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    Wire Dipsy versus Wire with Lead Ball

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

    Posted

    I love my 1-1/2 lb weights(I think they run better than 1lbs) but I run mine off mono or braid and run them in the low diver spot most of time with a high diver outside it. If the low divers are smacking fish, I'll run one down the chute. You can move them to either side when down the chute if your landing a fish. I never have problems with tangles because they are behind the riggers and if I have low divers out, I have then set on 1 so if I move a 1-1/2lb that was down the chute off the side, they still stay out of the divers.

    Quite a catch!

    in Pier and River Fishing Discussion

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    http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2010/11/steelhead-fisherman-snags-drowned-fighting-bucks-michigans-st-joseph-river

    There is a picture in the link, 2 nice bucks!

    Two Michigan men out for a day of steelheading instead reeled in this pair of massive bucks that drowned while fighting.

    Two Berrien County men ended up with more than fish during a trip earlier this week on the St. Joseph River. Royalton Township resident Bryan Ammeson and St. Joseph resident Scott Stoney were fishing for steelhead from a boat Wednesday when they spotted a pair of bucks fighting near shore. The bucks' antlers locked and they fell into the river and drowned. " I ended up hooking them up to the side of the boat and we took them back to shore, Ammeson said. "One ended up being a 17-point with two drop tines, and another one is a perfect 10-point rack that's just absolutely massive."Everybody that I've showed this to so far has said that's one of the biggest deer they've ever seen."

    Ammeson said he tried unsuccessfully to reach officials with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. He contacted Benton Township police and obtained a pair of carcass permits so he could claim the animals legally. Ammeson has photos, and police back up his fish tale. "They were both two huge bucks," said Benton Township police Lt. Delmar Lange. Ammeson said the bucks were processed for meat, but the heads will be mounted with the antlers interlocked.

    Common sense prevails - EPA rules against lead ban,

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101104/ap_on_sp_ot/us_lead_fishing_tackle

    By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press – Thu Nov 4, 6:12 pm ET

    WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency denied on Thursday a petition by several environmental groups to ban lead in fishing tackle, two months after rejecting the groups' attempt to ban it in hunting ammunition.

    The EPA said that the petition did not demonstrate that a ban on lead in fishing tackle was necessary to protect against unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, as required by the Toxic Substances Control Act.

    In a letter to the American Bird Conservancy, one of the groups that filed the petition, EPA Assistant Administrator Stephen A. Owens said that a number of steps are being taken to address the concerns of lead in fishing tackle. Among them: limitations of lead in fishing gear on some federal lands; bans or restrictions on the state level; and federal and state outreach and education efforts.

    "The emergence of these programs and activities over the past decade calls into question whether the broad rulemaking requested in your petition would be the least burdensome, adequately protective approach," Owens wrote to the conservancy's director of conservation advocacy, Michael Fry.

    In their petition, the groups had argued that lead from spent hunting ammunition and lost lead fishing gear causes the deaths of 10 million to 20 million birds and other animals a year by lead poisoning.

    Fry assailed the EPA's decision. "The EPA has apparently completely abdicated its responsibility for regulating toxic lead in circumstances where wildlife are being poisoned," he said.

    Fry suggested the reason for the decision was politics: "The political appointees have acted in this administration not like heads of agencies, but like they're running for office."

    In a statement, the EPA said: "This decision is based solely on an analysis of the facts and the law. EPA conducted a careful review of this petition and made a determination that the petitioners did not make the case that is required under (the law) to undertake a national ban on lead in fishing gear."

    The petition, filed three months ago, stoked alarm among outdoorsmen, and members of the House and Senate introduced legislation aimed at preventing the EPA from regulating ammunition or fishing tackle.

    The American Sportfishing Association praised the EPA announcement.

    "It represents a solid review of the biological facts, as well as the economic and social impacts that would have resulted from such a sweeping federal action," said group vice president Gordon Robertson. "It is a commonsense decision." He argued that a lead ban would increase costs and price out many anglers, which in turn would decrease tax and license revenue for fisheries conservation.

    In 1994, under President Bill Clinton and EPA administrator Carol Browner, now White House energy adviser, the EPA actually proposed banning lead and zinc in certain smaller-size fishing sinkers. The agency said in a statement at the time: "The ingestion of even one small fishing sinker containing lead or zinc can result in the death of a water bird."

    The proposal sparked a backlash in Congress. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, introduced the "Common Sense in Fishing Regulations Act" in 1995 that would have blocked the EPA from implementing it. The agency eventually abandoned the proposal.

    The American Bird Conservancy filed the petition in August along with the Center for Biological Diversity, the Association of Avian Veterinarians, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a hunters group called Project Gutpile, seeking a ban on lead in both hunting ammunition and fishing tackle.

    The petition cited nearly 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles that the groups said document the toxic effects of lead on wildlife. These studies "conclude that the lead components of bullets, shotgun pellets, fishing weights and lures pose an unreasonable risk of injury to human and wildlife health and the environment," the Aug. 3 petition argued.

    The EPA earlier rejected the ammunition part of the petition, saying it didn't have authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act, but that it would make a decision on the part pertaining to fishing tackle. In September, 60 groups wrote to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson asking her to grant the petition for both ammunition and tackle.

    Last troll this year - Onekama

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

    Posted

    Got out one last time on Saturday on my friends boat in Onekama. Fishing was great. We hit 16 fish and boat 12. We didn't fish long, left the dock at 7:00 and were back at 10:00. It was slow for the first hour and then it lit up with doubles and triples. Wind started blowing hard when we left. Got some nice steelies, one mature coho and some 2 and 3 yr old kings.

    We fished straight out in 90-100 ft of water. Riggers down 40 to 70 feet. low mag divers out 130, highs out 170. 1/2 core with a super slim fireball, 9 color with mag DW leapord frog and a 200 ft copper with a regular leopard frog. A stinger NBK was good on the 70 ft rigger. A DW double orange crush and a stinger steelie stomper were good as free sliders on the corner riggers down 60 and 70 ft. A dancing anchovy moonshine was good on a low diver and streak metalic yellow tail was good on a high diver. My Ludington neighbors really whacked them down there too. Once boat fished the bank in the same water depth and got 15 and another went south in the 38's and out and got 23. Fishing is red hot up there now, good luck!

    Wild Fish ?

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

    Posted

    Yeah, they were wild by us too. We had kings jumping like steelies. Most of the kings hit down deep and rocketed to the top.

    They do that in the spring when the water is cold but the water was very warm from 90 ft up where we were. Maybe has to do with immature fish vs spawners???

    Ludington Charter Fishing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Keith Kloat on Lie A Lot is my neighbor and I'll 2nd him as a good charter but he is taking off antelope hunting till month end. He had a real nice box last weekend.

    Dave Ellis on Salmon Slayer is another good captain, he's still running trips and you'll have a great time with him too.

    Grant recommended some good captains too.

    Here's a link to reach all of them, definately use someone in the LACA vs. a fly by night boat:

    http://www.ludingtoncharterboats.org/captains.shtml

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