JWheeler

So far NorthPort Nailer Seems to be the best spoon for myself in Lake Huron. Truthfully northport has caught a majority of the 27 fish boated so far this year. The hottest spoon I have used is Belding Bait in size 100. Bought these spoons for walleye, but haven't been walleye fishing as of yet. I do know that they catch a lot of coho and did real well for lakers.

Nice Brownie indeed... I have taken coho on lake michigan, and lakers out of huron with that same color spoon you were using, only a different brand spoon. I think I will continue using that pattern until it doesn't catch fish....

Surely a nice day for being out there. Nice Video, I like that feature!

Looking Good:grin:

We successfully released all of them. We were looking to put some Ho's in the box for the grill but couldn't find any. Still was a blast. In total I would be hard pressed to say we were fishing for 4 hours. Good times:D

When we were there for the opener we check out some of this work. We launched at Gams, set up camp, and then went for a ride up river friday evening. One of the locations was just a few minutes up river from us. Near this location I spotted a Bald Eagle, no BS, the other 2 on the boat didn't believe me as the light was bad and all they could see was one color. I watched it, and it landed in a tree. As we approached the tree it landed in it took off, and sure enough it was a confirmed bald eagle. Pretty cool to see....

Went north of Sanilac this morning. Sat down in 30fow. Put out 2&3 color lead, 2 downriggers, 1 dipsy and one long line. Here's what worked today. Norhtport nailers belding bait took the most fish off the rigger down 21'. Small orange spin doctor with a green peanut fly on the rigger down 20+fow took 2 also. 2 & 3 color lead didn't do squat, pulled the 3 color and put a 1/2 core out with northport nailer key lime and took a fish relatively quickly. All fish were lakers, aka. mud chicken, 7-12# range. All fish were taken over 30-40fow. For the day we went 7/9

Good question. I think there are a few variables to take into consideration. Such as depth you are fishing. I have a 2 color and 2 full cores setup right now. But I am going to switch things around this summer and use the lead a little more for the walleye, the deepest water I will be fishing is about 50fow. So I am thinking a 3,5, & 7 color. If I were targeting salmon in deeper water I would add one full core, scratch the three color and go with a 13 color of 15 color. It's nice to have options.

Good Luck....

This should be real good. Is it possible for an accurate forecast? We shall see...

Thanks Dan..

For a full core plus, I like the penn 330 GTI.

Us too, slow slow slow. Just as we got the boat on the trailer a good friend of mine called. He fishes that area and knows a bunch of other people that fish it often. He tells me that his buddy just called and was at finger island just slamming the fish. That was at 11:30. No biggy, we're going to try it again here before too long. That wind kicked up and boat control was becoming more difficult

Well I made it out to the DR with a friend on Friday. We were out trying our hand vertical jigging for walleye. The walleye were uncooperative all day long, a few misses between the 2 of us and that's it. Didn't see a lot of walleye getting boated by others either, just one of those days I guess. It was great early on until about 10:00 or so, and then the wind kicked up, which made boat control a little tough. Now, I said we didn't catch any walleye, but IndyBleck did boat a hell of lake Sturgeon. This is the 1st sturgeon I have ever seen with my own eyes. It took both of our efforts to get this monstrosity into the boat. Took a couple of quick pictures and then back into the water. This was pretty cool. I don't the exact amount of time it took, but I would venture a guess of about 45 minutes to get this thing to the boat. If I'm not mistaken I think Tom said he was using 10# power pro:grin:. Nice fish Indy!!!!!!

WTG Frank. I sure am hungry, what times dinner????

All's well that ends well, and a 9# LT to boot!!!!! Glad those trees are what you expected, trying to tell my BIL to get some for his boat, who knows maybe I need some for my boat....we'll find out this summer.....Thanks for the report.......

I agree with Frank. It is good to be able to use different tools. I usually start with what was working last time I was out. Then when things are slow I start changing everything, going through cranks, harnesses and then trying spoons. Something is bound to get them going, at least in my experience.

Thanks for the report, keep um' coming.....

Hopefully docked in AuGres here in the next couple weeks for the summer. I really got the itch

Here is a picture of how I store my flies...

I have used 3/8" clear tubing. I cut the tubing to size and pull the line through, wrap the line around the tubing and throw it in a storage compartment. Seems to do the job for me, and it doesn't cost much, tubing is super cheap.

Did you make an extra for me???

Here is another shot of it...

There we go figured out how to post pics, Yeah!

Here it is, my 1987 Thompson 210 Fisherman.

Planning on renaming her the "HUSKY JERK"......This will be my 3rd summer with her. The Fishlander triples are new to me, and I love them. Came with 4 walker Electric Riggers. FishHawk, Gps, and a Fishfinder. One thing I would love to put on would be a rocket launcher.

I love the hard top. My thompson has a hard top, my BIL has a soft top. While the soft top can help keep you dry, it doesn't do the job of a hard top. Like mentioned above, there is nothing like a hardtop to keep you dry. If I am scheduled to go on a fishing trip, I don't care if it is raining. You can stay dry at the helm, and a good rain suit will do the rest for you while you're setting lines.

The Ho's were so much fun, 1st time hitting them that good. Has anyone been catching any kings? I know there are a few browns and steel around, just wondering where you might find some kings.

Thanks....

Found ourselves on Saturday 4/5 only a few miles from the Michigan/Indiana border. Fished from about 10:30 until about 3:00, and it was great. Hot n' Tots way back of the planers, storm thunderstick deep divers off the planers in a firetiger pattern were hot. Northport's spoons were taking a lot of hits of the riggers, one in particular took the most fish of the day. Few on the dipsy about 40-50 back on a 3 1/2 setting. Total for the day was 20 for 27:D

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=1650&c=2

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Still need to work on posting picks....