Paulywood

I tried 24" and then 36" trolling bags and still can't get the boat to slow down. I shouldn't have any issues with the RPM's, I'm no where near top end there. I'm going to stop into Pangborn's today and see if they will let me try a 17 p and exchange it if it won't work. They have a ton of used props laying around.

Welcome aboard!

Good job!

Good job Jon!

Good job, thanks for the report and welcome.

Good job! I ran my TX-44's for the 1st time yesterday and had no issues. I'm not sure what is causing your's to dive. Maybe just double check that the arm is facing up, the line is run through the bottom slot in the rear and the pin is also on the bottom and that the weights are on the bottom. Just a few ideas. Good luck.

Fished with Marty (ratchet) and Marty's nephew Rich on Marty's boat out of Holland yesterday morning. Ran into Dave Ash at the gas station and he said they found fish in 60-80' the day before. So we ran straight out to 50', put the boat on a 230 heading and started marking fish right away. Marty was setting rods and I was driving. I looked back and saw the wire diver rocking, Rich grabbed it but the fish was already gone. While Marty reset that I looked up and saw a rigger had released. No one home. We explained to Rich what to look for a little better and kept setting up. The other rigger fired and Rich landed the first fish, an 8# laker. Took a couple more hits as we worked the 60-100' depths and then things went dead. Adjusted the spread and when we hit 73' about 2 miles north of Saugy things got crazy. Almost every rod on the boat fired by the time we were straight out of Saugy and we had 5 fish in the boat but had lost just as many. Riggers 40' and 50' down went with a Moonshine Blue Flounder Mag and standard DW Glow Frog. 280' copper went with a Mag DW Carmel Dolphin. We turned due west and fought a triple on both riggers and a fullcore. Fish on the fullcore broke off, fish on the port rigger took out the wire diver and both board rods on the starboard side. Saw a steelie jumping on the copper setup but he got off. Saw a steelie hit on jump on the starboard rigger that had some blue/chrome spoon on it but he got off. Wire diver on 3 out 150' with a double glow crush spinnie and blue/green fly went 3 or 4 times. Ended the day with 5 kings, a steelie and a laker. Total was 7 for 15-18ish. Best water was 73' down by Saugatuck and 125' about 4 miles north at the end of the morning where we went 2/4 to end our trip. I broke a bunch of Marty's stuff (rigger rod snapped when I tried to release it and had a king bend the Moonshine spoon in 2 even though it never tangled) and had a lot of fun even though our percentage was lousy.

Good job Ken!

Do run them off of big boards or can they be run off inlines? I had issues tangling when I tried running multiple jets off inlines the same distance back the other week. Any other ideas or suggestions would be appreciated?

I need a 2nd prop since I bent mine coming back in from Linwood the other week. The one I have now is a 14.5 x 19. I am thinking of trying a different pitch in order to get the boat to troll down a little slower. Any suggestions?

There is one by the state park on the north side of the lake. I haven't been out of there in a few years because it is too shallow for this boat. It has a fish cleaning station. As far as I know the rest of them are either private or run by the city. Quite a few guys use the old Grand Trunk launch because it is closer to the lake. I usually go out of Fisherman's Landing and if I go in the morning spend the $5 and clean my fish there. I think that there is one closer than Grand Trunk but it is private and I have never used it.

fUNNY!

I use the OR-16 in the back but use an OR-18 in the front set so they don't release. Mine are all on Church Walleye boards but I have a couple of TX-44's to set up.

Nice job!

Welcome aboard Chuck.

Very nice!

Thanks for the report Kevin.

Nice job Mike and thanks for the report. One of these times you'll just be able to go out and fish, your luck has to turn around eventually.

Good job and thanks for the report!

Great job on the solo trip.

Nice job.

Thanks for the report.

Good job & thanks for the report.

Thanks Mark, I appreciate it. Wish someone at the marina had mentioned it when I paid to launch.

I run a set of home made ones so I can't help.