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Ended up with a 2.5yo 6 point opening afternoon. Took it with a .35 Rem Contender owned by a late friend of mine. Made it very special along with another great time with my old man

Before this turns into a political argument let me explain my point of view. I am nearly 50 and have lived around here nearly all of my life. So I remember a few things I remember when we bought nealrly all of our stuff from our neighbors and they bought from us so we all grew together. I remember when my dad was forced to buy a GM product cause you could not park a non GM on the lot. The 80's were a great time of growth but like idiots we spent way too much on foreign product. So what happened one by one the plants here closed since no one bought the product they made as plants closed investors looked to make money so to compete with foreign produt we brought in more of it with american labels. And we let foreign companies move here and before you know it the Honda Goldwing has more american made parts than a Harley Davidson. We all used to buy our fishing gear at the local bait shop we knew the guys there we trusted their advice now most of them are gone and we buy from the internet or chain stores. Guys I don't much care which lever you pull in the election box this year the government won't fix this we have to. So for those who think that we can vote in a change who is gonna change us cause until we make a change in our habits nothing will improve. So start thinking about how to keep your money here before it is all over there. Walmart is one of China's largest exporters try and find one of China's importers look hard cause there is virtually none. So look at what you buy and see if you can shop more wisely.

Jim

You're singing my song brother:good:

Thanks Mike!

let's see

why doesnt caznik want to do this anymore?

Pm sent

I will be there.

I must of missed the post or something, is Rich no longer running the league?

Don't worry it wasn't a hostile take over or anything:D Runnning these events and the league is a huge time commitment and Caz had asked for some help. Sixshooter graciously offered his help. Jim is one of the original members of the league and has helped behind the scenes for a while now. You guys are in good hands:nhl_crach:

Great stuff Nick. Nice report!

Was it Wyatt that was helping me with the raffle? He was very helpful:)

Thanks for the constant reports! Same program as Yesterday? bait and flies?

20 cu ft white westinghouse. Emptying it today. If you can pick it up in the Rockford area it's yours. still runs fine

I need a little clarification on two rules.

I will have my 7 and 3 year old in the boat also. Do they count towards the 4 fisherman?

Does this include releasing fish at the side of the boat that have not been netted. Technically, they are not "boxed".

Just want to make sure myself and everyone are on the same page.

Not sure on the max people. But the no release rule has always meant fish landed unless that changed this year. That means any legal fish brought to the boat must be kept, even shakers.

1/2 core took 1

Tom,

Can I assume this was the "Secret Weapon"? I took 3 on it Saturday morning.

Alex

Yessir:D But it came unbuttoned It was the last rod to go in our triple header and that stupid rookie rod holder lost the fist while we were attending to the others:rolleyes:

Sorry for the late report. Went up north right after getting home from fishing.

5am-10am went 6-9 just north of the pierheads. 5 kings one throw back laker. Had a triple before the sun came up only landing the wire dipsey fish. Then slowly picked away at fish. 70-90 were our best depths. We stayed shallower than 95% of the boats all day and it sounded like we did better than most. 5 out of 9 hits were before the sun came up. No real pattern except we never took a hit deeper than 42 down except the laker and all hits were on spoons. Tried meat, 8,10,11 inch flasher fly and squids. Nada

Riggers took 5 hits

wire dipsey took 2

1/2 core took 1

7 color took 1

blanks on 10 color,copper, and power pro dipseys

Fleas were the worst I have ever experienced. Even had them on the wire. Tip for those who don't know is to reel the fleas up until you cant reel anymore and repeatedly and violently slap your tip into the water. It will quickly removes most of the fleas.

Found 3 sets of nets out in 124 fow just North. They were marked extremely well.

Totally agree! Nice job Tim:)

Told the wife she is lucky to be with a man with his pic and name published in a major magazine:tomato:

Hit the water at 6:30 fully expecting to be back in at 9. Not so much. Took our first in 110 before we could get our second rod set. Then we trolled til 10:30 going 5 for 6 the entire morning. Tried 110-200 fow 25-95 down.

3 Hits on 300 30lb copper doctored blue puke

1 on mix veg 57 down

1 on jmaician sunrise 60 down

1 on coyote down 57

Nothing on 5 color, 10 color, 45lb copper, or wire dipsey. Changed up quite a bit.

Started 1 mile north of PS and ended up 1-2 miles south of GH

1 6lb. Rest were 2-4

More like a patient in the nuthouse:crazy:

One sent in favor

Fish are still out there and biting. Went 8 for 13 in 4 hours. 6 kings, laker, and a steel. Just run your normal spring patterns in normal spring depths. Nothing special to report. Did have a nice flurry after the sun went under the water. Good luck to all

A little miscommunication Randy:D I think we were all concentrating on the waves:eek:

Haha I've got loads of them. Leaving a WML event in Muskegon my friend and I wanted to fish that afternoon. He said meet in GH, I thought he said whitehall. I was already to Whitehall exit when he called and asked where the heck I was:o Pulling rods out of the holders I dumped a brand new full core setup that I had never used because the reel handles locked. Slowly watched it sink away:(

Just last weekend as we were switching from dipseys to core my crew asked if I always ran 2 snubbers on my wire. They were unaware that I keep a snubber on my wire when not in the water to avoid pigtails so they just sent it out with the extra snubber in front of the Dispey:lol:

Those moments are killers aren't they:D Last week buddy and I are out on SCR and the motor keeps bogging-running-bogging-running like it's thirsty for gas. Couldn't figure it out but she got us back to the launch OK. Get the boat pulled out and look at the gas tank that looks like a raisin. Forgot to open the vent! The worst one is tearing the boat apart going nuts as to why it won't start and then finally realizing the kill switch got knocked down. The first time was bad but the second time I felt:crazy:

OK The distance your fishing line and release goes down the planer line is contolled by how much line your let out from your reel. Once your release has gone down to the area you want it just engage your reel and it's stuck there.

You're gonna hate yourself for asking this:grin:

Gotta run but I'll answer shortly if someone else doesn't

Being on tournament control in that kind of weather is a no win job, you're going to get bitched at if you cancel or if you don't. I have to agree though that if they allow it to start, they should let the Capt make the call when to quit. Trying to cancel a tourney early over a marine radio with boats scattered out 20-30 miles is extremely difficult to nearly impossible reach all participants.

And you can bet that no matter what paperwork was signed, if a boat goes down the organizers are going to have a lawsuit on their hands.

Tempted fate Sunday morning and went out from 8-11:30 out of PS. Waves were 3-4 early but definitely got worse:eek: The return trip through the pierheads was one of the hairiest I've ever seen! black white kitty fwiw. Only ran 6 lines and could not get any kind of reliable speed with the waves.

195-135 fow. Temps were 42-45 degrees