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    Exactly Jeff; I tell em its not bass fishing, its KING SALMON, if it takes 30 minutes so what? Also how many times have u slowed up and slowly turned and had another fish hit an outside rigger or board? Have fun if u lose em so what, just give yourself a chance. Our last trip Sunday we were 8 for 8 with 4 Steelhead 3 Kings and 1 coho. It can be done if u r patient.
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    I assume you run the V configuration for your set up, that would put the Coppers in close and the other presentations further out. When you fight remember that you control the fish not the fish you. Apply pressure side ways to turn the fish. In addition if you pull the inside presentations first if necessary. I have never had to pull my long presentations for a Dipsy or rigger fish. On the Silverking we always tell people to let the fish fight, don't pump and try to get line that way. Everytime you lower the rod tip you give the fish some slack you can't help it. Most of the reels used on the lake are from 3.8 to 5.0 retrieve, the pro's on the Saltwater use multipliers, and they are a lot faster. So you did nothing wrong, we all lose fish.
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    Good Job on the fish, we chose not to drive 50 miles to get blown off by storms. I will say that Sunday the water was above 55 degrees all the way down to 60 ft. off St joe. but the fish were cooperative.
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    John call me in ref Tuesday Fishing. Not looking too good, but we can kind of play it by ear. 929 4221

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    Set lines in 90 f.o.w. deep rigger @ 80 others at 45 60 and 56, dipsys at 125 and 175, 6 color 4 color full core and 300 coppers. Fish came on the deep rigger with a UV spin doc and blue bubble fly, 300 copper with green splatter back silver horde, we got 5 fish quickly on that pattern and trolled out to 130 in 4 foot waves. turned around and headed back in and as the sun got higher the waves started to settle down. Changed up things and went to some stingers. Glow Christmas and jawbreaker on 4 color 6 color brought the riggers up to 36 and 40 on the outside and 55 and 45 on the inside, we were seeing steelhead on the graph and jumping on the surface. Most of our hits were on a west troll, and we stayed mostly straight out. Troll speed was 2.7 to 3.2 mph, because of the rough water. Ended with 8, for 8, 4 steelhead, 3 kings and 1 coho,. We pulled lines at noon.
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    John:

    Looking for fishermen for This Sunday the 24th, call me 269 929 4221 if you want to go.

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    Andy:

    We are looking for fishermen for this Sunday. Let me know if you are interested. My cell is 269 929 4221

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    The number of rods per person is 3 and applies to all types of fishing. It used to be 2 per angler, and was increased several years ago to 3.
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    I love my convectors, but I found that the Cablela's Line Counter reels are really very good. They go on sale for about 40 bucks every season end. I got several and after 2 seasons all I do is clean and oil them. Drags are smooth and the linecounters are fair.
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    Help!!

    SUPERTRAMP replied to chevjen's topic in Boats for Sale

    Poor Jen, sounds like the guy was a mooch.
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    Nice job: We will be fishing again Sunday, The Bite is on.
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    Good luck you might want to try straight out and set lines in about 100FOW and work North to the 10's. There are a lot of fish stacked up out there in that area. Temps are kind of warm, our probe at 65' had 54 degrees, dropped to 80 and it was 44. Vary your speed and get er done.
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    Dodged storms in the AM, had good action on big kings and steelhead. We cut the day short and ended with 2 Mature Kings both females, and 1 coho and 1 steelhead. Had 3 other hits that got off before we got to the rods, and 1 run on the wire dipsy that came back to the boat and got off. Weather was dicey and we quit at 11:00. Silverhordes both Ace hi and regular #4 and 5 in Green spatter back, wonder bread and blue spatter back, magnum spoons in purple and blues. We were using the new DR spoons, that u can get online at drspoons.com. That is a plug for my buddy Dave. Fished south into the wind to get away from a nasty storm first thing, and had most of our hits on a south troll. Only had 2 hits when we turned to go north, 110 to 140 FOW, rigger at 56 with purple spoon, rigger at 45 with silver horde wonder bread back 100'. Spoons were back 50. Dipsey' out 105 and 120. Coho came on 300 copper, ace hi chrome with pink dots.
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    We got into a few nice perch on Sunday, Same area we talked about in the earlier post. We ended up with about 25 before the fog set in, and the kids got tired of being cooped up on the boat. Fish were spotty to say the least, and we did get about 7 13 to 15 inchers, the rest were 7 to 8" eaters. Was a great day on the water, but FOGGY.
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    I am going to be taking my grandkids out tomorrow for perch. I am going to start looking north off the Gazebo, and try to find a few schools. Boat is SilverKing, and will have radio in 68
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    U r the man Frank. Nice job. 4 man limit on tough conditions. well played.
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    For over 35 years I have been using the Uni-Knot, in the North American Fisherman knot test it tested stronger than any other simple knot they tested. There are some doubled up knots that were slightly stronger, but this one is simple and I have never had a knot fail. I
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    I guess to each his own on the leader material, I tried 30#Seaguar on my coppers and leadcores, and it was a disaster, went back to 25# Big game for leaders and no problem. I do however use 40# PLine floro carbon leader material for flies..
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    20# Ande for riggers until the sea fleas hit us. The we have been using cortlandt flea flicker. That is no longer made so I got a bulk 2500 yard of blood run seaflea. If you continue using regular mono it can cause a lot of issues when the fleas get on it. We also run power pro divers in the early months March April and early may then switch to wire for the dipsy's . I know people using the red line and they catch fish. be sure to use good quality mono for leader material on your copper and Leadcore, the Fluoro Carbon is really expensive for leader material. The regular fluoro Carbon doesn't cut it as leader. Way too brittle.
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    Riggers dipsys and 300 copper's all get meat at times, just remember to slow down. U can't troll 3 mph with those rigs. Lately we have had a really good Silver Horde bite in St Joe. We have taken Kings, Lakers and Steelhead on Green and blue Splatterback and Wonderbread. 10 color and 4 color both and off deep riggers.
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    Boating regulations state that all power craft must have starboard green markers and port red markers on the bow, a white lite to the stern to identify direction. These must be displayed from sundown until sun up and are a true safety issue. Having a large array on while underway is as big a danger as no lites. I have red lighting strips on the gunwales inside the boat to allow me to work and not be lite blinded. Sounds like some fishermen need to read the coast guard regs.
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    Good point here. We actually postponed a trip last week to wait for the ships store to open so we could replace a bulb on our starboard forward lite. I actually have 2 lites for my stern, one on transom, and my mooring lite is either or.. Being visible is a must in the early and late hours at the pier heads. BTW it is a large fine if you are ticketed for improper running lites.
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    Captain Craig, In the southern lake, fishing has slowed a bit for the last few weeks, but we are still getting between 5 and 10 fish per trip. Today was a short day due to the Captains alarm clock not going off becasuse of a power issue Saturday nite. However we managed to boat 5, 2 steelhead 2 Kings and a nice Laker. In St. Joe we are fishing in shallower than normal and taking advantage of the off shore winds bringing the cold water in. So Fishing not as good as it used to be? Not too sure about that, I have been fishing the Lake since the early 1970's and we certainly don't have the numbers we had prior to the Zebra mussel becoming an issue but we still have a lot of fish.
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    Kenny Neidlinger would be proud of you. That was his method for years. U know the rigs I run, and its all about having fun. I will say that 60 years ago we ran leadcore for trout fishing in Washington and Oregon Inland lakes worked just like it does on Lake Michigan. I do prefer Leadcore to copper its a lot less work and a lot easier to handle. I have started putting Dive bombs on my leadcore to get it deeper. Lately though just 4 colors and 6 colors of leadcore have been the ticket for Steelhead and Kings.
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    Old school Kevin. How are u doing with the sea fleas? When we run clean mono the Fleas hang on the line.
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