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Boat has been dry since third week of May so it was good to get her out.

5:45-10:45 fishing time

60-140 fow straight out

Best water 100-130

Water temp surface 68 degrees

17 for 32. 7 steel, 7 kings, 3 ho's. Went 0 for 9 in a 45 minute stretch:pardon:

Hot rigs early were 150 copper, full core with stingray NBK, blue jackal 36 down.

After 8 am 150 was still popping. UV death meat rig down 90, Red Mongoose meat 200 on 3, and blueberry muffin down 70 got hot.

Haven't had fishing like that in 3 years

Lines down at 5 about 5 miles NW in 170. Trolled out to 230 without a hit. Turned around and started to get bit at 205. NE to E troll best at 2.7SOG. A couple here and a couple there ended up 10-12 9 kings 3-12lb and a small steel. Pulled lines at 9:30 in 80fow

What worked:

10inch clear UV SD/mirage fly wire out 200 at 2.5 took one

350 32lb std blue whale took 1/lost 1

270 45lb stingray NBK took 2

150 32lb std green dolphin took 2

rigger 90 down jr streak pink lady took 3

rigger 120 tin can with jr streak easter egg took 1

hey everybody

just wanted to get some of your opinions. im in tenn right now and watched the weather up around erie. from what it looked like there was a pretty good storm came through. whats your opinion on what it did to the spawn on the reefs?? do you think the spawn is far enough along that it didnt hurt anything??

im 62 come may and not in good health. so i,ve been really hoping for another spawn like we had in 03 or maby even better. i think im not going to be fishing many more yrs. i would love to go out with another great spawn to fish the last few yrs i get to fish. so this is very important to me.

i know we wont know for sure untill they do there trawls later this year. so all i want is your opinions. alot of you have much more knowledge about how the weather effects the spawn.

sherman

I'd say youre gonna have a good few years. 2007 was a good hatch and 2010 was an average hatch. Plenty of fish to play with for the next few years. Most of the eggs have already hatched from the early spawn this year so it might be good but no way we'll see a 2003 for years to come. 2011 looks like it was a bust

Good Luck Capt. Hope to be on the water no later than 3. Planning on hitting turtle or the mansion depending on the seas

Good Grief what a BS hack job!!

Thank goodness they're preparing to build more. Nuclear power IS the future for domestic energy needs

Without big weenie I would have been very disappointed.

Brandon

Gary I think you guys have another tag line!

Agree with the above. I use a Uni to Uni to go from braid to mono and then a Willis to go from mono to core. I always use a double Willis and have never had one fail. I can even tie them on a boat.

Amazing how this has grown over the years. Tim has done a great job. Good to see ya again Dave and thanks for the help at the end:) I came home $40 lighter wih $100 worth of gear

All gorgeous but I especially like May 26

Braid. You get more line on you reel because the diameter is much smaller for the same lb test. Copper is very thick line so room on the reel is usually at a premium

30lb power pro has the same diameter as 8lb mono

50lb = 12 lb mono

Yup I think if you're mostly fishing for fun then get the 32. If you're fishing for competition then get the 45. I got the 32

Nikon 550 prostaff. Hard to find people saying anything negative about this unit for the price

You fellas don't do anything halfway do ya:thumb:

Can't tell you what kind of traffic you are going to get but I can tell you the neighborhood looks a hell of a lot nicer:thumb:

Gorgeous Brown!

Nice Ben. Where did you get the whole herring?

Awesome Chrome Terry:thumb:

You tied up to a bunch of guys so they could get pumped and filled up in Saugatuck

Also, I was just wondering what the reason was for swapping Coho and King points from what they were last year?

There's actually an interesting history behind that;)

Back in 2002 10 boats got together in Manistee over labor day weekend to have a friendly tournament. Trout Tracker and Caznik came up with the rules and we all had a blast. In 2002 coho's were worth 10 and kings 5 to compensate for the size difference. Everybody had such a blast that it became an annual thing however because of a typo in 2003 the king and coho points were switched. A big hub bub ensued at the weighin that year and it ended up that it stayed at 10 for kings/5 for cohos forever after.

The WMFL actually spawned from this original Labor Day tourney and so the rules carried over. Last year sixshooter ran the league and wanted to try the old school values the league started on. It's about the fun and the friendships with a little cash and bragging rights coming second. Part of that was the original point rule. Ken just brought back the point system that has been around for most of the years and that most guys know

Nice to have you back Tom. Where you on Jim's boat, or was he on yours?

We ended up going out on mine Ken. He had already signed up so we just kept it under him:)

Had a great time fishing my first league event in 2 years. Great group of guys and setup. We went deep when we should have stayed shallow. Nobody could convince me that the fish were in 80-100 the first week of June:beee: Of course I was proven wrong again. We still ended up a respectable 7 for 10. Landed a 9.5 inch stream rainbow out in 190 fow Thanks for all the work Ken and Dave

Great Job Ken. That's your first over 20 isn't it?

Once the coho slow up the Thinfish go back in the box until next spring. Duane

I've had some noticeable success with them on early May kings and staging kings;)

Steve I just did mine last week. If you can wait until we meet up next week I have a bunch of extra swivels and shrinktube and I'll show you how to twist it up. Pretty simple. Hardest thing is finding the swivels and the right size shrink tube:yes:

Where do I find Distress flag for daytime

Dave your red flare counts as a Daytime distress signal. You don't need a flag