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Welcome soko44mag. glad to have another Brew city guy here.
Tight Lines
Jim
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are you using Marine grade plywood or just the run of the mill plywood?
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Ok you are out fishing with your buddies and the line's are all set. Downrigger's rod's bent over, dipsie's ready to go, and your full core just ready to get the big rank. When a rod takes off, do you get off your butt and run right over there excited. Or do you just walk over there like its just a fish. I been fishing this way for 20 years now and I still run for the rod all excited and yelling FISH ON. But I have notice there is a few guys that just walk up to the rod when a rod takes off when fishing with me. But later on they end up running for them after I start yelling FISH ON for nothing...
I get very excited and usually get to the pole first unless I already have one in my hands. But if you are a guest you will have the rod handed to you for the first fish . Nothing finer that a head shaking king on the end of your line, except when the line starts to peel off at the same time.
My father said it best " Is the pole suppose to be standing up like that?" I replied yea, its the lead core, wrong ! NO!!!! it was the rigger rod ,FISH ON!!!
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Missed the weekend fishing due to my neck bothering me So I decided I wanted to go out after work on Monday, My son Nick was again reluctant to go out because he was tired , but again after a little prodding by myself and my wife he gave in and went. Turned out it was a very nice night to be out , lake went flat ______________ by 730 no wind , Left the launch by 6 headed out to 60 ft . set lines going east . Marked a few but nada. hit 75 feet and turned north northeast, held theat course till we hit 90 , 1 drive by in 1 hour. stay at 90 until we got to the towers along with about a dozen other boats. headed west to 65-70 ft and turned south , anther drive by , (kinda sucked up til then)few minutes later 5 color fires 4 lb king. 7 color fires twice , 1 drive by and 1 four lb king. rigger fires and its a bit better about 6lbs. Pulled 4 rods and tried out my flash on some spoon. Less then a minute later rigger fires again another 4lb king. Pulled in 5 color to change and charge a spoon up and before I get the board on 7 color fires and its using the board as a bobber. worked on this guy for 15 minutes and then it puts on an aerial show for me and continues to rip out line every time I get him close to the boat.My son finially net this guy and before we get it out of the net the 5 color fires and its ripping line ,puts on quite a battle for Nick and after bringing in 25 lbs of fish (last 2) decided to call it a night. Ended up 6 for 6 with 3 drive bys. what worked really well was glow spoons, Best one was the moonshine spoon . Dinner time started about 8pm called it by 850. Great night to be out, just love it when the lake goes flat. Nick was really glad he went again he had the longest fish but just missed on the weight by a tenth of a pound , and all I kept hearing was oh my arm. Check out the smile on his face.
Tight Lines
Jim
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About 2 weeks ago my son and I were out in front of the main gap , and just like you , out of nowhere the motor just quits, didn't want to start either, 4 lead core out 2 riggers . finally start the motor and 2 minutes later 2 of the lead cores are screaming cus they are stuck on the bottom on zebra muscles. tangle 3 rods 2 lead and a rigger . what a mess . I do believe we had a stinky black and white puttycat on the boat that day.
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Nice hall .
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Photos we need photos
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yea but can you slow it down enough to troll with , How many riggers will fit on that thing?
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Marcel, welcome I was in the same boat so to speak at the beginning of the season(Ice out) With a lot of questions and answers from the nice people here I have learned a tremendous amount. I love the peace that I get fishing out on the big pond. And the fishing is awesome. I am from the Milwaukee area but if your in the neighborhood let me know I 'll show you what I have learned. Would you be fishing out of Marinette? My father is not to far from there . If I'm giong up that way I 'll give you a shout.
Tight Lines
Jim
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Just love it when the lake goes flat.makes fighting the fish soo much easier.
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sweet when you get useable info. nice job Ken
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you have the exact boat that I am actually looking for .....I have 2 trackers now .....Super Guide V-16 and a Guide V Laker 14
I bought the Targa instead of the proguide 175 because the length was shorter on the trailer and longer overall , would have went to the 18 but it wouldn't fit in my garage. rigging with rod holders was an adventure because the rail is curved so I added a angle of aluminum and a support which is not in the picture. I have 4 riggers on it and 12 rod holders, added a Marine radio. I bought the boat at the winter boat show, got a pretty sweet deal. I know have almost 150 hours one it and really enjoy it. If you buy one get one with a Full windshield , I would never buy one with out again. The new models this year are 101" wide . I kind of kid around and say she has a fat ass. But the ride is great along with the room coming from a 16ft with a 68" beam.
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Hey Jim, if that unit cost about $100 I would save my money and wait till you can buy a speed and temp unit for you downrigger. I would give up my temp probe anyday before I would ever give up my speed at the ball. If you don't have a speed gauge with all the strong currents out there this year you are almost wasting your time. Last Sunday the current was out of the North and if you didn't troll directly into it you didn't get touched, but if you did it was nonstop fish. Didn't matter the depth or temp but you had to troll into the current. I know that starting out buying all this stuff is expensive, but I would wait till there is a good price on one.
Well I found a Depth Raider on ebay , The guy is from Burlington WI , the company is located near there. Its a refub unit , about 100.00 cheeper than a new one. cheapest I could find a new one was 434 plus tax . Now I have to say no to everything else this year.
Don't tell the wife shes going to kill me. ha
Tight lines
Jim
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Well went out in between MMSD dumping more the next day , made sure we fished away from the floating poop. Had the day off from work , had to go see new sawbones for my neck .
Left the launch about 130 after been rerouted all over the city due to a bike race downtown. trolled north for about an hour and nada, so I said to nick lets try the J plugs , haven't fished with them yet. Put out the first one and within 5 minutes 5 color starts screaming . 3 yr old king . put it back out change the 7 color to J plug and before I can get the 7 back in the water the 5 color goes off again, this was a real nice 4 yr old , but he decided to put on an arial show at the back of the boat , coming 5-6 ft out of the water, then spitting the plug back a me. Then I say to Nick I guess these things work!
Trolled way up past the filter to the towers and made a turn east , was real quite up till then. Just completed our turn and 5 color goes off on port. Less then 30 sec later 5 color goes off on starboard side. "DOUBLE". Nick come up with the big one on the double , mine was dinky? Just bigger then a shaker.
Continued out to 90ft and back riggers fire four times , 3 drive bys and one lost a ways from the boat. trolled all the way back in without even a wiff of a fish. finished the day 4 for 7 .
Tight Lines
Jim
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I just wounder if some other company bought them out and there not selling them anymore . so that we have to buy the expensive units 400.00-500.00 , not saying that I wouldn't buy a unit that has speed at ball but I don't' have an extra 500.00 gathering dust.
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I have two of them.
I'll start the bidding at one million dollars. Chris
kidding I hope
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I am looking for a product called the fish finder made by Koch Industries, its a device you put on your rigger ball , drop down and reel back up and it give you temps at 5 - 10 ft intervals . Did a search on the internet and came up with zilch, nada . any help guys?
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warm water isn't the word I'd use, Bath water is close to it, we were in Ludington last week and 10 feet down was 78* water, and swimming at the stick was like taking a bath in your clothes.... yeck.... thanks guys..
Yea I know where all the cold water is , its on this side of the pond, we need some east winds , the fish are scattered from 30 to 50 ft .
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I have seen in videos guys using a flash from a camera to charge there baits , I picked one up one ebay (brand new) for .99 plus shipping. Shipping was 5.25 I think. for less the 7.00 a new flash unit to charge my baits what a deal. Here is another one I found if anyone is interested.
Tight Lines
Jim
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I have a 115 2 stroke on my Tracker Targa V17 not as heavy motor as the 4 stroke little better on the hole shot. The Targa is not a light boat when fully loaded with gear and fishermen but does do 40 ,even with a full tank of fuel and 1 full live well. This is a deep boat and wide at 101" . I,m not sure how deep the starcraft is but you should be at least close to what the boat is rated for. Sounds to me like the boat is under powered if its rated for a 150.
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Today was the first day I fished with J plugs and we went 2 for 3 on the J plugs, Lost a 15-20lber at the boat ,put on a show in the air. . Do you normally fish a j plug behind a flasher or run it naked? I ran them naked but was wondering if I should run it behind a flasher such as a spin dr or a flasher? or should it run behind a dodger? and which is better.
Do you have your best luck on a rigger or lead core?
Jim
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First thanks for the opportunity to be a field tester on this product. The hooks are excellent and should hold up very well. As for the fly, top quality skirt held up very well even though no fish were caught, we did have one on but it was lost. The flies were put up to A tough test as the bite, just prier to receiving the flies move to a spoon bite. I would definitly use the 2 hook version . The only bad point was that the eyes did fall off the flies. I had found one on the floor of the boat while setting rods. We ran the flies for about 3 weeks three time a week . Worked great on dipseys down riggers or lead core. Wish that I could have run them earlier by 2 weeks before the bite switch to spoons. I am always running a mix in my spread and in the last 3 weeks only one fish has been taken on a fly, it just wasn't one of Mikes Eyeflies.
Tight Lines
Jim
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What kind of advantage do the big boards have over inline boards. Isn't there a lot of slack to take up when a fish hits? are a lot of fish missed taking up the slack? Does it matter how far from the boat this is run. How many lines can you run off the big board. Would you run a dipsey of the big board? I was thinking I could make my own.
Muskegon 7/29
in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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yea we have had a lot of those, fish must be tail slapping.