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I am happy to report that I redeemed myself. Last weeks trip to Loon was in no way spectacular, I have however "sourced" an issue with my boat which may have been leading to some poor outings as of late. I added a rectifier from a t8 Yamaha to my F6 Yamaha in order to charge my batteries while trolling, my electric down riggers can draw a decent load over a day of use. Now I wired in a harness per a wiring diagram via the internet, however my downriver cables were reading at .4 vdc which i believe to be low. I have been on the water 6 times since doing that with only 3 fish to show for it. So I isolated all of my wires and unhooked my rectifier yesterday, tested my lines today at a nice .660 vdc, We were back on fish like that. I took my fiancé and my mother out for the day and we ended up with 13 kokes and 1 nice rainbow. We did manage to lose probably 30 kokanee, which tends to happen trolling out there. I also hooked into what im guessing was a Mackinaw. It was in the 5-6lb range and I do not think the Tigers have gotten that big since last falls planting. The "Mack" hit on a pink squid with fast limit dodger in Pink and Glo, took me and my eagle claw ultra light kokanee rod for quite the ride! We caught 90% of the fish at 20-22 ft at 1.3-1.7 mph, as with an orange and yellow home tied hoochie squid with a green/blue/chrome brads wobbler (used as a dodger sans hook) white sho peg corn mixed with Super Dippin Sauce Garlic, a spoonful of tuna and some Krill seasoning. The other batch was white corn Northwest Bait and scent Salmon formula with a packet of Redd Drift bait mix (PM me if you are interested in learning about or buying some don't want to Plug it too hard here). Oh and of course my fiancé out caught me...again. (She is standing over my shoulder to make sure I said that).

Mike

Flyking

5/13/2018 8:11:36 AM

forgive my density but I think you're saying your electronics issue was causing your trolling speeds to be too slow? nice report.

xmwz001

5/13/2018 9:32:10 AM

No forgiveness required haha. My electrical issue did not have anything to do with my speeds, but rather with an electrical output potential in the water. Now I am no expert but from reading a lot of articles, if you have an improperly grounded circuit on your boat you can send of negative electrical current which fish do not care for, in fact scares them away. You can literally watch them dodging your boat on the fish finder. So I am "assuming" that was happening with my kicker motor being the negative ground source, as when it was running with my rectifier hooked up I tested a lower voltage (.4 volts direct current) at my downriver line, with it isolated/unhooked I had readings of .66 volts direct current. From what I understand, if you don't have electronics on your boat you obviously not as susceptible to this "leakage". I have heard a lot of people say that is all horsecrap and its picking the fly out of the crap so to speak, I just wanted to post my results, which to me seemed very directly correlated.

Mike

Marine4life

5/13/2018 9:28:10 AM

Way to go out there those look delicious and I bet everyone had a blast

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