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  1. 13owhunter
    The term "stacker" can mean different things to different people. I am under the impression that the OP is talking about what I would call a cheater which attaches to the line and not a stacker which I would call a second release attached to the downrigger line. Running a stacker with a spoon above a FF can be a good technique and shouldn't have an issue with tangles as it's on a second rod. Often a fish comes in to the attractor and hits the spoon.
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    Love to see this stuff!
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    Stack with spoons only or your flasher will rotate on the way up and wind itself around your stacked line. This tends to really make a nice mess of things! I'd be wiling to bet a lot of us have made this mistake. I sure have....
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    Was wondering about this myself. We used to crush them on minnows back in the day in front of hedges. As soon as the minnow was under the boat far enough to not see it anymore you had a fish on all day long. We would have a contest to see how many fish you could catch on one minnow. Definitely not like the ones I'm seeing folks catch today. Most were 1.5 to 2#s. Still a riot on ultralights.
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    Would be amazing if someone made a high quality lever drag LC diver reel. Would be great to be able to get repeatable drag pressure without having to guess. I'll be upgrading my daiwa LC5s to saltists next year.
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    My rig is a bit out of balance due to the kicker and extra house battery in the back. Was downright difficult to make a 180 degree turn into the wind with a stiff breeze and some chop before I added the terrova up front. Would take full concentration which is not good. The TM up front pulls the bow in the right direction which really makes turning effortless. I really wanted that garmin force but couldn't bring myself to pony up the extra dough!
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    I just put a 24v terrova on my 19 footer this year and am running lithium batteries. I really cant see how any other AP system would be any easier to use and you get spot lock. It really works amazing especially paired with a kicker and throttle control. Only downside I can see is if its rough enough to pull the motor out of the water. I got the longest shaft I could and if its rough enough to pull it out to the point it wont steer the boat, its too rough to fish in my rig anyways. Shell go 10+ hours if its calm out which is plenty for me. Total game changer! No longer yelling at my dad, wife, buddy to steer the boat straight when im setting gear. Just need to be a bit more creative when accusing others of the tangles I create. =0)
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    If possible, dont bring them in the boat at all and release at the side of the boat if they are still spunky. I tell my friends that if they want a Pic they are bringing it home with few exceptions. I'll have to try the boga rope trick....
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    We planted a bunch of apple trees at our hunting land. They will need a good bit of light so not sure how successful they will be if planted in a mature hardwood stand. We bought ours cheap from home and garden stores during the fall which is a good time to plant them. Read the labels on the different varieties carefully as some of them have different requirements for pollination. The gypsy moths will shred them unless you spray. Seven works well and we have had luck spraying once a year as soon as you start seeing them. I recommend planting them 5' or 6' tree tubes and planting a few more than you want. After a few years we fertilize with a "spike" and prune interior branches that will get little light. Hope this helps!
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    While I don't fish solo very much i don't think i would run 2 riggers. I would opt for 2 wire (slide) divers and a sinking line presentation off a board or one rigger set deep with a big paddle and meat. Maybe a bit more technical to setup solo but should out fish 2 riggers most of the time and if you have a long line off a board tangles should be minimal. +1 on windfinder app. Its a cool tool but, as mentioned, is a guess. -My 2 cents
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    Haven't had an issue with them not staying put. Got to set them pretty tight as the rubber tubing wants to push against the trip lever.
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    I'm running the mag ring without the heavy weight and have no problem getting down 80+ foot which is not as deep as a big deeper diver. The mag weight is pretty heavy. Probably more so than a DD. Haven't needed to get down much more that that yet this season. I am getting somewhere between 2.5 and 3 to 1 ratio depending on current and speed. Don't be afraid to run a long lead. I'm running 40 foot of 40# mono and a 7 foot leader with good results. Check leader after every trip and pay close attention to any burs or slight defects in manufacturing on the SD. I had one where the line would rub in a few spots that required a bit of sanding to true up. I think you'll get more bites than with a 6 or 7 foot lead.
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    Set lines in about 70fow right in front of sandy about 930. Lines out about 1130. Was out with the wife and daughter and was a bit bumpy but doable. Rain started to come down pretty good shortly thereafter. Temp was 42 down 40 over 70. Picked up a real nice steelhead on a slide diver with glow green alewife spoon out about 150 over about 85 fow. I cant seem to go wrong with that combo this year. Had a knock off on the rigger and caught a really nice grass bass that got hung up in the belly of the line. I should have taken a picture. Was a dandy. Not much bait on the screen from 70 to about 150 but had fish in my gear fairly consistently. Best marks were around 90fow. On the way in there were a few boats fishing in 40-50 fow range. Id bet there was cold water that close. Not a lot of intel here but hope it helps somebody. Any tips for targeting steelhead other than running orange? Bumping up speed a bit perhaps?
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    Great fish! What FOW were you fishing? We thought we waited out the rain and ended up getting wet. Guessing I was fishing a bit deeper than you this morning. Thank you!
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    I just installed the p66 with the adapter cable. Works fine with the 93sv. As mentioned above, you need to select the frequencies manually so it doesn't auto detect. Seems like it is a big upgrade over my Gt54. Marks show up clearer and it picks up a whole lot more. Need a bit more time on the water with it but seems like it was great with my limited experience running it.
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    Picked up some 30# Sunline Supernatural NoFlea Line from Fish USA a week or so ago and tried it out today for the first time. $40 got you 1,200 yards so not terribly expensive. My first impression was this stuff feels like a good quality line. Compared to regular mono it stretches a lot less but just feels good. It is also quite a bit thinner than "regular" line. The specs say 30# is .017. 20# Big Game is .018 so it is actually thinner than a tried and true 20#. I wanted to see how well this stuff compared to "regular" line so I only spooled up one of my reels. The other had 20# yozuri hybrid. (OK maybe not regular line but at least something to compare to) I really did not do any scientific tests with this stuff but at least I had a control. I had both rods down within 20 feet of each other and left them down for about a half hour or so fishing out of Sandy Creek at around 150fow today. Fleas were pretty bad. When i picked up both rods they both had a LOT of fleas on them. The Sunline didnt seem to be any better. I fished the rest of the morning with this stuff and am not impressed. My first impression is that if it helped, the results were minimal. That said, this seems like a good quality line. Reviews of the regular sunline supernatural are great and their flouro is top notch IMO. I will update this post after a couple more trips with my final opinion. Does anyone have any luck with other no flea line? In the past I sprayed my mono with silicone and that seemed to help a bit. I do want to try that at some point with this stuff and see if that helps.
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    We spoke at the dock. I got there a couple minutes before you. I started setting lines in around 100 fow straight out from the channel. Landed a 2 yr old king before i could get the 4th rod set. Fish hit a glow green alewife spoon 40 foot behind a slide diver out about 175. 2 minutes after i got my 6th rod set we landed another 2 year old king on the other slide diver out about 200. Same spoon. Kings were around 150fow. After that we had a steady pick of steelhead between 100-180fow. I believe we caught 5 or 6. One on the slide diver that ripped a whole lot harder than a 5# fish should, 2 or 3 on the rigger with mag UV spoon, one on a sliding cheater with orange SS spoon. Clean meat rig on a 300 copper off a board did nothing. Same as a FF on a 200 steel. Fleas were a bit of a pain. Was excited to try some new "no flea" line and it worked terribly. Ill post a review of it at some point. Nice morning to be on the water!
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    P66 seems like the best bet as you get 600 watts and a 45 degree beam. See below for a side by side of transducers with a wide beam from garmins site. (im sure you are looking at the same thing) Not sure whether the extra 100 watts or 5 degree beam width matters much but the P66 has it all. freq power beam width pins retail UHD Sv Compatible per Garmin GT20 77/200 500w 45/15 4 $99 Yes w/adapter cable GT21 50/200 600w 40/10 8 $149 Yes w/adapter cable GT41 50/200 600w 40/10 12 $199 Yes Garmin Dual Beam 77/200 500w 45/15 8 $79 Yes w/adapter cable Airmar P66 50/200 600w 45/11 8 $159 no??
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    Garmins website says the P66 isnt compatible with the a UHD 93sv but i see that there are 8 pin to 12 pin adapters widely available. I also see that airmar makes a 6 pin transducer for garmin as well. I can get a 6 pin P66 from a buddy. Is there anyway to make that work? Thanks again!
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    This is probably a silly question but it there any reason i shouldnt mount a p66 right next to my gt54 and swap them around as needed? Can the P66 be used at the same time as the gt54 if the frequencies are different? I have 2 head units and have them networked currently so they share the gt54. 19ft aluminum/outboard for me. Thank you for the intel! I think id like to try a P66......
  22. 13owhunter
    The 57 diawa is just a hair larger than the size 45 okuma reels. The size 55 okuma reels are a lot bigger which is nice and confusing! I love my daiwa 57s as I can run almost 300 feet of 32# blood run copper and plenty of 40# backer and get similar depth to the next size reel. A 57 daiwa will not fit 300 foot of 45# copper or weighted steel which is the same diameter. I made this mistake myself......
  23. 13owhunter
    You cannot. You can squeeze 300 foot of 32# copper and a descent amount of 30# braid backing. For WS or 45# copper you can fit about 200 on that sized reel and have a comfortable amount of backer IMO.
  24. 13owhunter
    For what its worth I ran 2 divers in my spread all last year with about 7-8 foot leaders and they just flat out werent working for me. Switched to slide divers this year and am running 40 foot leaders and they are out producing my riggers and junk lines 3:1.
  25. 13owhunter
    Lines in at about 630 and out around 1030. Started in 90 and headed straight out until about 225 which was past a few boats. Picked up a few fish then stayed around 175 for a bit and picked up a few more. No bait and almost no fish on the graph. Action slowed a bit then headed shallower where there were a few boats. Started to see a little bait and fish on the screen. Action was pretty steady all morning. Ended up 12/14. 11 kings and an atlantic. 1 king was mature and 1 was a skippy so lots of 2 year olds. Slide divers with glow green alewife spoons in both mag and regular were hot anywhere from 100 to 200 foot out. (standard size with mag ring) Mature came on a 200 steel off a board with a moonshine crab face spoon. The other mature we hooked was on a 300 copper with a F/F. I ran another F/F on a rigger and that was the only rod that didnt see any action. Most fish seemed pretty high in the water column. Water temp down 50 was 45-50. Best water seemed to be around 125. Took a buddy and his kid out for his birthday. Kid had a blast!
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