Boltman

Sorry for the late report, but I gots things to do when I get home from a weekend of fishing....hahaha

Went out Saturday night set lines at 7pm North of Whitehall, action didn't start until sunset, I was able to set my New coppers 300 and 150's.. Although my new TX-44's are still poppin wheelies (I think it's the boat, not sure).

First hit came on Evil Elfwive, small Laker on 150 copper, then another small laker on 150 copper, had a double going lost one of the lakers though..

12# steelie on Super glow blue dolphin down 55 Feet in 142 FOW off the rigger, Had a steelie on a wire line dipsey...took me about 5 launches out of the water to realize He hadn't even tripped the dipsey yet, 6 launch out he was Gone...

THen last of the evening 10:30pm ready to pull lines, the 22# King Hit a wire line dispey, I wasn't going to lose this monster, so I let HIM fight and pull and tire himself out, took 30 minutes but got it into the cooler....

All in ALL went 5 for 9, lost a few pieces of equipment.. Damn Steelie !!! and I'm going to make all new leaders, had a Big King take some equipment off a Rigger line for me...

Good News is.... I was able to set all 8 lines for the first time...isn't that Special..???

Nice job Jeff you'd better have left some Big Kings for us to catch ..... WhiteHall is Boltman territory hey did yeah catch that king that took orange crush away from me , he prolly still has it in his cheek , he's pouchin it hahaha

Awesome dude I hate our fish finder , now I can see them there fish laughing at us and pointing to the back of the boat . Plus when the admiral driving the boat sees fish on the finder she turns into a foul mouth deadliest catch captain !!!!

Nice job

Damn are they out of bait ???? Where's the elwives at??

Thanks dudes I was talking about the leader just didn't know if it was called that , I have braid for my backer just broke off the leader a few weeks ago on a net thanks

Shot I couldn't even get up to Frankfort 6/30 we duct into Ludington on our way to Frankfort and that's where we stayed until 7/3 . Waves were bad out of the south one day then turned from the north the next which scraped my whole vacation plans back in Whitehall today might go fishing in the AM

Is it ok to use 20lb RED trilene after copper I guess you could call it the leader maybe not.should I use regular mono???

I think two weeks ago we hooked walter north of Whitehall spun 650 feet of mono and kept going

Yeah what's ur boat look like , what home port are you out of.

I'm heading North this weekend with the wife for our 10 day vacation I'll chat with you later though .

Jim you are correct I can't get my boards very far outside because they are popping wheelies. I'm pulling 300 ft of copper with the tx22 and I think it's too small . When I see other boats pulling boards they are way outside ...... Mine aren't but 30 feet out from the stern to port or starboard . The nose of the board isn't eve in the water at all and the weight is full to the nose of the board . I'm getting 44s this weekend and saving these for a 150 copper setup. What do you think Jim ???

We're running up the Lake Michigan coastline for our Vacation stopping first in Frankfort, I know there is some great anglers up there , let me know how the fishing is if possible . I have No Idea where the good spots are up there , looking for Mr. King Salmon!!!!

Yes and they are alway planting them !!!!!!

Sorry I can't help you, your in Milwaukee, I've seen them here in our Fishing Shops.

it was a productive weekend for sure....NOt fishing though.

Ken thanks a bunch outsides because they run shallower???

Got out around 6:30pm, set the parking brake around 6:45pm. Trolled for 15 minutes up and down heading north in isle 14 .... Finally got a hit in 50 FOI went 10 for 10 put all 2x6x8s in the cart then headed south for the big ones . Threw out Gold American Express , seemed to be the color they wanted and the lines started ripping with the first being a 4x4x8, looks like we were on a pod cusse 9 more were in the cart before we pulled lines and headed back out to the truck . Got them all home safe cleaned them and screwed them together .

Raised bed for strawberries , I'm having withdrawals as you all can tell.

Thank Gents I have two set ups both being 300s I think I need a pair of 200s two and run them on each side as well.

Ok I expected much more advice then what I got , I'm thinking this level of advice is totally unacceptable !!!!!! The bar is very high on this subject so let's hear what you have to say!!!

Great job Timeout, as you know we fish Whitehall too it's our home port. Glad to see you made it out last night we didn't come over this weekend because all the rain . Great job out there finding the fish Whitehall is tough but you found them last night again good job!!!!! See you out there sometime.

OMG mark them with a sharpie

You all know I just started using copper and I only have 300 feet of copper on each reel, but what do I do when I want to running shorter coppers and I still cannot get my boards to stop poppin wheelies and I've moved the weight all the way forward . Should I get 200 copper maybe 100 coppers.

don't know about the fouled hook, but I do you ball bearing stainless swivels, again it might not have not been securely fastened, but it wasn't in the mood for turning around either, Experience is the key, although I did not jump right up and tighten the drag, I did however try to slow his roll....but the reel just kept sqealing louder and he just kept pulling hard away from me, so I decided to let him run,should have put it in neutral, but 30 seconds later I had a double on the wire line dipsey... of which I lost too...No biggie that's why they call it fishing.

Lost a monster to a swivel on Saturday , first topic of discussion is to the pros....

How in the hell do you change the direction of the fish or slow it down in order to survive being spooled ?

And what size swivels are you using throughout your spread ???

I know it was a swivel malfunction because the only thing to return was my flasher board and no leader , no swivel on the end of the board either.

Maybe I didn't get it closed all the way , one never knows this answer because it cannot be studied after the fact due to lack of evidence . Let me know your thoughts .