Weekend Wipers
 

Met up w Dale early morning to fish for our fav species...the early bird gets the worm haha. Got the boat in the water quickly and headed to where we wacked em good last weekend in the pouring rain. Picked off a nice fish while setting the 2nd line out and had good signs of life in this area. We were thinking it was game on but we had no takers just alot of lookers and decided to go into search mode. Scanned some areas we know to hold schools with the side imaging and found no bait and no fish anywhere around. Made another long move and instantly found plenty of bait and some loosely schooled stripers after searching for a while. Setup a 6 rod spread and it was game on the rest of the day making loops thru the waypoints. We had a few doubles and triples and we lost quite a few fish to short strikes and sideways tangles, seems this years class of fish is thicker and they are running sideways while they dig, fun fun fun lol. All fish caught in 15-25fow slow-trolling naked herring rigs w snap weights on planer boards and downlines. Got the new boat finally rigged the way I want and shes getting broken in nicely......Enjoy the fish porn fellas

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Great looking rig Jimmy , really nice fishies tho...

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Nice jimmy! Things look good. Sweet ride; rigged and ready to roll. Dale gave me the update on Sunday. Said you guys did well. I think these pics are the first time I've seen him during daylight hours in the last 2 months!

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Great job guys.

Had a perfect night myself being set up from Friday to Saturday morning.

Managed to locate a nice hole from the shore and kept on hammering away with more misses than fish landed

They are still around and still hungry.

Andre

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In terms of fishing planning and complexity, you're playing a chess match with the fish.
I'm not even playing checkers. I'm putting blocks through the right-shaped holes. :D


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The best part of the new ride is the automatic bow mount trolling motor with remote control. We were pulling in to the dock as Jimmy was launching. He kicks the boat off the trailer and it starts floating away. There was a small crowd at the dock and they all start yelling “hey there’s a boat on the loose!.
Jimmy pushes a button on the remote and the bow trolling motor unfolds off the deck, and drops in the water where he steers it back to the dock.
Pretty Kool!

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Great job guys - some very solid fish there. The new Crestliner looks great.

The brackets holding the rod holders to the T-track, are they Crestliner - another aftermarket brand, home fabricated?

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nice wipers and sick set up you got goin on ! good luck w the boat

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Sweet hybrids! How do you guys keep the herring alive? Just an aerator or do you add any cold water/ice??

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That is one sick trolling setup You got there. I'm hoping I can get them this week on half that rigging haha.

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Awesome pictures guys, very nice work!

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thanks guys, its nice to be out in the morning fishing again, the last 2 months of nightbite was very hard to do this year.

Uglystick those are factory crestliner mounts, its called the suremount system, all 2014 and newer have them, every boat manufacturer has a system now. Its nice to move rods anywhere in the boat, have a nice tool holder for pliers/scissors, The downrigger mounts hook on the outside Jchannel the cover goes into and on the inside, super strong setup. Have another set of flat tops that will eventually be bases for a pair of jigging machines.

Bigboy I used to use a bait jacuzzi and on this boat I turned the rear livewell into a baitwell only. I have a large specialized bait aerator mounted in the battery compartment and its feeds under the deck into the baitwell from the top to a large stone base. Uses .25 amps and keeps the herring frisky all day. I added sprayfoam to the top under the deck around the baitwell on top of the factory foam and I throw a few gallons of water in the baitwell before I leave from the garden hose. On way to fish I grab bfast/coffee at quickchek and get a bag of ice, half in the baitwell the rest in cooler for drinks. Grab the herring and get a full 5 gallon bucket of their water and dump them in, then when launched I throw the recirculating timer on 5 min for 30 sec and fill the livewell up to top w lake water. Water stays cool all day and herring are frisky, you need to recirc the water to help cut down the amonia. Herring need lots of water they die from overcrowding due to their amonia they release when stressed, also need cool water you have to transition slowly and when put in your fishing waters get them down a few feet as fast as possible, the top 5-10fow is much warmer than below