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  1. On 6/19/2021 at 5:24 PM, ErieBuck said:


    How does the telescopic feature work on the Denali? Any issues with storage/transport?

    Early and late season lake trout, steelhead and smallmouth make a more expensive rod worth it for me. I caught 2, 7lb walleye this week and neither was able to pull off the Scotty planer board clip. 4lb sheephead, no problem!


    Ive also got some of the Denali telescoping leadcore rods and they are sweet and would pair very well with your tekotas….tho much pricier than other options listed.  If you have a rod locker beware tho….they don’t quite fit in the 7’ lockers on my boat even when collapsed.  Not sure how you lake trout fish but I wouldn’t try a telescoping rod on a downrigger….jmo.

  2. 12 hours ago, C3M said:

     

    With the short bus flashers, are you running meat rigs, flies or spoons? With the pure rotational movement of the shortbus I was curious if flies/meat would get the same action as a traditional flasher.

     

    Thanks,

    -Chris 

    Shortbus makes the triangle rotary flashers but they also make 11” paddles, check out their website.  Big paddle flashers are a staple out on the west coast/Columbia river and also the ocean fishery with cut herring behind them.  I run meat rigs behind the 11”ers.  Behind the triangle rotary flashers u can run pretty much whatever u want (I like to run meat with no teasers).  If u walleye fish try running the small rotary flasher directly off ur bottom bouncer rig with a worm harness or gambler rig behind it.

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  3. If you’re running meat (you should be) def get some of the kingfisher/fish n chip style flashers as well.  I’ve also got some west coast shortbus 11” paddles that have been very effective (no echip).  Got a new Gibbs flasher I can’t wait to get in the water….these flasher are not as speed forgiving as spin doctors (seem to take more fish at a little slower speed) and 11+” flashers have more drag and can make fish act weird when u get them near the boat….but man are they effective for chinook.

  4. Unreal….Wanna guess how the fishing is on onieda right now?

     

    wife likes coming up here for the week of Fourth of July but every summer I end up trying to fish in top of this mayfly hatch.  Good thing my freezer doesn’t need anymore walleye.

  5. I run longest setback and shallowest running lure the outside, with shorter setbacks and deeper running lures as you get toward the boat….avoiding line tangles is all about the line angle coming off those boards.  I do not run 3 leadcore lines off each side….I think for leadcore you want your shortest core on the outside with your longer deeper cores off the inside.

     

    Warning tho that big walleyes can break your spread no matter how good your spacing is.  This 11lber ate the outside board and stayed deep (as big ones will do), and got under my middle snap weight.  Some slick work by the net man got him in the boat.

     

     

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  6. Stealth can matter a little bit too when the sun gets high and a lot of boat traffic gets on the water.  Having a little more line in the water isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  I find that some of those bluebird days around 10 am ish my leadcore lines start out producing my shorter snap weighted lines.  Strictly talking about walleye fishing here.

  7. Ive run the suffix advanced for two years now.  I touched down in 45’ last year with a #9 shad rap on a 5 color going 1.8....was pretty impressed with that.  Gotta use a uni knot to connect though the sheath is very thin and u can’t use a Willis knot.  Fits on my 200 size convectors so that’s why I went with the small diameter/high sink rate.

     

    Had a teener sheepie eat a crankbait and pull my board under and everything held.  Pretty happy with it, this year I’m gonna try out the 12lb....even smaller diameter.

  8. Small boat harbor boat launch is the best launch I’ve been to in the state....very impressive....great parking....like 8 lanes, wash down stations.  Launched there for the first time a couple weeks ago on a Monday.  I would imagine it gets pretty rockin on a weekend but it’s def built to move people thru.

  9. I have a relatively short bunk trailer and couldn’t get my boat off at the north launch even when punching the breaks.  Some guys were able to make it....my sense is their trailers were longer from the tongue to the wheels.  I had tailpipes in the water.  Will reiterate about trimming up at the south end...not just sand either.

  10. I gotta put in another pitch for the targa.  I think tracker has kinda a bad name for whatever reason, but really all these aluminum boats are cheapish build quality when u really get poking around in them.  My buddies 18’ targa is much wider and much heavier than my 17.5 alumacraft and much nicer to fish out of IMO.  I don’t love the huge casting platform in the back but if you do more casting/jigging than trolling you probably will.  I think the price point on them is quite a bit lower too than a new Lund/alumacraft.  Storage and live wells are awesome and again much better than my 17.5 dominator.

  11. Flew over Lake Erie on the way to Detroit on a clear day Wednesday.  Very spotty/little ice all the way past presque isle.  Only the far western edge of Erie is really “locked up”.  It’ll be another early spring with regards to Erie and Ontario.

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  12. Yeah gotta slide the weight forward a bit when pulling heavy snap weights especially.  Seems more sensitive to snap weights than leadcore...prolly from the line angle off the back of the board.  If running real light stuff like shallow running stick baits or spoons I slide the weight back.  This can keep the nose up and keep it from wanting to dive under in big waves...in calm water it doesn’t much matter.  Church boards def seem to sit a little lower in the water and can be a little bit more finicky to set up than the offshore boards.  I think they plane out a bit better/don’t drop back as far as the offshore tho.

  13. I’ve also got interstate group 27’s on my bow mount 70lb thrust.  I get maybe 6 hours before they start to dog.  I have them on essentially all the time during that 6 hours running 30-50%.  Not super happy with that performance.  Looking hard at lithium deep cycles as the price is coming down really fast on them.  Still will be much more expensive than lead but you’ll get supposedly 2x the runtime because they draw down completely as opposed to 50%.  Anyone make this switch to lithium yet?  Heard they charge much faster as well.

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