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  1. Dan M
    Friend in Charleston suggested center console - huge lack of storage to me and seems like a big lack of casting deck.
  2. Dan M
    If this diagram makes sense at all - how big of a boat can I fit in my space? Current setup is 20'8" long and 82" wide and it fits in straight. I could angle it in the corner to fit a bigger boat. Trying to figure out how big I can realistically go in my garage with my wife not killing me because she can't park her car.
  3. Dan M
    I added a fold away tongue to this one - I have like 20' from front to back, but it's a car and a half so I can go in at an angle and get some more room. Just not sure just how big I could go and fit. 18 would PROBABLY fit - not sure about 19. If I was good at maths I could probably figure it out
  4. Dan M
    I bought two bags from Amish outfitters and they slowed down my 16' aluminum nicely.
  5. Dan M
    Wife finally budged a bit on getting a newer boat - now I'm trying to figure out what I would want to get. Budget is 10k or less. Primarily going to be used for musky and trolling the finger lakes. Maybe lake O at times when it's nice. Probably leaning towards a 16 or 17.5 deep V which I would still be able to fit in my garage. My current boat is an 82 Duranautic - only 70" wide which is very cramped for my brother and I. Will spend probably 70/30 trolling / casting on this boat. Thoughts or suggestions?
  6. Dan M
    Varying from 3.5 - 4.5. Yesterday we hit the first one on a 6" diver over 25 FOW - 16' down ( just found the bait and targetted) - took 2 hours to hit that one. Then the second one came in like 15 FOW as I was reeling in the lure to check for weeds. That got the heart pumping, wasn't expecting to get blasted with the trolling rod in my hand We also missed a strike as I stopped from 4mph to idle and the hit came on the stop. Previous time we went 2 hits were at 4.5mph and one at 3.8ish. Time before that we landed 5 all around 3.5mph.
  7. Dan M
    I think I'm not in shallow enough water when casting - my boat is usually sitting at 13-16 FOW when I try to cast
  8. Dan M
    We've seemingly got the trolling down and caught some good fish year (one lucky lure has gotten 6-8 musky so far) - I'd like to catch a musky casting still. Any tips on lures or depths to cast at? I get trolling - looking for bait balls & fish, adjusting depth of lures to target, but I'm not sure what I'm really looking for as far as casting goes. If I was fishing for largemouth I'd be casting at docks, structure etc. West side of Waneta is more of a gradual dropoff where East side is steep. Are the musky in shallow in fall? If so, are you casting right to shore and retrieving back to boat? Or are you targeting the bottom of the lake with a bulldowg or similar?
  9. Dan M
    Put a solid 2 days trolling there Monday and Tuesday without a bite. First time there - spent Monday trolling from south to north and back and Tuesday mostly south. Gave up and went to Waneta today and landed 2 in 4 hours. Chataqua was much tougher than I thought it would be.
  10. Dan M
    I'm going to install downriggers on the next boat for sure. So for this one I'll stick with dipsys. Prob load up a 300 with wire and just enjoy the fight for what it is - meat for the cooler - when I'm not fishing for musky
  11. Dan M
    1000ft of wire fit on my Tekota 500. I think the 300s fit 500-600ft. Looking at the https://www.tackledirect.com/daiwa-lexa-lc300pwr-p-lexa-lc300-line-counter-baitcasting-reel.html now - which will probably end up being what I go for.
  12. Dan M
    I'll have two leftover Talora wire roller rods that I'm going to have a rod builder friend replace the guides on with high end ones (at cost) that will run wire - and a twilli top. That way I don't have to buy anymore rods, and won't get killed trying to sell my two rolller setups. But yea, I think the 300s will be good with the wire, not sure how much it will fit, but I'm sure it will be more than enough for the finger lakes.
  13. Dan M
    If I was going to continue to run dipsys - don't really care to invest in riggers right now - would 10# be too little of a weight? Thinking the 30# blood run I have might just be what it ends up being - and putting as much as I can fit on the 300s - unless I wanted to move up to 500s
  14. Dan M
    So I've taken the wire off my Tekota 600s and replaced with braid for musky trolling, and swapped the Talora roller rods for St Croix Musky trollers. That leaves me with 2 Talora wire rods. - now I'm on the fence with what to do. I originally thought maybe I'd be able to go for salmon, but I found myself just fishing in the finger lakes for trout on dipsys, and chasing musky this year. Catching trout on the 600s was not fun at all, 0 fight on 30# wire. I still have the wire - should I get 2x Tekota 300s? and run the wire on them with dipsies? Any other suggestions? I'd like to have at least a little fight on the fish, and the 600s just horsed them in really, even the 10# laker I caught.
  15. Dan M
    Price lowered to $325
  16. Dan M
    It is - however I'm going to Chataqua on the 7-10 to fish, so a tourney right before with the wife wouldn't go over so well
  17. Dan M
    Sorry, I forgot to list the price. $375 and Rochester NY
  18. Dan M
    Spent way too much money on musky gear so I have to let one of my bass setups go Daiwa Certate 2004CH on a 6'8" St Croix Legend Tournament rod. This is a very high end reel, completely mag sealed 11 ball bearings. I have two of them, smoothest reel I've ever used (read about it here - http://www.indepthangler.com.au/uncategorized/review-daiwa-16-certate-2004-spinning-reel/ ) The rod is super nice as well as well as a long warranty with St. Croix. . Both in mint condition.
  19. Dan M
    Trevor B. McGuckin and I crushed it today landing 5/6 musky. Largest was 36” - landed it with no handle on my reel! The reel flew apart as I grabbed the rod out of the holder - fish was jumping and I’m trying to reel this thing in using my thumb and forefinger turning a 1/4 bolt! Great times! IMG_0127.mp4
  20. Dan M
    Annoying but not unfishable. About the same as they were at Canandaguia
  21. Dan M
    Launched at Deans around 6am trolled around the launch for a bit with 2 dipsy rigs. One running a bronze multi colored Michigan Stinger Scorpion and the other a flasher fly. Scorpion proceeds to catch a 6# and 9.5# laker pretty early on, and a smaller laker later. Flasher fly gets nothing. Multiple dinky landlocked on the scorpion throughout the day and the larger spoon, and a nice landlocked 5# on a blue/silver Michigan Stinger, as well as a smaller one that I put back. Pretty good action for just myself out there. Most fish caught 40-50' down (dipsy setting 2.5-3 100-135' line out 30# wire.) and around 2.4-2.7mph. Early bite was good, died down after 10:30 - 11am. I need a bigger cooler. The 45q bends them all up
  22. Dan M
    Thanks for the tips! Thinking now that I'm just going to go to Cayuga for the day since it's just me and give it another shot. I mean its supposed to be great right?! Launching at Dean's, any tips on where to go? North/South? Last time it was awful for us I'd love to have a good day there.
  23. Dan M
    Thanks South end hasn't seemed too bad, Cayuga is a bit farther for me, and I was a little concerned about the wind there being a larger lake. Side note - at Canandaigua, I've been using these smaller stingers, would these larger ones work as well? I bought for salmon. The lake trout had fish in their bellies around the same size.
  24. Dan M
    Gonna head out by myself with 2 dipsy rods Sat morning - I haven't fished either lake on the weekend before - would launch out of South end Canandaigua or Deans cove Cayuga. Which would you prefer on a Sat? Only fished Cayuga once and it was very slow for us.
  25. Dan M
    Did you see the pics of the boat? I mean yes I know it's possible to mount downriggers here, but it is seriously crowded just running 2 dipsy rods off the back. It's not a very wide boat. I'm going to just run dipsys until I can get something a bit bigger.
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