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  1. sherman brown
    I have found many parts for my old boats in boat salvage yards. Try searching for ones in your area first, then expand the search. I live in east central Indiana and found what I needed for my boat in a salvage yard in southeast Michigan. I don't remember how I found them, but after I called them, they had what I needed at a reasonable price. we also have one in Indianapolis that I have used for parts and to sell old motors that I no longer needed, some still ran and others didn't.
  2. sherman brown
    a very nice day of catching!
  3. sherman brown
    it looks like a perfect fish catching trip. try to learn the little things on each trip out. I've been fishing Erie's south side in Ohio waters for 40+ years and I'm still learning something new often. it also looks like someone got a few nice bigger fish. congrats on your trip and thank you for sharing your trip with the rest of us with your detailed report.
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    this time of year out of Geneva go straight north to 74' of water and start deep trolling north if possible if you have a north wind go on out to 76' and troll south with the waves, for harnesses. I run 1.8 to 2.2 for spoons and cranks 2.7 to 3.0 usually work. the active fish are very deep I like to have my lures 50' to 60' deep. I use lite bite slide divers with 7' leaders and not the slide option, then I run a downrigger on each side 1 set at 50' and the other at 55'.
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    I have been a member for a while now but never introduced myself. I am 73 born in Jamestown TN Their mom moved her 7 kids to Muncie Indiana. I was 14 and started working in a canning factory and have worked ever since except for my 4 years in the marine corps. now and have fished almost all my life. I got my release from the Marine Corps in 76 and started salmon fishing in MI the same fall. but in the winter of 80 ice fishing for crappie, I caught my 1st walleye ever. caught it with a Johnson Century reel with a 4# line. it was so huge I thought I would never get it through the small hole. it was 29 1/2" and 9.5# I was hooked on walleye after that. fished Erie's western basin a year later and loved just drifting with the boat doing all the work. some years later, I moved to Geneva Ohio to fish the central basin for larger fish and it was amazing. got married in 71 when I was 20 and my wife was 16 and were happy and still together after all these years. I still love fishing but don't fish much as all my old fishing buddies are dead or moved away. i used to deer hunt in all ways legal but now I'm lucky to get to muzzleloader hunt for a few days. my hunting is dependent on my oldest son's hunting.
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    I've been there a couple of times. we have nothing that comes close to having the tackle in our area around Muncie IN. we fish out of Geneva Ohio for walleye. we wanted to get more sunspot walleye bandits like the one I had ordered online. so we made the drive and was rewarded for making the trip. not only did we find the bandit we were wanting but we ended up buying more cranks and some great spoons. we spent over 100.00 on both visits. I recommend going there just to see all the choices they have in a small place.
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    if this radio has the built-in GPS for contacting the Coast Guard and you will ship it to me for 150.00 I will buy it for a spare. I live in Muncie IN 47302. I won't be in any hurry so cheap is better. but I ship almost everything with priority mail using the smallest package I can. priority mail is charged on the size of the package and the weight can go up to 70# for the same price.
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    if your trying to sell it then a price would be nice.
  9. sherman brown
    you might have better luck online. you can do a search for them on your computer or even try a google search. or check on places like Amazon and eBay.
  10. sherman brown
    I just went to their site and spent 56.00 before I could close the site, LOL. great color choices.
  11. sherman brown
    I just looked on the website and maybe buying a few before long. some of the ones I liked are out of stock and i would rather just make 1 order and be done, so i plan on waiting to see if they get restocked soon. I also messaged them about restocking the ones I want. one thing I would love to see is some with chrome backs, it may not be as good as what you have but on some days it just gives me more confidence in the flash-attracting fish.
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    a guy on lakeontariounited.com has 4 of the caption pack for sale but doesn't have a price listed.
  13. sherman brown
    thank you, guys, for posting. but when we tried to start our motor and it was locked up and had water in the cylinders. we went out on our 1st day last year and my son wimped out on me and turned around and came back in. the next time out it wasn't running right and we noticed it was overheating. i think on our 1st trip it was overheating and we didn't notice. then we shut down to get everything ready to come back in and when he started the motor with it hot and cold water from the lake might have cracked a head. or when we shut it down with it very hot and when the heads cooled a head warped just enough to cause it to blow a head gasket. then when we went back out the blown head gasket is why it wasn't running right. then we brought it home not knowing anything bad was wrong. but the cylinders had got enough water in them to rust the cylinder rings to lock up the motor. and we found out the motor had locked up when we started getting it ready for this year. The bottom line is we won't be going up this year. but next year we will be back. we have been doing good in July using larger spoons out past 70' of water out of Geneva Ohio the last couple of years. I can't really give you the depth but we used 65# power pro for our main line back 200'+ running 2.7 to 3.0 or as close as we could get using lite bite slide divers rigged like a dipsy. and caught mostly larger fish as the smaller ones didn't hit the larger spoons like they did the smaller spoons.
  14. sherman brown
    this is lake erie united but I have seen -0- posts about fishing lake erie or tackle or method used and -0- reports on where to fish, tackle used, or reports.
  15. sherman brown
    I am a firm believer that anyone starting out fishing Erie should take at least 1 day out on a charter using the style of fishing they are planning to use. I had trolled the western basin for a few years just flatlining cranks and catching plenty of fish. but when we moved to the central basin we were totally lost. so, we took a charter out that used dipsy divers to get down to the fish. I had never seen a dipsy used and had no idea what to do. i didn't choose a charter using them but it just turned out our charter used divers. I went out on a charter a few yrs later that ran inline boards but I liked using divers much better. on the 1st day, we had started setting our own lines with 6 lines out. on the second day of the charter, we were running everything but driving the boat. by the end of day 2, we were able to fish with 6 lines on our own. now we did still make mistakes the biggest being setting the rigs out on the wrong side of the boat. but to be really honest it would have taken us at least 10 yrs on our own to be able to learn what we did in 2 days on the charter. most people will never learn to run 6 divers unless someone teaches them. and we still did and still do need to learn. the biggest thing was getting to know how much line to let out to reach the fish. if you want to be a fair fisherman in Erie I highly recommend using a good charter like the one here or ask for recommended charters in the area you plan to fish the most.
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