Holland 9-3 pm, 9-4 am

[2MD]

Kevin,

What boat do you use mainly these days? If I recall years ago you always had a blue four winns decked out with gear? Are you still on that or was that you I saw on a crestliner last night?

With the kids and I cleaning up on em the last few days it came at a price - I lost 3 dipsey rigs and spooled several reels with snags. Years ago I know you posted about using slidedivers instead and sure wish I know how to do that with size 4-5 jplugs. Does it work and what is your setup like?

Thanks

Ryan

[Far Beyond Driven]

Still running the old navy four winns. There's another one a lot like it in Holland and if the fish are in close, he'll be in there, so you're not seeing double.

I love slide divers as I run longer leads on my riggers, and then the dipsies are not as close to the boat. I run the diver on a top shot of 50' of 30# mono with a 2' leader of 20# behind the diver. I run mostly j plugs on these, about 30' back and 30' out. These were my best rods last week green glow on one and silver red head on the other. Wonderbread was doa this year, odd, as that's usually money.

[2MD]

Kevin,

Sorry... I was just going through my tackle and what I meant was different than what I wrote (I think at least) - I was wondering about Luhr Jensen's "jet-diver" and do you run those and if so how do you use them. I am gathering from your reply that you do not. I read about these and they seemed to be ideal for trolling in Mac. What I could not grasp though was how it would go if one were to do relatively sharp turns.

On a related note... I am contemplating trying to ditch the 2 orange boards on the next trip and instead run 4 mono dipseys in Mac and the channel (maybe on Mon or Tues). Question: is this a pipe dream to think I can go short poles on the inside dialed on 1.75 without the ring say about 30 back and then long poles on the outside dialed at 3.5 without the ring say 45 back? Have you ever tried this with the shallow routine? I do it all the time in 60+ FOW but just question if the turns will trigger wrap up tangles. I realize I will have to problem concede not running flasher flies which is a bit of a heart break since last week those were the ones were red hot.

Respond if you have time... if not I will just give it a whirl and let you guys all know how it goes... Seems like the cold water has left for now so whatever I try I am going to need luck more than anything to get the fish holding in there to bite.

[Klingfisher]

Sounds like the combat fishing season is in full swing! Great time to remember its all about the fun.