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I think that pipe to the left is a beer tap:)

If thats Kens stuff I think we would see a beer on the table. We have a lot of great flasher big paddle combos on our site and will have them at the Birch Run and Grand Rapids shows. We have them in combos because we tie those with a long fluorocarbon leader. Guys will run them 48 to 54 inch alot of the times. If you buy off the rack flies from anyone you are not going to have the long leader and not in fluorocarbon which we think will make a differance. Stop and talk with the guys that run these all the time. Thanks guys, BW

Treat the sponsors right. You would not believe some of the stuff that happens. Karen asked for 2 shirts last year after giving $500.00 worth of flies. No we dont do that. Really! Sent about 40 flies to one deal, they put all our flies and all of one companies spoons ( all flies and spoons were the same ones ) in 1 bag for a drawing. Who needs forty of the same spoon or fly? We are open to any ideas you guys have for the fishing league and tourney Ken, Don and Maniac run:) BW

Starts this friday march 2nd. First chance many of you can see the new meat rigs and flies. Check out the stuff and a super deal you can get. Check our area on this site for deal details, Thanks so much, BW

Blaze, stop by the booth at birch run. The rigs are all set just snap them on the flasher. Will have charter guys there to help you out. Also the new HD rigs there is no messing with a back toothpic which some find a bit hard, just pull the hooks to the end of your meat strip. 1.8 - 2.2 always worked for us and you can run other stuff just remember the flashers do a big circle. Lake Huron the mini meat rigs are very popular and you can run small whole bait or strips very easy in them, Call anytime 616 233 0618 BW

Will have these there, Anytime Blaze 616 233 0618, BW

No wonder my drinks keep coming up missing here. BW

He has the v.i.p thing again, so you guys hit him up. Last year us and DW paid for it, sure I am stuck again.

See Mega Phil for mega 80's night right Josh. Karen is up 55 buck today in vegas, woo hoo.

Stop by the booth, just becareful of my wife. She is really mean, right Ken. BW We will have some sweet deals there and GR.

Anyone doing Birch run. Starts a week from this friday. Grand Rapids 2 weeks after that. BW

DS, Call me, I can give you some help. 616 233 0618, BW

Run the totally adjustable quick hook set HD meat rigs in the new XXXreme UV colors and the new tail chaser rigs, BW MERRY CHRISTMAS

Willis has a killer line up every year at his tackle shop in Grand Haven if your looking for a great seminar. Usually around march some time. Awesome line up, food, gifts and cheap, BW

Come on Chris, We have them:) also have a couple new colors coming that we are having special made. Shoot me a email in about a month if your not in a hurry and I will send you some, BW red/uv black/uv uv blue/glow md/glow green/glow plus 2 new colors coming

BY ERIC SHARP DETROIT FREE PRESS OUTDOORS WRITER Filed Under Sports Outdoors Lake Michigan Royal Oak MANISTEE -- If you dream of catching a master angler salmon, Lake Michigan and its tributaries in September should give you the best shot at that goal fishermen have had in the past five years. Nearly as many master angler chinooks have come from Lake Michigan in August this year (three) as were recorded in all of 2010 (four). And Lynn Thoma, who keeps the master angler records for the Department of Natural Resources, said most of the record salmon don't get submitted for her approval until September and October. The fish on the leaderboard entering Wednesday was a 37.1-pound chinook landed Aug. 22 near Manistee by Tim Shreves of Fowlerville aboard a 24-foot boat owned by his father-in-law, Rick Schulte of Royal Oak, with Schulte's son, Derek, acting as mate. And minutes before, they had landed another record-angler fish that they cut up to eat, Rick Schulte said, "because the Mickey Mouse scale we were using on the boat was under by about 3 or 4 pounds, but we didn't find out until we took the big fish in to be weighed on a certified scale." Schulte, 57, began fishing for salmon out of Manistee with his dad 30 years ago and says, "I figure that if you add up all the money I've spent over the years chasing salmon, that fish cost me about $5,000 an inch. But it was worth every penny." The big chinook was caught on a herring strip "meat rig," a natural bait that has been a mainstay on Lake Ontario for decades and is growing in popularity on Lake Michigan. Schulte said he and his crew went out on a charter trip with Manistee captain Paul Schlafley of Riverside Charters to learn how to fish with this method, "then we went out on our own and followed his program. Once we knew what we were doing, we just tore 'em up" using a :thumb:Big Weenie UV ice meat system. "It was amazing. We could hardly get the baits down before fish were on them," Schulte said. "We had four rods out, and there were times when we had three or four going at once." Lake Michigan's prey-fish stocks have declined drastically in the past decade, especially alewives that are the preferred prey for chinook salmon. But recent surveys have showed large numbers of juvenile alewives, and anglers say the big chinooks will eat them as readily as adult alewives. "The salmon we caught were all spitting up real small alewives and shad," Schulte said. "But the salmon were all nice fish, 16 pounds or better. We limited out in 3 1/2 hours." Gordon Butler is a Grand Rapids angler who has been fishing out of several Lake Michigan ports this summer in his 23-foot center console, and he said that "it has been the best year we've seen for salmon, both numbers and sizes, since about 2005. "We went through a few years there where not only were the fish smaller, there weren't as many. And the cohos just became midgets, maybe 3-4 pounds on average. "This spring we started fishing cohos out of St. Joseph in May, and (they) already were 5-6 pounds. And when we moved up to Grand Haven in July, we were getting 15- to 20-pound chinooks, compared to a 10- to 12-pound average last summer." Butler said he has been putting his boat away in early September for the past three or four years because "it wasn't worth the fuel costs for the kind of fish we were seeing." "But I'm going to fish this September as long as the salmon is hitting," he said. "I figure we have a real good chance at getting a couple of fish over 30 (pounds), and fighting a salmon like that is an amazing experience." Schulte said the 37-pound salmon taken on his boat "took off 250 feet of braided line, and I had the drags on the reels screwed down pretty tight because of the weight of the rigs we were towing. "I had rotator cuff surgery last year, and my shoulder was already killing me when that fish hit. By the time it stopped running, it was about 450 feet behind the boat. I looked at my son-in-law and said, 'I think it's your turn.' That's why it took 45 minutes for Tim to bring it in. "Derek took over the wheel when I got ready to net the fish. I didn't realize how big it was, so I picked up the walleye net. I could barely get a third of it into the net, and then it rolled out, so I leaned over and gilled it," Schulte said. "I had my hand stuck right in its mouth, and those teeth hurt, but I wasn't about to let go and held on until we got it into the big net." Schulte said he hopes his fish holds its place as the biggest Michigan salmon of the year, "but I'd kind of like to see some get a 40-pounder, too. I wouldn't feel bad, because the one we caught is going up on the wall."

How come Big Weenie is not included, we just had a guy win the fall LOC, 20 grand prize. Proctologist does it again, BW

Great job Todd! Glad you guys had such a good time. Thanks for all the pics.

Good luck guys, BW Doggystyle, do they have big weenie fishing doggie style shirts?

Never took it that way that you didnt like the flies and am always glad other stuff is working. We never know what to send but always try and send nice stuff. Good luck guys, BW

Hey Guys, I think its on the ones handed out so every one has the same stuff in the water. BL, the goat pecker was really hot last year and the new crybaby has eveything to be great, chartruse, mirage, UV, mountain dew UV head blah blah blah. Good luck guys hope it goes well, BW

We are Brutus Rat, send us a request. I suck at computers so I set up about 7 accounts before I got one to work, Idiot. Still not very good at it but will try, BW