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Looks like fun...kinda

Hey guys. Radioworld has some good prices going on some lowrance or humminbird down and or sidescan units. Anybody shoot thru the hull on a fiberglass bass boat? Humminbird 8series or lowrance elite 7 is what I'm looking into......

Currently I shoot thru hull with my transducers. I'm uncertain with mounting options on my fiberglass....

Spooky buggers. You catch fish you don't see, don't catch what you do see.

That's is really funny

Im with drifter 87-94 id say.

Great report mike. nice fishies

Even if it,s an okuma. Which has served me well since day one.LOL

 

 

That actually looks like a pretty sweet setup misfish.....didnt u fairly recently tame a monster chinny on that combo?!....I especially like the chrome accent in that pic....mines coming soon I hope.....

Gorgeous man I'm jealous! Take me with u next time guy

Looks like a dirty little half digested trout-perch to me. That's good eats!

i enjoyed my 2man (pop up not flipover) clam 2000, it was very light and the price was good....it was pretty darn light to pull bby hand. Im pulling a clam nanook now, little heavier, but I enjoy it.......wish I had info on a 1 man for yuh, but as jeff stated I heard great things about the frabil recon and the genz units

My float reels are always spinning. They never have time to sit still on a shelf! I tell the wife I have to go out all the time so the reels dont' seize up.

Thats pretty funny actually. Lucky it works...

Lol guess I shoildnt get drunk and time my islander then. Was just curious is all as ive seen the discussionbefore. And btw kemper, I didnt think an islandsr was a flash reel, I thoufht the sst3 was in the same class?....and if it aint broke why would you fix or change it? Lol im actually pretty new to the pin. But billm having a frogwater is soo nice. I can appreciate the beauty that is within reels and rods, and until lately have started to notice how sweet some pins are.

So at the end of.the day, ppl say islander startup is possibly slow. So, I did the spin test just cause and the elastic band startup, and said "hey, thats cool it started on the elastic band...slow in the froggy stuff startup cant be that bad!:? But because I dont have a life, naturally I decided to do this. And for a relatively affordable pin reel id say that sounds "a" ok to me....but what do I know. I was hoping somebody would have had a abec 3 and abec 7 model to see if its truely worth spending the extra $$$ on the 7's. Personal experiences with particular reels vary, so i guess comparison wouldnt really be relavant in the end...

Yup. My startup with the elastic band excited me. Was curious as some ppl get 2mns out of spin and apparently over 10mns.....as a bearing freak, that's exciting to me!

Oh and ps, I am envious of your frogwater, you can't imagine. Beauty.

Hey guys

I have an islander steelheader, very low hours, I simple green'd the bearings and put 1 drop of oil in each bearings. I get a 4.5-5.5 minute free spool on it. I put an elastic band (simple avg size, not a broccoli sized band) on the end of the line on a 13' rod to see if it would get this puppy moving, and it did. It was VERY slow and gradual, without me quivering the rod. Lol sadly the kingpin r2 spins longer, and starts up a little better......but I was really impressed to be honest.

Anybody ever wasted time like me and timed their free spool and checked the startup weights needed on a Islander steelheader?....

Every company has their strengths, and quite possible their strengths are in their (okuma) heavier duty stuff. You like their heavier duty stuff so much, you buy their bass gear. one model fails, you move on to the next, which (hopefully) holds up. Then you're content or happy, or you move on.

Daiwa lowest end I HATE. if i started with low end daiwa and had the failures i had, id verbally blast the company. As i stand now, midrange daiwa....I'd choose shimano.....high end? Very large toss up with daiwa shimano. Abu? I'm model specific. Pfluegar, never tried long enough....just like lews....never had enough time. Quantum?.......guys, I'm sorry, they (most) are built VERY well, overbuilt in many cases, yet the ones I've used have only been as strong as their weakest link....which SUCKS!.....again no offence here, but there are reasons anglers become "brand specific". I started okuma "high end bass" and they fell wayyyyy short.....but that's JUST my experience. But they were all new to the market gear....

I guess also that a sour taste can be put into ppls mouth by purchasing new to the market products and/or the lemon model of the bunch. Just like buying the first model year of a vehicle........

Oh and btw, rod companies annoy me the most....I cant pick a specific brand . They are all great and suck at the same time.

Very sorry...

Everything I have ever purchased from Okuma has self-destructed almost immediately.

 

Never again.

Agreed. The rods gave me a sour taste as well starting with the carbon c3......inferior rods and reels IMO, not to say quality can't change, maybe things are diff now, but I'm not going there anytime soon.

That's also too bad about the carbon lite, some ppl really like its performance, glad I didn't pop out to buy a few.

Did u take it apart?

Absolutely awesome! Never had the opportunity to be like "awww man think its just another sturgeon"...

Looking good.

Imo I feel they dropped the ball on the new curado. Ppl are hating on the calcutta d, I have a 200d and set it 2brakes and forget it. ITS BETTER than the TE hands down imo. But nobody will ever give it a chance because of bad rep. Just means more for me when on sale!

thats a nice day! looks good

Taking everything into consideration I'd say that sounds about right...I wouldn't complain with those #'s for a 75 on a packed 18' at all, especially if 2stroke......Mind you I don't have experience with 4 stroke, which I assume that's what you have...but it sounds about right to me

That's where I launched last weekend for bass/pike etc....was hoping closer to the bar at the lake if possible....might not be possible though

Hey,

 

I was hoping to hit the niagara bar and promised myself that id go to the bar before november.

 

So, does anybody know a launch on the canadian side where I can launch which is close to the niagara bar lower niagara etc

 

thanks!

Hey, I was hoping to hit the niagara bar and promised myself that id go to the bar before november. So, does anybody know a launch on the canadian side where I can launch which is close to the niagara bar lower niagara etc thanks!

Ive seen the problem a few times also.....parts are getting harder, that part is prob. discontinued , not to say parts arent available on the aftermarket. Clutch plate bnt2570?....

best thing is to take off the sideplate and push the plate down by hand then up. Ive seen problems on the actual thumb clutch-bar guide area, which was annoying to diagnose, and it sucks when you dont have the parts on hand.

Good luck hope it all works out for yuh!

pegged largies in lower niagara shallower than the smallies this past weekend. Mind you i was dropshot/deep crankbait. 10ft or so feet LMB, smallies 20-30ft. Dont see why u wouldnt get them if you find a concentration of them.

temp and green weed play a HUGE role wherever u are fishing thats for sure. As you stated, you know the area and catch, so go to your milk runs and give it a try, it shouldnt hurt?!

good luck

Just leave it....it will fall off and who cares.... 2x2 area on a 115 no biggie. Ive done it and seen it done all rhe time without any noticeable differences