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check to make sure the coils are plugged It. Usually 4 wires on a plug going to coil. Your spark plug wire goes to the coil.

Launched at 7am. First spot noticed some casing likely May Flys really no way to tell in 20 ft of water. Pretty slow in the beginning. Then noticed a big hatch of blue dragon fly's. There are a couple variety's and again it really doesn't matter because the seem to be in 15 ft of water. Things picked up we landed 9 walleye, 4 smallies ,2 largies, 2 muskies and 1 pike. No consistency in presentation this day just kept grinding it out. Around mid day seen some may fly's the tan coloured ones you can look them up on Wiki. Think the boat traffic was main reason for low numbers.

Sure sounds like a ground issue. Do you have a white ground on your trailer plug not attached. My last 2 trailers did. I drilled a screw hole and attached this ground to trailer. Seemed to chase the demons away.

I call that skunk grass because that what it smells like. But it's alga.

the tourney is out of bridgenorth at 7 so the fast guys about 7:30 down by Emily.

By August these weedline walleys are low percentage on Balsam. You get some and if you can fish at dusk likely do good. The smallies and larges are and in around these weedlines. Jerk baits and poppers on inside weedlines and on the sand will work for smallies. Dunk the thick stuff for larges. And the ever present pike, musky and tiger musky. It's fun dunking a weed bed and leveling it on a musky bite.

When I tournament fished waiting 6 weeks was out of the question. I have used a race boat guy in Whitby for years. Mostly because his first question is when do you need it. And I always got watch the diagnosis and the repair. Same with anybody try to start with little things and see how it goes. Most marine mechanic make there money in 8 months and side jobs a common.

Good now take this to a kawartha lake get these bugs in 15-030 ft and tell me witch ones you are looking at.

Ya I know what you know. Keep majoring in minor things.

Google "Mayflys and Stone Flys"

I did the fly rods 30 years ago.

I don't play with 1% strategy's. Keep dreaming the dream.

When they mature and fly off the water yes bill they are easy to id. When they are nymph's not Chirs k not me and not you bill can id them. So getting back to OP who would like to try fly's for walleye. Just stick to the stone nymphs patterns. I hope you have more success than I did. Your top water walleye likely came in Sept on the frog migration. Always funny watching walleye hit top water.

I don't think the walleye have even peaked on balsam yet. Fish between 8 and 14 ft. AS the weedlines grow in the walleyes will get on the outside scattered stuff. Their was a bass tourney on weekend low weights overall put lot's caught and the musky's have been stupid playing on the surface.

Chris the OP title Walleye and Mayflys if you want to talk dry flys start a topic. In the nymph (you have looked at life cycle of stone and may flys) stage you need a magnify glass the tell the difference between stone nymphs and may fly nymphs. You won't find walleye eating may flys off the surface the do gorge on the swim up stage. And Chris B this is a rocky weedline lake and we where fishing very scatter grass in 13.5. The point I'm making is to develop a wide range of presentations with bucktails and find one to trigger walleyes.

ya walleyes don't care witch way there wings are going. They are choking on the nymphs. Earlier this week on a lake north of Lindsay the hatch was crazy. 3 different looking hatches, the light tan color, one with a dark body and darker wings then a few almost black. At one point we were in 30 ft of water with what looked like weeds coming 10 ft off bottom. It was the nymphs swimming up, took about 15 minutes until the surface was covered in cases. The walleyes were catchable 2 hard snaps and catch the bucktail high and hold it there was good for 25-30. Yesterday on walleye meca small hatch all tan colored ones traditional hard snap hit bottom was good for same numbers.

Technically you are correct and you need a microscope and a reason to find the difference. For fishing purpose just go with stone fly. I've tried lot's of patterns for walleye with limit success. Always do better with adjusting my cadenza.

Lot's look like a child drew them.

Mayfly's.Shadfly's are all Stone fly's. There are 100's of variety's The hatch today was just wild.

yep another good wally spring. Some to go yet.

A load testers will tell the story. Likely 1 dead cell. You charge it and get 13.7 put load on and it's 10-11.5 dead cell. Replace battery.

Typical for the mayfly hatch is a wicked tick on the very first drop. Watch a few vids on mayflys and 1 only a small % make it to the surface and 2 most make it off bottom then run out of energy and sink back to bottom. So my strategy is to make the most first drops as possible, most times not hopping the jig once. Just cast hit bottom reel in cast hit bottom reel in.

It should be easy. You are looking for two identical square boxes about 2 cm. With a my merc at the trim switch you are looking at a plastic cover. they are behind that. With a Johnston at the front of the motor up at the top. These solenoids are so common the Napa parts guy will just go get them. Your marina gets them form Napa and charges you double same with spark plugs. And you should post make and model.

Ok follow the wires to the solenoids from your trim switch on your motor. You are right there are 2 square boxes . Switch the wire around. You didn't say make but now it will trim up and not down. These solenoids are available any where Napa, CTC, Ford, Dodge dealers. Most brands both wires need to be plugged in.

Less crook is the best we get.