Hachimo

Lookin for ideas of what I could do to get an auto pilot on my rig at a reasonable price. I dont have a kicker and troll with my main. So I was thinkin maybe putting a kicker on and autopilot on the kicker maybe? I have absolutely no experience with auto pilots. It has the original steering, never upgraded. Just lookin for some thoughts I really appreciate any input and ideas. thanks fellas mike

Thanks for all the help. Think u guys are right with high tecs. After googling high tech spoons it brought me to LOU post from years ago and seen some pics. Now where to get some more. Seems the only place to find them is swap meets and shows.

I went trou some old pics and found more. The top of the middle row theres 4 green spoons. There the ones im lookin for.

A couple years ago when I started fishing Lake Ontario I came across an add on Craigslist of a women selling her husbands tackle collection. He was a retired charter capt. with an extensive collection of spoons, so I purchased them all. There were 4 or 5 of the same spoons silver blue, silver black, and silver green with single hooks that were very productive for me for browns, early and late kings. Unfortunately all the green with eyes swam away in the mouths of fish. Any ideas who makes them?? thanks. mike

Nice work. Congrats. Some really nice lookin fish!

good to see ya get out, and find a decent bite unfortunately at a cost of a rod. Saturday morning I heard a gobbler behind the house, so i took the wife and my slate call so she can experience a turkey hunt. She shot a bear and a few buck but never turkey hunted. Every yelp I made he responded and pulled that bird probly 400-500 yrds right into our laps. Unfortunately not in season yet so she just got a crash course in callin them in.

Sk8man ur not alone. Yesterday i spent 4 hrs setting up my 6 and 8 rod spreads. Adjusted all my rod holders. Even Put my masts up. I was almost temped to have the wife drive the truck to gimme the real effect of trollin pulled out all my favorite spoons and stickbaits and put them in there holders so there on hand ready to go when this virus is controlled.

Nice pics fellas. Nice to see this amount of kings this early. U guys are killing it.

Nice video. Good work out there. Social distancing at its best!

On another note this epidemic has given me ample time to work on my new garage. I started it in January but in between work things were goin slow. Then march hit and things started takin shape.

I like this topic. The times are what ur gonna make of them. Last night my wife and I lit a fire next to my pond behind the house. Classic rock on the radio and a case of beer in the cooler. We sat out there till 1am and ran out of beer. We don’t normally see past 9-10pm but with no work to go to why not. With husbands and wives spending so much time together think 1 of 2 things are gonna happen. Either another round of baby boomers or divorce lawyers r gonna see a boom in business lol

Nice work, and great info posted. U guys are killen me. Lol

I started “seriously”fishing Lake Ontario 3 years ago. On a very tight budget with no gear other then 2 old mag 10’s that came with my boat. On ebay I bought a 4-pack of new okuma magda 45’s combos for $200. First year thats all I had. I would buy 1 or 2 FF setups and 2-3 spoons every trip north. I did well but when guys were goin 10for12 And I’m 3for5 I knew I needed to add more setups. Next year I got 4 wire Diver setups and every trip bought a dipsey n spoon or two. My second year my catch more then doubled. In My opinion the dipseys out fish riggers most of the time and If I had to chose I would leave the riggers home before I left my diver rods. Now starting my 4th year I got copper setups, planer mast leadcores,and to this day my most productive setups Is the dipsey setups. Alot of my gear came used from this site and bein a weekend warrior it works great for me

Do you own a German Shepherd??? Lol. Probly a 1in 10 probability. Especially when the wife gets bored and decides to brush her while trollin I can definitely see the bilge cloggin with hair.

Thats awesome congratulations, I got my first lick of Lake Ontario browns 3 years ago and this site really helped with the learning curve. Lots of helpful members and info here. The longer you stick around this site the easier it will get to get these cows in the boat!

A little off topic, sorry but pretty funny, My German Shepherd has a fish fetish so when im up the cabin and get back i open the cooler and set it on the ground and she brings them in for me. 6FA719D3-ED34-4FD4-BAD8-75F58255ACDA.MOV

I have yet to take my pups on the big lake but take them to my local lake on a regular basis. My Rottwieler (Hachimo) has a habit of puttin his paws on the gunnel and lookin over the sides. I worry about him on Lake Ontario if it got rough goin over the side. Also durrin the caos of doubles,tripples i worry about them gettin hooked.

Yup. Dunno if its true or not but was told any mercury or other crap a fish may have is stored in the body fat, but definitely makes it taste not as “FISHY”. Anyways, nice work.

Longspurs they look delicious, when you fillet the fish do u trim off the dark fat on the skin side of the fillet? Or does anyone else do this? Every fish i fillet I always trim it. Big difference in taste.