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By segmented I mean for example a 5 color would be roughly 200 yards of backing (20lb test backing). 5 colors of lead and a thirty ft leader. Let out the five colors of lead and say thirty feet of backing attach board and let out. Same with 2 and 3 cores all the way up to ten. On our boat we will run two or three of the same color per side with the same amount of backing in the water. Like Sunday out of Dunkirk we ran two seven colors on one side and two fives on the other, two Dipsey and two riggers with a ten color as a chute rode.

We run wire and braid divers all the time. They are not as effective early in the year as the will be going forward into the heat of the summer. On jet divers I'll say they are much less effective then a segemented core and a flouro leader. I sold everyone I owned but they do offer a cheaper way to fish different depths then having ten lead core rigs. Inline boards with segmented lead core sets is the way to go in my opinion. Most of the charters still run big boards but I think if they tried the in line boards and stuck with it they wouldn't go back. Big boards are probably easier to use then in lines with customers but there is no better action then a church board, segmented core and rynowsky in a nice walleye chop.

The fishing on Erie is hands down world class. It is one of if not the best small mouth bass fishery in the world along with walleye. I would also say the lake trout fishing rival Lake Ontario and might be better.

Sometimes under 25ft. WD is a small dream weaver

We catch a ton of eyes on wd's. We run them close to the ball on really light leads and really small swivels. Watermelon wd has taken the most. We run spoons on the riggers all year long. I believe running spoons at a 100 ft back going under 2 mph you lose you're target depth on the rigger. Get your down speed at 1.4 to 1.6 mph and you'll catch fish. I see tons of guys trying spoons and there line is to heavy and the swivel is to big. Our favorite bait on a rigger is a wd near the bottom close to the ball. During the south towns tourney last year we were doing days of 20 plus fish, segmented lead cores up top spoons on the bottoms. Spoons consistently produced deep while most had nothing in the bottom of the water column.

Fishkiller our biggest fish come off the riggers year after year. Last day of con club all three wieghers good for third on that day came off spoons on riggers. During the both Rob Ray tourneys good boxes were caught using spoons deep on riggers short leads and fast. Our big fish good for 4th fourth during sunset shootout was a down rigger fished 75ft down over 80ft. My advice run your riggers every time you fish and flutter em up when going through a school.

That's all you need. Mid summer on all we used to use is a six rod spread. Two riggers, two ten color and two dipsey's. We do very well using wds on riggers. As for rynowskys being junk that's about right. We replace the hooks and yes occasionally they fill with water but they flat out catch more fish then any other lure we use. Yes I have a whole box of bay rats, but there is two lures that see the most water it is "pinky rynowskys" and fire tiger rynowsky. We fished bay rats side by side with rynowskys and we use rynowskys.

Segmented lead cores with rynowskys but late in the year dipsey and riggers are good

Sluggo, leader down to 12 lb test and run that spoon 15ft off the ball. It was hard for me to do at first but it works.

There is days that slowing down and running a worm out produces everything. I know some guys who don't use worms but mid July till it's over a Big dipsey out 180 to 225 on a three setting is hard to beat.

Rynowskys wd spoons watermellon worm harness. We run the small spoons off down riggers and rynowskys off everything else and when all else fails we break out the worms.