steeliebob

WOW what a fire drill. Count your blessings and the boat survived the storm too.

July 10, 2010 6:00 am start there will be a Trout & Salmon Tournament in St Ignace at the boat launch site to benefit the March of Dimes. The tournament is sponsored by Farmers Insurance and Jim Wehrs Mackinaw Outfitters. For information or a registration form email [email protected] or call Bob Holmes at 906-643-8630.

Fishing is fun ..Catching is more fun sounds like you did a little of both. Good Job

You need a bigger boat.

I have a picture in my images if someone can bring it over, I appreciate it.

Sunday morning I caught an 18 pound king off from St Ignace. Last night I was out in 4 foot chops and had lost two fish, I had just got it all reset and a rod went off. The fish would not come loose from the release but it still managed to tangle the slider and stacker. It had me down to about 30 feet of line left when all of the tangles were undone. I was surprised the fish was still hooked. When we put this one on the scales it went 22 pounds. You can bet by fall these fish will be about 6 pounds heavier. It was the only fish but it was worthwhile.

Sounds like every launch allows you to pay an annual fee which is great if you only fish in one spot. The DNRE could put an annual fee right on the fishing license and allow the fisherman to pay when you buy a license and you would be elgible to use all launch sites which would make sense. The drawback is that sailboaters, kayak, canoers, and weekenders would be trying to get in for free. just about every time I launch or pull my salmon boat out of the water I see as many as 5 freebies use the site. This is in St Ignace at the City site and the police do not enforce it. What really gets the steam cooking is when you try to launch at 5 am and the freeloaders are tied to the docks sleeping these are usually sailboats or sleepers who launch for free and will pull out for free.

If the rain holds off I will be launching Chrome 1 again tonight so I hope that I can report some more fish

Try staying out later or getting out earlier. The last few minutes before daylight or after the sun goes down can be very productive. I picked up 3 nice kings over the weekend two hit at 6 am and one at 9 pm.

Got the chrome 1 wet three times over the weekend and put 4 salmon in the boat. The biggest was 18 pounds on Sunday am. You have to work for them but as the temperature stays hot downstate more fish will start showing up in the straits area. Green dolphins in 100 fow 60 down were the ticket.

I would hate to ruin things by posting a photo of the chrome 1 19 foot 1985 starcraft holiday, I do know that last year we only caught the skunk on one trip out of 70. So ugly as it is, it knows how to find the fish. Nice boats guys let me know if we can work out a trade.

Lets see you go out about 5 miles to get to 100 feet of water. There is actually 50 feet of water because below that the next 50 feet is nothing but fish. I have fished there but we always go out about 12 miles from South Haven. By the time we get the third line set we usually have a double on the first two. Off of the coast guard in St Ignace you are in 100 feet of water about 200 yards from shore. But that is 100 feet of water, the fish don't stack up as good. By Mackinac Bridge there is 200+ fow and that is where the salmon can stack up

Great Job, Surprised to hear that the Atlantics are in thick that far south. We watched a couple of them jumping right out of the water a couple of hundred feet from shore in St Ignace a couple of days ago. I still would like to get down there and fish with you. That or you are welcome to come up to St Ignace and fish off of my boat. I have to find a boat on auto show weekend as I will not be able to trailer mine through town to get it in the water. I might get a spot at the marina and put it in a slip. Then I can walk from my house and fish

I can help you, Yoda is going to have charters then. I sent you a PM. I think some nicer salmon will be in about 100 fow about then but they will be scattered on the depth chart. Lake trout will be plentiful and up high there should be steelies and Atlantics.

Nice bunch of eyes there.

Let us know how you do. It sounds like you cannot miss down there and it really does not matter what you use for lures or flies. There has to be fish down in that area because the DNRE fisheries trucks back up like a presidential motorcade to release the fingerlings.

It is always great to see the kind enjoying the outdoors. Can you post some pics? Thanks for taking them on the adventure of their lifetime. Awesome story.

Send some of them north to where Huron & Michigan meet. Those are some nice fish.

Nice Lakers way to go

The first fish that you catch in the slikcraft will make it all worthwhile. Hurry and get it ready cause the fishing is starting to get good right now.

At least you got out there. The Chrome 1 is still waiting on dry dock ready to go. Looks like Brevort Lake tomorrow for walleye and pike. The chrome 1 is waiting for the wind to die down a little more. The 19 footer is just a little hard to handle in all of this wind although it has been done a few times. I don't want to fight the weather on the shakedown.

Nice Job!!!! At least i know what they look like again. I just have to get my rig in the water and get some.

The weather is looking good bought my annual permit boat is ready the shakedown will be this week in St Ignace, Chrome 1 will get wet. I still have not seen a boat out there yet. I have had some reports of Kings being caught in the Sault and Detour so I am going to give it a shot and see what I can do. I will keep you posted throughout the summer, today looks like a good day too but I am at work right now.

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Glad to hear that the priority 1 survived the shakedown does not sound like you are surviving so well. Good luck with the ankle and fishing. All of those waves are caused by the fish shaking because they fear the priority 1. With any luck and a little less snow the Chrome 1 will get wet next week. Nobody has been out in St Ignace yet so I may be the first one. There is supposed to be loads of Lake Trout up here so I can tie into a few of those for salmon practice.