tyler.woodard04

Morning, ordered some new rods for my wire divers and they came with the roller tips already installed.  Went out last night for the first time with them.  Other than being a bit stiffer than i thought they would be they worked good.  I did set these up with mono backer/wire/braid/fluorocarbon leader.  This worked well.  The Dipsy was clipped to the braid with a offshore clip with peg by wrapping the braid around the clip once.  Lets us adjust the distance behind the diver as well as remove the diver one handed for ease of netting fish.  They tripped as they should on clearing lines.  But my concern is on the roller tip.  They swivel a bit in each direction off the centerline of the rod.  On clearing the last line i had the braid jump the roller and get off to the side.  Was a easy fix and did not damage anything but if the wire did it not so good.  The braid and wire are only 0.001" different in size.  Used the Twilli tips in the past and am not opposed to it again just curious if anyone else has had line jump the roller and get between the roller and guide and if there is a easy solution to using them without that happening.  

looking for a new 1000' spool of the bright if anyone has any extras

Looking to try a 4 blade. The mercury prop finder suggests a 10.3x13 for the 4 blade. If anyone has one they want to get rid of let me know. Thanks

Lines in about 6:30 just east of the channel. 100 fow. Dropped a rigger 105 with a NBK and NBK slide. Other rigger had a spin doctor wonder bread and purple fly. Port dipsys out 180, 3 setting with green/glow spin doctor and green meat head. Starboard out 210, 3 setting dark green/gold chrome back with dark green fly. Trolled west keeping our slightly. Tough troll with a 16' boat. Trolling motor kept coming out of the water. Down temp was 44 to 50 depending on speed. Had to keep it about 2 mph. Any faster was hard to do anything. Deep rigger went in about 120. Dad grabbed it and fought a nice king a bit over 20 lbs. Got that one in the box and reset. Kept going west and the same rod went, this time on the slider. I fought that one and Dad cleared the other rigger and port dipsys. Starboard dipsys went off and we had a double going. Did the over/under dance a few times. Ended up killing the kicker and just ran the trolling motor. Got mine to the boat and it made a couple more runs at the net. Dad set his down and tried to net mine but it got off. Same size as the first. 10 more minutes and we got his to the boat and had to hand line that one it. Just under 20 lb. We pulled the gear and where back at the launch before 9, had some other obligations. Marked quite a few fish today. Hope everyone else is having good luck out there. 

Where are you located 

Will be in Alex bay mid August. Hoping to get into some walleye. Anyone have any tips/tricks/pointers on where to start looking? Thanks

Bay bridge tackle shop does. Picked up some last weekend

I know everything in my boat less the trolling motor run off the one  battery. I have the lowrance set up to show voltage. Normally it showing 13+ volts when the kicker is on. And off about 12. That is a 2011 9.9

Lines in about 6:30 100 fow, cold up high. Set riggers at 50 and 40, dipsys out +/- 100. Saw some fish on the surface so 2 deep diving flicker minnows on the big boards. Headed north only saw a few. Came back south to 100 and headed west. Took a eating size king on a slider. Mag nbk. Reset and a flat line went off. Lost that one but looked like a 18" steelhead. Didn't get that line back in and the slider went again. Fish went in front of both riggers. Got it off of one and broke it off the second. That was a better one. Tough when they charge the boat like that and are that shallow. So if anyone finds a mag nbk let me know! Fished till 10 and nothing else hit.

yeah I cant see the video. 

On 5/10/2023 at 10:21 AM, Glenn -Brazee said:

These work fine. Greg has put diagram and a video clip in other post. Basically put 1st lure down on your DR weight,then put down a bit and attach the same rod line into the red clip portion, close clip. Attach favorite lure with lead to other end of clip. Basically a fixed stacker until fish is on. Hope this helps. Great guy to deal with.

Any chance that diagram is available?  did a search and could not find it

Morning. We where lines in the water about 630. Spoon/flasher fly/meat. Started little over 100 and worked out to 200. Saw some fish and bait scattered. Did take one shaker king I. 180, 225' out on a wire dipsy 3 setting with meat. Had to pickup up about 10 for other obligations. DEC fish survey was in the channel on the way in. Nice day out. Boats where concentrated early then started breaking up. Only saw a couple out deep. 

Taking my father in law in the morning, been a few weeks since we have been out there. Any info on a starting point? Thanks

Sure is

Run leadcore onto one of them in the amount you want then add the braid to fill the spool. Then reverse that onto another reel of the same size. Then you know your full.

trying to avoid running inlines but may end up going that route.  how are you guys running long lines off your big planers?  I only plan on running one line per board with a diver rod and rigger rod on the same side.  6 rod spread.  my other option is double divers.  if i go with the long lines how are you deploying them to not get caught in the dipsy line?  was thinking let out the 50-100 of line with lure.  attach the weight, let out the 50-100' needed to get to the depth we are after but im not sure if that would be enough to clear the wire.  understanding the wire is down and out at an angle and the lines off the boards should be shallower at the lure to not cause any issues when a fish hits.  any advice would be great.  thanks 

Draw weight and length?

This setup is better but not perfect. Think a slightly heavier return string on the carb will help

Will be in lake George 21st-24th for work. Wondering if I should drag the boat up and try to find some time to fish. Anyone active on that body of water? If so what are you having luck doing? Thanks

That's is the same I ended up with, including washer. Thanks for the guidance everyone

Feds do shoot them. Know a guy that does it for them

Thank you, matching original size?

What are you guys running for hooks on your sticks? I've bent a few factory ones up and have yet to have a king take one. Thanks 

What are you guys running for hooks on your sticks? I've bent a few factory ones up and have yet to have a king take one. Thanks 

this is still for sale