<P><FONT color=black face=Verdana,Geneva size=2>To see the right way(Josko and I did it mostly right..) to rig cedar plugs get the fall 99 Big Game Fishing Journal - it has a good article on how to set up chains. Anyways; you rig them w/ only the rear lure having a hook; the others are teasers to simulate a school of bait. In theory predator sees the commotion and comes up and whacks the rear lure which is the one w/ the hook.</FONT></P>
<P>Briefly (read the article; its better) you have an 8 or 10' leader w/ a couple extra sleeves between lure and loop. Hook at the business end; biggest lure in front of that. Now take the extra sleeves and position them just right and crimp about 18-24 " of line into the sleeve; hang a hookless lure off the other end. The idea is to get 3-4 lures in a christmas tree w/ the hookless lures positioned so they are a few inches above the crimp of the next lure in the chain. Go to a tackle shop and look; its pretty obvious once you see it and I'm doing a lousy job of describing it.</P>
<P>All the lures are bought w.out hooks; we used 7/0 or 8/0 hooks - Josko knows the # cold; I forget it (77-something) and used beads to position the hook in the lure so the hook is just about even w/ the ends of the feathers or plastics.</P>
<P>Josko can answer the line one - I know he overlined his 50's w/ 80# mono last year but is redoing things this year w. spectra braid and a 100 yard top shot of mono. The idea is to get more line on the reel just in case. I beleive he was able to get 500 yards or so of 80# line on the 50W's and 500 yards of 50# mono on thr 30W's.</P>
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<P>2.50 a gallon - we hope. We were talking about it last weekend and are afraid of $3.00/gallon.</P>
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<P>BTW - did you get an auxiliary tank for you boat? As i recall you had a main 150 gallon tank and were looking for a 2nd tank.</P>
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