New Year, New Products!

Happy 2015 everyone!  We hope the holidays treated you well. Rachel and I worked through the holidays organizing the year ahead. It was a big job and we have exciting plans for this year.

Last year most of our on-line customers were given samples of new products to try. Of all the calls I made it was great talking to most of you and I thank you for your feedback. I apologize to those that didn’t appreciate the questions I had but it’s how we develop new products. All we need are the facts. Your effort with our effort has led to 14 new Electron Fish Attractors for 2015.
We have so much confidence in our products that they all have a 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee!

What we have done is match the mV and mA to the TDS of the lake or river your fishing then fine-tuned it to attract fish by species.

The feedback received confirm the theories generated by our lab work!  By using our products then disclosing your fishing location, species targeted and successes we can build a database that proves that all fish are electroreceptive and that the text books are wrong! 
It’s not just sharks and rays that have this ability… but all fish.

Double the FUN!!!
Right after catching a trout Sonny Covin drops his hook back down the hole and caught another one immediately. 
Photo by Fred Noddin

It is always great hearing from our customers across Canada and the United States! It sounds like some of you are having the time of your lives catching Walleye, Perch, Whitefish and Trout. It’s no surprise to us but I have to admit it makes us chuckle and smile when we hear how well you guys are doing out there using our attractors.

Fan updates

Sonny Covin (pictured above) from the Edmonton area out fished his buddy Fred Noggin ice fishing for trout somewhere in the foothills. Sonny used 1 rod and Fred and his family used 8 rods. When the day had ended Sonny out fished the 8 rods dramatically, 16 fish total using the Fresh Water 1. Those of you that know these guys know they are pretty hard core and Fred is a hard guy to out fish.

A big welcome goes out to Ted Wong from Ontario for thanking us for the Fresh Water 1 HTDS he is using on Lake Simcoe. He’s targeting White fish and catching everything else as well.

Porter Bell from Northern Michigan told us he got to the point where he had to quit fishing because his buddies were ready to choke him (jokingly of course). He caught so many fish and they had caught none using the same gear.

West coast steelhead fishermen are having great success using the FW 1. Slide it on the line ahead of a pink, red, purple or black worm. My favourite is a green alligator, Colorado spinner or hot shot.

Tight Lines
Rick Crozier

Musky Addict in his 70's trying to break his record!

 An excited Tony Jaros from St. Clair Shores MI. US who just had to call us a give us his personal report today. He said that the big Muskies have move to the shallows of Lake St. Clair and he's having the time of his life trolling with our Electron Fish Attractor Fresh Water 2 HTDS on a Ziggie Lure. We had quite a conversation during which he was describing how much the Musky loved the rod with the attractor over the rod without. He didn't give us any numbers but was pleasantly surprised at the results.

Tony who is known as "Big Fish Tony" mostly fishes by himself but he will try to get us pictures of his catch even thou that can  be hard when he releases them.

Tony who is in his 70's is the current record holder for Lake St. Clair Musky and now feels that he has a great chance to top that one as he says "Those Muskies love it"  I found an interesting news article on him from 2009 Record muskie caught on Lake St. Clair

We love hearing these stories so keep them coming! 

Rick Crozier
 

Happy Thanksgiving!

The days are still very warm but getting shorter. Fall is here and it's time to enjoy the harvests of our lands, lakes and oceans. We have a wonderful variety of fish in our freezer and the sockeye is smoked and canned. The fruit from our trees are canned and the blackberries picked till next year. hey I even canned homemade apple pie filling.

The Black bears are roaming around, we caught one this morning shaking a very tall fall pear tree right in our circle driveway. That fruit isn't ripe yet but he's trying very hard to shake that fruit down.

He really should be down at the creeks getting his fill of salmon and go hibernate but the water is warm and levels too low for most of the fish to get through these smaller creeks. Hopefully that will change soon with the rains that are coming this way in the next few days.

I am looking forward for some down time to enjoy all of fall's spender next week and maybe some mushroom picking. Winter Steelhead on the fly will be on the agenda soon enough!

Fall means hunting season for so many. Weather it's that wild turkey, moose or deer your after stay safe out there! Have a wonderful weekend with family and friends.

Rachel Crozier


 

Rachel Crozier with a beautiful Coho salmon

Rachel Crozier with a beautiful Coho salmon

Great Idea for your next family fishing outing!

We received an interesting request this week. Bob Haldrup from Indiana sent us an e-mail about us doing a custom order for him. This sounds like a fun group and we jumped right on it.

Every year they go on a family fishing trip to Northern Ontario with all the brothers, cousins, in- laws and out-laws, etc they can gather.  He even put all the info on his personal web site at fish.haldrup.com.

Bob usually puts together a "kit" with some interesting gear and wanted to include our product for next years planed trip. He asked us if we would package about 20 sets of the Fresh Water 2 with 2 Regular and 2 HTDS Attractors in each bag. He also ordered a couple of the Fresh Water 2 Split Packs for himself and will receive a bonus with his order.

Sounds like wonderful memories and great fun to us. It's on its way Bob! Thanks for letting us be a part of your Northern Lights Fishing Club. Looking forward to some pictures of the event.

We are always happy to do custom orders for any event.
Just drop us a line and we'll see what we can do.

SALMON IN THE KELP

Hey everybody its salmon time again, when trolling goes dead start casting to the kelp beds for Chinook and Coho.

The salmon sit under the swaying Kelp, nose to the tide, ready to ambush any Herring or Needle Fish that swims into range.

Rick's Needlefish fly with the Electron Fish Attractor Salt Water 2 inside

Rick's Needlefish fly with the Electron Fish Attractor Salt Water 2 inside

Use larger Croc type spoons or Herring or Needle Fish fly patterns. Cast parallel to the long strands to maximize your offerings time in the strike zone. If the water is clear sometimes you see the heart stopping strike. Don’t forget the Electron Fish Attractor Salt Water 2

Time to check your balls! Your cannon balls that is.

It was great getting out on the water and take a break. I have to say the fishing was great for us but not so much for allot of people I talked to on the way in. Some were extremely knowledgeable anglers and should have finished hours ago. Most said they caught a few fish early and then nothing.

It’s the most frustrating feeling to watch other boats pounding fish all around you and you can’t buy a bite. Most of the time we can write this off to inexperience but when it happens to seasoned anglers there is obviously something wrong.

If you’ve fallen into this category and don’t know what to do, here is Rick’s list of possible problems for fresh or salt water fishing.

left to right:
Painted black ball with brass alloy eye, gives you 30 minutes before it repels fish.
Lead ball with stainless eye, gives you 6 to 8 hrs.
Latex coated ball with twine leader, indefinite use.

Fishing Salt Water

Check your balls:Cannon Balls should have an expiry date, this is when they become batteries producing so much electricity they repel fish. Do NOT buy cannon balls with brass, copper, aluminum or any other soft metal eyes. Any soft metal touching lead will cause a reaction and start producing electricity. Most of these will give you about 30 minutes of fish attracting EMF then they progressively get too strong and repel fish. Rubber coated cannon balls can be worse if they have soft metal or brass eyes and any metal is exposed to water these will give you about 20 minutes of fishing before they start repelling fish.

 

Buyer Beware: Buy and use only cannon balls with Stainless Steel eyes. These still produce electricity but give you about 8 hours of fishing before they give off a weird EMF that repels fish. Unfortunately they are hard to find. Every time I check out the tackle section of the big box stores all I see are brass or aluminum eyes on all their cannon balls and weights.

Lengthen the life of your balls: Drying and letting rest for a few hours will stop the ionization of the metals until you use it again. Using oil, like X10 will help dramatically; make sure the ball is dry before you apply it.

I coat my balls with latex rubber. Tie a short piece of twine to the ball and give the whole thing 3 coats of latex rubber. If no metal is exposed to water there is no EMF = No Problems.

Terminal Tackle: No Brass: Make sure all your terminal tackle is good quality stainless steel. No brass. This combination gives off a weird EMF signal fish don’t like.

No Rust: There is such a variety of hooks out there it’s hard to know what to buy. Heinz 57 alloys produce a weird EMF that fish don’t like as does tempered high carbon steel in salt water. Manufactures know this and coat the hook with a rust inhibitor that reduces the EMF to minimal but the minute the coating is compromised ionization starts with earnest and will soon repel fish.

I buy stainless steel for salt water use and test them in a sea salt paste. If rust occurs in the first 24 hours don’t use them. They are hot! You will get a couple of hours of fish catching ability, if no rust occurs in 24 hours they are perfect and can be used indefinitely.

Brass and Aluminum: Should never touch salt water. Like most outboard motors are loaded with brass nuts and bolts. These create a huge EMF field that fish hate. Newer outboards are notorious for this. They rely on a thin coat of paint to isolate the brass nuts from the aluminum frame. In time the paint deteriorates due to ion transfer and the motor produces more EMF than your zincs can handle. So guess what? The whole dam thing is a battery and if it’s mounted on aluminum boat now you are amplifying it. Keeping the surface greased with an anti corrosion spray will give you about 12 hours fishing before the whole rig gets too hot to catch anything.

Fishing Fresh Water

The same principle holds true for fresh water but the difference is you get more fishing time before your gear starts repelling fish. Fresh water has infinite variables when it comes to EMF’s depending on what dissolved minerals are present in the water. Every lake and river has its own EMF signature. When fresh water has less than 50ppm of TDS none of this matters. Water this pure poorly conducts electricity.

Check your boat:

Zincs – clean all your zincs regularly. Remove if possible and remove all white corrosion then re-install or replace with new ones. Heavy corrosion will not let the zinc do its job.

Loose wires – always check for any loose wires as this could put out a huge EMF field. You’ll never catch fish until it’s fixed.

Rusty nuts, bolts and screws: If you have read this far you get the picture, right? Replace with stainless steel

Poor Man’s Down Rigger

Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s, I spent many weeks long distance canoeing all across Northern Ontario.  When living out of a canoe, there’s no room for a tackle box, let alone a down rigger.  My entire tackle selection was a few fly’s and jigs, a half dozen #2 and #3 Mepps Comet Spinners, some loose hooks, and a mitt full of thick rubber bands.  My rod was custom built (by myself) as a fly spin combo, one rod that I could put my fly reel on to fly fish, or use my spinning reel to cast and spin fish.  It all worked great until we reached deep cold lakes on the river system.  We wanted big Brookies, but it was mid-summer and the trout were deep. I had been in this predicament the year before and we left trout less.  Hopefully not this year, I had an idea!

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How to Fish Drifting Rivers

Back in the day we used a canoe to drift rivers.  Most of the time we only used the boat for transportation to the hot spots and we would fish from shore or wade.  When we did fish from a boat, only one person could fish, the other would be in charge of boat control.  Today I still see the odd canoe on the river, but most of the crafts I encounter are personal pontoon boats.  These boats are perfect, a good set of oars gives you great

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