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I have a question on the dive curves. A jet 30 shows on the card 125feet out for 20ft depth. The bible says 90 ft out to reach 20ft. The discrepancy is about the same for a jet 40. I realize i can check this just by gettin into 20fow and seein where i start hittin bottom. I also realize it depends on the line, im using 20lbtest. Im using the big water edition for precision troll as the bible edition which pretty much is just for jets, dipsys, snap weights etc. Any advice from you pros? Thanks

Went out fishing with John yesterday and my girlfriend was able to go with us for a change.Had not fished with John in almost a month due to him getting his new boat repaired.Coming back from put in Bay memorial weekend he hit the CIC wall and damaged the stern corner.Started out at Lucy point thanks to Billy Boy’s post…thanks and marked alot of fish.The ride out was beautiful, with a gorgeous sunrise and a flat lake.DD sat in the copilot seat and enjoyed the fast non bumpy ride.Set out 4 dipsies and 2 boards and headed north.Was picking up fish right away but they were mostly shorts and barely legal.We trolled into Canada and turned around about half way into Pelee after bite slowed.Then started catching some sheep and a 10# cat.After 90 min had 7 in box then decided to head east where we drove past last week.Marked alot of fish a few miles east of Kelly’s Island shoal but there were too many nets a too rough to fish thestre.Today with Canadian licences we could fish north of those nets.There were good marks but mostly on the bottom of 39-42 fow.Set up and got better fish with hardly any shorts.Got the rest of our fish in another 3.5 hrs so 18/33 lbs at cleaners.Speed was around 2.7 mph and had two green spoon harness on dipsey 3 setting at 85 and 80 and double willow harness on 1 setting at 60 and 65.Wad a gold bandits on a board that caught 1 fish and a harness on a tru trip that caught one also.But almost everything on the dipseys.The midges were terrible without any wind and after John spend a whole day cleaning the boat after the repair, the midges trashed the boat.Going over there now to help him clean the boat.

Wife and I went out early this morning. Started at G can about 6:00. No wind, humid, and the bugs were absolutely horrible. Moved 40 minutes later about 3/4 due south of Green. Just us and one other boat. Caught our limit 60 in about 3 hours. All really nice 9-12 yellow gold. Also caught crap load of sheep head, catfish, and white perch

Should finally get the powerboat out this Fourth of July weekend. It’s in the water, but I still have some boat work to do this evening and on Friday. Will be out on Saturday but not fishing much, over at Middle Bass Island. We’ll see about Sunday through Tuesday. May be out Friday evening if I get all the boat work done in time. Webcam should be up the entire time I’m out.

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What braid works well with Dipseys and also behaves like the Berkeley 10 XT when using the Precision Trolling app? I’d like to be able to use the same rod for Dipseys or for pulling crank baits with in-line boards. I’m using the Sam’s Pro release on the front of my boards. Braid color preference? Thanks!

I waited out the wind until about 1:00 this afternoon. Did some trolling with harnesses in the triangle west of middle bass. Ended up with 3 eaters by 4:00. Was marking a lot of what should be perch. Ended up dropping anchor south of rattlesnake marina entrance. Started at 5:00. Pulled 12 keepers by 7:00. Nothing great 8-10” some throw backs, and a couple sheep. All I had was crappie rigs, and frozen shiners. Maybe spreaders would have been better today. Every one came on the bottom hook, and they wouldn’t touch 1/2s had to be whole. Back at it in the am. Going to try for a couple eyes early then back to perch by 7:00.

Came up this weekend with the wife and toddler girl for an island weekend. On the way to PIB Friday, we stopped at American Eagle for a couple drifts to see if we could find some fish to keep the little one interested. The brainwashing is taking affect quite nicely because when she woke up from her little snooze (boat ride always puts her right to sleep!), she said “are we fishing??? YAAAAAY!!!!” ;).

Did 2 drifts just north of the red can. Picked up 1 walleye on each drift and a handful of sheep each drift. She loves “sheepyheads” so she had a ton of fun! Both eyes came on the same boring stuff they tend to hit for me for some reason! 1/2 ounce jig head, 3″ white curly tail, tipped with a little worm. Set that rod up to drag/bounce bottom while I cast a second rod with erie dearie or harness. Chose Dearie this time out of laziness and the Dearie caught all the sheep.

2 good eaters is plenty for a little fish fry for our fam so definitely had a fun and successful little stop!!

Be back up in 2 weeks with the fam again and hoping to hit some perch action then and get the little one REAAAALLY brainwashed with hot perch action! :o:o

Tight lines all!!

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Has anyone done the most recent software update and now the simulator mode don’t work. Can’t find much on the web or the Garmin site about it except that the update was so large that they had to leave the simulator out. Not sure if that’s true. I’ll try calling customer support Monday when they open. I’m sure I’m not the only one this has happened to.

Was waiting out the wind. Put in about 4:00pm. Made the short, and somewhat protected trip to my perch spot north of ballast. Anchored up , and immediately started catching. 4 in the box in 15 minutes plus a couple under 8” that went back then just shut off. Nothing else for an hour. Picked up and went north of East point. To rough to troll, so I just did some casting. Throwing weapons with 1/2 a crawler. Decent action for a couple hours. Lots of short strikes. Some shorts, and a couple farm. Ended up with 2 eaters. The 4 perch were on minnows on homemade double perch rigs. As an aside. Has anyone ever caught crappie around middle bass. I was waiting for the wind to die so I had a rod in the water in the marina, and caught a nice 12” on my perch rig. I often throw a line in off the big boat. Catch a couple perch from time to time just never any crappie. Seems odd! The marina is dead flat mostly silt bottom with no cover.