04-04-2004, 04:44 PM
now fishing the rollers is my specialty, that is the first thing I learned about walleye in the north river, It some getting used to when the rollers go over your head and you sink in to a swell.
it was a big eye that I had hold of, I thought it was the bottom. I grabed the line to try to break my leader off the bottom and brought it in only to find my leader in tact and half my bait to be missing. I was using method for the north river with an extreamily short leader 8 - 10 inches. we were using the troling motor (electric) to manover around the croud and slow us down.
we were going to slow for troling and to fast for jigging. If I go back out that way again I will grab some smaller blades.
I wasnt the least bit worried about my rod breaking. I was using my Bigfishtackle.com custom fishing rod I ordered from the [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/bigfish_gifts.htm"][size 1]BFT Gift Shop[/size][/url] With 20 pound Sigma Mono and 12 pound Trileine leaders. I was going with a slip sinker to give me the best feal of the bottom. I only lost one leader to the bottom and it broke so fast there was hardly any time to react.
I do my leaders this way because I want the leader to go with out loosing my egg sinker. In the last 20 years I have only lost 2 egg sinkers. I have yet to loose one off my bft rod.
but now I know what I am dealing with I beleive my next trip out will be truly a profitable one. and the next time I think I have the bottom I will know it is a fish because the bottom hookups snap on my setup asap.
deffinatly a big learning curv from the north to the south. ofcorce we did not go over in to the shipping lane on the other side of grosse island. I would emagine that the conditions there are about the same as the north side of the river.
Scott said he liked the Erie Metro park launch much better than state launch. we had over heated his 25 horse motor running it on low spead. had we done that and gone down river from the state launch insted of going up river from the metro launch and we lost the engine we would still be floating some where down by Cedar Point right now.
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it was a big eye that I had hold of, I thought it was the bottom. I grabed the line to try to break my leader off the bottom and brought it in only to find my leader in tact and half my bait to be missing. I was using method for the north river with an extreamily short leader 8 - 10 inches. we were using the troling motor (electric) to manover around the croud and slow us down.
we were going to slow for troling and to fast for jigging. If I go back out that way again I will grab some smaller blades.
I wasnt the least bit worried about my rod breaking. I was using my Bigfishtackle.com custom fishing rod I ordered from the [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/bigfish_gifts.htm"][size 1]BFT Gift Shop[/size][/url] With 20 pound Sigma Mono and 12 pound Trileine leaders. I was going with a slip sinker to give me the best feal of the bottom. I only lost one leader to the bottom and it broke so fast there was hardly any time to react.
I do my leaders this way because I want the leader to go with out loosing my egg sinker. In the last 20 years I have only lost 2 egg sinkers. I have yet to loose one off my bft rod.
but now I know what I am dealing with I beleive my next trip out will be truly a profitable one. and the next time I think I have the bottom I will know it is a fish because the bottom hookups snap on my setup asap.
deffinatly a big learning curv from the north to the south. ofcorce we did not go over in to the shipping lane on the other side of grosse island. I would emagine that the conditions there are about the same as the north side of the river.
Scott said he liked the Erie Metro park launch much better than state launch. we had over heated his 25 horse motor running it on low spead. had we done that and gone down river from the state launch insted of going up river from the metro launch and we lost the engine we would still be floating some where down by Cedar Point right now.
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