Dan M

Hey all, I bought my Tracker Pro V16 last fall (used), and this year I noticed a couple hair line cracks in the hull that take on a little water. Nothing crazy, but if I don't have to run the bilge I'd rather not. 

Can anyone recommend a welder that has experience with aluminum boats in the Rochester area? 

I'm not sure what the procedure would be for the fix, I assume I would have to take off the deck and remove the foam in the locations - so it's looking like a winter project.

We got skunked. Got out there in my 16' and said "this is less than 1'??" anyhow, stayed in close at first until it calmed down around 1030-11am a bit and ventured out deeper.

Didn't have my downriggers (waiting on USPS traxtech mounts) so I was just running 2 dipsy rods.

Lost my one dipsy when I got out there - tried to pop the dipsy arm, wire must have been kinked, lost the whole damn thing.

Ended up using the mag dipsys I had and freaking things CONSANTLY got tangled - I Never have that happen with the regular ones.

To add insult to injury, my cooler flew back on the way to the launch, landed right on my new St Croix Avid rod and bent 3 guides. AAAAAHHHHHHH (the brand new one I was trying to sell on here *sigh*)

Have to call St Croix Monday and send it in for repair

ttt

Just now, spoonfed-1 said:

I run 600's on my wires and rigger rods for salmon, 500's on my Brown trout rods. Haven't fished the new ones yet, these are the old style.

Ok - I have a pair of the new 500s, very nice, but they are a bit smaller than my Okuma Coldwater 300 size - so I'd probably have to go with 600s

Are you still looking for a 2116?

Bit of a long shot here, but does anyone have a pair of Scotty 1099s that would want to trade for a 2116? I bought the 2116 new off of LOU, and it's nice as hell, but so overkill for my boat. I'm thinking I'm better off with 2 smaller ones that I could put on my rails in the Traxtech tracks.

I never felt comfortable running the 2116 in my tracks with the amount of torque it puts out and the weight of it.

What size tekotas are you guys using for downriggers? I have the 500's for my wire dipsy setups.

Close please

Musky Casting Setup – 13 Fishing Concept A3 & St Croix Premiere 8’6 MH 30-65# rod. $280– Excellent condition – barely used. (still have the box for the reel)

My new fish hawk got me so stuck on trying to stick at 2.5mph instead of varying speed I didn't even try anything else speed wise.

13 minutes ago, Pappy said:

Just a heads up to you guys fishing today, I fished yesterday morning.

speed was critical, 2.9 to 3.1 and they hit everything you put down that was green or ladderbacked

anything under that strikes were hard to come by

FYI

I was out there too - wish I had tried faster, stuck around 2.5 and only managed 2 around 200 FOW

https://rsnetsusa.com/our-nets/ - check out the king net. I love mine.

Bump!

3 hours ago, Traveling Circus said:

Good fishing for us today. 3 majors, 2 juvi kings, one shaker and 2 steelhead, and we probably dropped 4 fish.  250 - 300 fow out of Sandy. We took fish on both spoons and spinny fly...….. riggers, cheaters, diver rods all took fish. 160 on the wire divers, and 35 to 60 down worked on the riggers. 2.3 - 2.5 MPH. Quit fishing at 10:30. Flat water, nice breeze, good company, great day...………….

Nice! Were you marking alot of bait when catching? We were out there but hardly saw a thing. Maybe we started too late - 730-2pm

PM

Sold - please close.

Just now, Offshore IV said:

Nice laker! How was the drag set on your rigger? If it was stiff, a screaming salmon could very easily wipe your whole set. What line broke? Mono, flouro? Another possibility is it crossed another taught line. When two lines under pressure cross, they will break extremely easy. 

 

Lake O claimed another set, sorry buddy ha been there and will again it happens

Yes it was stiff - mono - I would have preferred to have it looser, but the drag kept slipping due to speed and depth of the rigger I assume (think I had it at 100 foot down)

Went out of Braddocks today, started at 80 FOW and fished out to 260 FOW. Fished back and forth around 200 - 120 FOW most of the day and pretty much a blank screen for almost all of the day. There was one bait pod at 120 FOW that was 40 foot tall - but no fish around it.

My son landed his first laker and we lost a smaller laker and steelhead. Other than that, very slow day. Fished from 7am-2pm.

My flasher fly on my downrigger went off sometime during the day - and when I went to reel in the Flasher and Fly were gone, swivel and everything. What would cause that?

I went with an RS Net this year, very good quality.

I'm in the same (small) boat as you in my 16' Tracker. I've been out a few times this year  5 or 6, and been out to 200 FOW no problems on calm days. Now, the next several days looks like too much for me 1-3,4' according to windfinder, so I'll probably go chase musky instead. That's whats nice about the small boats!

1 hour ago, ifishy said:

no but if you live near braddock (roughly half way) you could get to either one of those places quickly

 

maybe 30 mins with how i drive a little more with a calmer person

especially if your near the parkway that is just a very convient drive from the river all the way to the oak and anywhare in between

 

 

 

I’m on vintage right at 390 so close to parkway and Braddocks. I’ve never launched at the Oak before 

Took my father in law for the first time today for 3 hours. Worked from 50FOW - 150FOW without hardly seeing anything. Maybe marked 3 fish worth mentioning. Mostly stared at an empty screen and enjoyed the sunshine

I live 8 min from Braddocks so I've been launching there in my 16' Tracker Pro V. This is my first year trolling Lake O so I'm still learning. As the season/summer goes on and the salmon move out to deeper water (I assume they do?) is it worth it to launch out of Braddocks since it's so close, or make the 30 min run to the Oak launch? Friend said that Oak drops off faster so it's easier/faster to get to deeper water - I've never launched there before.

Thoughts?

Installed trim tabs over the weekend, launched at 8am to test them out and see if I could find some fish.

Realized I had forgot to plug / 3m one of the 1/4" holes in the transom from the transducer move. Boat leaked like a civ so I had to leave.

Ooops

- side note - bilge pump works great

Are we open there?