Twill23

The 11th annual Floodfest ice fishing tournament took place this Saturday on Fletcher's Floodwaters of Hillman. This year's turnout was slightly down because of the weather forecast, although over 1000 people showed up to fish!(Not all were officially entered in the tournament)

Numbers of fish were WAY down. Less than 25 pike were brought in.

Unfortunately fishing in general was extremely slow. This year we decided to change our target species(having finished in the top 10 in pike the last 5 years we had fished the tournament) to perch. We struggled most of the day, but did manage to pull a DANDY 13in out! We took first for the tournament by only 1/8in.

I am EXTREMELY unhappy with the recent rule changes in the tournament(i had not been in town to fish it since 09). Unfortunately i believe it is a dieing tournament and some major changes need to take place to turn this back into the fair, and fun 3000+ people tournament it used to be, as I will not be entering the tournament again.

Depending on which side of the state/which boat we'll be on:

East Side(Alpena Area) :

SilverStreak Screwballs(black or silver)

Kavorkian

Orange crush or double orange crush

Flutter spoons

Tin cans and spinners

West Side(Michigan City, Holland all the way north to Frankfort)

Any Flounder Pounder

Dolphins of any sort

Mongolian Beef

Green coyote/Green Spin DR- Green fly

These baits are an absolute must during the summer months for us.

These baits are go to baits, in any situation

I've got the new FishHawk x4 on one boat and a subtroll on the other.. Hands down i prefer the Fish Hawk over the Subtroll. It's just an overall nicer unit. It seems more trustworthy, as well as not having a coated cable.

Is there and off season for us rednecks on this side of the state?

Lol Frank,

Your right, and right now Pike fishing through the ice is absolutely phenomenal.

nice TJ! were was this at?

All of these are from areas around Alpena.

All are from this year!

Just a little taste of the good ole Northeast during the off season

Hey Guys,

I have several PM's waiting for me, and unfortunately i got sent out of state for a couple of weeks.

I will hopefully be back around the 1st of January and be able to send out the stuff people are interested in.

Sorry for the delay in contacting.

We're fishing in several places near Alpena

Will you split up the yellow birds? I seem to keep losing ones from the port side.....

How many are you looking for? I've got a bunch more yellow birds laying around that werent listed.

As well as the Shimano Charter Specials.

Did some cleaning out today, Here's what i have available.

All items are used unless otherwise state. Accepting paypal+shipping or cash pickups only. Send a PM if interested.

2 Okuma Classic CL300L Level Wind Reels -$10ea

1 Mitchel 602a(white reel in picture) -$30

2 Shimano Charter Special TR 2000 Lever Drag Reels-$40ea

1 Penn 209-$20

1 Diawa Sealine 47SH Super high speed Reel-$60

2-Shimano Tidewater TWMA30L-$50ea

2 Shimano TDR-70MHB 7' Medium Heavy-$20

2-Luhr Jensen Dipsy Diver Size 1 NEW -$10ea

8- Yellow Bird Side planers 4 per side. all for $50

Finally got to close the deal on the new ride!

She's a 30' Sea Ray weekend. You may recognize her from a post in the classifieds section

We had a chance to fish her a few days, and i couldn't be happier!

I am totally impressed with the amount of fishing room in the back. To be completely honest, the pictures are very deceiving!

TYPO: 10/21-10/23

Got to fish the new boat for a few days before it got put away.

Firstly like to thanks JimBobber, Tangled Mess, and DirtyDog for the help they provided!

Friday evening we went out and set up in 130FoW and trolled NW. We never turned around and ended up with a mixed bag. 2 beautiful 10lb kings. 2 decent steelies and a nice Lake trout. All on 2 and 5 color lead.

Saturday evening we went out and fished the edge of the dirty water. Lake Trout were absolutely STACKED. We took 12 in about 2 hours. All on silverstreak mini's. Depth didnt matter. We only kept 4 of the lake trout, and decided we had enough of that and headed out deeper. We ended up boating 5 more kings, and 2 steelhead. All very nice fish.

Sunday evening JimBobber joined us. I'm not sure what Jimmy had in his pocket... but the dinks sure did seem to like him! We boated over 20 fish that evening, but most all were dinks. Small coho and Kings. Ended up with a couple of nice lake trout, a decent king and a nice steelie. Lot's of action just not much size!!!

Looking for guided duck hunt anywhere in Michigan. Will also consider Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, or Pennsylvania. PM info or suggestions!

We used to do this about 14 or so years ago when i first started. We did this normally fishing anything below 100, before there were other, more productive ways to get baits down there.

Top line would always be about half the length back as the deep line.

It's something we really haven't done in the last 10 years or so, mostly because it just isnt as productive as runnin a pinned slider and a copper, or more divers. Stacking takes rods away from your limit and allows less baits in the water. I guess theoretically you could pin a slider to the top rod if it were long enough to get past the bow of your bottom rod, but your just hoping for troubles then

Another reason we went away from it is because of the way its gotta be done. Pulling the top rod every time the bottom one goes off, and when the rigger bite is on, we all know you gotta get it back down there! Although it is kind of fun to see both rigger rods start pounding at the same time!

It also makes it EXTREMELY challenging, if not impossible to run any type of rotator or paddle on a rigger.

I personally think its great for a smaller boat, or someone by themselves not interested in running anything long.

it says quad in title

Tomorrow is 10/9

Get out to where the water clarity breaks!

Hey its crooked! haha jk.

Looks good!

Id take several of them at that price! HOLY COW! lol

wow, i just did a google search. If they're the really nice vertical triples that is a CRAZYYYYYYYYYYY deal. Buy them and resell those suckers lol.

Buy em, buy em, buy em! lol

Great lookin new boat Jon!

Wire is by far much much more fun to fight a fish on! As far as hook up ratios, everyone has their own little saying. Personally i went to longer snubbers and longer leaders. Baby the fish on their first run, then once they turn crank em in and dont let em turn again. We run 4 wires at all times

As far as probes, we put a fishhawk x4 on this year. Absolutely love it. Although the screen is WAY too bright when its dark out, and has no contrast adjustment.

Here's a boat pullin truck at a great price!

Check it out!

To see pics and details click the link!

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=p&car_id=306966596&dealer_id=66644763&atc_id=AT-124bf044

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19575

There's one. And heck, no outboards to get in the way of netting fish

Yea. Unfortunately John is the same age as me, and the original buyer. We're all pretty good friends.. We were all kind of shocked that he would do that. But he's in it to make a buck i guess.

He is actually much happier he didnt end up buying the boat because of all the issues, it was a blessing in disguise for sure.