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thanks for the report john:thumb:

yes, if it sells, looking at a WELLCRAFT 32 ST. TROPEZ.

looking for more living & fishing space.

very nice:thumb:

:thumb:welcome aboard jd

youd be damn good too jay..hope your feeling better:thumb:

Don' date=' I was thinking of setting one of those up on a short core. did you only run it when you knew coho were around, or did you just plug and play with it... and let it ride for the day.[/quote']

it got to the point where I was running it every trip..200 copper and let it ride..it was a hypnotist teaser fly with a single clear u.v bead and a treble off a streak mini..16-18 inch lead from dodger or baby spinnie

I took a rapture teaser and used 1 of the flies with a bead between the fly and hook with a baby orange spinny or a 6 inch dodger..one of my consistent setups more coho than anything but had a 15 lb king also

another one to throw in the mix is the blacks release.also able to load that one up.

nicely done sir:thumb:

welcome aboard

Welcome Aboard dan

i'd go with 300,250,200 and a 100 copper #45..i use 30lb pline cxx for backer.i personally don't like segmenting copper. couple of bad parts for me is all the knots your putting in it and if a fish pulls a lot of line on you there is weight in front of your planer board wanting to pull down the board

25 lb at end of year when kings were running..will throw 15 or 20 on at start of year.

wish I could go matt:thumb:

looks good jon:thumb:

ouch...that's no good

if you wanted to make a chute rod only, then I could see someone doing that. Are for the amount of knots in a line, I dont think that would be a factor, I mean my 450 has 3 splices in it and lasted all August and September.

you and dana need to get off them wallets and buy some copper:lol:

How will a tie in points in the port championship be determined? Most wins, etc.?

We will go by number of wins and if still tied keep going with 2nds and so on. If still tied we will take the two places and split between them

We will be meeting this weekend and will have pretty much everything hammered out and let guys know probably Sunday. Ray's mini mart has offered to sponsor big fish for each event and maybe an end of year deal. Just need to finalize that with Jeff in the next week or so. Have a lot of great sponsors coming back next year and were looking forward to getting started

I can't plan on catching fifteen fish every time. But in a weigh six format I can grab the row boat and my girls and stand a good chance of beating the people who can fish a lot more than me. If I need to yank out the four winns and drop a hundred in gas, network, or pre fish to be competitive, what's the point in fishing a club tournament?

The lower numbers to weigh also bring in new boats that are not as intimidated.

we had started as a weigh 10 and after a couple events there were boats so far out of the running it wasn't worth coming back for them.i doubt we will increase our weigh amount for the exact reason you stated kevin.we want to get entry level guys involved also.heck theres been plenty of times guys came in without a full weigh in.dont want to add to it..but I do like the point thing that jansen is talking about

Nice job wheels. Thanks for the report. I need to get over there with you fellers

mainly run the ace hi plugs..but its hard to beat a chrome red head j plug when theyre locked in Muskegon lake

As with pretty much all tournaments the points systems are to reward more fish being caught. Example 8- 10lb fish getting beat by 5-18 lb fish. But arguments can be made by the 8 fish boat and the 5 fish boat on what the best would have been. Any points system we come up with will have someone getting burned somewhere. I've won and lost with our points system and personally would like to see our tourney be more in line with the larger events as a lot of the people who fish our events also fish the larger ones . As Jim said we are going to get together probably after the new year and make a few changes based on input from everyone. The main goal being making sure this remains a fun event.

nice job Jason, but you should pee out side of the shanty:grin:

Especially if your gonna do it that much. Good grief. Nicely done wheels

tx-44 has been great to me..pulls out to the side nice and comes in a lot better than I would have thought by looking at it..

To whomever has fished or have been thinking about fishing the Muskegon Tri Port Challenge Tourney Trail event.We had our first planning meeting last night.At this point we don't forsee any major changes only small tweaks to the existing format and rules.That being said what did everyone think about how the Tournament went last year?What did you like and what would you like see changed if anything?