BenLubbs

Great Day Love the brown too.

Look at the spoon right below the eye and it looks like there are letters there. I think I see a DW for dream weaver but looked on their site and didn't see it (but they do have some spoons with no pictures). Those letters will tell you the manufacturer and then you can check out what the name of the spoon is

Nice fish!!

Something I forgot to mention, ran the probe down to the bottom. The thermocline was from 30-35 ft down where the temps when from 69 to 58 degrees. From 50 to the bottom the temp was a steady 43 degrees. All of my non-green came right at the thermocline.

Good idea. Especially with kids on board.

Lakers are defiantly something to target if you want to catch fish and arn't too much of a fish snob

The fishing yesterday was tough, from the people I've talked to nobody was doing much. We did manage 5 in the morning and 6 at night in 85 to 90 FOW. Make sure you are fishing stuff right above the thermocline and right below it because that's where all of my non-lakers came from last night. In Holland it was down 30-35ft. If you don't have probe just ask on the radio and I'm sure someone will tell you where it is. Good luck.

Great Job Josh! Out of curiosity, what leader length are you running your flies at? I haven't caught anything on a f/f setup in two weeks.

Quick one tonight. Didn't get out as early as I wanted to, we made it to the water by 6:45. Went out with my friends Jason and Javier. Set up in 80 FOW just south of the piers heading south south west. Made it out to 100 and then turned her back in. Started hitting fish in front of the sliders in 85 FOW. After that it was pretty consistent action till we pulled lines at 10:30.

Ended 6 for 7

Mtn. Dew Stinger Rig (Grease Trap) with fire tiger spin-n-glo on the rigger bouncing bottom - 6 lb laker release unharmed

White/fishscale tin can and fire tiger spin-n-glo on low diver on bottom - 6 lb laker kept

UV Mod Blue Veggie Big Lake Lure on 7 color - 9 lb steelie

Glow Bloody Nose DW on 5 color after dark - 10 lb king

SOG was 2.4-2.6 MPH

Hot Rod: DW Glow mini yellow fin free slider on rod with U of M Frog S.S. on the rigger 60 down. Slider took all hits. 10 and 2 lb kings and another hit. This was the hot setup last week for me too.

Nice job guys

42" behind an 8" paddle, Looks like i'm going to have to tie some new leaders.

i was hoping to never have to go down that street. Facebook and all the forums are enough for me!

Thats the truth.

Fishing at night always seems to produce the best for us. 1 am to 3 am in front of big harbors;)

Who goes fishing that early, I mean come on And like Dave said, the river fishing the past few years has been really tough is no strong run, but hopefully this year is different

Consider sticking with 2 riggers then add double dipsy holders each side & a set of tripple rod trees. Very versatile and the cash you would have spent on 2 riggers will buy the dipsy holders, trees, and a few rods.

That's not true

Kevin, if I was only going to run two rods on riggers, one would get a Mongolian beef moonshine in the morning/evening. Then then for the rest It's pretty much a crap shoot for me. I've caught some fish on a glowback blue dolphin, a yellowfin, and a few others. Also, be sure to run sliders. I've been catching fish on my free sliders but my fixed sliders have been dead.

Looks awesome!

Remembered that I never added pictures of the trip so here they are

Fighting the brown

Happy Captain reeling in a fish

Got a double

Nights Catch

Me with the Brown

Just remembered that I never added pictures to my posts

Josh fighting his fish

Josh and Sarah working on the double

The happy couple with their fish

I've seen a standard Walleye boards pull 350 coppers just fine. I only have walleye boards on my boat.

what fow and how far down.. And we have had alot of triples and doubles this year. The fish seem to be sitting in pockets.

You find one fish and you are sure to find more in that area Makes a GPS invaluable.

Thanks for the rides Dave. The weather alone made for an interesting weekend

Nice job on the fish, that first one and the one on the left in the second picture sure have some color too them already As far as the weather, this weekend was crazy. We were heading out saturday morning with storms off to the south and by the time we got on the water there were storms poping up right in front of us. Glad you made it back safe.

Nice job guys. What's the fish on the left, never seen one of those before:lol:

Sailboats under power are considered powerboats. Same rules, white light off stern 135 degree visibility. Anchored, all navigation lights off, white mast light on 2 mile visibility.

Well this guy defiantly was not under power and there was no light visible from the back side of the boat. He had a mast light but it was obscured by the mast past midships. He had no stern light. If I had been running in I don't know if I would have seen him in time.

It was a rough morning out there for sure. At least you didn't get skunked right?

I don't know when the change took place but the replacements are long lines (leadcore and copper). I catch a majority of my fish on my leadcore/copper setups and have days when the downriggers don't go at all. I've heard that a lot of it has to do with water clarity after the zebra mussles came.

Went out tonight with 5 friends on board, two of whom had never been big lake fishing before. Got lines set in 70 FOW in front of Tunnel Park by 6:15 trolling strait north. We were marking fish right away and I was hoping we'd get some hits right away. No such luck. trolled north almost to Portsheldon and then swung it around back South. Started heading it a bit with boats on our deep side pushing us a little. Got halfway back to Holland and got a hit on the 5 color with a miami dolphin on it. Handed the pole of to one of the newbies and a short time later it disappeared. Then the rigger (55 down) with a UofM Frog Silver Streak and Blue Chilly Willy free slider goes. That one comes unbuttoned shortly after handing the pole off too. Then the wire diver 110 out with Blue/Chrome SD and Yogurt Striper fly goes, followed by the same downrigger again. Both fish came unbuttoned after handing the poles of :mad: We stopped getting hits again after that so I started changing out to the glow spread. Pretty soon we got a fish on the 5 color with a Glow Bloody nose went. The newbies just wanted to see a fish so I ended up taking that one, a decent 6-8 lb Chromer. As we're unhooking that fish the rigger 40 down with a Sliver Streak Anaconda and mini glow yellow fin free slider goes. Fish runs across the back of the boat and then back toward the center. Somehow it ended up getting tangled in the line and the mainline spoon hooked it right in the belly. Well then it stopped fighting and we ended up slowing waaaay down to get it to the boat. Another Chromer. Soon after that the same downrigger went again but after two seconds of tension, came loose. After that we kept marking fish but couldn't get them to go. All the fish came in about 65 FOW directly in front of Holland. SOG was 2.7-3.1 MPH.

On a side note, Does anyone know the laws on boat visibility after dark. On our way in while pulling lines we came up on a sailboat anchored in 50 FOW strait out of Holland. I didn't see him till he was less than 100 yrds away:eek: Then he turned sideways and he had his nav lights on but did not respond to radio calls asking if he was under power. I got around him fine because I only had 4 lines in the water at that point but still a closer call than I would have wanted. I've noticed several times now that sailboats are almost invisible at night from behind. The have nave lights up front and then the only other light they have on is halfway up the mast and only visible from the front. Makes them virtually invisible at night. Also, when anchored aren't you supposed to have your nav lights off and only white lights visible from all directions?

I may be in, I know the family is going up north sometime in August which would leave me without a tow vehicle and a crew. I'll let you know for sure after I check the calendar.