EdB

Don't be afraid to stretch the leaders to 36 to 40 inches on the big flashers. They work great with a long 3 fly teaser too in front of a fly or meat head.

Anyone running the new UV spoons and flashers? Picked up some UV mag streaks at the end of last weekend. I'm getting some DW paddles this weekend and know they are hitting a few fish but I haven't run any yet.

I have been very unhappy with the one I had for a wire diver. Worked good at first but crapped out after a few years of heavy use. Drags are junk, the line counter reset button broke. I'll never a buy another.

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Nice catch, at least the breakdown was close to the launch and fixable. You're really smacking the walleyes this year!

Had a great trip yesterday with my daughter. We got 10 walleyes and she got the biggest one of the season. We fished 16-18 ft of water south of Bolles Harbor in MI waters. We were pulling blue chrome, blk chrome, crab chrome, green and chrome hot'n'tots and wiggle warts. The big fish came on a black and chrome tot back 100 ft. This is the last trip to Erie for me this year. I'm turning the boat over for salmon and it's off to Ludington for the rest of the season. Looks like there is good fishing still to be had at Erie, good luck!

Looks like a nice box to me, good job!

Here a link for more information on tagged fish, another link for the tag recovery form and another for drop off locations. I keep the forms in my cleaning bucket with a tape measure and scale and some small zip locks. Fill out the form, put it in a small ziplock and then put it and the head in a bigger ziplock and freeze it till you can drop it off. The small zip lock keeps the form from getting bloody. Those with adipose clips are the ones with micro tags in their snout. We usually get 10-15 a season. Back when they tagged the steelies on the St Joe river, we would rack up 20+ a year. The DNR sends a letter with a free lure for the salmon and steelies that are tagged. Maybe browns too but I've never caught a tagged brown trout. We have got fish off St Joe that were planted at Oscoda. It's interested to learn where the ones we catch came from.

More info:

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_52259_48361-180626--,00.html

Tag Recovery Form:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/coded_wire_tag_form-PR8550_35853_7.pdf

Drop off locations:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/coded-wire-tag-drop-sites-July-2006_165267_7.pdf

Dave, I hauled the trailer up in May, it's in the same place at Cartier. We have always brought the boat up for the 4th but are thinking of holding off till the 10th this year. It's every weekend and 3 weeks of vacation after that. Lake Erie is still hot and Milt was going to come over one more time to fish there with me. I have to confirm with him tonight. If he want's to fish Erie, I'll hang out here one more weekend but I'm really itching to catch some fish that pull back. I'll give you a shout when we get up.

Nice catch Dave, too bad you didn't have some fair seas to work em over some more.

The action has picked up in Mi waters. We went out yesterday afternoon and set lines in 19 ft of water in front of Sterling State Park. We fished out to 22 ft of water. We pulled a 3 man limit and were done at 7:00PM. The fish really turned on about 6 PM, we got 9 keepers in the last hour. We also caught and released about a dozen undersize walleyes, a good sign for next year. All ours came on spoons, behind diver discs out 50 to 60 ft, off riggers just off the botton and on a half core. Best spoons were scorpion watermelon, monkeyshine, scarlet fever and confusion.

I've got a depth raider too. If your coating is rubbed off the cable, it will affect it's performance. I don't know if you can get some kind of rubber dip like they use on down rigger balls to save it. Otherwise, you need to cut off the bad part of the cable. You might want to check your rigger pulleys and guides to fix where ever the abrasion is coming from. I bet you have some rough or sharp spot rubbing on the cable. I don't have issues with the cable coating coming off on mine.

Nice catch guys!

I use the the regular klinchers, just wondered if you could buy them like that for a probe or have to modify one. Thanks for the info on how to modify it. I'll get my hacksaw out and go to work.

Is the pic the Klincher mentioned? Where can you buy them or did you rig that yourself?

Nice catch! Good luck on the repairs.

We fished back by the Sister Islands yesterday and had a slow pick. Three of us got 10 walleye. Most came on spoons, a chrome watermelon scorpion was the best. We also took a some on blue and chrome and perch hot 'n' tots run off a half core and off riggers 20 ft down. We fished in 31 feet of water between the sputnick and middle sister island. I was hoping the fish would come back in to Mi waters with the marfly hatch but there wasn't much activity inside by other boats. The graph never looked good to me in a few places we stopped on the way out. I know I'm looking forward to blue water on the west side of the state in a couple weeks. Good luck!

Sounds like a great trip, nice pics too!

We run stinger scorpions, mini streaks and mini yeks and moonshine also makes a small walleye spoon. 2mph hr or a bit slower when the water is cool and 2.5mph when it starts to warm up. I don't think they have good action at crawler harness speeds. We also will hit a fish now and then on regular size stingers and DW SS spoons. Those bigger spoons will work good off divers and riggers.

Nice catch!

No issues here.

Had a nice long weekend on Lk. Erie. The Detroit Beach Boat club were great hosts, that is one nice facility and marina. Fishing was great, we pulled 3 man Ohio limits on Friday and Saturday and two of us pulled 10 on short trip Sunday. The best fishing is in Ohio waters right now and we fished from the Sputnik out to W Sister Island. It is a tough bite in Michigan waters from the boats we spoke with. We fished stinger scorpion, mini streaks and moonshine spoons behind diver disks and off the down riggers. We ran leads from 90 to 110 feet off the boards with riggers on the bottom. The best spoon of the weekend was a streak scarlet fever with a chartruse backed blueberry muffin a close 2nd. There were more fish closer to the island than to the sputnik.

Here's a full box from Friday:

There is a nice sized year class we are fishing and there are lots of 14-1/2 inch throw backs for next year. We fished a steelheaders tourney Saturday. Many brought in limits. We finished 5th about 2 pounds out of first. Here are the top 10 from our box we weighed for that.

My buddy Milt has been one of my fishing mentors going back a lot of years. It was nice to have him on board. He does a great job zippering walleye fillets to remove the pin bones. I cut em and he zips them to make short work of our catch.

Steve caught a small muskie too that we released. We also hit and lost a steelie.

It was a great weekend, the frying pan was sizzling tonight. Good luck!

Tom, I probably won't be on the water in the afternoon but call my cell and I'll let you know what happened and where from the morning.

I'll have my boat there from Thursday to Sunday this weekend fishing Erie. DBBC is on the Sterling channel. If anyone is fishing this weekend and wants to work together to round them up, let me know. I'm starting Thursday AM.

No pics Mike, there is a cleaning station at the marina and I forgot my camera and cut them up there. The size was better than Saturday, nothing under 17 inches up to 23 inches.