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That fish was maybe a little over six. We also caught one almost nine lbs. Today we picked up a four man limit of males in less than six hours

Finally got my chores done and got the shakedown done. The fog limited the number of spots that I was willing to hit. We jigged up 9. All on plastics. It is ON! Hope the afternoon storms hold out so I can hit it again.Re76MP95HLk

Great bags , American made, he will help you to size them correctly for what you want them to do. Awesome people to deal with. http://bigpapasportfishing.com

Well Matt, I guess I just read your post and really feel the guys here gave some great input for your future. The first thing I said to myself was similar, do both. By getting the capts. license you could substitute for other capts. on their boats when they are sick or not working at it much anymore. You might also be able to upcharge another $10-20 for each charter you run as a mate. Last question is what do you intend to study at college? If you have no thoughts on it, do as someone else said to start and get a business degree or business classes, like finance and accounting. These will stand you in good stead in any profession later to know how to handle your money correctly for a lifetime. Budgeting, spending wisely, making fair loans, is all a part of getting your adult life on track someday. While your fresh with hours and experience on the water, and have a lot of time to study the rules of the road, (pick up a copy or borrow a copy of Chapman's to start), get that capts. license this summer or asap thereafter while it's fresh in your mind and then renew every five years as the rest of us for life. It will be a lot harder to pass that test in say 10-15 years from now, cause the testing and requirements keep getting stricter. Good luck my friend. Oh yea, P.S. if you do go test for the USCG make sure you enroll and pass a quicky study course for capts' licenses, it's worth the $500, it's about a 4 day class, and it bones you down on all the current questions they are going to ask on the tests, some even have the actual USCG tests for classes. The book I mentioned is the bible of the boating industry, it's referred to a lot in tests and elsewhere, so make sure to get that, and keep it for life. But don't try to pass the tests alone w/o that course, it's vital to most whom pass the first time around.

Typically bright patterns , perch patterns, and sometime rainbow trout or blue/silver. Then pinks and purples.

Husky jerks, reefrunners, thundersticks,deep rattling rogues.......lots of different stuff that works slow.

Mostly by May I am pulling meat ( crawler harnesses). I am not saying that you can't catch them on Reefrunners ( because I have had great days in early May on 800's) The majority of the time by then I am using 1 oz inlines and spinners.

I just checked. Maybe if someone gets it for free let me know.I could be looking at the wrong app.

I will be doing a seminar " Trolling early for Lake Erie walleye" at the Oakland County Sportfishing Association meeting. This seminar will take place on Feb. 15 , 2012 , at 7:30 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend. I will be covering where to start looking, what to be using , and why you should not be jigging. The meeting takes place at the Oakland County Sportsmens Club , 4770 Waterford Rd , Clarkston , Mi ,48346 , Phone 248-623-0444 If you are in the area please come and check it out.

The Mich/Ohio show is this upcoming weekend. I will have a booth there,please stop by and talk some fishing. This show is at the Monroe County Fairgrounds.

Traxtech made some improvements on the rigger for sure. 900 bucks. Big Jon raised prices 25 percent

As it happens Our booth (even though I have not been in it much) is right across from Streak. So I was able to have a nice conversation with Don and Terry. Very nice to meet you guys,hope that your drive home was safe.

I will be working the Big Papa Sportfishing and Warrior lures booths at the Novi show. Please stop by and say Hi ,if you are around the show. I love to talk fishing. I guide the Detroit River and Lake Erie for walleye and perch (also know a lot about Wheatly steelhead). MWC / Flw pro Brian Woodard will be there also. Brian is a jigging master and a spinner nut:thumb: Big Papa ( Bob Bell ) will be there to answer any of your trolling bag , rod holder , or tackle organization questions. Bob also has a lot of Awesome custom painted spoons and spinner blades ( I designed the "super chicken" and it was HOT over in Wheatley this summer. Thanks , Matt Sell

I love my Terrova with I pilot ! I am running ten lines with people that have never fished. So I run the show and they reel in fish. I wear the controller around my neck and can bring a steelhead,salmon,or walleye to the proper side of the boat with a slight turn. As Nailer said..no real need for the i-pilot feature mostly just use compass navigation,BUT I have used the cruise control at times trolling. THIS THING IS THE BEST THING FOR PERCHING SINCE THE MINNOW !! Spot lock is incredible to say the least. I would not buy a trolling motor without it.

• Warrior superglow blueberry muffin
  
• Mag blue dolphin
  
• aces high glow blue splatterback
  
• Green 8 " fishcatcher with a green crinkle fly( what? did you guys think that these stopped catching a ton of fish?)
  
• 8" spinny blue bubble with a dolphin fly(I am oldschool I know)
  
• Funny thing this year I caught more fish on the Warrior flutter spoons than the larger ones and in Erieau steelheadin I did much better on standards
  

We were about 3-4 mi off Vermillion which is about 9-10 from Huron. I talked to some friends and the fish are moving more toward Huron .Shoot me a message on Mon and I will give you some waypoints as I will be going in the morning and maybe Sun (weather dependant of course)

There are fish stacked everywhere it just depends on water color.

Oh there were a LOT of other boats ! We were fishing inside the pack. Gopro

Dad and I having a little fun

Fished off of Vermillion this weekend. Landed 10 Sat ,9 Sun with just two of us (4 lines ) . Lots of nice 7.5 - 8.5 lbers being caught right now. It should only get better . Reef runners 120 back . Eriedecent ,chartruese wonderbread,green flash worked well.http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp160/mattsell0357/huronoct11012.jpg"]

You will tangle and lose a few lures = no biggy..I try and not let it bother me. Even happened in Canada this year where there is NOBODY around:(

We kept 150 today ! Finally doing perch trips(some great clients have been waiting patiently for these tasty critters) Mi waters straight out from Sterling 24 FOW

Entering so late and all. I need all the votes I can get (you can vote once a day);) I hope no one notices that I put the same clip in twice of me handing off the rigger rod:o:o I will just call it artistic(even though I have more good footage that I wanted to get in there) Thanks again to all that sign up and vote I appreciate it more than you know. This pretty much my first video and I have allready learned a ton. I can't wait to do some more.:thumb:

Can someone else let me know if it works. It goes right to it for me. My computer skills really show sometimes:lol: