EdB

I change mine monthly through the season. Watch out on the farmers field, oil kills everything. When I was a teenager doing all the oil changes for 3 cars in our family, I used to dump it on a vacant field across the road, mostly in the same spot. A few years back, they developed it and built houses. There is a house with a fairly nice lawn over my oil dump with a big 3 ft dead spot they can't get any grass to grow. I chuckled when my mom was telling me they didn't understand why the grass wouldn't grow there. Most quicky oil change places will take used oil to recycle. I save my gallon jugs from windshield wash and put my oil there and take it to a local quick oil change. That is the best way to dispose of it for the environment.

Great to finally meet you too Ben, I'll stay in touch, should be there quite a bit for the rest of this month.

The kings are starting to go good at St Joe. 3 of us fished today and we landed 10 kings, threw one back and got one coho. We hit and lost a lot too. Our fish came on full cores, half cores, riggers from 40ft to as deep as 80 ft and a 1-1/2 lb drop out 120ft with a white and green seaweed meat rig. Free sliders on the riggers worked. Blue dolphin, monkey shine and a steve's bait were the best spoons, all took at least a couple. A double jointed orange and gold rap took a couple high lined behind a bird. We fished from 80 to 125 ft of water, deeper was better later in the morning. Good luck!

100-120 feet of water a little ways south was the spot on Sat. We trolled around out front and took 3 quick ones and it died there. Picked another around 9:30 that kept me hanging there longer than I should have,mostly in 40-50 of water. A buddy calls about 11:30 after a long west troll and lit it up at 100 feet. We ran out, hit 4 and boxed 2 in a hour but had to be at the docks at 1:30, I couldn't convince my crew to hang there longer as they had a committment on land. My buddy boxed 17 and he got out deeper late with only 3 in the box to start there. All in the top 50 feet of water, free birds, 1/2 cores, full cores, divers from 60 to 90 and riggers 40-50 did the damage, mostly spoons, dolphins were best, but double jointed orange and gold rapalas were good on the birds. I couldn't get back Sunday but friends picked away at some good boxes in the same water, not quite as fast but a steady bite.

I'm new here but hang around a few other sites. Fishing the great lakes is my passion 10 months a year but October and December is nothing but hunting. I'm on the water every weekend and as many weekdays I can blow off work or take vacation. We have our boat at St Joe till the end of May, Lake Erie in June and Ludington till late September. I started salmon fishing in 1976 off the piers, fished a small boat and bummed as many rides as I could through the 80's and got my current boat new in 1990. Boat stands for "break out another thousand" and she got her share this offseason. She's got lot's of hours and is super dependable but her retirement is on the horizon. I know or recoginze a few people here and hope to see some of you this summer.