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Well Matt Welcome , I fish out of Milwaukee , My last couple trips have been skinny on fish , with the winds we have been having the fish close to shore are scattered . If you want consistent action you would have to go deep, 240-400 ft.Once the weather stabilizes the kings should be close to shore. The run should be starting soon. Find out where they stock the fish in your area , and that is where you will want to fish. Here in Milwaukee they will stage in about 40-50 ft before the run and during the run they will be in the harbor and up the river. I have a good recommendation for you , Pick up a book called Great lakes Salmon and trout fishing(The complete trollers guide.)written by Dan Keating and Chip Porter. It will help you quite a bit on locating and setting up you boat to fish. Look for local reports , talk to others that fish up in port. Most guys will give you a general idea where to look and fish. If your average trip is 5-7 kings your doing really well. around here the fishing has slowed a lot . it will pick up soon.
Tight Lines
Jim
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I run 4 riggers and if I'm running dipsys I will run them 2 feet in front of my side riggers, my dipsy rods are 10.6 and 8.6 . no really tight turns . my rear riggers go straight out the back on each corner. Side riggers are on a 48" boom. Like Kyle said only have a problem when there is a strong cross current.
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Welcome , are you fishing out of Milwaukee or another port. Enjoy you time here .ask lots of questions.
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at least you managed 3 nice fish, its a good thing when you can throw out that skunk. Its a cat no one likes.
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Jim
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2010 fish count
Kings 118
Coho 5
Lakers 8
Browns 2 woohoo! first browns this year!
Steelhead 7
trips 27
total fish count 144 woohoo!
1 sea Gull!!!!!
how did you catch the sea gull?
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yea have some orders to complete for our biz at home , always stuff to do.
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Just had a look at the forecast for this week, kind of sucks or blows depends how you look at it. hate to be on the east side .
...GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TUESDAY TO 3 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY...
A GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TUESDAY TO 3 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY.
* EXPECT SUSTAINED GALE FORCE WINDS OR FREQUENT GALE FORCE GUSTS
FROM 3 AM TUESDAY TO 3 AM CDT WEDNESDAY.
* DURING THE GALE WARNING...THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE UP TO 45
KT FROM THE WEST. THE HIGHEST SIGNIFICANT WAVES WILL BE UP TO
14 FT. THERE WILL BE OCCASIONAL WAVES UP TO 20 FT.
REFER TO THE LATEST MARINE FORECASTS FOR MORE DETAILED
INFORMATION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A GALE WARNING MEANS WINDS OF 34 TO 47 KNOTS ARE IMMINENT OR
OCCURRING. OPERATING A VESSEL IN GALE CONDITIONS REQUIRES
EXPERIENCE AND PROPERLY EQUIPPED VESSELS. IT IS HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED THAT MARINERS WITHOUT THE PROPER EXPERIENCE SEEK SAFE
HARBOR PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF GALE CONDITIONS.
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Here is a slide show of the pictures from 2010 fishing lake Michigan out of Milwaukee. My first year on the big lake.
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Jim
(Woof-N-Fish)
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"BTW.....We did not what a strong West wind on this side of the lake." I was speaking of this side mike(all over the local forums they all wanted west winds, now the water is too cold, ) be careful what you wish for you just might get it. Combat fishing is not my cup of tea, I would rather fish out away from the crowd and get 1 fish then to fish with a slew of boats get upset and raise my blood pressure.
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Do you do kid movies ? nice wild life you have there.
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We all wanted west winds and we got them , just a little too strong. Surface temps ran 49-53 and anywhere below 20 ft 42-46 very cold water. Do the fish go out deep in situations like this ? Scattered? right on the bottom? Out deep? I guess thats why they call it fishing.
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Rj I wish you luck , we were out for 6 hours for 1 fish, check the weather calling for 3ft waves . Let us know how you do.
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Did he lose something , why did he open up the stomach ? weighed with an empty stomach?
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Haven't been out for a while and it was nice to get back on the water. Left the dock at 7:15 on an north east troll nada , turned NW back into 60 ft ,while putting out different baits to wash 7 color goes off , 7lb king. changed all the baits as these were clean enough. Had a couple of drive buys on the lead cores. Downriggers were quite all day. Put 20 miles on , going deep to shallow. one fish in 6 hours . marked only a few fish. bait pods were almost non existent. no chop execpt in the harbor , plenty of rollers out on the
main lake , 2-5 ft. like our own roller coaster. wind changed and called it a day.
Ended 1 for 2 very poor fishing . Hope the weather stabilizes soon. Guess it could be worse I could be on the east side. Break out the surf boards the breakers are coming again.
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Jim
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I really feel for you guys the weather is not cooperating , looks like you might have one day thats fishable.
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its common curtisey to call whom ever and move to a different channel such as 22 , do your conversing there. as not to impede necessary broadcasts. 16 and 9 are emergency channels, can't tell you what each one is for, but most have a designation.
PAN PAN PAN = it's an URGENT distress call.. but not an EMERGENCY
PAN-PAN (pronounced PON-PON) URGENCY call on Channel 16.
Start the call by repeating PAN-PAN three times. Once you have made contact,
communicate your boat name, position (latitude and longitude, or distance from
known geographical point), and type of assistance required or problem. Identify a
listening frequency and monitor that channel. Cancel PAN-PAN when urgency has
been resolved.
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I have the depth Raider , wouldn't fish with out one again. Very stable on the speed, as soon as the probe hits the water it turns on, same in reverse. Only draw back is the size of the probe, good amount of blow back, compared to no probe at all. Bought Mine from Ebay , a factory referb, same warranty 120.00 cheaper.Looked like it never touched the water.
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good question hope you get you answer, I would like to know too
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Done worked fine
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no link please repost
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Just looked at the forecast , looks like we may try later today or tomorrow morning. Monday looks kinda iffy . Good luck
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Here is where I picked mine up at , very good prices . Plus I wanted a black antenna.
They shipped fast too.
http://www.northeastmarineelectronics.com/shakespeare5206-bl-c8vhfantblkchromeferrule6db.aspx
I did a lot of searching before buying , hope this saves you a little time.
I have had no problems and the range is very good. I routenly get south haven and I am on the west side of the lake.
Jim
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Im all over it thats the reason im going over also is to take a short vid of them comming over the lighthouse i think its gonna be sweet not for fishing tho
please post the video after you done.
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that was from noaa as well. it is the open water forecast, the near shore wasn't as bad.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/product.php?site=lot&product=glf&issuedby=lm
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/marine/
how are you accessing noaa? i also like comparing different forecasts. its amazing how different they can be sometimes.
Hey Josh try these links
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/greatlakes/?c=map&l=gl&p=a&m=wh
The second one has a map that you can click on where you will be and gives you the forecast for that area.
I have a few more but these seem to be about the best.
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Jim
Reel ??????
in Lake Michigan Discussion
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wire and braid, or you could just give them to me.