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Might just as well have, I had all three down on Saturday with out a hit.

Same here. Not sure why. Core has always been a great producer and the new copper I started running last year works great as well. I have been running 1/2 & full cores and 200' & 300' of copper without much success lately, most fish have been coming off of the DD and DR. We were out Saturday in the morning before the storm and wound up 2-3. Had a small undersized laker hit the slider on the DR and a king hit the glow bloody nose spoon running at the ball as we were bringing in the laker. We choose to net the king and let the laker shake off (that's my story and I'm sticking with it). The other king came on a magnum DD set on #1 back 130' with one of those new luhr jensen UV j-plugs (green).

I figured out that the spin doctor I was referring to was a "Kevorkian" I went up to D&R Sports here in Kalamazoo this afternoon and purchased the last two they had. Heading out tomorrow morning.

Great job on the brown. Too bad loosing the big one. I have never caught one, but sure would like to. We were out last night and lost 3 out of our four fish. I do not know what the deal is, earlier this year we went 21 fish in a row without a single loss. A buddy of mine was out last night as well and went 4 -12. At least he had equipment failures, tangles, ect. as an excuse. I'm bummed we only got hit four times. Had two hits on a magnum dipsey set on #2 back 145' with a spin doctor (don't know the name - it is blue or green depending how you look at it with a glow crush back) another hit on the same dipsey with a moonshine TNT spoon and landed the fish on 300' of copper with my mystery spoon (see this post - http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22899&highlight=spoon) Hope to get out again on Sunday.

Great job - Going out Thursday night. Hope to see you out there.

I ordered a six pack of the Scotty bead stops from Bass Pro last night for $4.99. Coughed up the extra $18 to get them here by tomorrow, so I could get ready for the weekend. Looks like I could have saved myself $18 if I had checked the forecast first: SATURDAY SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 KT BECOMING EAST. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. SATURDAY NIGHT NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. WAVES 4 TO 7 FT. SUNDAY NORTH WINDS 15 TO 25 KT. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. WAVES 5 TO 8 FT.

Thanks to everyone. I'm going to check out the scotty beads. Thanks again

Help! Lost my first depth raider probe off of my DR this weekend. It looks like the cable failed at the crimp for the auto stop bead that my Big Jon Pro Tournament DR’s use. Did I use a poor crimping technique? I was wondering if anyone has a better idea for rigging the auto stop bead. Would a good epoxy work to hold the bead on the DR cable? Any other suggestions?

I run sliders on my SWR all of the time, just as long as I'm only running a spoon at the ball. I know of guys who run a fixed slider with a spin doctor, but I'm not that brave.

Fished out of SH Saturday morning. Went 5-7, 4 kings and a laker. Biggest king was 18 lbs. Don't have all of the details since there were only two of us on the boat and all of the fish came between 6:45 and 9:00 to keep up with the log book. I do know that 4 of the five came on moonshine glow bloody nose spoons on either the bottom spoon or on the slider of both DR SWRs. Not sure what the other fish hit, it was on either the 200' or 300' of copper. We fished straight out from the pier to north from 50 ft of water to 100 feet of water with the fish hitting spoons set down at 45 to 65 feet in 70 feet to 90 feet.

No letters on the spoon. I have checked out all of the on-line catalogs for any spoon manufacturer I can think of - all to no avail.

Nice job - Nice king. We caught a 15 lb king on Saturday and saw the guys from the Eliminator at the fish cleaning shed that had 3. Hope this is just the start of the kings moving back. Nice cold water down below as opposed to last season when there was no cold water to be had. Hoping this August is a good one. Come on Kings.

Went 3-4 out of SH on Saturday AM. Fished 80 - 100 feet of water mostly straight out from the pier, but did go slightly north and south during the morning. All fish came in 90ish feet of water. Lost a fish (looked like a king) on a slider set up on DR/SWR that got tangled up with a spin doctor on the other DR. Not sure if the king was the cause of the tangle or if it was the Crazy Ivan turn (reference Tom Clancy’s Hunt for Red October) that we had to take when three sailboats motored straight through the pack of fishermen. One poor guy had to completely shut down to avoid the sailboats. Our cause could have been helped if the guy to the south of us had turned away to his port. We were forced to turn in (hard) and run between everyone to keep from getting cut off to the south. Wound up with a nice steelhead taken on 300’ of copper with my mystery spoon (see attached photo). This spoon has taken over half of my fish recently. I sure wish I knew who made it. I’m scared to death I’m going to loose it. Also tossed down one of the new Luhr Jensen UV J plugs (green) that took a 15 lb king in a SWR on the DR set at 65’. Switched over a couple of other lines to J Plugs and took a laker on the other DR/SWR down 75’ with a wonderbread J Plug.

I have not been out for a couple weeks now (up in Canada on a fishing trip) and was wondering is anyone is doing any good out of South Haven. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Fished in Chapleau last week. Took a couple days to figgure it out. They were just coming off of a Mayfly hatch from the previous week and our usual program of trolling crank baits behind planer boards was only good for one fish (5.2 lbs). Down sized to jigs and crawlers and used the electric trolling motor and started getting into them. Here are a couple of fish photos and the view out the window of our cabin.

I would still be your friend even without the auto pilot

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.

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

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.”

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.