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Figured it out looking at old posts to see who had sponsored the event. Gale Force. Not sure if they still make salmon spoons. Seems like it was an experiment at the time

Set lines at 6 in 60 fow. Worked 65-85 for the first 1.5 hours with nothing to show for it other than a 10lb laker we threw back. Surface temp was 49-50.Pointed west and finally hit a king at 175 and it was on from there. 16 for 22 in 175-188.

Started off as a spoon bite and switched to a flasher fly bite at 11. Took 5 bites on a blue killer 10 inch SD and BB fly down 50. Other than that everything was from 35 to 25 down. 150's, 250's, dipseys, slide diver, full core, riggers 35-25 all went. Lots of double digit kings.

Surface temp was 54. 42 was 30 down. There was a line of 46 degree water from 190-200 fow and then the temps went back up to 54 out from that. No hits in the cold water. Speed was 2.4 at the ball. Best troll was West and Northwest. Anything East was almost dead.

Joined Oakley on his boat to see if we could work a salmon/perch combo trip. Launch at 1:30 and were greeted by 2-4's Searched for perch for 2.5 hours without a reasonable mark or a single bite. Only 2 other boats out at the time. Never saw them catch and never marked a fish around them.

Switched over to trolling about 4pm skirted the outside edge of the dirty water and went 4-8. Pulled lines at 7:30 or so

#9 rap on 5 color lost king

Standard green dolphin rigger 30-38 down 11lb king, 4lb king and 2 lb brown, lost teener king

Blue veggies 24 down 15lb king, lost teener king

Wire diver out 60 at 3 blue bubble FF broke off at swivel lost the whole setup:mad:

Kings were wild as usual with one clearing the water 4 times getting 3 feet of air on 2 of them.

All hits came in clean water right on the edge. All within 1/8 mile of the dredge pipe. 2.5 sog upwind 2.7-2.9 downwind. Temp was 44-45 on the edge and 47 in it. Water in perch land was 41-42. We had the entire area to ourselves minus one boat that came out around 6 and trolled North.

Son and I headed out today. Lines down at 6:30. Hit a king first thing in the dirty water just N of the heads on a slide diver in 38fow. Nothing after that. Picked up and found some warmer water just south of the Saugy heads. Set down in 50 and took 2 more in 30 minutes on riggers 30 and 23 down. Went with the waves all the way back to Holland without a tap. Pulled at 11 am. 3rd fish I had 2 other boats fighting fish around us but with 2 in the boat one being inexperienced we elected to continue on instead of working the waypoint against the wind.

2 bites on BLL standard spoons with chartreuse and purple.

1 bite blue dolphin standard doctored with uv tape.

Tried spinnies on the riggers and body baits on board lines 60-150 coppers with no takers

ball speed was 2.2 on the bites. 44.7-.9 surface on all 3 bites. 44.9 was the warmest we found. 42.7-43.7 up by Holland in the clean water.

Great report Ed. My son and I are heading out this up coming Sat. The Vet who rode in my boat for Walleye for Warriors last year ended up being a turkey fanatic and a board member of the NWTF chapter in Belding. While we were out fishing he offered to take my son out around the area here and get him on a bird. I can't wait. Really hoping to learn a lot since my experience has been mostly reading and shows.

Thanks for another great report Terry

Well done guys!!

Congrats on the fast sale!

I had to pull some images from the web. The first is the dotted copper. I forget what brand it is and what it is called.

Confusion

It won't work. Bow is too far out of the water. If I had to guess I would say it's 48 inches from bow to water in dead calm water, Any wave action at all and you're prop is out of the water 1/2 the time.

Damn Ed you're starting to get dangerous out there!!:thumb:

Great Job guys! Way to stick with the plan. Mine blew up on me and I ended up chasing bites that were already over. Ran the beach about 2 miles north for 1.5 hours with only a ho to show for it. Went out to the deeper water to find some lakers and work our way south and ended up fighting the wind and waves. Hooked a screamer king on a 2 color thin fin out in 43 after an hour. Ended up getting him back to the start of the core and he got tied up in a copper and got free. Drove in to the dirty water to finish the day with 3 more ho's. Started off in the wrong place and couldn't recover fast enough.

First place and fifth place came from running the dirty water all day.

Right on deadline and would like to add exact year the Brown Blast started. Great tournament and am writing it up for the St. Joe Herald-Palladium.

Thanks!

Dave

First year for the event was 2004

First year is was called the "Brown Blast" was 2005

Well hopefully Don has figured it out over the past 6 years I think he's changed boats more often in that time than I have changed line:banana:

Chamberlains. Basically a Black but a tension adjustment for both the lure and the rod. Allows for a real bend in the rod but separate (lighter) for the lure. Great for spring on Lake Michigan and the mixed bag on Erie & Sag Bay when perch hit but can't pull the line out of the release with a normal tension.

Agreed. If you plan on using your releases for walleye fishing also the chamberlains are amazing. I had 13 inch walleye releasing flawlessly last year. If you're strictly fishing for salmon, blacks are a more economical and just as functional.

I'm guessing they want to make sure they have enough goody bags so a call to Dan to sign up would probably be the way to go. Takes 2 minutes and you can pay him over the phone or with cash or check when you get there.

Just called Dan and signed up/paid up. See you guys there. Names Tom. Fat man probably wearing a Dreamweaver charity tourney t shirt

Boy those are some pretty trout. Thanks for the pics Ed!

Well I was going to go to Stevensville and visit my in Laws but now I guess I can just drive down the road to Bella Vista on the 15th. See ya there

Really Nailer, what was the wt. & location? And can you post a pic.? Thanks.

It's actually been broken twice but officially only once. Roger Hellen caught a 41lb 8oz brown out of Lake Mi on the wisconsin side last year. Fish has to be 2oz or better to knock out the existing record.

This spring a guy in New Zealand caught a 42lb 1oz fish. It was offically recognized by IGFA this summer

Previous photo is the catch and release record and yes it's a different category

Don't know about cheapest price but Outdoorsman has the rigs and the meat. There are many more options along the lakeshore from Saugatauk to Manistee

Good job guys. Me and my son started south and trolled witj the waves back. Pulled lines at 8:30 with a skunk . Ran more spinnies and plugs than spoons. Same depth. Pretty similar down depths. Pulled early because of slow fishing and waves

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