Slide diver lite bite
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
Sounds like a fun 3 days, Ahhspray! Congrats and glad you got to spend some quality time with your son.
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
Thanks for the detail (plugs) and a great report that really sounded like fun./JimAhhspray wrote:Well it was 3 days of staying on the boat and fishing with my youngest son ...so GREAT!
No real big salmon but we caught salmon. ALL salmon except 1 the WHOLE trip came on a small blue-silver pearl trout honeybee. I have the same spoon in silver instead of pearl and the salmon wanted nothing to do with it. We went through a lot of pro-cure smelt and it produced for us 2 or 3 to 1 over other scents we use. We found all this odd since the fish were coughing up big 6" alewives that probably don't smell like smelt, and certainly don't look like that spoon. Kicking myself that I only had that one copy of that spoon. ...more on the way now though. Blue/white was key for us for all species interestingly.
Got several very large pike 36"+, large perch 12-13"(master angler for my son) and smallmouth. All trolling.
Great week and we both enjoyed the pre-derby calm and Rozzi's, though we fought wind each day.
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
I'm putting together two new slide diver rigs with 9' Okuma dipsy rods and their cold water line counter reels. Now on to spooling the reels, mono is out, 50 lb. braid works great but I'm seriously considering 7 strand copper wire, it sinks fast so you drop back less and it offers a quick alternative to lead core if you want to swing that way. Friend of mine on Ontario swears by it. What do the experts say? Thanks for the advice, this website is awesome.
Re: Slide diver lite bite
I dont think you want to use copper on a slide diver, the way the line runs, and the way the releases set leads me to think that copper would kink over time and get ruined. Plus you can get DEEP with slide divers without it. Add the dive kit to them you can get to the bottom in 100ft of water in under 200ft of line. Copper isn't going to significantly improve that over braid, and at its cost I don't see it as worth it.
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
Thanks Keith, I'll give the dive kit a try. For the copper set, up I would tie the wire to a 50-100' braid (or mono) into a 3' flouro leader. The diver would slide on the mono, not the copper wire so it shouldn't get too beat up.
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
Does the color of the diver matter?
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
I can’t tell you if the color makes any difference as I only use clear and occasionally black for the last 6 years. I wouldn’t use these with copper. I’ve found that Suffix 832 Advanced Superline braid 20 or 30# works fine with either the Lite Bite or the Lite Bite with the 7 oz. Ultimate Ring & Weight Kit.
Have fun with the Slide Divers.
Have fun with the Slide Divers.
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
How is everyone storing their slide diver rigs?
Are you re-tieing the setup each time out?
I've just been placing rigged rod on the floor of my boat which is not exactly ideal
Are you re-tieing the setup each time out?
I've just been placing rigged rod on the floor of my boat which is not exactly ideal
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Re: Slide diver lite bite
[quote="LandLocker"]How is everyone storing their slide diver rigs?
Are you re-tieing the setup each time out?
I've just been placing rigged rod on the floor of my boat which is not exactly ideal [/quote
I break my rods down and use rod ties to attach the slide diver the the rod tighly for storage in my open bow. It stays tied and ready that way. Many folks have similar stow setups, some even leave the rod whole. I don’t know anyone who threads fresh each time...
Are you re-tieing the setup each time out?
I've just been placing rigged rod on the floor of my boat which is not exactly ideal [/quote
I break my rods down and use rod ties to attach the slide diver the the rod tighly for storage in my open bow. It stays tied and ready that way. Many folks have similar stow setups, some even leave the rod whole. I don’t know anyone who threads fresh each time...
Matt B