Mushy's Dad

Way to go! 3 hours can be nerve wrecking!

Frank,

Sounds like a great time! it is amazing how fast the rust can build up, seems like everything takes 3 times longer. lol

Dave,

Great Job!

Josh, Great job !

Ditto what Ed said!!

Sorry I forgot to include fishing 100 to 125 feet trolling south and north. The water temp was 47 on the surface.

This is in addition to my report in the Wisconsin Lake Michigan forum. This is the latest product from Moonshine, it is called the RV series. I used the RV Monogolian beef and the RV Dancing anchovy in the magnum size. These new UV spoons are just killer. 93.42% of the fish we caught Saturday were on these 2 spoons and the BW poofster. The guy that runs the fishing department at Mid West Shooters Supply showed me these last Thursday, so picked up one of each. You wont be disappointed!

Sorry for the late report..... Mothers day and all.

Another awesome day on the water. Fished from 3pm until 7:30. Going 17 out 19 turned 2 rainbows back to the lake. 13 kings, 1 coho, and 1 laker. 9 of the kings were in the teens, the biggest was 15.5.

We had landed a running quadruple fish flurry. Mama was driving, Mushy was on the reels, and I was netting. Ended up having all but one rod fire. I had fish laying on the floor with the hooks still in them.... It was an absolute zoo! WOO HOO! Ran 6 rods most of the time but I got crazy and thought 8 rod would be good idea... not so much. All the rods took fish but we had four stars.

It was very nice to pull the lines early and ride off into the sunset.

Here is the four hot ones

Downrigger 45 back and 85 down running 11" white pro troll w/ BW poofster

Downrigger 65 back and 65 down running moonshine dancing anchovy magnum

Dipsey set on 2 165 feet out running moonshine monogolian beef magnum

7 color running NBK magnum

Mason AKA Mushy

Full cooler

Sounds like you had a great day on the other side of the pond!

I ran out of apple chips, so I stopped at Fleet and Farm to pick some up. WELL... I was not paying attention and I forgot which chips I used last time, I ended up grabbing the alder chips. I had some Alder smoked fish when I was in Alaska, it is very common up there for smoking fish. I must have out thought myself.

I will keep an eye out for the pear, sounds great. Always willing to try something new.

Smoked up about 10lbs of salmon last night and tried a new brine

Took a water bath canner pot and filled it with water untill salmon was well submerged.

Next added 1/2 cup of sea salt.

Then added 4 cups of Apple juice

1 cup of wosterchire sauce

1 cup of Teryachie sauce.

1 cup of Burbon. ( Whatever your falvor is, I used Jack Daniels)

Let the fish soak in brine for 24hrs, Removed fish from brine. Pat dry with paper towel. and let air dry for about a 1/2 hour. Next I seasond the fish with old Bay. this is my favorite fish seasoning. Then put on the smoker. I do fish at 225 degrees for approx 2hrs depending on the sieze of each piece. Used apple wood and cheery. For fish I like alot of smoke. I will smoke it heavy for atleast 1 to 1.5 hours of the whole process. Very Tasty.

Joe,

I used Alder wood chips on the last batch. Once again lots of thumbs up.

Thanks again!

Tom

Fished from 5:30 until 10:00 going 10 for 13.

I took out a family friend that has lived in Port since 65 and never fished on the big pond. I set lines in 100 feet and trolled out to 180. Found most of out action between 120 and 160.

Here is what I ran

Rigger down 110 back 40 with 11'' white with BW poofster took a 13 king. Ended up tangling the poofster so I swithed over to the BW oily stool glow, end up with 4 lakers on that set up.

Rigger down 69 back 60 with 8'' green and silver dodger with BW agitated frog. Stolen by a really nice king, I am not really sure what went wrong! May be a bad knot.

7 color with Moonshine Flounder pounder took 1 coho

5 color with Moonshine Monogilian beef took 1 coho and 2 rainbows.

Dipsey set to 3 and 165 back with NKB took 1 coho.

Dipsey set to 3 and 140 was quite Brads Cut Bait is not hot yet!

At the fish cleaning station there was lots of kings and full coolers. I found out I was fishing below the kings and a little bit too far out. The guys from Mid West Shooters Supply limited out in afew hours, All spoons for the most part.

I stopped at Mid West Shooter Supply in Lomira on the way home. They have a fantastic Great Lakes section and the good pricing. I spent an hour and a half checking it out and talking with the fishing guru.

Another beatiful day on the big pond!

Eric,

Way to go!

Been looking for a pair of these on the west side of the lake this week and cant seem to find them? Some guy did try to special order me a pool cue for tuna though ;-) Are these rods discontinued now? Thanks for any help!

I have one of those pool cues with rollers on it. I can pick up th Mush man with it , it barely bends, and he is 105 lbs. A co-worker gave it to me. It can be all your for free!

Josh,

Great Job! That is a great mix of fish, eaters and fighters.

I average 7 gallons in the Lund and 10 gallons in the Exploder to Sheboygan, my closest port.

Great pics of the kids!

pearl fishscale with some crappy fly i made in my garage

Good job! You could market that fly name !!!

First trip of the year. I was debating Friday night on the sanity of a Sat morning trip. I checked the mid lake bouy report drop wave height steady throughout the night and early morning. After waiting for the heavy rain to clear out we fished from 6 until 1. Started setting in 80ft trolled South south east mostly. We found most all of our action between 100 an 120.

Ended up tying the 2 dipsey and the 2 lead cores all together on the first fish of the year while trying to buck the waves and wind. Glad to get that mess out of the way. Gotta have one ugly tangle per year. Also found out how slow I am on the first trip of the year, every thing took 3 times longer... lots of rust build up over the winter.

What worked...

7 color flounder pounder took 3 kings 12, 11 and 5 lbs and a rainbow 9ish lbs

5 color monogolian beef took 2 small cohos, it was too lumpy out there to tell if they were on, so they got dragged around for a while.

Down rigger 60 back and 75 deep with green 8" flasher and a green fly took several hit but the would not stick, end up loosing the biggest fish of the day on that one (high teens low 20 king I assume). All 4 lost fish on that set up.

Dipsey out 165 set on 3 with a brads cut bait and matching dodger took a small ho.

Other Dipsy was fairly quite so I threw on a mag NBK. Got the violent strike but no one was home??

But the star of the day was the big white paddle with a Big Weenie poofster fly. 1 laker 6 lbs and 2 big kings. 40 out and 95 feet down most of the day.

First time running the Flounder pounder, monoglian beef, the big white dodger and the big weenie fly. all worked very well.

I have to sing the praises of the double hook set up on the Big weenies' flies. All the fish caught had both hooks buired deep. No way any of those fish were getting off. Very Impressive !! :thumb: I have a new favorite fly brand !!!!

End up with a 2 man limit going 10 for 14 and couple of drivebys.

Over all a get day to be out.

Jim,

Nice King!

Sounds like we had less wave action up north in Sheboygan, but it was still bumpy out there.

Buster,

Thanks and GJ

I will be dragging the big white paddle with poofster and the flounder pounder on the west side tomorrow!

Nice Tom!

Congrats on limiting out!!

The survey takes 10 minutes at most.

Thanks! See you this weekend!

Russell,

Thanks for the video report. From your website, it looks like your shop is right on the river front, correct? Can a boat tie up to the dock for a quick purchase?