Headhunter

I have been a subscriber of this magazine for a number of years. Yesterday in the mail, I received notice that Walleye In-Sider Magazine will no longer be published. I can't say I'm surprised, as the magazine is so closely tied to the former, now defunct PWT. In place of my regular subscritption, I will now be receiving a regional edition of Game and Fish magazine. I won't comment on that mag,. as I have never seen it. I'll let you know my thoughts upon arrival. Just thought I'd pass the news along! HH

Hook up with Fish Hunter for a day on Lake O. Lloyds a great guy and know his stuff. He'll learn yah! HH

I haven't added L/C to L/C. Haven't had a need for it! I have two L/C reels, both line counters (Admittedly, I'm lazy! I don't want to watch the colours leaving the reel, I use my line counter to determin amount of line out.), one with 5 colours, mostly for pickereyes and one 10 colour for great lakes. Should the ten colour not be capable of reaching the depths I'm seeking, I simply add an off shore snap weight at or near the L/C and leader junction. I can't emphisize enough however, how much boat speed affects L/C trolling. I also, because I have no hands on experience, am not sure if 20 clours of lead in the water will net you more depth as I beleive there comes a point where the drag of the line in the water, starts to pull the line up. Bait type might have an incluence on this as a hard driving crank will help to pull the line down. Maybe someone who has run 20 colours could give us some insight? HH

You can fish any number of "colours in the water" you wish, the lead core will not hurt your reel or guides. I have used it in water as shallow as 15-20ft with as little as three colours in the water. It is highly effective when trolling flats, where close bottom contact is required. You can hook L/C up to a planer board with no ill effects. You don't need floro as backing as your lure will be a good 300ft away from your backing, with ten colours out. You may consider a floro leader, many swear by it, I don't. I have posted this before, but not for a while, so here it goes again: I don't use a knot to connect my leader or backing to L/C. I pull back 2-3 inches of the covering and snip the lead. I then push my backing or leader into the empty sheath and apply a drop of crazy glue to the seam. I let it dry for about a minute, then apply crazy glue the the entire joint. Allow it to throughly dry before reeling it up in the reel, takes about ten minutes. You now have a knotless connection that will not interfere with reeling it in. It also last for years! I have caught chinny's, steeles, coho, pickereyes, you name it on this system and have not EVER had it break. Depending on the lb test of the l/c, you can easily snug 20-30lb test, into the l/c sheath. If your using it on Lake O for example, I suggest 30lb. It will work well for chinny's and has far less stretch then lesser mono. One other point... L/C will play games with your reel's drag system. It doesn't like l/c and takes a great deal of pull to release the reels drag. That's one of the reasons I use a heavier lb test backing. Speed is the major determining factor for depth achieved. Hope this helps!? HH

Dara, I agree with you... to a degree. Respect is earned. On the other hand, respect is easily lost, much easier than earning it. Being told continuously that I should have respect, really diminishes it. It's starting, IMHO to get old. No one here has the right to tell anyone how or what to believe. I think some are simply trying to add a little levity to the situation. It may be in bad taste to some, but others may be thinking the same thing, but are hesitant to to post. Again... congrats on the job wormdangler! HH

Congrats on securing employment wormdangler! Jobs can be like that... feast or famine. I can tell you from a position of authority and experience, it always works out this way! I fail to see how dis-arming bombs in Europe or anywhere else has anything to do with Wormdanglers question. Frankly, I getting tired of seeing threads being hijacked based on others personal agenda. You got issues, start a thread! (Just like Peter did!) HH

Really nice job fellas! The head on the 40+ is massive! HH

What you are referring to is commonly known is the "music" world as G.A.S.! Stands for .... GEAR AQUISITION SYNDROM! It is an affliction that is very common amoung fisher people and will attack at any time. Typically, it strikes shortly after you just spent a ton of dough on something and you suddenly believe that you must also, add some other piece to your equipment puzzle. This syndrom is only cured when a purchase is made, a significant amount of buyers remorse has set in and you realize that you probably could have gotten away without buying said gear. Who am I kidding, G.A.S. is not cureable! HH

Doh! Not that there's anything wrong with that! I've got to read what I post before I post it I guess! HH

Nice fish, how'd it taste? Thanks for posting! HH

Take the job, keep looking. He may be a prick, but that may only be some folks opinion. One man's prick is another man's best friend. His network of industry contacts could become your new larger network. Is he putting you on payroll or is he paying cash daily? Cash wouldn't affect your EI. As mentioned above, you are significantly more marketable in the eyes of employers when your working vs not. HH

Off Shore snap weights... poor man's down rigger! HH

Hey Clive, my PTi is probably around 10years old. Now, that being said, I can recall entire years where I did not use it at all, being as I am a mostly trolling kinda dude. (OK, back then I was, but I have started casting again) So, in essence, the reel may have only one "true" season on it. I take care of my equipment, heck I still have a Johnson Century I bought back in the early 70's and it works like the day I bought it. I have Mitchell reels that are almost as old as me, they still work... ok, probably a little better than me! The reason I bought this reel was I broke the handle off an older Quantum that I really liked. As I had some challenges sourcing a new handle, I figured, what the heck, I'm worth it, I'll buy another Quantum. Big mistake as far as my experience with this reel goes. Bernie and Gerritt can attest to the challenges this reel has given me as they were there this past 24 weekend and watched as the ati-reverse would simply let go, at the worst of times I might add. Also, they had front row seats, watching my crawler separate itself from my jig when I casted out and the bail would close on the reel, with the jig only half way to it's destination! Maybe I got a dud, I don't know, but there is no love lost from me, with this reel! HH

No doubt John! If memory serves me well, I believe that I paid about $20.00 for a spool of non leader type Floro... I think it was a 250 or 300yd spool. HH

Well, based on my experience with a Quantum PTi, I'd have to say Shimano! My Quantum is very perdy, shiny and looks fantastic with the sun reflecting off of it, but that anti-reverse is crap. It decides from time to time to simply disengage ON IT"S OWN! Also, the bail sometimes decides to close, ON IT"S OWN mid cast. If it wasn't so dang perdy, it would be sitting on the bottom of the lake. HH

Thanks for that Lloyd! BTW - YOU DON"T HAVE TO YELL! LMAO HH

I'm still waiting for "The Doc" to elaborate. HH

FLoro in my experience so far has casted equally as well as mono. Hponestly, I could not tell the difference casting. You must, just like and onther line insure that the spool is porperly filled. Outside of that no difference that I can tell! HH

I spooled up my spinning rod with Seagar (SP) floro and am very happy with it. IT's tough as nails, no stretch, little memory and even held out very well ice fishin in -30 degrees. (Ok, it got a little stiff, but hey, so was I! ) Oh, and it's virtually in visible under water! Pretty pleased so far. HH

Don't worry Peter, they taste just as good as the eyes! Just joking here folks.... now back to you regularilly scheduled Sheepie discussion! HH

Well, Billy, based on the above criteria, I qualify! My family's motto is "Nice Tooth"! Inbred, nothin wrong with that, it's called keepin it in the family! HH

Care to elaborate on that Dr.? HH

Way ta go boys! You can certainly tell that you guys had a blast! Lloyd's a great guy, fun to spend time with and yah, he knows his stuff. Pass me a lemon, would ya Lloyd! Just a question for you guys and I certainly don't want to start anything... I've fished Lake O in the summer in the blue water and have found that the survival rate for those bows seems to be very low. Can the same thing be said catching them at this time of year, with the surface temp being cooler? Again, I'm just curious! Thanks again for the great report and pics! HH

Thanks for the family pic Jocko! Funny though, those are just my immediate family, well ok, just the folks who share my room. The full family pic would require a bigger screen! And we consider the pick up truck to be family as well! HH

We were talking about sheepies when were at Bernie's on the 24 weekend and Bernie made a pretty good point. It went something like this: I won't eat a fish that the sea gulls only eat the eyes out of! They leave the entire carcass and eat just the eyes. To me anyway, that says something! HH