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Great outing Eric! That 24" salmon would likely win the shoot-out this Saturday! Well done! A rare fish for October indeed! Are you fishing the Shootout this Saturday? Lots of details and great report!

My crew is ready! 13th shoot out with no missed events.

90% of the people launch out of Converse. The weigh in and BBQ is at Point Bay Marina just south of Thompson's point way in the bay following the shoreline. Docks are empty so just tie up your boat and walk to shore from the dock. Up on the hill. 1 pm sharp is the weigh in deadline. https://i.postim...

Time on the water = results.  Being retired since 2016 I sometimes believe fishing all that flat water waiting for nice days hurts our catch rate rather than when we had to fish rougher water on a day off.  This season we have seen 3X the legal salmon landed over last year's poor season.  Our fin cl...

Eric, Do you have a photo of how you attach to your probe so that it slides down with the diver? I attach mine at the beginning of the 25 ft piece of 30 lb. Big Game Berkley line the diver slides up and down. If the line breaks on a caught diver on the bottom I will still have the probe attached at ...

Thanks for sharing Eric! Ontario was amazing this past season! Everyone did well! It was a runner up year for us for results going back 42 years. Data is power and knowing where your divers are running is very cool! I haven't had this much fun since my first Auto pilot in 2005! I could never return ...

First time I have seen this Pat! Photo's are very hard to judge. Some look big and some look small. Many fish this year were sub 20 lbs. Trend. Lots of fun! 24 lbs. and up was a very nice benchmark big fish! Almost like 30 lbs was 30-40 years ago. Your right many of us never put a tape measure to a ...

I bought these 3 years ago and never used them. $20

Did some housekeeping of my spreadsheet to clean it up from past years as it was getting messy.

2020 Covid year and 2022 weather cancelled.

When the port side curved part was shattered at the sandbar by a passing truck and cars I watched it explode in my rear view mirror last year on the drivers side truck near the double lines in the road in late May. Coincidence me seeing that. The entire windshield had to be replaced due they cannot ...

With the thousands of miles I put on my boat trailer every season it was time to get something to protect the boat windshield. I have had two cases of broken glass the last two years. Once at the sandbar last year and coming home from Ontario in July. Well it was time to do something about it! This ...

1 month into my testing I have been out 14 times in September taking a pause for some work around the house. 6 of these 14 times out have been on my boat using the Smart Troll system. I have been attaching the probes lately at the end of the wire before my 25 ft 30 lb. Trilene Big Game leader. If I ...

Nice job on the mounts! He has come a long way since the mid 80's on his mounts! He was just starting out then. My neighbor will contact him. Thanks Matt.

Oh good! I remembered his name after posting.. Great he is still active doing mounts! I liked it when it was $100 for a 30 or 40" fish in the mid eighties!

Thanks!