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Team Bending Limits had the opportunity to hop aboard the "Chum Bucket" with Steve and his daughter Ayvery out of the port of Rockport which is located just north of Alpena on Lake Huron. Fishing started off slow, but quickly picked up around 930am. We were lucky enough to boat 9 fish by noon. 2 steelhead, 5 Lake trout, a Pink salmon, and this beautiful king! Fishing seemed to be best just north of the Nordmeer wreck in 60-70 feet of water. 300ft of Blood Run copper and a Silver Streak Metallic blue Froggie took several fish as did a Blood Run wire diver with an Orange Piranha. What a great day of fishing on Lake Huron!

good looking ride TJ

Sorry I never returned your phone call. By the time I got the message figured it was too late for immediate help. If you have any questions at all fee free to give me a ring!

Thanks a ton Josh.

Actually, still haven't figured out that dam hatch yet. That's all I've got left to fix.

It's been a dream of mine to own a Tiara for a VERY long time now. After nearly 3 full years of shopping, the stress, the time, and the effort to find "The perfect boat" for me has finally paid off.

She is a 1997 Tiara 2900 Open. Powered by twin 454 fuel injected Crusaders. I brought her all the way up from Vero Beach, Fl. I was lucky enough to find a boat that has been very well cared for, and treated the way a Tiara should be.

I do have some minor electrical work to be done, which of course is expected when dealing with a saltwater boat.

She may not be ready to fish this year, but by Spring of 2014 she will be fully rigged and ready to go!

Thanks to so many of you around Holland that have given me a hand with everything so far.

Hey Mike,

I'm not sure which port you fish out of, but down here an 8" pro troll is absolutely deadly on 300 coppers during mid summer months. Grab a white one or two for the 300.

Spoons on the 300 is also a go to during the summer months. Baits like the silverstreak Metallic Blue Frog is a great choice right now!

UV paddles have also been stellar all year on deep water presentations(fishing 100+down). The Oceana is a great fly for those UV/UV paddles.

Great post Mark!

Toss some 50# braid on that buzz lightyear rod, and 5ft of fluro leader! We have a 3ft Cars rod that lights up when you reel that we stick on an outdown every so often! It's a blast!!!

Nice job Frank! We were in the black Lund that waved to you as you were going in and we were going out. The number of fish out there are astounding.

Fantastic job Jimmy! Good luck whacking a few gills in Ludington!

Nice job Jon!!

The whole point of fishing copper is not depth specific, but rather column specific. Ie: on an average summer morning your going to be running shorter coppers, targeting out of temperature kings actively feeding. As the day progresses your going to lengthen your copper set ups for those fish who are now beginning to bottom down, or those that are now neutral mood fish. Don't scrap what works for you! If you like the user friendly 32#, use that. If you prefer the 45# use that! What we've done tho, is cut out 45# at our 400cu and are now running 60# as our400- 500-600 coppers. Think deeeeeep!

Nice job Ken!

We did the same testing on 45# copper last year with a fishhawk tdr(out to 1000ft). The numbers are almost the exact same as the numbers Gregg has with the smarttroll probe. I completely agree with the numbers. We did our testing with Morgan's copper.

Current plays a HUGE roll in how copper travels through the water. For instance, while prefishing for the south haven tournament we got on to a good group of fish directly out in front of Saugatuk. While fishing 68-70 feet we were on a daily basis running a 400foot copper. Only once did it touch bottom, which was on an extremely hard turn to get back on fish.

Last year for instance we were fishing nearly the same spot in august. Much to our surprise in that same 68-70FoW we were pulling zebras off of a 250 copper over and over and over again.

I think what makes copper so effective if the fact it DOES move so much in the water column.

There is a simple way to get the numbers for your self. Grab a $130 Fish hawk TDR and drop it down the line. It is a much cheaper unit, and i believe it is just as accurate. It may not be accurate to the inch, but it gives you an idea of where it runs.

Lol! I'll post something soon. I need this course computer tho!!

Hmmmm, one would think you would only need that if you were I duuno piloting a new boat, maybe?

Shhhh... . See Facebook for pics. Lol

I'm looking for an Autohelm Type 100 Course computer for a ray marine autopilot.

These course computers are somewhat outdated, but i still need one!

Toss me a PM if you have one, or know someone who may!

Today we were lucky enough to participate in the Saugatuk Fishing in the Classroom outing. We had a couple of young gentlemen aboard who really enjoyed the outdoors.

Cabelas was a sponsor for the event and every kid got to take home a rod and reel!!!

Our kids got into 5 kings this morning. Fishing was definately not fast and furious as it was the night before, but i think they had a blast.

Fish were in the 100foot range. Out downs set around 40 with orange crush and green huckleberry silverstreaks took bites, as did Blood Run 225 and 250 coppers with pink panties and chartreuse nbk silverstreaks.

This is a great thing that they're doing in Saugatuk and we're proud to be apart of it. I'd like to send a thank you to the Saugatuk Charter boats, as well as Tower Marine, Cabelas, and Ducks Unlimited!

Nice job TJ...where are you keeping the boat this year?

I have a new boat coming in about a week ans a half. I'm pretty sure I'll slip it at yacht basin.

Thanks everyone.

Fishing right now is good. Fish are really on the move from day to day. There are two groups of fish. There is a group moving around from 80-105fow. These fish are following massive amounts of bait north every day and are very hard to follow. The second group of fish are being had in the 130-160fow range, which are following massive amounts of bait and moving water. Both groups have the potential to produce GIANT kings!!! Blood Run coppers are absolutely on fire in the 300, 350, 400 and 450 range. Silverstreak spoons are the ticket on coppers. Lemon Ice, Green Dolphin, and most importantly Blue frog! If your fishing in the deeper water make sure your divers have paddles back 200-230. Riggers down 80-130 with the Big Weenie Rubber Poofster Combo has been dynamite. If your fishing the group of fish closer to shore, try a Big Weenie Stinky Stinky Meat Rig! Average catch has been between 10-20, with a nasty 6 thrown in on Sunday. We'd like to thank the South Haven Steelheaders for putting on such a great tournament! We'll be back next year, and hope for a better finish than 9th in the Pro division.

Whoops! My mistake! Didn't correctly see the bottom spoon! Sorry!

Great job!

Nice job Terry!!

Kings are loving that new silver streak UV lemonberry!!

Nice job Jimmy!!!

mag streak not sure of the name

Hot lobster

Nice Don!!!

23,000 steelhead planted today in Alpena 7-10inches. 20,000 atlantics to go in tomorrow. Oscoda soon to follow.

Kenny at Canvas Innovations is the man!

You can give him a call at 616-393-4400 or go and see them at 11276 E. Lakewood Blvd.

Holland, Mi.

The green rv flounder was phenominal rigger bait as well as a 150 copper bait.

+1 on Don of Tangled Mess Charters. He's a great guy to fish with and has been doing it a long time!

Just like Mark said, everyone does things a little differently. The riding section is a great tool to meet new fishing buddies and learn a lot of new stuff on the water!