BenLubbs

Got out for a couple hours after work Friday night. Started out in 15 - 20fow ended up in 15 to 9 fow. Fished from Holland down to Lake Town Park. South seemed to be better. All of our fish came on the shore side boards. Black and Silver J9 Rapala on a flat line, Pink and Silver Husky Jerk flat line, and UV mixed veggie spoon on a 1 color. Ended up 4 for 5 with three browns and 1 nice 15lb king.

Saturday we fished the WMFL. Started fishing right out of the piers again but working shallower water. Stayed inside 12ft most of the morning and got as shallow as 5ft. Action was steady all the way from Holland almost to Saugy. We did slide out to 20-25fow after getting our 9 browns to see if we could find a big king to use as an upgrade, but no such luck. Ended up pulling lines around 10:00 and going out for breakfast while we waited for other boats to get in for the weigh in.

Spoons took most of our fish today. Mini SS Moldy Muffin on a 2 color, Regular SS Confusion on a diver 15ft back, Mini SS Pink Panties on the rigger 5 ft down, A Mini Orange/green/copper spoon that I don't know the name of on the diver 15ft back, and Stinger UV Mixed veggies on a 1 one color accounted for all but two of our fish. The others came on the black and silver J9 practically in the surf on the beach.

Ended up 13-16 throwing back an undersized king, laker, and brown. Kept 9 browns and 1 king. Two of the browns were decent (I think our biggest was ~6lbs) and the rest were pretty average. However, we were able to sneak in a 2nd place finish even with a lot of nice boxes being weighed.

Congrats to JDH for taking first and weighing a dandy 12lb brown to pull ahead of the pack. Also, a big thanks to Bloodrun Tackle for sponsoring the event.

Good work.

Nice work Kevin!

Not sure why that's the wrong species. Big lakers are awesome.

Bob, I don't think Jon is running it this year but if you pm me your email address I can forward you the information with who to contact about fishing, dates, etc.

Well still can't get it to work so hopefully I can get someone to take a look at it at some point and see what I'm doing wrong. Not too worried about it since I don't plan on using the autopilot for tracking, just keeping the boat on a heading.

So I powered up the unit for the first time last night and didn't get any communication between the two. Tonight I swapped the TX and RX wires around and it didn't change. Are there some settings or something I am missing?

Count Bendin' Rods in.

Thanks for all the feedback, I ended up just wiring in the NEMA 0183 wires. Another question has come up however. In the Installation manual for the autopilot, that the computer does NOT supply power to the SeaTalkNG network. In the installation manual for the P70r control head it says that power IS supplied to the SeaTalkNG network by the computer. Does anyone know which is really true?

if I have a full boat and the fridge is going to be running for the guest, I will switch it to dual mode.

Sounds like you have a certain guest in mind Jon

Wondering what others have done for this. I am already using the NEMA0183 connection on the HDS to communicate with my VHF radio. From what I understand, you can only have one device connected via the 0183 port. I have nothing connected to the NEMA 2000 port on the HDS. Is there one cable I can get to connect the NEMA 2000 port on the HDS to the Seatalk NG network for the SPX autopilot?

Thanks in advance for any help.

You follow me and scare all my fish away!

That is one disgusting slob, I like it

The biggest thing I considered when looking at boats was the layout for fishing. My boat is a 100% dedicated fishing rig so I wanted it to be able to be setup as a fishing machine.

Bendin Rods would be in.

Well decided to break out the river gear for the first time in years and hit up the dam in Hamilton tonight. Nothing going for anyone. Might have seen a few fish porpoise down river but might have just been stuff falling in the water too. Lost 3 flies to the bottom and that was it, hopefully the fish show up by this weekend.

I'll put it bluntly, if you are thinking about fishing out of Holland, you might want to wait a little bit till the weather has stabilized somewhat. Ended up 2 for 3 with a 1lb king and and a sub legal laker. Our other fish was decent but never saw it, somehow broke off when it go into our fullcore. Fished 50 to 95 fow and the channel. The only place we marked fish was 70 FOW which is where all 3 fish came. 250 copper with mother of pearl Ace Hi got stollen, Mag Blue Dolphin 35 down on the rigger took the laker, and the king came on the wire 70 back with a Mag Moldy Muffin. Motion Show had one fish they got in 165 FOW and there were some walley fisherman that had a nasty looking king they caught in the channel. Radio was dead for the most part.

The weather doesn't look great right now but in any case what time are we starting this one. I know last year the last tourny started at 7

Ben'din Rods is in.

Using 20# Gamma for a while and like it but had a meat rig break of a couple weeks ago and so have since switched everything to 25# Ande. I have used 30# Blood Run on some rigs and like that as well.

This is the picture I received on my phone. I heard it was caught in Muskegon channel.

Nice boat Jason!!

I was going to say the same thing as Tung. Riding with people to learn and network is a great opportunity. I'm always suprized that I can post up a "looking for riders" thread and get no responses because that is the best way I learned.

Plan is next week Saturday. Probably with drive up after work Friday and stay most of the day Saturday drive back down Saturday evening because I have a wedding to attend Sunday..

So my uncle invited me to come up to Ludville with the boat and take some buddies out fishing. I have no idea where to start, if there are any launches other than the one by the pier, or any other information there is to know about fishing out of Ludington. Anyone have any tips for me before I head up?