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[Mornin Beef]

As for reading the boards, those bastards always be screwing with us

I love arguing about dragging perch.

[QH's Paw]

http://www.axtackle.com/searchresults.asp?cat=1859
would like a review on these also

Those are very similar to the ones some guys use from the bank here, on rivers, when they want to run a plug from shore. They work pretty good for that application. I don't see why you couldn't get the same effect from out the side of a boat as long as you are moving at a good enough clip to keep them out to the side and not float up behind the boat.

[bill herian]

Jehler, whats your aversion to yellow birds? We use the little ones for all of our coho/steelhead fishing and kings in the beach. Don't try pulling a lot of tackle with them but we can run 10 of them and get them to track nice.

Big birds are good for running lead balls too. Not the most sporty way to do it but that dosen't concern me.

[jehler]

Have way more problems with them diving on us, I like the price but compared to the ease and performance of a walleye board there is no going back, you ever used a church board? The walleye board will haul almost anything, I have seen the Tx-44 haul a magnum Dipsy, not that I would but badass for maybe hauling your big balls bill

[bill herian]

We use church boards for our lead core. Just the standard one. They pull ten color ropes just well enough to not try something else. If we ran anything bigger for ten color ropes, you run the risk of dragging small fish around all day without knowing. Even with the church board, its ard to tell sometimes when you have a Tim on there. Also gotta remember we are running 3-5 boards a side, so we need to get the best spacing possible. Any tangle is going to involve 75+ dollars in tackle.

Bend the wire arm on your yellow bird if its diving. We use them because :

1) they are lighter

2) I don't want to be unhooking church boards with the fish forty feet behind the boat, be it 3 pound coho or 4 year old kings, you are going to lose a lot of them doing that.

3) we are not stringing everything with braid just so we can run church boards. We are a for-profit operation.

4)When we get into the coho, having church boards on all our rigs sounds like a nightmare, now that I think about it. More often than not I'm netting them two or three at a crack. No time for church boards with all that.

5) the coho won't pull a church board back far enough to clear the inside boards. When they trip the yellow birds, everything does a nice neat arc right to the back of the boat, keeping clear of all the other gear. Gotta remeber, we are running ten of those bastards. Space is tight.

[jehler]

We use church boards for our lead core. Just the standard one. They pull ten color ropes just well enough to not try something else. If we ran anything bigger for ten color ropes, you run the risk of dragging small fish around all day without knowing. Even with the church board, its ard to tell sometimes when you have a Tim on there. Also gotta remember we are running 3-5 boards a side, so we need to get the best spacing possible. Any tangle is going to involve 75+ dollars in tackle.

Bend the wire arm on your yellow bird if its diving. We use them because :

1) they are lighter

2) I don't want to be unhooking church boards with the fish forty feet behind the boat, be it 3 pound coho or 4 year old kings, you are going to lose a lot of them doing that.

3) we are not stringing everything with braid just so we can run church boards. We are a for-profit operation.

4)When we get into the coho, having church boards on all our rigs sounds like a nightmare, now that I think about it. More often than not I'm netting them two or three at a crack. No time for church boards with all that.

5) the coho won't pull a church board back far enough to clear the inside boards. When they trip the yellow birds, everything does a nice neat arc right to the back of the boat, keeping clear of all the other gear. Gotta remeber, we are running ten of those bastards. Space is tight.

the fiver per side would give me a stroke, trolling Atlantic's last week we went 3 per side and it was nuts.

Bending the wire, I'll have to look at that, in guessing whether I bend it up or down will be obvious when I'm looking at it?

I've never caught a coho, this year it's on the agenda. When we are trolling kings I stack my two riggers, two Dipsy's and one church each side. If I could I would just run the riggers, as I enjoy that just me and the fish thing they offer, sometimes the fish are just spooky about them though.

[Bootlipkiller]

You guys are off the hook running all those setups. Me and my buddy had enough trouble running 4 striper fishing the other night. Had one fish grab a rebel and he was instantly tangled in two other setups. We got him in thanks to our cool headed actions and superior skill.

[jehler]

You guys are off the hook running all those setups. Me and my buddy had enough trouble running 4 striper fishing the other night. Had one fish grab a rebel and he was instantly tangled in two other setups. We got him in thanks to our cool headed actions and superior skill.

great lakes fishing has got to be the gear queerest fishing in the world

[Bootlipkiller]

You guys are off the hook running all those setups. Me and my buddy had enough trouble running 4 striper fishing the other night. Had one fish grab a rebel and he was instantly tangled in two other setups. We got him in thanks to our cool headed actions and superior skill.

great lakes fishing has got to be the gear queerest fishing in the world

we always make fun of the guides and fly fishermen around here. They wear shit like this.

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[jehler]

I don't flyfish but have that vest, my wife took it from the lost and found at work, she brought it home proclaiming "hey babe, I got you a dr Rick Marshall vest"

[Bootlipkiller]

Hahaha! This is what I look like fishing.

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[jehler]

Hahaha! This is what I look like fishing.

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me to, I only wear the vest to things like parent teacher conferences

[Tiler_J]

Hahaha! This is what I look like fishing.

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Except you have your shirt on backwards!

[Bootlipkiller]

Hahaha! This is what I look like fishing.

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Except you have your shirt on backwards!

Shit I forgot about that I really need to stop drinking.

[Tiler_J]

Hahaha! This is what I look like fishing.

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Except you have your shirt on backwards!

Shit I forgot about that I really need to stop drinking.

[3legged_lab]

Those salmon colored fishing shirts are dress code for westie and flint when they go fishing.

[Flightstopper]

Those salmon colored fishing shirts are dress code for westie and flint when they go fishing.

Come down to the gulf in the middle of the summer and you'll be begging me for one of those shirts.

[rebelp74]

Those salmon colored fishing shirts are dress code for westie and flint when they go fishing.

Come down to the gulf in the middle of the summer and you'll be begging me for one of those shirts.

Negative. Flip flops, shorts and sometimes a t-shirt are about all wear when I take the boat out in the gulf.

[Bootlipkiller]

So what your saying is there are lots of gays in the gulf.

[assateague]

Doubt it.

[Bootlipkiller]

Every time I see a guide in one of those I can't help but yell,"it's not pink, it's salmon"!

[Goldfish]

Every time I see a guide in one of those I can't help but yell,"it's not pink, it's salmon"!

Pronounce the L in salmon too, lol

sent from a phancy fone

[bill herian]

I got a question, John.

Where did these Atlantics come from? I've never heard of that. I hope they swim my way. If you caught a limit imagine what I could do to them.

I didn't know you guys don't get Coho up there. They are typically our bread and butter for the first third of the season unless the kings show up in force.

[Bootlipkiller]

My guess.... The Atlantic.

[bill herian]

My guess.... The Atlantic.

No rebels for you.

[Bootlipkiller]

My guess.... The Atlantic.

No rebels for you.

:):)

[jehler]

I got a question, John.

Where did these Atlantics come from? I've never heard of that. I hope they swim my way. If you caught a limit imagine what I could do to them.

I didn't know you guys don't get Coho up there. They are typically our bread and butter for the first third of the season unless the kings show up in force.

we get coho bill, a lot, but by the time they are in thick its combat fishing and we have moved on to inland lakes or early youth hunts and stuff. The Atlantic's are plants on an inland lake

[jehler]

So you all catch the coho before the kings huh? Here they show up later I was told, we started catching kings in June last year and fished then once a week or better, caught plenty of steelhead but never a coho.

[Mornin Beef]

So you all catch the coho before the kings huh? Here they show up later I was told, we started catching kings in June last year and fished then once a week or better, caught plenty of steelhead but never a coho.

cohos first then kings on ontario.

[bill herian]

You fish ontario?

I wouldn't go out on that death trap in a million years.