jay d

I need to try the Z boards, but i doubt they will pull my gear out to the sides like my otter boats. Even with 500 and 600 coppers these boats are perpendicular to my boat. Church boards just sag back way to much and i get nervous they will get into my wires or slide divers. In my opinion the church boards are good to about 3 colors of core. After that they can get far enough out to the sides. Especially on turns.

i just ran the z board big daddys for the first time on sun and you will be suprised how well they pull long segments of copper and lead,i had to see it to believe it:thumb:

i am with the rest of you guys,ditched the big boards for inlines.another advantage to the inlines are manuverability,you can turn a lot sharper with inlines.

Insta Launch is a good site to camp, I have camped there. Most of the people with larger boats that camp there launch at the City launch near the mouth of the River. Manistee lake has a lot of shallow areas and it's a ways to the river mouth. I'd compare conditions similar to Snug Harbor at Muskegon. Trust me, Launch at the City Launch.

its a good campground but like frank said there launch has some shallow areas to cross to get to the big water.we should be there at least one day.hope to meet some of you there:thumb:

Gotta love the offshore bite...Hoorah!

you know it,hope we can make it out there sun:grin:

Adjust the speed if all else fails. We caught fish on 3.1 at the ball last weekend and had to slow down (due to a tip from Dirty Dog) to 2.1 this past weekend. Fish are still around' date=' but hanging low (on the bottom). Either that or GO DEEP. The hard part about that in the lower bowl is it means a big gas bill.[/quote']

its nice having the deepwater in a little closer in the northern part of the lake.the breaks out deep are starting to form.we got into some steel about 16 miles out sun,saw tons of 8 to 10 inch kings feeding on the surface.

turn west after the sun comes up,kick up the speed and cover lots of water.its a hunting pattern right now with mostly spoons.

I agee I've owned diawa's and penn's before but haven't bought anything except shimano in years. You get what you pay for in fishing reels. Buy it once for more or buy it atleast twice for less.

me too,tekotas and charter specials:thumb:

i have seen a boat hit the pier in manistee just about every year for at least the past 5,have a picture of a hardtop thompson parked right on the south pier.the fog was still terible when we got there at noon today.this was very sad news to get on the water today.the boat that sank today was captained by a good friend of one of my fishing partners.dave is a very experinced captain,just goes to show you can never take things for granted out there.

external all the way with or without a top.better signal than the internal models.

congrats,looks like a fisherman to me:thumb:

i have not hit the water in allmost 3 weeks:mad:i am not very happy with mother nature at this min.

nice tell mom and pop congrats on some fine birds

i would go with bags,they look like a pain:mad:but they are realy easy to use.they not only slow down ,they stabalize the boat and cut out a lot of the rockin and rollin:thumb:

7 for 9. thats not a bad trip at all. Nice.

should have had a lot more for the time we spent on the water with fish under us:confused: only saw 1 other boat net a fish in 8 hrs. of fishing

hit st joe yesterday ended up 7 for 9 5 ho's a king and a laker.orange,firetiger and pearch thinfins,#9 orange/gold jointed rapala and a 00 orange dodger with a fighting irish coho fly we fished 15 to 50 fow.had a lot of fish under us in 35 to 45 fow down by cook,they just would not bite.

hit the bay yesterday for a little walleye action,ended up 5 for 6 in 10 to 14 fow.hjs in #12 and #14 fire tiger,clown,glass clown and a custom color from franks g.o.d. gold/red 70 ft bk.not a lot of action we fised hard to get the first 2 and hit a tripple and pulled lines and headed in.

its not mine but a buddy just droped of his new to him 1860 lowe roughneck with a 50 horse yammy to reside in my garage next to the fishmaster.this makes me very happy because i have permission to float it whenever i want:thumb:now even the rivers are not safe for the fish.i think i have a new best friend now:grin:

I gotta ask...Was Geoff with ya?...that could explain things!!!:lol:

no he was home:lol:just one of those days,wish we would have had time to fish north of the piers but mother nature said no way:eek:

Great job in the tough stuff Jay, also kinda strange , I thought I was going to read another report saying 15 for 18 or some thing like that. Any how, 2 is better than sitting in the house any day, nice job.

thats our worst trip over there in over 2 years,at least it was not a skunk:thumb:and was a lot more fun than spring clean up around the house:D

thats a good way to start the season:thumb:we will be heading down to the joe next weekend to get after em

things were a little slow today.we ended up 2 for 3 1 brown and a steelie.clown and tennesee shad#10 husky jerks 100 ft bk.we ended up getting blown off the lake.the 4 and 5 footers on the way in made for a long ride in

Kept 18 fish. Dang, how many people you got on that boat? NJ though.

how many fish do you see in the picture:

Whats the going rate on epirbs?

anywhere from $350 on up with gps,we are getting the acr aqualink view.the best price that i have found it is $439.

I had an epirb on my big boat when I had it, but I often neglected to check it's batteries. (example of how not to do it..)

Fortunately we never had to use it!

the new handheld units you only have to change the batterys every 5 years.

we are adding a epirb to our list of safty gear this year,anybody else have one on board?