fishy1

Brandon, I have slipped a boat for over 30 trs now in ludington and love the conveience, I don't think you will find you will save much money as I know most marinas where you will slip a 24 foot boat that have nice amenities you should expect to pay between 1200.00 to 1500.00 for a season.There are plenty of other marinas that are available at lower rates but you get what you pay for and I would advise you to visit some of them first and talk with some of the seasonal slip holders.

Some marinas are party marinas where the partiers reside and are not very family or fisherman friendly unless you don't mind people keeping you up late when you want to go to bed early to go fishing . If you want any imput about the ludington marinas please feel free to pm me.

Glad to see the dnr still is still around I fish ludington and watched people fishing walleye out of season in pere marquette lake the last couple of years and when I called the rap hoyline they put me in touch with the local co who basically blew me off. I have phoned in several violatons to the rap hotline even during waterfowl season and got the same results, so i wonder why they even waste money on the hotline if they aren't willing to take action.

I tend to run the larger paddles and 10 in spin doctors when the fishgo deeper 90ft and deeper larger attractors throw off more sound and flash not saying its right just what works for me.

As long as they fit in the bait head you can run them whole you just have to tune them to get the correct roll.

yecks and dreamweavers at least the paint stays on, and they catch fish.I bought a couple of the new uv stinger spoons and soon found out why I quit buying them as after a few fish the paint was peeling off like crazy.

A great way to become a millionaire if you start with 2 million and quit while you still have one. Like any business it has it's pros and cons, just don't look through rose colored glasses and realize it's a business.

Ive fished with a friend who has a 42 ft Tiara and it is powered by twin 650 hp cummins diesels, until he had trolling valves installed he used trolling bags made by amish outfitters and never had a problem with getting his boat slow enough. You only need to run 1 engine at a time so you should have no problem trolling and when you run your bags you should run them from your spring line cleat that is midship they won't get in the way of your gear. Hope this helps bags are a good low cost solution until you get your trolling valves installed good luck.

Northwoods outet in pinconning has them for 539.00

Captain Chucks in ludington has Dreamweaver uv spoons in most of the same colors in super slim and larger size that are also producing in stock.

Great job always a good thing to see kids exposed to the outdoors .

Mark, I was just pointing out a fact of how greed and money turn normally sane people into idiots just to fill there egos,sorry you took it personally but stating a fact from my knowledge of just one of several tournaments that cheating was reported I'm not telling anyone how to run a tournament just stating my observation on no matter what type of rules you have people will still try to gain a edge even with observers onboard.

First let me state I don't fish tournaments as I feel they are just pecker measuring contests, with that said even when using a fixed limit such as 12 fish you still have people who cheat. A good example is a well known boat out of saugatuck the was observed agressivly trying to net small fish that seeming to keep getting knocked off while fishing the Ludington pro division resulting in them losing thier first place finish. One thing I have learned in my 52 yrs on earth is if you put money and egos together people will do really stupid stuff to prove thier the man.

I run z boards as they are tunablefor where you want the board to run and you can also have them release to change a lure or when you have a fish on and they dont dive like the church boards do which are a pain in the a** to reel in.

great stuff

I would make the one of the 300 coppers a 200 and you can add different sized torpedo divers to give the numerous depth ranges without having to purchase more rods . I have 24 rods on my boat and refuse to run anything longer than 300 ft and there is no need to . I can run my 150,180, 210,shorter coppers with torpeodos and achieve the same depths as 400, 450 500 coppers without havivg more than 300 ft of line out and my friends and I find it less tourture than cranking in the long coppers , and catch just as many fish as when I used the longer coppers , just my take.

obama should make us some fuel for our boats out of the algae

Maybe if they learned how to run a business they wouldn't need my tax dollars , there is no need for the senseless pollution and dumping of 500-700 tons of mecury laden ash in OUR lake , last I checked it belonged to all of the residents of the great lakes not just a wealthy buisness owner. I find it amazing how people want to defend the mighty Badger under the guise of all the jobs that would be losthow is it that a company was able to have a ferry built that is more enviromently friendly and be successful in Muskegon but the owner of the badger isn't smart enough to do likewise.

Badger Bob is all for the conversion as long as someone else will pay for it thats the business model.

They must not be politically connected like badger bob its always nice to have friends in your pocket at the congressional level just takes major campaign contributions.

Thank God some that someone wants to put a end to this reckless practice.

Spoonfed if you don't like them why don't you pm me with what size boards and how many you have and I would be interested in buying them from you or trading you a few church boards.

Thanks I realy enjoy using thier boards over everything else out there.

I know I've tried contacting them since last year at the numbers listed on thier website and have never received a return call or email. Also captain chucks in ludington has had the same luck.

Does anyone know if they can still be purchased or where they went?

Depends greatly on your speed I personally troll between 2- 2.5 at the ball and use alot of spin doctors,paddles and have found you get 7 to 9 ft of depth for every 10 yds of 45# copper you have out that accordint to my old gtm I've attached to it.