Turfwrench

When I have a fish on I normally don't slow down unless the situation dictates. I only run 15lb Big Game line on the riggers so once in a while I have to ease it up when the fish gets down in the prop wash.

I too am a speed troller. I like to cover water like Jim knowing i will be putting my lures in view of more fish. Zipping a lure past a fish can trigger a reactionary strike and usually is a violent strike at that resulting in a more solid hook-up.

Will do Brandon....I usually go on the weekends but felt I needed to take the day off work and get to fishing. I hear you on the haul, takes me 1 hr and 15 min to get there myself but worth the drive.

As you know Pt Sanilac is where I do the majority of my fishing. Spoons rule these waters. Running sliders either free or fixed should always be on your rigger lines. We have boxed a lot of fish on them. You may want to consider using single hooks on your spoons. You must keep them real sharp. Our hook-up and catch ratio went way up after switching over to the singles. Never really had a lot of success running paddles/dodgers, etc out there unless targeting lakers near the bottom but found running mag spoons in their place near the bottom will get the lakers.

Yes on the wire divers, I run 2 and they have accounted for plenty of fish in the box. Braid has a disadvantage here as the sea fleas stick to it an can be a real pain, and the fleas do get bad out there at times.

Running highlines either off inline boards or big boards should always be considered. These lines have taken plenty of steelhead, walleyes, and an occasional atlantic. Usually I run my highlines with a 3 way swivel - running a diving body bait off a shorter lead and a spoon trailing behind the diver on a longer lead. A deadly tactic.

Keep in touch, the fishing is still good and anticipating it getting even better!

Nice fish Brandon, these are ours from today, worked 90-120' various depths produced. Fished were scattered up and down the water column. 3 kings, 1 steel, 1 coho, 1 pink, and 2 lakers

Hmmm....interesting for sure. But as I see it in a way your buddy is correct. If the boat is traveling 2.5 sog according to the gps then yes your bait is also traveling at 2.5 sog. Now lets put the current into place, sog has no bearing on current speed but indeed does affect the action of the lure as we all know. If heading into the current the bait will indeed be acting as it is being ran at a faster speed and with the current would certainly look to be going too slow. With that being said, I would inform him that the Fish Hawk type devices measure the "action" speed of the lure at the depth you are running and if a particular lure best performs at 2.5 then he would want that lure to look as though it is running at that speed either with or against the current.

With respect, this "save the alewives" survey to avoid a "crisis" only generated minimal interest in saving the alewives/salmon. "Billions of dollars" worth of invisible "stakeholders" either didn't care or wern't there in the first place. Regardless this was a vote to increase an invasive species, (alewives) nothing more.

Save the alewife campaign??? Is that similar to your save the perch campaign??

Some good fishing to be had out on S. Lk Huron. Glad you did well and enjoyed your trip. We fish Pt Sanilac every weekend we can get out. These are our fish from last weekend. Plan on being out there Sat an Sun. Give a holler on the radio if you are out. Turfwrench Ch68

Was nice meeting you today Brandon and was glad you got into some fish. It sure was nice out there and the fishing wasn't too bad either.

Pm sent, I will be out there tomorrow.

Enjoyed the video. Looking forward to hitting it up as I have not fish out of HB yet. Heading up tomorrow to get in a little scouting on the water and will see ya Saturday at the Can.

They put one dock in Lexington on Wednesday. We will be hitting it in the morning. Some have been out this week and have got a few fish. Nothing real stellar on the reports yet but there are some fish around! Will post when we get back.

One dock now in Lexington.

Beautiful fishing weather we are having but unfortunately there are no docks in yet. Quite disappointing considering several docks were put in the saginaw river last month because of the Shiver on the River. Sure would be nice if they would get them in. There are a lot of us ready to get out.

Last weekend I attended a seminar @ Andersons Probait in Pt. Huron. One of the topics was border crossing presented by the US Border Patrol. Being that I do fish a few times a year in Pt Huron and hearing of the horror stories last year on Lk. O it only made sense to attend this one. The law for Canada is: you must call in if you plan on fishing Canadian waters or going ashore in Canada. If you are traveling from point A to point B in the US and cross into Canadian waters doing so there is no need to call in as long as you do not stop or fish in those waters. When calling in to fish Canadian waters you may still be asked to report to Port x for inspection if the Canadian authorities deem so, if not you may continue on to fish and no requirement to call back in to US when you return as long as you did not go ashore in Canada. Now the catch here is that if you do have to report to the Canadian port for inspection you have now landed in Canada and are subject to report back to the US upon return.

So it seems the US now has the same requirements for the Canadians doing the same on US waters. Fair is fair. Either way it seems like too much bs for me just to fish across the line and is not worth the hassle.

Well Grant, rumor has it they will have the docks in. I had heard they were going to be in yesterday but guess that didn't happen. Also Lexington is supposed to go in by early next week. Weather looks good for Tuesday so if the docks do go in I may have to hit up Lex and give it a go. Looked like a good mud line/stained water @ Sanilac from what I seen on the harbor cam.

I have not used swimbaits that large but have had success running the Matzuo 4" swimbaits clean off the downriggers and have caught several nice lake trout on them. Have also trolled them in saginaw bay for walleye with good success.

Oops, looks like I put up the wrong link, the correct link is http://tjstackle.com Sorry about that.

Nice looking kit you ordered. I have looked at several on ebay before but hadn't ordered one yet. Do want to get one for the liquid paints. The paints I got were also from TJ's but the paint is from CS Coatings, I think they are a major supplier of powder paints. Take a look at tjaystackle.com they have a how to section on there complete with videos. I got the spoon color assortment and also got the super glow white. I haven't used the glow yet, that will be my next batch. So far I am loving it.

You will have a lot of fun doing it. I bought one of TJ's Tackle powder paint kits at the Novi show last month. What sold me was a spoon he showed me that was painted and then he bent it several times to where the spoon almost broke yet the paint did not peel away or break off. The picture below is a few I have experimented with, excuse the poor picture quality. On another note, if you air brush is for liquid paints I am not sure it will work with the dry powder paints as the nozzle on the powder airbrush is bigger. The nice thing is it runs off a fish tank air pump.

Yes indeed. I enjoy going to that show. I plan on being there on Saturday.

Something to consider. Anderson's ProBait in Port Huron has a spring salmon seminar on Sunday Feb 19th at 9:00am. Tim Cook will be presenting this topic and puts out some great information. Well worth attending - - and it is free to attend!

Absolutely beautiful!!

55' - Pt Sanilac, Lk Huron. Seems to be the most reliable depth for me.

Yes it can happen to anyone. I lost a friend many years back in the Keewenaw. He apparently was flying up the road to get to the trails and somebody pulled out of their driveway, never saw him coming. Such a sad thing to have to go through.