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nice goin mike hope the lake plays nice for you this afternoon

welcome to the site john and nice catch look foward to more of your reports

it will get better just need mother nature to realize its fishing season

i have been slowly aquring gear over the past year mostly baits to date, but i do have 6 rod/reel set ups 4 are cablea's 2 are eagle claw. just rigged with leadcore.

i want to buy the better set-up gear so i know it will last.

what length and action rod for high lines.

what are good rods for wire dipsies.

what action rod do i want for downriggers.

electronics ways i am lean towards hummingbird for the fishfinder/chart plotter

fish hawk for the downspeed probe.

any info would be great cause next year will be here before we know it and i want to have DILLIGAF ready to fish

Wow! Nice lake trout. Nice job.

The water looks very calm that afternoon. I think it's great when people involve their kids in things like fishing. I am taking my oldest daughter, who's 11, salmon fishing for the first time in a few weeks. Hopefully, we can take her to Muskegon.

yes katrina it was a nice day to be on the water. and to think he said at first he didnt want to go. there is alot of times i would rather strangle the little turd but i probbaly did the same thing at his age.

it all goes to our kids are the future fisherman and to teach them morals about fishing and hunting is our responcablity as parents.

Went 3 for 3 with 2 small kings on a chart/green/orange spoon on a rigger 19 down 30 back. And a 11lbs steelhead on a meat rig and a dipsey on 3 back 48 not a bad trip for 3 hrs. 8:30am to 11:30am got a little choppy as we were going to come in. Anyways got some blood, and scales on the new to us 26' Islander that I got alot of blood, sweat and tears in it over the winter re-doing the wiring, Interior, riggers and rod holders plus alot of other very neglected things I won't mention. Had a good time with my father watching him battle that steelhead that jumped 2-3' out of the the water about 4 times. The boat floats doesn't leak runs like a top and catches fish:lol:

nice goin i was out in the afternoon monday and it was alot past choppy

ouch hunter hunter can go fishing with ya anytime if the dad cant go the son cant go he is still talking about driving the boat and he is supposed to be sleeping i think it was the mt dew you let him drink on your boat mike

and the proof of that is

mike yeah he is asking when we can go again

nice goin mike. thanks for the report i will be out of south haven tomorrow afternoon

set up just north of the junk cars had a double at the south end of the big sea wall 21 fow water

Fish 1 dipsy 3 setting 31 foot back blue/silver pro troll flasher with a blk/green/gold peanut fly- coho

Fish 2 dipsy 3 setting 28 foot back blue spin doc with a custom blue head fly- coho

fish 3 rigger 00 crome dodger with a orange custom fly (24 inch leader) 25-27 back 10 down- laker

Fish 4 flat line 125 back with brad thin fish green/churtruce with a pink spot-coho

wasnt all that bad noaa still needs alittle work on the forcast more like 2-4's with a 5-7 thrown in once in awhile

surface temp was 47.1 to 48.9 troll speed was 2.2 to 3.5 got hook-ups on both north and south trolls

At 1am, the wind forecast is 5mph out of the N-NW. At 7am, the wind forecast is 10mph out of the N-NW. At 1pm, it is 10mph out of the N.

Based on the wind forecast, I think it will be 2' or less on Sunday.

I can also give you the winning numbers for the big game jackpot!

Yesterdays winning numbers were.....10, 16, 31, 48, 50, 44. I hope you didn't think I would give you the winning numbers in advance!

sparkies are smarta$$es on saturdays

anyone think 2 to 3's are to much for an 18fter cause thats what noaa is callin for tomorrow and i so want to go fishin

what about installing a inline micro switch that turns the pump on when you thorttle up kind of like the interrup switch for shifting then you would also have to use a presure switch on the hydrolics to kick the pump off when the plate is all the way up

wish it wasnt so far up there for me and with only fishing out of a 18 footer it makes it alot harder to be able to commit that far in advance cause of the wether changes every 2 seconds. sounds like it would be a great time and maybe get some money or cool free stuff

nice work guys

i will take 2 of them in black mike

mike

can you get the 2 for me at 36inches by 18inches

and just let me know what the cost is

he died around a month into opie season i also think it was cool that sig and phil went through with the 2 jakes after talking about it 2 years ago. the show aint gonna be the same come the start of opie season though.

plus does everyone else think that jake harris just likes seeing his face on tv?

head to the joe at 2 this afternoon got lines set about 330 345 half way from the pier heads to the pump house south troll and got on the radio for a report only report was boat dead in 55 fow and no body closer offered help so pulled lines and went and caught me a 22ft bayliner that was d.o.a. towed them in got into a fist fight with a couple of natives in benton harlem cause they wouldnt pull thier lines off the docks so we could load up the boat

lake wasnt bad wind is still kickin out there

hard telling where the fish moved to. i am willing to bet it was because of the winds waves and currents and all the fish i caught yesterday were south of the pier heads and there was alot of boats from the pump station all the way down to cook

katrina i fished st joe yesterday and it was still slow compared to what last year was this time due to the recent winds. you were right in your water range and after making a call to the dirty dog i found it was slow for the master fish killer. i am gonna try st joe agian durning the week sometime and maybe it will change but on the 17th i would recomend along with nailer to goto the friendly get together out of so haven. i will be there hopefully

set lines just north of the junk cars in 23 fow trolled south to just pass the a-frames

miss 1 on a 3 color down the chute loaded with a hot steel xrap

picked up 2 lakers with a blue/black/purple peanut fly behind a orange flasher

picked up a 4 pound coho on a high line 100 ft back loaded with a clown xrap

back north up by the treatment plant picked up a splake on braided dipsy #3 setting green/yellow with pink spot thin fish

small ho on 3c with hot steel xrap

big steelie on 3c with hot steel came unbuttoned at the boat

water temp 44.1 to 45 sow 2.1 to 3.1

i will take 2 of them in black mike

now introducing DILLIGAF hope i did it right

i'm in

well i pulled the trigger and bought a sea ray today. its a 1976 24ft sundancer with the 230hp ford v8 with a mercruiser gen 1 out drive single screw. it will not be ready for the water till next year because it does need some work done since it is 34 years old. but i figure with a little bit of time and hopefully not alot of money i can make it into a class act fishing boat. i will post pics when i pic it up saturday.

a big thanks to mike (glf) and andy (2unreel) for even answering thier phones when they knew it was me to offer thier advice.

nice boat. about how long does it take to get to st joe from grand rapids area trailering a boat.

from gr area to st joe is about an hour if you run down 96 to 94