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I bought some Seaguar leader material a few years ago. Now I just use P-Line flourocarbon line. I can't tell the difference between the expensive leader material and flourocarbon line.

Last fishing trip I went on in the Gulf of Mexico. The deck hands would as required by law stick a syringe into the swim bladder before release. My lake trout catches are all incidental and I do not target them. The last big one I kept a few weeks ago would not have survived as he took the spoon deep and bleed from the gills. He went to a fishing buddy who likes them on the smoker.

I use mine for riggers. That or short cores.

Interesting. I use all deeper divers and no Dipsy's. Interested to see what they do with this. Hopefully they bought the product to and not just trying to buy into that segment of the fishing market.

I have done it especially since my favorite Mepps is no longer in production. So I have been trying to replicate those. I got all the pieces from www.luremaking.com

Lost a Deeper Diver, shock cord, leader, and spoon cuz I played chicken with a commercial net and lost. Other than that only a couple of spoons and leaders to breakoffs. Burnt out a rigger motor.

You need to right click with the mouse right on top of the highlighted text.

You guys are acting like there are only 2 trolling fishing forums in this world. Well there are lots. I don't want to pull lines like some of you are from the other site to this site so I won't mention that I am an admin from another Great Lakes Outdoor site with over 5000 members. I also follows a number of Lake Ontario forums and a number of general fishing sites and some ice fishing site. I try to be a good member on all of those sites. Some have more relevant topic to certain times of the year or certain types of fishing and my participation depends on that as well. The one thing I find is that all sites seems to have their regulars and the inside groups and the site I admin has been accused of the same and I am not sure how to make an all encompassing site or i would have done it by now. I wasn't sure where to post this but since Ryan has, and is involved in two sites I thought I would pick on his thread.

I have had no luck with them behind the riggers. Bought some small swim baits after small Michigan stingers did nothing. I will stick to the old program.

Yea fishing on Huron has been tough for a while but this year has been a really great year. And where can you beat the number of species. This year on huron we have caught pinks, chinooks, coho, rainbow, browns and walleye.

I don't use my trolling bags on my current boat a s I shut off the main motor and run on the kicker. But on my last boat I had the bags all pretide with ropes and hanging on the inside oof the boat. When needed I just had to throw then over the side. absolutely no work to deploy. Rope lenghts where all the right length. I never have liked trolling plates.

This is still from late April to the first few days in May but its been a busy summer. So I now have some time and thought I would share this. The fishing was on the east side of Lake Huron out from Kettle Point and Port Franks.

Got back out to the same spot as Bill and I went to on Friday. The Mrs wanted in on some of the action so the 2 of us set out. Worked the area between 95 to 100 FOW of KP. The Mrs got the first king within minutes of setup. Then it wa alll quiet for the next hour and then it was crazy with a couple of knock offs and a couple of double headers as we both landed a fish. I got a big ole boot of a laker. Much the same as Friday the port side rigger had most of the action. All fish take at 80 to 85 feet of action. No action on the dipsy or the copper but then we where only out for a couple of hours. Fished from 3:30 to 5:30 or 6:00.

A little late with this report but .....Set out with wgillam from Kettle Point this morning. Assuming we had to go deep we set up around 95 fow and planned to go out to 100. Got a rainbow on in minutes after setup. Got quieter after that and only caught 1 walleye and one salmon for the rest of the morning. Then it was all quiet even when we hoped the 2 oclock bite would turn on. BUT after 4 things turned on. I lost count of the action. But looking at what we brought home we must have landed 7 fish. We lost 4 good ones at the boat. We had a number of breakoffs on something big. Bill had one big one that wanted to stay deep which broke the line taking the spoon and the slider as well. Most fish came off the one rigger and the others came off the copper. Dipsy did nothing all day. Two fish came in high up off a slider or rigger at 30 feet but the rest came in at 60 to 80 feet in 95 FOW. A great day to be out on Lake Huron.

Man that sucks but at least you got out and got some fish. I am sure the problems where not remembered while reeling in those fish.

Some say you will be OK this far north. They run these down south in salt water with water temps in the high 80's. But I have not owned one myself. Looked at some but did not buy.

If you can put a pertronix ignition in it to eliminate the point it will save you a lot of grief. Check out this catalog. Go down to marins stuff and look for your motor in the mercruiser section. I have done this conversion twice now on a 6 and a v8. http://www.pertronix.com/catalogs/pdf/ptx/2010/ptx2010_ignition_conv.pdf

We got caught in a loose net a few years ago. Since the net was not tied down we thought we could pull it enough to get 2 of our 3 riggers free. But when the waves started to alternately tighten and slacken the cables they started to spool cable of the side of the spools and then go tight. Whatever you do do not get hands or fingers anywhere where they could get pinched or caught. When the waves pull the boat it will take your hands ofr fingers off. We do have cutters on standby and ended up using them to cut the cables. And there was no chance of trying to tie any kind of note onto a cable in that situation. Its cut it loose let it fall and be glad you are safe.

I will agree with the other replies. sounds like you need to rebuild the alternator. It should put out over 13 volts. I have also had a slickcraft boat. I had also put the pertronix ignition kit in it. You can use it with your existing ignition parts unless your rotor and distributor should be replaced anyway. The boat ran so much better and got better fuel milage without the points and worth the money on a season of saved gas.

Anybody else here has a POV or sport cam. I just got a gopro. Can't wait to get it on the boat but did get it out for some ice fishing this week.

They have been quiet lately. No problem Sat. getting there and back. We crossed at Port Huron and then south to Novi.

We where there for a while. Too busy for me. Couldn't even get in to some of the tackle booths so decide if I wanted more spoons it would be easier to shop online at home and have them shipped. Got some gear grabbers for holding lures and spoons at the back of the boat. Will make for quick chang overs etc.

the cost was for the area. In my case I bought the US/Canada. Now I can download any map in that area. The only time I would need to buy anything again would be for a different area. Say the Carribean or South America. Its a really great deal compared to buying chips. The other thing I forgot to add is that I do not have radar so on those summer days that we are expecting a front to go through or expecting afternoon thunder showers I can usually get a weather radar site on the ipad internet. It usually works till 10 miles off shore. The navionics app does not reuired a cell signal to plot youtr position. it will use cells to get a quick fix but then uses the internal gps of the ipad.

I have purchased the navionics app for ipad and do like it. It will run on iphone as well. I downloaded the whole great lakes area. Navionic has included more info than the noaa charts and its $49 for the app. I do have Navionics chip as well in my hds-7 which is still my primary. the ipad gives a nice clear detailed view when trolling contours. Not great in the sun but I definately recommend it if you can apare $49 and already have an ipad.