Sea Eagle

I have added North Port Nailer, Silver Horde, Mauler, Gold Star, Gale Force, Luhr Jensen, Fishlander and Fin to my on-line search without success.

There is nothing stamped on the spoon to identify the manufacturer.

Hell I do not even know where I purchased the spoon anymore. It was either at the Detroit Sport Fishing Show, the Show in Grand Rapids or at our local Gander Mountain store in Kalamazoo, D&R Sports in Kalamazoo or the Bass Pro in Toledo Ohio some time this spring.

Thanks to everyone who has made suggestions. I feel like such a tool to have purchased a spoon and not even remember who made it.

I will keep using it until I loose it or some big monster King crushes it (I can only hope).

Who knows one of these days I may even find it on a rack somewhere. I guess it will make looking at fishing tackle every I go even more interesting.

Thanks –

I have looked at all of the on-line catalogs For: Dreamweaver, Warrior, Savant, Michigan Stinger, Fuzzy Bear, Northern King, Pro King, Silver Streak, Gander Mtn, Bass Pro, and Yeck.

Anyone know of any other spoon manufacturers?

The Dreamweaver on-line catalog has a few missing pictures, it looks like that might be my best shot. I’m going to send them an e-mail.

Eliminator is mine but Andy brought us some beer and ice and grabbed that pic of me. We managed a 12.5# but Andy embarrassed me with his PIG Steelie like usual.

Still nice catch and a great steelhead for Andy. Speaking of beers - I have had a couple onboard the Eliminator

Great job - we fished on Sunday and only managed one king between 6:30 to 11:00 am.

The last guy that owned the Eliminator never caught a Steelhead that big - great job - sorry Shawn

Thanks for the report, that stinks about the cleaning station.

I am happy to report that there is now a combination lock on the gate to the fish cleaning station. Stop by the gate office to get it.

Does anyone know who makes this spoon? I violated my own rule that states: “Thou shall never just buy one of anything”

Sure enough this spoon took three of my six fish last weekend and I would like to purchase another if I only knew who made it.

I believe it was called Nuclear Veggies.

Help

“There was never a lure made that would not catch a fishermen.”

For $7 a launch they need to figure out some way to leave it accessible to us. Maybe just start cleaning them and leaving remains in front of their hut. I always thought the expensive launch should include the use of the cleaning station. The unpredictability irritates me!

It is possible to pull one of the boards under the fence, clean your fish, wash off the board with bottled water and dump the fish guts over the fence into the trash can - or so I have heard. I think I also saw some guys one night cleaning their fish on one of the picnic tables down by the river. I believe that they cleand off the table with buckets of water out of the river and that they dumped their fish guts in the dumpster. It was sure stinky a couple of days later.

I'm just saying......

They closed the fish cleaning station at 5:30 pm on us a few weeks ago.

I was told by the guys at the gate that they will close it at 3:30 pm if they go home for the day. They said that it was because the DNR put in a new freezer. I called the city of South Haven and suggested that they tell the DNR to chain down their freezer or put a combination lock on the gate and give the lock number to the fishermen using the boat launch late.

I was told someone from the city who was responsible for the baot launch was going to call me back. I never hear from them.

I suggest more fishermen call to complain. They use to leave it open for us if we did not get in until 10:00 or 11:00 pm.

Fished from 6:30 until 12:30. Went 4 for 5 or 4 for 8. Not really sure. Had three first timers on the boat today and they had three brief rips on the full cores, but no fish. The fish were either not there to start with or I did not do a good enough job coaching them to get the fish in.

Final tally was: 3 kings and a laker. (1) 11lb & (1) 9lb king and a shaker (king) tossed back. (1) Smaller laker.

Fished west to south west of the pier. All fish came between 80' and 110' of water.

Blue dolphin on a SWR down 55' took the 11lb king early and a Nuclear Veggies on a #2 mag DD 125' back took the 9lb king, white double glow crush spin doctor/green fly on a #2 mag DD 145' back took the laker. The shaker hit 200' of copper with a green dolphin.

The only thing that was biting hard today was the flys. As soon as the wind died it was like some kind of biblical plague.

Thanks for the report. Hope to get out this weekend - weather permitting.

There have been days we would have killed for four fish. Nice job on the 14lb fish.

Good to hear that you had the opportunity for eight. I have been wondering what the fishing was like out of SH. Have not seen too many reports lately.

I'm hoping to hit it hard this weekend.

Great job. I really like seeing the photos of the spoons you used. It gives someone an idea of the colors that are working and on what set up even if they do not have the exact spoon.

I received a phone call fishing report from Eliminator yesterday as I was driving through the mountains of WV coming home from moving my son to Wilmington NC.

Would have liked to have been out on the Big Lake fishing myself this weekend, but had to move my son to Wilmington NC. His job in Michigan went to Mexico, so he said "See Ya" moved to Wilmington and plans to enroll in a marine mechanics program at Cape Fear Community College.

Wilmington is a big fishing community. Most boats are rigged for fishing, not pleasure. Big mix of large and small boats. There were boats coming and going on trailers all weekend. It was driving me crazy that I was not going fishing with them – perhaps next time.

Set lines around 7:00 AM in 80' of water. Trolled NW of pierhead all morning. Took fish between 104' of water to 125'.

Went 5-5. 3 kings and two lake trout. Full core with carmel dolphin spoon took a king. SWR on the DR with blue dolphin spoon @ 65' down took a lake trout and a king. Slider on the DR with a blue dolphin spoon down 45'? took a king. Took a 10 lb lake trout on a 1/2 core with an orange killer spoon.

Saw a guy at launch that recognized the boat and said he fished alot with u out of it.

That was me.

Funny story about your boat.

Shawn kept telling me about this boat he purchased called the "Terminator" and he tells me he is talking to his wife on the phone one day and she asks him if he ever actually read what it said on the side of his boat, and as we all know it is the "Eliminator."

PS - Good job on the fish. Not the greatest day weather wise, but a good day of fishing.

Mattmissler beat me to it. Nice job on the fish, but next time you want to post something about Lake Michigan fishing reports and I stress Michigan please don't don't have a picture of a guy waring a buckeye hoodie, makes me want to throw up:eek:, just kidding:grin: nice job,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I will let my brother-in-law wear whatever he wants (except perhaps an Avalanche or a Sharks hockey jersey). He only comes up to fish with me once a year and we get on the fish every time he is on the boat.

I do so good every time he comes up to fish that he actually thinks I know what I'm doing.

Come to think of it, he is always wearing something that has Ohio Sate on it when he goes fishing with me - could it be that the fishing gods favor Ohio State? - Tell me it's not true!!!!! No way - it must just be a coincidence.

Nice job......besides the hoodie:lol:

What can I say - my brother-in-law is from Ohio. Great guy and I have been married to his sister for 37 years.

Started seting lines around 6:30 in 45' of water. The reports all said the fish were deeper, but we could not resist taking a crack at all of the bait fish we were marking in the shallow water.

We kept heading West as I set the lines, but never had a bite until we hit 110' of water sometime around 8:15, then caught 5 fish in the next hour. Hard to re-set the lines with only me and the brother-in-law in the boat. We were down to only a full core and DR left in the water by the time we hit 130'.

Wound up 8 for 8 (5 kings, 2 lake trout and a steelhead). All 5 kings were in the 9-11 lb range. The two lake trout were 6-7 lbs and the steelhead was around 20” long (did not weigh it).

Took fish between 110' and 150' with the majority coming between 110' and 130'

1/2 core with orange killer spoon took two kings, a steelhead and a lake trout. SWR with glow bloody nose at 75’ took a king and later the same set up with a blue dolphin took a lake trout. Full core with a carmel dolphin spoon took two kings.

Pulled lines at 11:00 when the brother-in-law started chumming.

Fished in the AM out of South Haven. Fished north and south of pier in 60 -80 feet of water. Took fish between 64 ft and 75 feet.

Went 5 for 8. 4 lakers and a 9 lb king.

SWR on the down rigger with a NBK took 3 fish - 1 @ 45 ft down & 2 @ 65ft down.

Carmel Dolphing Spin Doctor with a Jaded Peacock Yogurt fly on full core took 1 and 1 missed fish.

Orange Killer on 1/2 core took the king and 1 missed fish.

Carmel dolphin spoon on full core - 1 mised fish.

Nice job - how big was your big king. Sure looks like a nice fish

Great job.

We are all going to have to get smart phones and post live reports - way too cool. Work pays for my phone, so It's kind of hard to justify a new phone when there is so much fishing stuff to buy - sush don't tell the wife.

Thanks for the report. I'm heading out of SH in the AM.

I experienced the same problems when I first started out, but then I went to the palomar knot on my mono. I had been using it on my power pro for some time and tried it on the mono.

I also started using berkly 20# big game for my leaders and for any other mono set up.

I was sold on the big game when a buddy tied one end on a tree and the other end on a big stick and just kept walking back. Super strech.

Looks like you guys smoked those tiger fish pretty well, nice catch.

Thats exactly where they are going - into the smoker.

Fished out of South Haven on Easter Sunday for three hours. Fished south to power plant and back in between 25 & 40 ft of water. 2.5 mph troll.

Wound up 11 for 12. Three man limit on the Lakers, a 14 lb King and a small Coho.

(2) flat lines with thin fins on outer boards, (2) SWR (2 colors lead core) on middle boards with small orange killer spoons, (2) ½ cores on boards closest to the boat with magnum orange killer spoons, (2) down riggers set at 25 & 35 feet with UV blue dolphins spoons with mixed veggie sliders and a thin fin on a high line 300 ft back down the chute.

SWR took one fish, down riggers took three and the ½ cores took all the rest. Thin fins (red/tiger stripes & gold/pink) were cold as the water.

Great job - thanks for the report.

Tring to get out on Sunday. Was wondering if St. Joe or SH was were we should go. Usually better down in St. Joe, but SH is an easier run out to the big lake + I keep hearing about low water levels in the river in St. Joe.

I think you just convinced me to go to SH.