Boltman

OK that sucks, how'd they break Dude, and what we're you pulling in with them?

These rods seem strong, and your the first to tell me that they broke on you.

Welcome aboard Lord of the rings....Now lets see some FREE freight........I know it cuts into profits but your not inking money anyways......Just a joke.

Wow, and I'm the one who hasto thank all of you the most, I come into this site, not even worthy of your answers....Only fishing twice for Kings, and yet you've answered every question, every stupid little thinkg I've asked about.....Thanks to all of you and Thanks Mike....for this site and all that you do with it, I know it takes a lot of time to develop something like this site.............I thank you, and there will be more questions.

Robert

Well thats good to know, I also looked into convector rolle rods, wow are they expensive,3x as much as a Blue Diamond.... Well they are too rich for my blood.

Well I have a C-80 Chartplotter on board the boat, but it's a little cold out right now to sit on it and play, plus it's at a Fair grounds where I store it so it's about a 10 mile drive there. Yes they are so Nice to have onbloard the boat, I cannot zero in on the bottom though, but I am planning on getting a Fish Finder hooked up to it, so I can at least see if the Kings are down there, under the boat....Someday.........its' expensive.

Wow, Now Mike you know that the salmon do not care what boat you use to Hunt them, they aren't biased like the fishermen are...so that said, I'm sorry I cannot buy you something that you only WANT and not NEED, as much as I'd like, it won't Help you catch any bigger or better tasting Salmon. though you may look better in it, it doens't matter, you won't be able to take it out as much because the cost of fuel will certainly limit your fishing adventures...( see how I'm talking you out of this). In this horrible economy one must put away our wants and only purchase what we truely need...and thus allowing us to HIT the Pond more often, to fish for the illusive Mr. King Salmon....

I am your friend and you must understand it's only STUFF that we want...We must be happy with what STUFF we already own.

(Words from the great BOLTMAN)

I'm sure he is, I need weights and still can't figure out planner baords... but I will and then there's rail mounts for rod holders..... Mike said I needed those, but Mike doesn't want to buy them for me, for which I do not understand.....Now I like Mike..and I feel he's a good guy,Ah hell he doesn't need to buy those for me, I don't want those on my radar arch anyways...

I am sure to buy more things at "Fish On" But I'm also sure that Willis would love you guys to stop in and take a look at what he has....I'm still amased that he's going to let me trade in my rods and reels I bought in the fall.... Now that's customer service...at it's best....

Well it's official, I' going to "Fish On" in spring lake Saturday and picking up my 2 new Okuma Blue Diamond 8.6 rods and Connvector45's,for my birthday, Captain Willis(who ownes Fish On) is one great guy, I bought 2 set ups last fall never used them and he's allowing me to trade them in on these two new Wire Rod Setups...with 1000' of wore on each reel.....I can't wait to set them in the water and go deep with some Dipsey's taking them deep and out far...

Guys Visit Captain Willis at his new place in Spring Lake....

"Fish On" Rocks.... I'm sure I'll pick up a few more items while I'm there also....

Actaully i was looking for a Topo of Grand Traverse Bay, I'm looking for where "Mr King Salmon" could be hinding,in the drop offs and cliffs or even valley in the Bay, they're there I know it... I'll find him or Her...Getting a lil excited here.

Ok My browser wasn't scrolling down far enogh onto the page, I got them now, thanks Guys I really appreciate your help.

I was reading all about that the other day thinking of order that book, it sounds great they even sent down scuba divers to stydy the depths each Dipsey went down to with different lines...

I'll probably order it soon.

I can't seem to find any of the free charts to view, without having to buy them...

I know there's a link to charts at the top of the home page, but doesn anyone know where you can look at charts online without having to buy them, I'm trying to plan a trip over the 2 week vacation around the 4th of July...?

Let me know.

Robert

The Wife bought me a Magnum Flounder pounder yesterday........Is she trying to tell me something?????

I don't know, but if it glows, it goes...... in her bag and then into the tackle box.

Fishing Lingo... Go figure... I'm ok that's for clearing it up

WHat is a Clean Spoon???? You guys said there's no stupid questions!!!!

Ok OK With every new Toy you guys mention I have to look it up in the GOOGLE, to see how to use them, I learned on Keatings Kings last night DVD.. that my Mono is going to stretch to far and not get me all that deep.. I'm assumming I'm getting down at least 40 feet in 60FOW... but I may be wrong, so what are these Dive Bombs you guys are talking about now and how do they attach...I see what they are but.....

Thanks for the confidence, it's greatly appreciated but, when I say I'm a beginner I don't lie..... we caught 2 kings last year, and they we're small, wish I'd have caught the King that my wife saw near her feet while wading onto the shore in Ludington.....I have never really seen anyone walk on water.....until that afternoon in Ludington... she said it was a monster, I have to beleive her, I'm married to her..

How many seasons determines whether your seasoned or unseasoned?.....

We use the DNR Ramp near the lighthouse, it's fine, but the Docks are very short, I have to spin the boat around and let the Wife get on from the swim platform, sometimes that a little tricky in the wind at Ludington.

We have a 32 foot Sea Ray Sundancer, takes a lot of water to launch her, but if you say they launch 30's out of there I can do it... thanks for the information

I don't know where the first trip out will be but I'm thinking Ludington, I would like to try Manistee later, but do not know how that ramp looks, I do not know if it's large enough for our boat, but I believe someone will let me know on this thread for sure..

So Stay shallow is what I'm reading....I can understand that because of the warm water is near the shore...Don't have planner boards yet though, I'll look into that as spring nears.

Spring is coming... We all know this, but what do I fish for and when? What species bite in early spring and what water depth? I don't have a fish Finder and dont see myself getting one either, after all the fish in the finder aren't the one's biting the hook. We want to hit the water with the poles already in the water, but is this possible in early spring. We started in late August this year, just before the run, so it's hard to know when to fish early spring summer mid summer or fall orlate fall...

Thnks Guys for beng so patient with me, God I can't wait for my Keating on Kings to get here.

Mike you are good, I've thought about the Rails on the Arch, and they make some really good clamp on rod Holders... I'm looking into them as well.

Isn't it fun spending someones elses money....I just can't wait to get to the boat so I can figure out where and when I can get more Rod Holders I'm thinking when I travel to Bog Jon's plant in Interlochen, I will get more ideas, I may look into a removable rod holder for the back hatch, it also has a rail on it that will hold a few Rods.

Also I'm in touch with Captain Willis out of Grand Haven, Captain Chris out of Manistee, and Dan Keating, I think with you guys included I'm in Good hands when it comes to catching the Salmon...... You guys are the greatest Please please keep showing me ways for me to spend my money..... it's greatly appreciated.

Robert

Our set up is as I mentioned in a few other post I have 4 rods all set up with mono, just got the riggers with multiple rod holders attached, so I was going to run the riggers off the sides, since we are operating on a cruiser witha large swim platform,and off the back I'm going to run the dipsey's. Once again I was going to use the Mono that's already on the rods. Yes I want to run a presentation of different spoons flies/flashers and plugs, until this year I've ran two dipseys' using two spoons, man was I running a boring presentation....Running 6 lines maybe out of the question, I really do not want to install more rod holders, you see the wife still want to keep the cruiser look, spent way too much money on the cruiser to make it look like a fishing boat you know? Once we're on the water this year, I'll look into ways to install more poles for 6 lines, in fact once we start catching fish, I could see my wife telling me to get mre lines into the water, but until then it's going to have to happen on 4 lines, which is double the lines I had in the water. And I'm Happy with that...........For Now... Do you guys realise I dream of catching the big one's that you have pictures of holding up.... Just one. Cause I've already been out on a Charter boat, THUNDERDUCK out of Grand Haven Michigan.

Oh bye the way we fish out of Ludington, Grand haven, Elk Rapids ( Grand Traverse bay) Grand Traverse Bay is tough to fish out of.... but we're learning, and North Port, they have Salmon Tournaments so there's Salmon up there. Now that we have riggers we can get to the deeper Kings... out there.

When giving me advice that I listen to so intently, remember I have a cruiser, and the port side rigger I have to climb onto a seat to get to, so it's not going to me easy for me to control well, but I'll get used to it Right?..

I think so, oh Mike I bought the book Keating on Kings and bought both Videos from Dan as well I can't wait for them to get here.

Looking forward to everyones advice, and trust me I'll take every piece of advice I can get.

Thanks to all that Chimmed in, and gave me their notes on Lead Core, that being said I think I will get a little experience under myy belt before I go to lead core. Maybe I'll stay with my mono lines for a year or so, then when I get brave and more knowledge in my head, I'll add a few Lead core poles....

Well what do you guys think about that???? I need to get used to my riggers first and then take the leap...