Hachimo

On 8/14/2019 at 4:28 PM, Fishnut said:

The head is too big! When they get into the 30 lb range the head looks too small for there body. I’d bet this fish would is in the mid twenties at best. Nice fish for sure but not close to 40 by a long shot.

 

 

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The bottom fish was 38” long and weighed 25.5 lbs. notice how his head looks small?

You are absolutely right. I havent been lucky enough to catch over 24lbs yet but back in the 90’s fishing the river with my grandfather he seem to get into the 30’s quite often i and I remember laughin at the fish with little heads. Lol. every pic posted also of big kings all look unevenly porportioned with little heads. 

On 8/14/2019 at 4:28 PM, Fishnut said:

The head is too big! When they get into the 30 lb range the head looks too small for there body. I’d bet this fish would is in the mid twenties at best. Nice fish for sure but not close to 40 by a long shot.

 

 

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The bottom fish was 38” long and weighed 25.5 lbs. notice how his head looks small?

You are absolutely right. I havent been lucky enough to catch over 24lbs yet but back in the 90’s fishing the river with my grandfather he seem to get into the 30’s quite often i and I remember laughin at the fish with little heads. Lol. every pic posted also of big kings all look unevenly porportioned with little heads. 

If you never tried it, it is cool to experience the feel of a hit. You yank for hours then all of a sudden the line pulls back jerkin.  Last trip when i had the first hit i would have lost fingers if i had the line wrapped around them. Probly a king cause it hit like a freight train.

I figured it was an “old method of fishing”. But it caught my grandfather alot of fish. I’ll be fishing out of Mexico Sunday aug25 tru the 29th.  Definitely gonna try sending leadcore down the chute and will post if it does anything for me

Man, your strugglin to pose for a pic with a 33lb fish also.  Thats one strong women to hold 42lb fish without any issue

Second rule of LOU. Don’t talk about the Gary D rig

I’m just courious if anyone yanks spoons on leadcore.  When i was 8-9 years old and started trolling for lake trout in canada with my grandfather and then kings on Lake Ontario a couple years later we always had a ten color out with speedy shiners and i would yank that all day giving the spoon a rapid increase of speed then slow down and fludder back.  We put alot of meat on the deck this way.  I haven’t ran leadcore since i was 12.  Now 20 years I’m wondering if anyone does this for kimgs.  My last trip up in the beginning of June fishing wasn’t very good and I didn’t have a leadcore combo so i ran my 400copper and just for the hell of it i started yanking it. after 30 seconds the line got ripped out of my hand and drag was spooling,only to come undone.  I got it out again and after 15 min i got about an 8lb king. Only two hits in 4hrs of fishing.  I’m just wondering if anyone still does it. I know i will be yanking away my next trip up. 

Definitely is a nice fish but can’t see it weigh anywhere near 40lbs unless it had 10lbs of lead in the gut.  I have a pic of a striper i caught a few years back and I’m possing almost the same way for the pic. The striper was caught on lake wallenpaupack. Weighed 33lb 4oz. 42in on official scale. I just had to put the pics next to each other to compare 

Sshh.  One rule of LOU.  Dont talk about the Gary D rig

Good stuff Jeremy.  Thanks for all your reports.  Gotta make for a tough day running solo on a chop

Would my PA boater safty card be good in Ny? I would think it would be. In PA if you born after 1982 you must have safty card when operating a vessil  20hp or more and PWC. I’ve been stopped a few times by fish commision on my local lake with my 25ft trophy and have yet to be asked if I had my safty card. I guess PA doesnt enforce it much

Thank you Legacy.  Much appreciated 

I have two copper combos.  One 450 and the other was 400 but now 300 after a rogue king wrapped it around every line in my 6 spread.  

Just lookin to see how long and what line you guys are useing for leader

Thanks AGAIN fellas

Great report.  Great to see the next generation of fisherman out havin a blast.  I was a little younger then them guys when i got my first king and got hooked. 20 years later finally got a big boat and now its a major part of my life.  

Nice work!

Sorry to hear your experience and glad you figured it out yourself.  I just had a similar issues with my 25ft trophy doggin at high rpms.  I’m a jack of all trades master of nothin.  I posted on here my issue and within a few hrs i had multiple angles to approch the problem. Fuel pump was weak. Put new one on and it ran much better. Also pickup had some restrictions.  Also did a complete tune up on distributor.  Boat running great now.  Some really great experienced guys on this site really help me and saved me from from getting robbed.  I spent $80total and 4 hrs of time.  

thanks

mike

1 hour ago, Yankee Troller said:

When pulling flashers on divers we use 25lb McCoy Mean Green. With a proper drag you should have no issues. I can't say we've ever been cracked off becasue of our leader. I will add one thing. Mono stretches. Fluorocarbon doesn't. 

So i run wire combos with snubbers and use flouracarbon leader. I got a few spools of 50lb big game(all my rigger rods have 50lb to help with fleas). Am i better off using that for dipsey leader?

I’m only a 2nd year fisherman on the lake.  I run 40lb flouracarbon for dipsey leader. I had my first two break offs ever my first trip out this year and i blame it on trying to “thumb” the drag to slow them down.  They were screaming drag and as soon as I tried to slow them down it was over.  And also lost $50ish in gear.  Won’t do that again.  

Nice work!

Wow, sorry to get this started with a simple question.  I’m only fishin Lake Ontario for two years. I got ALOT to learn.  This site helped alot. All the reports with lures,depths speeds.etc change from day to day. So i often ask what producing, but at the end of the Day I run my program  the way i do. HB2 thats your own rig, i’m guessIng.  Congrats on puttin something together that works. Who knows if it will work tomorrow or the next

Nice work.  Seems like a good day for alot of guys today. Thanks for the report

Thats a good first hour n a half.  Been hearing lots about this Gary D rig.  What is it?  

Thanks.  

Mike

So i had some time after work yesterday to play with the boat.  I ordered two electric fuel pumps and two water separators. (I like to keep a spare everything on board) as soon as i hooked up the pump i noticed a big deifference in psi comin out of pump.  Put everything back together,hooked up the muffs and its back to running normal. It still has a little miss while running but not boogin down fallin on its face. So i have a complete distributor tune up kit plugs and wires on the way and hopefullY thats the end of that

thanks for all the help

16 minutes ago, newmike said:

If you click on the letters beneath the pic a video will play. I don't know why it happened like that

I think your new bigger cooler is to small!!!   Lol.  Good stuff.  

I must be talking about another place then.  I’m frequently lookin for cabins/cottages to rent near mexico. Especially if they got docking available. If you got a website please let me know.   Hopefully i get into salmon country next year definitely will make trips much more comfortable 

My biggest salmon so far this season was 9lb.   havent been out since mid june. My two weekend trips i boated 18 salmon most 4-9lb range but also a bunch of small steelhead