clayton86

Welcome what part of WNY I'm also from WNY brockport area

Reviving this old thread. I picked up up two packs last week one of each blade style. Paired it with a trick worm and absolutely love it. Crushed them on it had one of my best days of the year on normally finicky hard to catch fish. Took a little getting used to detecting the bite but these things are awesome

I have a similar situation here and started using a vmc gliding jig with a truck worm trailer or robo worm. Both willow and Oklahoma blades have been working for me.

Going threw my plastics today getting ready for a tournament tomorrow I found several packs of the sick fish. If I remember correctly it was very similar to the trash fish at a third the price. Might throw some tomorrow to refresh my memory

Been throwing the pit boss on a shakey head as of late and absolutely crushing them.

Love xcalibur Xr50 in red craw pattern

Hey that's the Holley falls!!! I live 5 minutes from there take the kids there because it's always got fish not big fish but fish nonetheless. I walk the canal and fish from time to time it's good for rock bass and smallies but there all like 10"ers at least where I'm at I do know closer to Erie is good for quality

I like the geek blanks because of all the color options

I've taken a break from rod building this last year or so but have been itching to get back to it and have some time now to do so. I really need a cranking rod I have one I use now but it's not designed for cranks and I feel is seriously lacking when it comes to the bigger deeper cranks. Ive built on rod geeks and MHX in the past but am looking at a few others for a good cranking build. First is the revelation REVCB70MH-SB and REVCB76MH-SB second is the batson E-glass cranking blank either the GCB70MH or the GCB710MH third rd is the rod geeks S glass line SG79MHM any one with experience in any of them mentioned or any others.

I wish my one lake was on it. I have a paper version of the contour map of the lake that you can buy in Walmart that covers NY lakes. However navionics doesn't have it in heir system. I've got some way points saved when I've passed over structure I want to come back to though.

Anyone have the navionics phone app and do the update to sync to your fish finder. It advertises that you can download the updates to your unit via phone. I've got the dragonfly 4 pro with the navionics pack but haven't updated it since I got it in march because I don't have a laptop so this would be nice to figure out. That and I use both some times like when I pre fished a lake in my buddy's boat I ran the tracker so when I do my tournament in they kayak I have all the waypoints.

Hit honeoye today to pre fish for a kayak tournament there next weekend. Struggled just to get 5 in the boat. Place is completely different from when I went in may and you could throw anything almost anywhere and catch a fish.

New York is the third Saturday in June till November

You guys need more internet in your life. Haven't ya seen the meme about this. It goes something like this(can't post it it's not rated G) interviewer: what's your greatest weakness? interviewee: honesty interviewer: I don't think honesty is a weakness interviewee: I don't give a beep what you think... so be be honest I guess like everyone else said

I've heard some great things about round lake holding some giants. I also kayak fish been planing on making it out there some point this year. Heard it gets really weedy though.

Gonna venture a guess and say you play paintball and use the tipmann A5

Contact wildy customer service they are sending out new hatches with a thicker seal to those with leaking hatches. Guys s have been using rem oil in the pedals to quiet them down and greasing the drives. Blue lock tight on the rudder block also.

How much wobble we talking about? There will be some but not a lot there has to be for clearance so the unit to spring up into zero draft. If it was tight then the unit wouldn't slide up freely. Also the two we have to demo one is a pre production one and it doesn't have the two knobs on the side to control there speed for the drive to come up so it wobbles a little more. The other is brand new off the line and has the knobs so when tightened you can take some wobble out but like I stated before there needs to be some to allow the drive to come up. Personally I'm not a fan of the radar and I'm on the wildy staff. It's a great boat don't get me wrong it's just not for me. I'm a little on the short side so with the seat all the way up I just reach the pedals comfortably but then it makes it so I can't reach my gear in the back with out a stretch. So I didn't like that about it. I also like to have several rods on the deck laid out infront of me just to grab and cast. Can't do that with pedal drive. Other then them them two things the boats great. Stable and fast we had a radar 115,135,slayer 12 or 13' and an ATAK 120 all head to head in race a few weeks ago. All three pedal drives were about the same speed no one left the other in the dust. It tracks well seats comfortable but it's the same seat as my ATAK which last week I did a 42hr long tournament and other then two short 4 hours naps after the 10pm check in I was in he seat the whole time. Just what I've noticed about the radar from my view. A lot of people love em it's just not my style of fishing really. If you don't mind me asking where did you demo the radar.

^^^^ with scott on this one why can't they be in the lake? And I've caught some 3 and 4 lb smallies regularly in an area of my creek that's just inches deep. They get behind a rock or tree going across that gives that one spot a little depth in a area that's shallow ripples and wait to ambush. They look like salmon moving up a shallow to spawn chasing a square bill threw with backs out of the water.

I have the 140 and will be getting the 120 to go with it hopefully next month. I take my 140 down some very narrow skinny water that gets inches deep at times. The 120 will also excel in the same waters as my 140 can be a bear to turn around in some spots often making me get out and swing it around because the creeks only 10' wide and the kayak well it's 14'. The 120 will still need to be turned in the same way at some of my spots but won't be as bad. You mentioned the rod locker on the 140. To be honest in the year I've had it I've used it maybe 3 times. It's not all that practical when on the water. I used it when I went to the KBF national championship but it was simply to store rods for the 17hr drive some place other then in the packed truck with two other guys and all our gear.

I fished the Seneca-Cayuga canal this weekend in a tournament. Nothing in the canal I made the 4 mile paddle to the state park on Seneca and found a mess of good fish but they were tough. Flipped black and blue jigs to the docks for a few fish I ended up finishing second right on the heels of the leader I had one dink I couldn't cull out that kept me out of the money but got lunker. the smallie was the only only one I could get to bite in the canal all the large mouth were just cruising not even looking at anything I threw. But this smallie was on a bed and wasn't budging off it so I gave it the time to try no get it to bite which took a combo of a jig then a damiki rig.

They have discontinued the ride X series some shops still have them but no new ones are being produced. So you can get them with the old seat and save money. The peacador is a great budget boat like mentioned.

As one of the reciepiants of .ghoti.'s rods I was definitely "shickled titless".

6lb+ smallie from the kayak 8lb+ large mouth from the kayak 2+ fish on an A-rig 40+" musky or northern on the kayak Catch a striper

I use everything from a 6' casting rod for top water walk the dog baits to my 9' 7wt fly rod in my kayak. Most mine range from 6'9" to 7'6" the only time I find a real issue with the longer rods is when I'm floating narrow creeks with low overhanging branches or bridges I tend to keep them on the deck of my ATAK rather then in the holders sticking up getting caught on everything.