Hey CI,

How much water are you trolling with these Lakers at the 75-125 levels? I've been fishing the Lake Memphremagog and have been seeing lakers in the same depth in about 300 feet of water; especially lately. Early season, however, there is a sandbar on the lake which brings the levels from about 200' up to 30' fairly fast. It's in these waters that early season we see a ton of lakers feeding off the bottom. It's tough to get to them with downriggers since the level changes so quickly, so I've seen this method most effective there.

Otherwise, I agree with you on using riggers. I made the stupid mistake of getting hand crank scotty's; which WILL be remedied this winter when I install electic riggers (speaking of which anybody wanting one season old hand crank scotty downriggers, let me know).

Maybe what I should do next spring is switch one of my reels from stainless steel wire to LC and see how it does. I'm a little concerned that I won't be able to fit enough LC on it though. It is just holding 1000' steel wire, which is pretty thin.

Thanks for the advice.