jimcr

welcome , another from wisconsin

12 lb cannon ball with 25 feet of cable, 3 flasher fly setups, 200 copper, 3 deeper divers. Most of that in one day!

Make sure your driver knows what to stay away from!. Hung most of the above on a ship wreck.

New steering cable.

I sure hope they don't plan to change the deeper divers. Except for the cracking on the clear divers. Most fishermen I know won't touch a dipsy ,there are cheep junk.

Ok we all have the go to lures , and I am sure each one of us has different one we go to. How did you come to have the specific lures as go to lures. Did someone clue you in on a secrete ? did your buddy tell you to. Did you just like the lure? Did it just look like it would catch fish.

Tell us what that lure is and why.

Mine was a big lake lure this year, Double orange crush. Only one trip this year did it not catch me a fish.

Why I wanted to try UV lures this year , and it worked out that it was the first one I tried this spring.

Nice Mark , hate those last trips. Maybe one more?

I think its a money thing seeing the size of this boat, and he doesn't care! Has to be one of the biggest boats in the area. Not the first time I have had to ride his wake. Next time I'm posting pictures!

There still are fish around even though they are harder to entice to the hook. Marked plenty of fish saturday morning north of the towers just not too many takers. Had 4 flasher and flies down and 2 spoons , flashers went untouched . Changed over to all spoons . Went 4 for 5 having one net malfunction , Must be Nicks new glasses because I still cant' figure out how the fish got out of the net. The lake was flat most of the morning. 80 to 110 feet of water and 85-95 seemed to hold the most fish. Had the same yacht come through at break net speed sending up a giant wake! Some one should show this guy how to properly trim his boat . All this and the 250 copper fires and I am thinking your kidding , yep fish at the SIDE of the boat and 6 foot rollers left from this guy. Did get the fish a four year old , though we were racing this fish as we bobbed from the wake. Just an awesome day to be on the water.

2 Kings

1 Rainbow

1 Coho

1 Net malfunction

Jim

hands down , the biggest and best way to put more fish in the boat. other than dynamite.

awesome video !

Sorry to hear about the GLA Gig . Hope you find what you want to do.

We run spoons and plugs anywhere from ten to fifteen feet behind the ball. I say ball but we actually have weights that are shaped like giant lead fish. Sometimes I wonder if that might intimidate fish that come into check out the bait. Any thoughts what about our length, are we okay there?

You may be too close to your balls , I run min of 2 riggers and I run my baits 35 and 45 feet back . If I am running a third it will be 50-60 feet back.

Morning bite I am lucky if I can get more than 3 rods in , most of the time the riggers are firing before I can get the divers in the water.

Sounds like a primadonna who had no biz being in a fish cleaning station. I actually have clothes that are dedicated to fishing, cuz I know they're going to take a beating, get hooks, blood and whatever else all over them. LOL.....

Yeah ruined too many shirts this year cleaning fish , for less than 10.00 bucks get a water proof apron. Plus your dry when you are done!

We got a cigarette boat problem. I guess if you own a cigarette boat it requires you to idle your engines for 6 hrs at the launch. I've gone out & came back on a few trips & saw the same guy in the same spot at the launch. I have dreams of walking up untieing their boat & giving em a nice shove.

Been there , came back to the Launch after a morning of fishing and this guy has his cigarette boat on the launch and wiping it down, he's there for what seems like an hour. We cleaned our fish and put away and secured our boat. he pulls in front of the entrance to the parking lot and continues to tie down and finish securing his motors . we watched disbelieving that this person that has so much could be such an a(*)(*986. This boat had to be 40ft plus his truck. Do you really think all that money should allow you to be a real knob. There is a sign at the guard shack that says rig you boat before launching. I am sure its not his first time to the marina. Some people don't think about others , I have seen many idiots at the launch or on it. Some more visible than others , like the guy that posts all kinds of videos yet thinks its ok to park at the stop sign and rig his boat forcing everybody else to drive around him.You can tell the guys that have the respect of others , they pull, into the lot rig there boats then take all of 2 minutes to launch .

I am with Jim on this , I have been on both sides of the fence. More so on the lighter side than limiting out though.

It can be a lot of serching for the correct lures to use with your boat , colors , plugs , FF . When to run spoons or J plugs.

This has been my best year yet , no skunk this year! but there have been days that came close. I have found that my boat fishes best with 2 riggers , 2 dipsys and 2 high boards. the riggers and dipsys run Flashers and flies. 29" lead to the fly. the high lines run spoons or plugs . Sometimes those high lines are 300 coppers , and after the morning bite the riggers go quite and the long lines get action. You mentioned that your speed was 3.0 SOG. you need to know what your lures are doing . the current can really screw things up. Last week Sunday heading north all you had to due was have your kicker in gear. But heading south you really had to lay into it just to get the baits going, and the riggers and dipsys looked like you were going 30mph just to hit 1.9 on my Depth raider. there are ways to run without a probe also.

hope this helped.

Dave here on the Wisconsin side we have a group GLSF and we have 4 fish ins each summer. And we have a on going contest through out the fishing year.

Check out our website. http://www.glsfclub.com

Jim I am sure there are many charter boats that continue to fish in later October. We fish up here in Milwaukee and keep the boat ready until some time in November. Weather can be a big factor in the later part of October , It can get stormy and it can get down right nice. On the 9th of October last year we were out in shorts and t-shirts fishing in 120 feet of water. I can also remember seeing snow so it can go both ways.

As far as is it the wrong time of year? something is always biting , you just have to find them.

welcome Dave!

Blue Diamon Wire Line Trolling Rods are only available in 8'6" and 10' .

I have a 150, 185, 250 2-300 and a 400 on a high speed reel, the high speed reel brings in the 400 faster than a full core / 300. only had to use it once this year and it took a fish. runs 80 - 90 feet down.

thank you i recently moved from grand rapids michigan to davenport iowa and am trying to find a place less thn 5 hours to go to to catch salmon in the river

If your fly fishing I would try down in Racine on the Root river, the DNR collects eggs from Coho down there , some Kings run up that river too. Thats the only place I know of to shore fish. I have on my you tube page some video from the root river . http://www.youtube.com/user/Woofnfish?feature=mhee

Ok So I Put on an I pilot on my trolling motor , it makes a great autopilot / cruise control. Set the kicker just a tad low and turn on the I pilot just enough to bring up the last .1 mph. I can get 4-5 hours out of the battery (12 volt system) and my thought is to put another battery in parallel to boost the trolling time and power. I can not change it to 24 volts.

Is it going to help or will I not notice any improvement?

That depends on the year, last year they were early. I hope some are early this year too because it looks like its going to be rough this weekend. I have seen as early as August and as late as the end of october. Last year we took three dark ones the 4th of September.

My first season out on the big pond , my son and I had to fish in the harbor because it was too rough . We started setting lines at the south gap heading north , let out 75 ft of line with a spoon, before I can grab the line to put in the release a 12 lb Brown grabs the spoon and takes off. My son looks at me and as if to say What the Heck? Fish On!!! Its a lot of fun when the fish grab a long line on the way out .

While fishing Sunday I had a guy wonder towards me , on my port side . so I figure I would speed things up a bit and cross behind him. I saw him rush to pull in his long lines, but now he is on my Starboard side and still continues to come towards me just on the other side.

It seems some people use others as there compass or route.

It has become very apparent since I put autopilot on my boat.

I keep an eye out for all the different idiots, especially the ones that are by them self's and fighting a fish and going in circles. My long lines are expensive and replacing coppers is not one of my favorite things to do.

Thank you.

My interpretation is that the percentage cuts are reductions from the individual State's Chinook plant allotment, with the resulting total lake plant reductions summed to yield the lakewide 50% reduction value. The 2006 plant reductions were enacted in similar fashion, with a lakewide reduction value of twenty-five percent, while Michigan's Chinook plant reduction value was thirty percent.

So, essentially, while Michigan streams would see near seventy percent reductions in planted Chinook, there still would be ample smolt "release" rates into the open lake waters in spring, since the yearling Chinook stock has been pegged to consist of 54% wild origin fish, most of them originating from Michigan streams. The unquantified component is how that value increases to nearly 70% for 3+ year old fish in Lake Michigan. The hypotheses being advanced are: 1)Survival of hatchery origin Chinook in a forage depleted environment is lower over time that wild origin stock survivorship. 2.) Emmigration of Chinook from Lake Huron waters contributes to the expansion in wild origin fish in the Lake Michigan Chinook stock.

I just stared fishing out on Lake Michigan in 2010, now in my 3rd season

I would hate to see what happened in Lake Huron happen here but also I hope that these guys are not just hoping they will get it right. I asked them at one of the meetings at WI Sea grant , what they are doing to address the real problem , and the fisheries DNR rep laughed . Said there is not anything they could do about the invasive species problem. (muscles) Its kind of like whats happening with the Asian carp, nothing right now, but if they get in they will find all kinds of money to through at the problem.

I love fishing the big pond , and hope they dont' get it wrong because if they do our boats and gear won't be good for any but door stops.