tltorrice

Thanks for the report.  Good job. 

Fished on April 2 from 9am to 1pm in the fog.  Marked a few fish south of the pier in 25 FOW.  Never had any hits.  With the fog I don't think the water warmed up.  Next time.

Thanks Ed, good report.

Happy Easter Frank.

Rick, I have been making a trip to Oak Orchard every year for the last 5 years from Michigan. We camp out at the Lake Shore State Park. We go the first week of August and have great luck off shore with limit catches most days. Last year our largest fish was 30#. This year 28#. Many fish over 20#. Lots of Steelhead and an occasional Brown.

We find this to be a very nice area to fish, and a very laid back community.

Hope to see you there.

TT

We have a habit of checking every hook before it goes into the water. Sharpen if necessary. Some hooks, Michigan Stinger in particular must be sharpened as soon as they come out of the package.

This practice has helped us a lot.

Nice Frank, WTG!!

That is how it is done!

Nice job Frank.

Nice report Captain Richard. That is not a bad problem to have. Buying a cooler.

Nice report Ken, great way to start out the season. I will be getting my boat out of storage this weekend. I know it is a little late!!

I fish both Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario. For the past 4 years I have spent the first week of August at Point Breeze, Oak Orchard. We found the same thing, no early morning bite or late evening. Last year we just accepted it. Slept in a little in the morning, hit the water after it was light out. We came in before dark. When the sun starts getting low in the sky the bite stops. It was actually a very restful vacation.

I will be there. There will be two of us.

Thanks

Thanks for posting this Ed. I had not seen this speech only heard the media (lies) version. The NRA has come up with a plan that is more than the president or any other of our elected leaders has done.

I am the NRA.

Dave, thanks for the update on the magazine. Who knows, maybe the new owners will take it to a whole new level. I am glad you are a contributer here.

Best regards

Tom Torrice

Have a great hunt Aaron. Soon it will be spring.

Nice work.

We finished out our 2012 Salmon season yesterday with 9 for 12. We launched at 05:00 am and headed out to 100 fow just north of the port. We ran our standard in the dark spread, 2 down-riggers and 2 dipsy divers. Glow meat rig, j-plug, and spoons. I don’t remember what all took fish but all rods did. We worked from 110 to 160 fow and boated 6 salmon all on the smaller side. Around 09:00 am we kept a NW troll and headed out to deep water. We dropped our divers out to 2 and 2 hundred feet the down-riggers were 80 and 115. We started harvesting some mature kings in the 19 & 20 lb range. We quit at 10:00am with a respectable box of salmon. The big fish came on the deep rigs.

Time for me to put the boat away, get out the bow. The seasons are changing.

Tight Lines

Tom Torrice

These are all good questions. I had some of the same questions when I started out. One thing that helped me and my crew was reading the book, Keeting on Kings. It will answer these questions and give you a good start to developing your own program.

Happy day. Congratulations!

I have been running john king meat rigs for 5 years and not had this problem. I run them on the riggers and dipsys.

I almost lost mine so I glued it on with gorilla glue. Same thing with the plastic rings around the Berts rod holders. Gorilla Glue.

Way to go Jason.

After recently coming back from a fishing trip to Lake Ontario I am concerned about Lake Michigan's Salmon population. What I saw in Lake Ontario was abundant bait fish. Salmon that were thick and chunky. Even the 2 and 3 year old fish were thick and heavy. When I come back to Lake Michigan (Manistee) I see skinny, small fish. In a recent trip we boated 20 Salmon in a weekend. Largest was 20#. None of the fish had anything in their stomachs. They were hungry. I don't usually mark much for bait fish. I think the DNR is on the right track for taking large amounts of salmon out of the lake and reducing stocking. Since natural reproduction is so good I don't know if it is enough. These are just my thoughts.

Tight Lines

Thanks for the fish porn!