab/anode so the larger prop would work.
  4. sherman brown
    yes you get blow back when the boat is moving, more so with lighter weights. any rigger counter isn't going to be perfect. but with the boat stopped it should be close. I use a 13# pancake just to reduce the blowback.
  5. sherman brown
    yes you can get a flange that it will screw into. the backing plate should be somewhat larger than the flange as most of the pressure will be on the backing plate.
  6. sherman brown
    I don't like the duel axis as they adjust from one pin hole to the next which is to far most of the time. with the single axis I can adjust as little as I want. but thank you for replying.
  7. sherman brown
    if you have some cannon single axis ratcheting rod holders I need 4 of them.
  8. sherman brown
    it really depends on just how deep you want to fish. clip on weights are used on erie to get down to the fish on the western basin. you can use any leads you want from 6' in front of the spoon to 60' then clip on the weight usually 1 or 2 oz weights are used. then let the weight out to get to the desired depth. the inline weight can also be used to get the spoon down. the inline weight is used a lot on the central basin on erie. a 3 oz weight is usually used then to get to deeper depths. you can find inline weights at rednekoutfitters.com which also has a depth chart for there weights. the depth will depend a lot on speed, the slower you go the deeper your lure goes, the faster you go the shallower your lure will be.
  9. sherman brown
    the traxstech are costly but they are the bomb. 200 ft per minute with a 20 lb weight. faster with lighter weights. also has the soft stop with a great auto stop.
  10. sherman brown
    if they had been lite bites I would have bought them for sure.
  11. sherman brown
    I think its 4800 to 5000 but I wouldnt want to run that rpm all day. I usually only run about 3500 when cruising.
  12. sherman brown
    you might find a strap with a fitting that will go around your big motor like it does on the little motor. I just checked on ebay and they have the brackets. they even have one made for the etec motor.
  13. sherman brown
    do you have your gps set on mph or knots? I think a knot is something like 1.3 mph so 22 x 1.3 is a little over 28 mph. check your gps and see which one your using.
  14. sherman brown
    the speed and the rpm's don't seem to match. I don't run my 5.7 over 5000 rpm's in my 21' glass boat and run well over 30 mph. maybe your prop hub is slipping. are you plaining off ok? what type speedometer are you going by? if your going by a dash speedometer that is run off water pressure the pitot tube could be blocked.
  15. sherman brown
    I have drilled holes through the cavitation plate and mounted a trolling plate to it. I see no reason that it would hurt anything.
  16. sherman brown
    hopefully you'll never have to change another one.
  17. sherman brown
    great price on a nice fishing boat.
  18. sherman brown
    how about wall-eye doctor. its catchy and its not about drugs.
  19. sherman brown
    the traxstech holders fits my cannon tracks just fine. I don't know why the cannon wouldnt fit traxstech tracks.
  20. sherman brown
    if you are going to be running riggers its probably best to use some type of backing plate or maybe fender washers. I just have my tracks mounted with ss screws screwed into the fiber glass. works great for running 3 dipsy's on each side. however I did run 2 big jon 48" boom with 12# weights last yr on one trip. didnt have any problems at all. but it was a one time thing. if I decide to run them all the time i'll switch to machine screws and put fender washers and nuts on my tracks.
  21. sherman brown
    thats the way I mounted my two 24" tracks but I only left about a 5" gap. its easy to remove the rod holders this way. and I believe its better to have to much track than to not have enough.
  22. sherman brown
    I like a longer track so I can space my holders out. I started with a 24" but didnt have enough spacing for 3 rods running dipsy's. so I added another 24". now I have room for 3 rods and one for the net. you cant go wrong with the longer track. I have the cannon single axis ratcheting holders and they are the best holder you can get in my opinion. I tried the double axis but the left to right adjustment was from one pin hole to another. the single axis is as much or as little as you want.
  23. sherman brown
    i've decided to stick with the cannon as it takes one hand to lower the holder. the 17 adjustments on the traxstech is better than the cannon. but with the rod in one hand its nice to be able to lower the holder just by squeezing the holder and adjusting it. the traxstech takes both hands.
  24. sherman brown
    I have used seaguar inviz x for my downriggers on erie's central basin. but I split a spool on 2 reels. never used it on a spinning reel.
  25. sherman brown
    don't have any need for the 25" shaft. would love to have one with a 20".
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