Sea-Mac

We had a friend of ours dad give us 2 tackle boxes with some older lures in it and i found one of these in there.

I still believe him for some reason,dont know why but i do.

You could snell a 2/0 single hook and then have a treble snelled a few inches above that and the single will work as a trailer hook.Ive hooked a few fish last year on single hooks that went completely thru the bone on the lower jaw, making it even hard for me to unhook them when they are in the boat and with pliers, from then on ive been sold.

Very nice fish! and good job. Cool kid to.

Well heres the ones i made at your house and some of the different material im going to use to make some more.Waiting on a shipment of 2/0 and 3/0 hooks then can make my leaders and throw on the beads.

Does anyone kno of a system that tells you how far a trolling weight will bring your lures down? Looking for info for 1/4 oz. up to 1oz. trolling weights and what depth can be achieved by using these with x amount of line out.I kno speed would be a factor as well as line diameter but jus some general info.Thanks in advance.

Thanks again for inviting me over and showing me how to make these flys.I picked up some more colors and some different kinda material at GM when i got back home.I will post a picture of the ones i made and the ones im about to make in a day or two, but for right now im beat. We picked our boat up today and had it ready to go by 3pm. then went to Port Sheldon.The end of last year i had brought my boat in to get a small leak fixed and they said they had to replace 14 rivets but then found no more leaks.Well the thing still has a leak somewhere.. We made it out to the bubbler anyways and then moved in to 8-10fow and then trolled around in Pigeon Lake a lil before giving up.Talked to two guys as we were headin out that caught a brown and a steelie and another guy when we came in that had the same luck as us.Now i have to bring my boat back in tomorrow and have them fix it again.

If you read some of the captions below a woman states that she caught a 40lb. Koho out of this same place.Is this one of your relatives Caz?the current state record coho is 30.56 lbs.

I worked at BBT about 10 yrs. ago or more for a short time.Really good guys.Grandpa has a place on Big Star and i stayed there when workin for them.Thanks for the update, guess ill stick around here a few more days till things settle down.

Thanks for heads up.I see you didnt stay long if you did.Was thinkin maybe you got there and had to turn right back around.Im gonna try an get up there sunday hopefully and check er out ,and the south branch.Letcha kno what i find.

I kno exactly what you are talkin about.Ive read his article on game&fish about that.I saw an illustration somwhere to.thanks for bringing that up because i had forgotten all about that lil set -up.

Doesnt anyone own the cannon?We are going to purchase one these to for this year. I see the cannon has a light sensitivity sensor and tells you what exact depth your ball is at.I dont believe any of the other ones have those features and its 100 dollars cheaper.Id like to kno a lil about the cannons before i buy one so if anyone owns one of these hows it been working for you?Leaning towards the Cannons with the Fish Hawk a close second.

Hi Matt.Hey did you guys ever make it up to PM.If so whats the story up there?

hey steve you might have solved our prob.. ok when im out there i see some people that have thier rigger rods straight up and people that have them almost parallel with the water with the tips jus hitting the water kinda. I been doing the parallel cus it kinda tucks my rods out of the way and thats what i see on most boats. ive had them on 45 degree angles but for the most part i been putting them parallel with the tips jus above the water.

Everytime ive been on your boat im to busy reeling in 40- 50 pounder fish to notice what kind of gear your using. Im gonna get 2 ugly sticks and outfit them with 12lb. test and give that a try at least.I see Lion Den has 4 for sale, if i could get 2 from him for 50 bucks that will work. ill prolly be gettin some 8' diawas now to, another trustworthy fisherman was tellin me these are good rods also and maybe at 8' i can find a middle ground with my partner.Far as sharp hooks and release goes most all of my spoons are new and ive switched alot of them to single hooks instead of trebles.Release, last year we used rubber bands with a big jon band buster..this year going to the walker release that you use.

I would like to buy two of the 7'mh ugly sticks. I live in the wyoming/byron center mi. area ill pm you my number, call me if able to sell and lemme kno where youd like to meet up.

Hey thanks alot guys.Last year we lost id bet well over 50% of our fish we hooked on our downriggers.We were using 9'6" heartlands and 8 lb. weights the beginning of the year.Caz advised i switch the weights to 10 or 12 pound (i went with 12) wich did make a improvement imo but we were still losin quite a few just after the initial release from the downrigger, you would see the pole release and bob a lil and a little drag takes off but then no one home.So yesterday i tell my partner im gonna get (2) 7' mh ugly sticks and try them for our downriggers.My reasoning being ugly sticks are little more limber at the tips yet strong at the base.He says hes not real sure about that and doesnt want me to get them, and then tries to razz me saying things like "why not get snoopy poles"... and "have fun trying to catch a 20 pounder". I remind him that last year we used a 7' LITE action ugly stick with 4 color core straight out the back and we caught alot and probably most of our bigger fish on that set up and it was a very fun rod.He was the one that originally bought that pole and set it up to use on l.mich in the first place.So it was kinda hard for me to see his reasonings as to why we should not get them, wich brought me here. I cannot wait to show him the replies ive got thus far.Paulywood your post is probably gonna sink his battleship, and i to am also going try this setup this year.thanks again.-Mike

I was reading an article or post awhile back talking about using shorter downrigger rods.I have since then forgot where i was reading this and how to find it again.The guy writing it said he used his short bass rods as downrigger rods with good success.Do any of you use shorter rods on your downriggers?Say 6'-7' ers.What are the advantages of this?

Went fishing with my son yest. scouted a few small streams, sand creek,buck creek and rogue.Buck was way to high and drowned at the mouth.Sand creek in ottawa co. off l. mich. drive near amen park had right water levels lil dirty but nice flow.No shiny gravel as of yet, and saw no fish.Saw one guy catch a small brown.We then headed to rockford one guy there had caught 2 nice males both over 30" that i seen.

heh Nope.We discussed it on the phone at about 11am a little more and thats as far as we got.

i looked all over for that thing the next day sayin no way did i leave without my jacket, for some reason i never even noticed it was cold. i had BV insulation.ill get it back from you whenever no biggie.thanks also to you tim for running and setting this up.

Thanks for havin us over to play.Congrats to the winners. Raise blinds next time? or start at 2?..

Im still in for the 13th. Dont kno what im going to bring for food yet. My brother in law (Chris) would like to play to.Hes not officially signed up on here under his own name or anything cuz we share the name and are 50/50 partners on our boat.He fished in the tournaments with me last year and is planning on doing everyone next year.So hope he can come play.I talked to rich and he said it was ok with him.So lemme kno the deal on that, and if we dont get enough or need more players jus lemme kno.

Jan.13th works for me. My brother in law (chris- the other member of team sea-mac) would like to play and our other buddy mike might also want to play.We could play at his house in byron center if richs place doesnt work out.He has tournaments there quite frequently nice table n everything.So theres that.Im kinda worried about the newbie players hard to tell what they r goin on.Last night at poker stars i played in a .25 tourney with 2226 players and i came in 10th so close to the final table.So look out my game is hot.on the down side it was a .25 tourney and i only got $3.40 for over 5 hours of playing.First woulda won $112.For those that dont kno the game whoever said to learn or practice online is prolly the best way to learn the game and its free.Im sure i can find a few more players if i need to, lemme kno how many we r at now and how many rich wants at his house, and rich ill buy those pole holders off you at this time or pay your entry fee to the poker tournament for them.I want some venison steaks from you to cus im the buckless yooper.

I was gonna make this suggestion but you beat me to it.Count me in.