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Thanks Tim This helps bring things to together. The Spring Chinook season is picking up here though I have not been out yet. I'm arm chair fishing but its been productive and fun with all I've learned on this thread. I bought my 1st combo. GPS/sonar unit this winter, and am really liking it...

Tim Very cool trick. Useful to have additional downrigger option and freedom of no weight fish play. Sounds like the 24 oz. rig near/during the slack is your meat and potatoes, I mean your fish and chips. What you said in your second post about anchoring all makes sense to me. I have had some...

Ken Same for us on a hairy thing and a shorter haired hairy thing (cat and dog). They were really good ones. Anuther question. You mentioned 250' depth, limit of what you want to do anchoring. What is the total length of anchor line you are carrying for this considering current is recommended...

Very informative Ken. I particularly appreciate capitalizing on stink. Why don't you want to beat them in the head with the lead though? Real question: Can you tell us why you prefer a "J" hook instead of a circle hook? Thanks for going into the details. This will help my program. Tom...

Cool rig Ken. This rig doesn't look like it can wrap around on itself using the egg loop and no need for the spreader. How long do you make your egg loop? How close do you like it to the bottom sinker. What style, brand, and size hook do you suggest? What size hoochie? Do you tip your hook...

I think you mean your leader is attached to the top barrel swivel making an eye and crimping. Do you attach your main line to the same top swivel ? On the hook end of the leader is the top hook kept from sliding down to the eye of the bottom hook by having the top hook above the crimp thus the...

I see how the sliding sinker swivel works in the mid section of the blue line (I understand you use mono for this now) and there would be a bead at the bottom where the lower swivel is to absorb the shock. I don't understand how your leader with the hoochie/hooks attaches to the rig exactly? Tom

Charless and Marjorie WAY TO Go! I'm glad it worked out for you. Sounds like you were not sure what fixed the problem but fuel was maybe a factor.I'm curious, your boat is a 98, is the stove of that year, (85DU)? My transom repair is complete, motor, and kicker reinstalled. Now finishing...

Hey Mike We never saw this sweet thank you post. You put a smile on the inside and the outside. I remember mentioning to Rene sometime after that trip, "Its odd Mike never said anything to us about that hose. I hope we didn't piss him off." Thought maybe we shouldn't have messed with a mans...

Pete Exact same story for me regarding vision changes. I also think when boat movement increases with wave action it will be more comfortable for me to monitor the screen. The split screen for gps and fishfinder (ff) at 5inches each puts me near/at where I was with former separate units...

Thanks for ALL your responses! I really appreciate having the perspectives for making my choice. I'll take a 2nd look at some things as a result ( separate gps and fishfinder/sonar units as compared to one unit). If I didn't mention it in my original post, my present set up is a 5-5/8inch gps...

I'm still looking at the Lowrance HDS-10, and am wondering if by now there is someone out there who is using this unit in a C-Dory 22 cruiser? Does it obscure any of your vision of the water or is it contained within the forward bow / gunwale lines? -Tom

Ken you are on to it . The foil hat rig. Its for thought transmissions, right. Is it directly to the halibut or other fisherman? Both, right. This will work for Spring Chinook. You're a GENIUS! The voices I've heard and that others report are true! Thank you for for sharing what will be the...

Bob the one you listed strikes my fancy also and will be saved as one of my keepers. C'mon Mike tell us how you do it with mayonnaise. Ken if your memory doesn't serve you, didn't you promise me some too? About 10 lbs will do it. No I don't want the guts. Here's a recipe taped on our...

Right on Ken. Thanks for sharing those creative juices. Looks like a winner. I look forward to trying it. My friend who emigrated from Vietnam says the head or carcass makes a wonderful hot and sour soup. I don't have a recipe yet but look forward to that too. Tom

Right on Robbi! Your in for some quality livin now. The best, Tom and Rene

If other options are available we don't use it. We use our boat in so many situations the PP has and will be ( no doubt about it) an asset. I weigh 157 and wife (no one knows for sure) 125. So we are not large and able to have a workable program in the berth. It took us some time to work it...

Life is sweet.

Nainu Thank you so much for sharing your experience-your story. RE: the waves that did not make sense and nearly rolled the boat. Perhaps it was a Rogue wave. Check out the article Rouge Waves The Physics Of Pure Hell at Sea by Bruce Stutz in Discover Magazine July 2004. It features an...

Also forgot to mention he said I could try to use the heat gun to help with removal along with chisel, flat bar etc.. but thought it would likely have to be destroyed in the process. Tom