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Post by clam2 on May 27, 2010 14:21:37 GMT -5
I dont know if am in the minority here, but I dont run chute rods of any kind.........
Before you even posted this thread I read your last trip report and wondered aloud how you werent getting lots of tangles with a three color down the chute ---- turns out you are, which makes for a real mess!
Reid pretty much hit the nail on the head ----- you may want to try running a more conventional spread with the thought that you may want to keep "main street" completely free and open to navigate and land fish.....
I know there are always going to be those who will run lines down the chute and do so very successfully ---- just be aware Rodney that you are kind of inviting what has been happening to you of late (using the shallower three color rig), and the result of those tangles is loss of line, gear and productive fishing time with lines out of the water for "repair".....
If you are gonna do it, get those lines deep!
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Post by NoFishNick on May 27, 2010 18:30:33 GMT -5
Good info Tom, I'm going to try the extra mag dipsie this season. I would like to add that I don't send one down the chute until the morning good bite is over and it's the 1st one put away when the sun goes down in the evening. The chute line ran naked with meat out  (no flasher with just a meat head rig) was my best day time rod for the past two years. |
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Post by tewwbulltom on May 27, 2010 18:36:19 GMT -5
SSSHHHHH...It's a secret
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Post by SteveO on May 27, 2010 19:05:11 GMT -5
It is Really?  |
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Post by salty on May 27, 2010 20:20:19 GMT -5
Good info Tom, I'm going to try the extra mag dipsie this season. I would like to add that I don't send one down the chute until the morning good bite is over and it's the 1st one put away when the sun goes down in the evening. The chute line ran naked with meat out (no flasher with just a meat head rig) 10 color down the chute and (blue) meat head only for me also, no early morning bite for me either |
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Post by SteveO on May 27, 2010 20:21:06 GMT -5
I hear RED works too  |
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Post by Phishy on May 27, 2010 20:40:34 GMT -5
My old school rigging is something that has either been hot or cold. My main observation is that if you forget about the stealth thingy, my leads bunch my lures so that anything that sees one bait might hit a different bait. My leads off the riggers tend to be short 20 to 30 ft which also allows me to turn much more with out tangles/cross over with a stinger always attached to each. Salmon look for bait pods and they cut into them biting like crazy, circle around and then pick up the road kill. A fish any fish is programmed to feed on the the most bait with the least amount of effort. They are not going to chase one minnow. That would be losing calories. The prop wash thing is a tip I got from an old Musky guy who always had a rod fully loaded and when the boat came off plain someone would fire it back into the wash. When fish see something different they react. Sometimes they scatter and sometimes they bite, but a number of big ski's have bit. My planner boards for bows is similar with a 30 ft lead without any weight. The bird acts as an attractor, brings the fish in, and they hit your spoon trying to get that predator from eating their bugs, not to eat the minnow. I have had muskies hit a planner board. My charter boat had a bridge and you could see bows on the surface take a hard turn toward the board, when they sensed the planner. Don't credit me for that but Championships dad in Algoma. A rubber core rod length from the lure acted as a planner stop more than a weight. Another consideration is that while running short you don't have the wild differences in lure speed associated with long lines. That being said it seems that from my limited memory, that most of the tournaments in the past were won on long long line presentations away from the crowd. Wow that was a mouthfull. Chatty Tom and i actually read it alll....lurking and gleeming i am...gleeming all that i can!!! |
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Post by salmonkid on May 27, 2010 21:40:16 GMT -5
500' of 45lb copper
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Post by SteveO on May 28, 2010 15:03:38 GMT -5
500' of 45lb copper
And what reel might you have THAT on?
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Post by jbirdup on May 28, 2010 15:26:44 GMT -5
He's fishing in Algoma. but his bait is in Kewaunee...  |
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Post by Reel Fun on May 29, 2010 10:20:49 GMT -5
Mag dipsy down the chute it is. I will just pull it if there is another line with a fish on. THanks TOM
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Post by salmonkid on May 30, 2010 10:44:48 GMT -5
Penn 345 GT2, 500' is nothing lol.......
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Post by mojorisin on May 30, 2010 11:35:19 GMT -5
I hear RED works too No way...  Add me to the list of people that do not run chute rods. Ever so often, I'll put one in the arch as a high flat, but I don't do that often. |
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Post by littlebluelund on May 30, 2010 14:03:35 GMT -5
I have run jet divers down the chute with some pretty good results, image that huh....
If you were attempting to run a line straight down and deep to a hot a firey place where a guy dressed in red with horns and tail lives I think I know of a contraption that could get you there...
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Post by SteveO on May 30, 2010 18:08:08 GMT -5
whole or strip? Matt .. I've got 300 feet on my 345 and Would never thought it would fit another 200 .. this is going to get interesting to find people to wind that in ..
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(no flasher with just a meat head rig) was my best day time rod for the past two years. 
