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I'm wanting to get a boat that has an outboard. Because it's getting to hard to do all the maintenance on an i/o. Plus I can use an outboard more since it doesn't really need much done to winterize it. I will be selling my 1995 221 Startcraft Islanders cuddy. It's in great shape. Engine runs great and has been tuned up by a mechanic every few years. But the winterizing and oil changes I did myself every year for the last 11 years since I've had the boat.

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Sorry guys. Wellcraft boats. Can't figure out how to edit the post.

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I was just wondering if wellcraft boats are good boats. Just asking because I found one for really cheap and thought maybe they had problems with them.

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Stay away from the sandbar if you will have kids with you. Lots of boats. The lake is really busy on the weekends. There should be bass up the calm river into clam lake. Skegamog has walleye and perch plus musky. Elk lake has Lakers. And all should have smallmouths.

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Good luck.

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Lakers should be near bottom right at the base of the drop offs. Not hard to see them. But since we have been having all this hot water hard telling how deep the cold water will be down.

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Ok. Take a thermometer and fish the colder water right at the thermocline for the salmon.

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There is musky in all the chain lakes. I fished torch for trout and salmon one time last summer and marked lots of bait and fish but nothing would bite. There's a lot of forage in there to contend with. I catch my Atlantics in the spring when they are still high in water column. I'm salmon fishing out of Charlevoix and Rogers City this time of year.

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Lakers and Atlantic salmon are hard to catch on torch unless you know the lake and how to catch them.

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It depends on what you want to fish for the most.


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Good luck it's a hard lake to fish.

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There are way less salmon this year everywhere than in 2010. That's when the post was you are asking about.

Sorry guys found what I was looking for. Moderators please delete.

I had an older slide driver given to me. I think I have the line going through it right. Line from rod goes through spring, through hole below arm, under arm and through front hole. Using 30# mono.

Now I lock arm in position and lower part of arm comes down on line.

I looked at line where lower arm pinches line and now the line has a crimped flat spot in it. Won't this make line weak at the flat spot?

Your welcome. It's bad. All the lakers you want though.

I hear no silver at the St Ignace fish cleaning station. DNR report says no salmon at Petoskey. But there are a few at Charlevoix, very few.

I was there on Sunday and only got one king and a laker. Lost one other king. Didn't mark many on graph though. Water was really warm. Temp break was between 70 and 80 down depending on where we were. One spot it was around 100.

Not everyone remembers the elements from school.

But I've seen quite a few people using just cu.

Is everyone calling copper cu for short now?

Would like your thoughts on where a school of steelhead might go. They were 4+ miles out over 200+ fow. This is on Lake Huron. Now a strong west wind has been blowing for a few days blowing the warm water out and bringing in the cold water near shore.

Would the steelhead be in the same area as last week or would they be in closer or farther offshore?

Ok so I don't really need to downsize my leaders that I use for kings to catch steelhead.

Your welcome.

We were targeting everything. But if we knew there were no kings around we would have targeted just steelhead. What length of leaders and pound test on the dipsys with spoons? We were going 2.2-2.4 at ball and over 3 gps speed ball was 60' down. The one steelhead we got was 39 down on rigger 100' back.

Fished one 3 color and a full core 2 mono dipsys one with a spoon one with flasher and fly. Full core never git bit,3 color twice and 2 riggers at 39 and 50' got hits. 2 riggers down deep for kings no hits. Lost 4 2 were steelhead or Atlantic Salmon (shook the hook) not sure why we kept losing fish.

Would like to try for the steelhead again but would like to catch more crome so,what would your best setup consist of? Steelhead were from surface down to 50'.

Well Lake Huron isn't dead. Got 2 lakers and a steelhead and lost 4 more steelhead. Find the cold water that's not down so deep and fish just above it. Surface water was 69 degrees and some places it was still mid to high 60's down at 80-100 ft in 100-130fow. So go deep.