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Nice job Matt. I saw you Grandpa's 37 pounder, that was a hog.

I did not the know the words or the story behind Taps. Thanks for sharing.

See you up there Matt, I'll be up Friday night too.

We never clear lines. I'll move rigger rods to diver holders on the side to open a bigger hole in the back to net them. If a fish is hot and wants to run out to the sides where the divers are, we'll speed the boat up and put more drag on him to pull him to middle of the back of the boat.

I love mine. I rigged up a clincher release this year and stripped off more coating that I should have. I was losing signal at about 100 ft. I re-did it and only stripped off a 1/4 inch to attach to the bolt and it fixed the problem. I had problems a couple years ago when the coating on the cable was wore off in a few places. Once I replaced that, it worked great. Kell Labs have great service. I broke mine twice from abuse. Both times the unit got bashed when in my cabin on the road. Once the LCD screen cracked and once the power cord opening got smashed. Both times, I shipped it back to Kell on a Monday and had it back by late the same week. You don't need to change batterys very often either. I don't change mine until it doesn't work, seem to get about 12-18 trips on them depending on long we are out each time.

http://www.ludingtondailynews.com/news.php?story_id=45494 Kevin Braciszeski Daily News Staff Writer Thursday, August 13, 2009 Three men went from boating on Lake Michigan to the hospital after the 17-foot boat they were on crashed into Ludington’s south breakwater Wednesday night. The accident occurred shortly after 10 p.m. and injured the boat’s owner, Christopher Foster, 48, of Custer, and passengers Russell Valentine, 52, of Pinckney, and Randy Culver, 51 of Hamburg. Foster and Culver were treated at Memorial Medical Center and released, but Valentine was treated and then transferred to Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon. He was listed in fair condition this morning. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office reported Foster told police he did not see the pierhead until it was too late. Police also said there was alcohol on the 17-foot Skillcraft, but said alcohol was not a factor in the accident. Dustin McClelland, boatswain’s mate second class at the U.S. Coast Guard station in Ludington, said the accident occurred about 10:10 p.m. — just after the Coast Guard towed another boat in to the Loomis Street boat launch. “We were already in Loomis Street when we got the call,†McClelland said. “They were trying to come in under their own power. We put them in a side tow and brought them in and noticed they needed medical attention,†he said, adding that the boat hit the pier “pretty hard†and the windshield was knocked off and the steering wheel was bent. The sheriff’s office reported the accident is under investigation. Assisting the sheriff’s office and Coast Guard Wednesday were the Ludington Police Department and Life EMS. Wednesday was the second time a boat hit a Ludington breakwater this summer. The first occurred July 24 when a 17-and-a-half-foot Tracker Targa rammed the north breakwater and became stuck on the rocks. [email protected] 843-1122 x346

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!