You can talk to me if that's
easiest, doesn't really matter, but
I guess walk me through a little bit
of like what's the right setup for
you in order to go walleye fishing.
What do you need to have in your
boat, what do you have, and you can
kind of like move around show and
tell if you need too, but what makes
the best setup.
All right, well,
as I was saying before.
Situation is different.
For us, we like
to troll.
So our number one thing is trolling.
If we got a jig, we got to jig.
If it's that rough and that
dirty,
that's what you got to do.
You got to jig.
Well, yeah, for trolling-wise,
yeah. The main thing is,
yeah you just, the boards, the
boards are huge.
You know, and I give it up for
church tackle.
We modified them a little bit.
They're a little, we use different
clips. We take all their hardware
off and then we use our, you know,
different hardware from different
spots.
We started this probably
give or take 10 years ago.
Wish I would have put a patent on
it, but I didn't.
Or I should say, we didn't.
Yeah, and as you
probably seen earlier,
you know, you just clip it on, twirl
it, twirll it three times and click
it on.
But the best, the best part about
this is when the boards
are out there, you get a fish on,
all you got to do is snap it.
So you don't have to, if this is an
outside board,
you don't have to bring in them
first too.
Like on
regular boards.
Or it doesn't matter, it could be
these boards too, but if they don't
have these clips, you have to bring
them first two
lines and rods in
to get that fish on the outside
board.
With these, the way we do it,
you just clip it or snap it,
it goes back, falls right behind the
motor. Done, you bring it in.
You don't, you're
fishing all the
time, so that's huge.
That's one big part of it,
why we did that.
The second part is you're not
fighting the board, reeling them in.
Yeah. Yeah.
And you're not fighting the board,
you know, sometimes we,
we don't, we don't snap them
purposely because if it's,
you don't want to change direction
or pattern or
whatever, whatever that fish is
doing. If it's coming in like
consistent, leave it alone.
You don't wanna do nothing to
aggravate it.
If you want to say it.
But as far as like you've got the
engine set up, you've got a trolling
motor, multiple motors, like how do
how do all those work together for
you?
Yeah, so with the, and then you
got the kicker motor in the front,
or I mean the
ball mount in the front.
So you always use a ball mount for
your steering.
And then you put it on.
For your heading and then you always
use a kicker to help
it along so you're not using all the
battery power.
So that's huge having a kick on
the back.
Of course a ball mount, because
otherwise if you don't have a ball
mount, you're constantly
steering.
And then if you got fish on, if
you've got multiple fish on at once,
then you're, you are offline.
Really quick.
And the graphs, the graphs are huge.
Um, I use the Lorantz in the front.
That's, I used that for my,
my heading, all my coordinates,
blah, blah.
Um, which is good.
Lorantze is very, very good, but
Garmin, the pixels in the
Garmin are way better, um,
more defined.
And you got panoptics, you got live
scope. You can all do on that screen
alone. And then you got the rot, you
know, then I can, I could
scope out 120 feet.
And then see the fish, you know, if
you want to.
Yeah, and rods.
That is comfort with your boat with
I mean if you picked someone
else up and put them in here you
wouldn't someone else's boat I mean
that would just throw everything off
right
Yeah, we were just talking about
that earlier, I got
a fishing buddy that I was with last
week in the AIM series,
and he's got a nice setup, it's all
nice, but everything is different.
He's got different clips, he don't
have clips like we have.
The pen reel, he uses
big pen reels, that's
a little bit, they're heavier.
The clicker, the whole system
is different than what I use.
You know, mine is a little bit more,
in my eyes is simpler.
It could be, my stuff
could be way different
in his eyes too, which you know,
it's different.
Can I actually have you stand over
here?
Um...
Other than that, yeah, yeah.
Every boat is different.
I mean, most guys got Lurants and
Garmin's, a
lot of the guys got a lot of the
same stuff, trolling
rods, jigging rods.
They're all pretty much,
we're all you pretty much using the
same thing, but a little different.
Um, everybody has a different
feeling to every piece of
equipment. You know, I try to
go with the easiest, the lightest,
quickest.
That's in my eyes.
Cause every minute counts out there
when you're, when you are in a
tournament, if you're fun fishing,
you don't need this stuff that I
have, you know, you can go,
you go to flea farm and buy, you
know, whatever you want, that's
fine.
The stuff that we use, yeah, it
costs a lot more money, but it lasts
a little bit longer.
Like the rods, Denali rods,
we use all Denalis.
The tension, you can feel that.
Like earlier, you've probably seen,
I knew that.
I felt that little
head jerk in the rod.
You could feel it in my hand, and
I knew exactly what was gonna
happen, but other
than that.
What's the test pound?
We use 14-pound
test Sunline
for our main,
but then that goes, okay, that's
different too, you know, with the,
we don't run a snap swivel or
any of that, we just run it direct.
But when you're running harnesses,
that's a different story.
Then you have a leader.
Then you a leader with a swivel
on it.
And then you use
20 pound fluorocarbon
that we use on that.
So you said how long have you had
this boat?
Three years now
And I mean, is there like a
sentimentality to being
in this boat?
Comes down to money at this, at
that time. Yeah, I'd like a new
boat, but no, no, this has treated
us very well.
Multiple tournaments that were in
every year.
It's, yeah, no, I can't, you
know, I love you, it's
my baby.
Other than that, yeah, no,
I love the boat.
Lund, Lund has got a great boat.
My whole family owns boats, which
you've seen earlier and when
we first started, my brother was on
the side of us. He had a Lund and my
other brother's got a LUND.
Yeah, no.
You said you used to fish with a
cousin who was a long time fishing
partner, right? Yeah.
Yeah, Jason Gable.
And that was a big part of your
fishing experience as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, yep, I started with him about
20 years ago and he was,
yeah, we were,
we were like brothers.
We knew we were like actually like
twins because we were thinking
always the same thing all the time.
If I told him to put on a bait,
he already had that bait on before I
even even said it.
You know, we're always thinking the
same things, you know, kind of like
me and Schaefer, Kevin,
you, know, and Mikey Blank.
We're always...
All my teammates, my kid, my son,
Tristan.
Yeah, we're always.
It's just, I don't know,
I didn't wanna say it
like that or anything, or brag or
anything.
But it's, you know, I taught these
guys quite a bit, you now we
all fish together, you and they
taught me, Mikey Blank, Schaefer,
all of us, we taught each other.
Which is huge.
And then when, especially when
you're in a tournament, you ain't
got to sit there and bicker or
blah, blah, blah, or any, you know,
anything like that.
You know, everybody's got their own,
you got your job.
You do your job and
it pays off. Like today, today it
paid off.
Yes?
Do we wish we were in a Tournament
today?
Very yes, so much, but
it is what it is.
You said before that you had your
partner with you,
um, his ashes are in the boat?
Yeah, yup, yup.
I got my buddy's ashes in
the boat in the glove compartment.
Actually, we dumped
the ashes in a few places.
One of our best spots in Erie,
twice.
And then up
north by my cabin,
in this deer hunting spot.
And then, uh.
And then another spot, I can't
really say, but anyways, yeah, no,
he's always with us.
It don't matter. You can come to my
house, have an urn there,
his pictures.
Yeah. And then if you go in my
garage, you'd really like that.
Our fish so when he passed away
all our fish was in his in his
house so now they're in my
garage and I got his jersey with his
name on it and all our plaques
He's always there.
He's fishing with us all the time,
like last weekend.
All we did was pray to him, hey come
on, give us
a couple good ones, you know, and he
did. And he did, we did very well.
I can't complain about that.
Yeah, I miss him, we all miss him.
Some a little bit more than others,
but yeah, that was
like my brother, you know?
And his mom, that's like my second
mom.
But other than that, yeah, that's
pretty much, pretty
much our experience
in fishing, in
the fishing world, or tournament
world, I should say, not fishing.
I think that's all we need now,
we're good,
thank you.
At some point we'd like to.