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I like the VMC Hooks for the trebles, short shank 4650, we run these on our fly riggs and meat riggs, If we are going to run a second hook on the rig it is a Owner or Gamakatsu 4/0 or 5/0 octopus, I don't much like the "Beak" style hooks in the treble's because they are a pain to sharpen. All our trebles are sharpened before they go over the side, the Owner and Gamakatsu's are plenty sharp for the way we use them out of the package..

I'll second that Vitalidle, took a drive yesterday: Detour, you'd end up like the titanic, Iceberg in the side, the only thing open in the St.Mary's happens to be from the locks south to the rock cut, (The shipping channel is open) people are still ice fishing in Raber .. That sucks

Tell us what you have for poles,reels,rod holders,ect. might be a bit easier for everyone to point you in a useable direction ..

For the money I don't think you can beat the convectors. We have 2 of the CV30D's filled with 1000 feet of wire and they worked flawlesly last season. Nice big handles, nice drags, they are just a very affordable, comfortable reel for catching Salmon..

You really don't need to spend the extra money for the catalina, the Convector is the same reel, just not set up for the Saltwater world. We are big Okuma fans, we have 1/2 doz of the cheaper DX's work Ok, we've been running those for our Braid dipeys, no complaints yet , and they been running strong for 2 years, the Convectors in my opinion, are hands down better than any of the Daiwas

Snelling about the best wat to go, you will have to bend the eye a bit like mentioned above, and like MAINIAC Said, have a few pre tied on the boat

Been using Purple taco beads for the last few years, very pleased with them, they are a "Extended Glow" Right now Curt only has 10mm glow beads BUT will be adding 6mm and 8mm extended glow early this spring.

www.purpletacoflysupply.net great stuff

Domain registration from godaddy runs about $10

Our hook ups are about the same as a treble, the singles do seem to hold a bit better, they burey deeper into the fishes mouth. and my opinion is, unless a treble is deep in the fishes mouth it works against itself. I'd wouldn't tell anybody one style of hook is better than another, they both catch fish very well, SHARPNESS is the biggest cause of lost fish in my book, I can not think of any strait pointed hooks that are sharp enough to use out of the package, Treble or single. Filed sharp hooks will put more fish in the boat......

The standard size Raider spoon carries a 3/0 Lazer Sharp Eagle Claw Siwash

The Magnum Raider spoon carries a 4/0

We Run single hooks on almost all our spoons, they hook and hold very very well, 99% of all spoons we run are Raiders, they come with the single hook. no more hooks tangled in the net, one very big plus

Here is one I got a month or so ago, Might want to be a little careful with this one also:

I am Gerald Smith from UK, I Came to hear about your Fishing Charter, because I love fishing, Fortunately I am coming with my Group, So i will want to use the meduim to go fishing with my Friends. I will like to know if there is any Vacancy for fishing on the 17th to 24th of May 2009, kindly confirm any 4 vacant days during that date space.

Please get back to me if there is vacancy so that i will proceed with this reservation get the days blocked .the number of guest to exect is 5.

I await your email.

Best Regards,

Gerald Smith.

19 Leicester Square.

City, London.

Country, United Kingdom.

Postal/Zip Code, WC2H 7LA

TeL: +44 7035925708

My name is John King ( No relation to the manistee one). My wife and I run our charter service out of the Michigans Eastern U.P. we run a very trailerable SportCraft 252 Hardtop.:Ports we fish, Detour, Cedarville,Hessel,St.Ignace. we also fish Manistique and Fairport. We also try to make a trip or 2 below the bridge, Manistee,Frankfort, and we've been known to hit saginaw Bay.

Food for thought on this one. What are you pulling out of the bellies of your fish at the cleaning station ? 6 & 7 inch alwives, 2 to 3 inch sticklebacks or smelt ranging from 3 to 7 inches. I know for a fact that the bait that we pull out of our fish in Northern Lake Huron (Detour, St.Ignace) are small 99% of the time anymore we run Regular size spoons here, and do very well with them, it's pretty rare that we throw a Magnum spoon over the side anymore in Huron.

We spooled up 2 of the Okuma Convectors CV30D's up with 1000 feet of wire last spring, After seeing there performance we will be adding more this season, I don't think you can abuse a reel more that filling it with 30# wire and drag dipeys all day. Very good reel for the price you pay. Rod length are a personal prefrence items, shorter rods are a bit easier to handle on smaller boats.