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Finally got up to the lake to get familar with it. Trolled some cranks and bottom bouncers with harnesses . No luck for the short time I was there, but it was a beautiful day none the less. LB
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Port Sheldon 11/03 am
littleboat replied to tbutcher's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Holland 9am-12 10-26
littleboat replied to littleboat's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
Sorry to here about your boat problem. I hope you are able to resolve it. Timing is everything with fishing (right place, bait and time). Extra rods helps with their attraction always help bring the fish to the ones that they finally bite on. More steelhead seem to be a little farther north, that's where I will go next time when the wind settles down. I have picked up more fish on ladder back type spoons lately, just not big ones. Good luck next time out. -
Holland 9am-12 10-26
littleboat replied to littleboat's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
Thanks for the information. I am just in a small boat and didn't want to go out to 200+ ft. for the colder temps. Steelhead are still in this temp range. I think going from 28ft to 135ft is covering a lot of area. I was marking a large bait pod and working it trying to pull some hungry steelhead out of it, but I wasn't successful. But there is always next time. Thanks again. -
Port Sheldon 10/26 am
littleboat replied to tbutcher's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Holland 9am-12 10-26
littleboat posted a topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
1 for 1/2. Fished 28ft-135fow NW of piers. Started with crankbaits and spoons. Picked up a small salmon on board with a happy meal spoon. Lake turned into 2-4ft chop. Went back into shallower water and waited for lake to calm. Headed back out and marked fish in 135ft but was unable to get them to bite on spoons or flys. Small salmon caught in 60fow 25 down, west troll. 2.5 sog Released him so he could get bigger. He was probably about 16". Water temp same top to bottom (56) degrees. -
Holland 10-22-15
littleboat replied to 2MD's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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I like the autopilot. Planning the installation was the time consuming part, especially on a smaller boat with limited space. I'm not familiar with available space on a center console. Pics of my installation attached. Hydraulic hoses are not cheap and you want to keep the sizes as short as possible. Make sure you have some sort of connection to a gps antenna via fishfinder unit (you will need the mfg cable to the autopilot) or stand alone golfball type which I did to use the patterns that the autopilots can do (zig-zag, figure 8s, cloverleafs, 180 turns etc). I'm not familiar with the lowrance autopilot and it's components. But they must be similar. Autopilots usual come with everything, but hoses, mechanical types for cable steer, obviously don't need them. I left room at my helm for a future larger screen unit and Fishawk. The boat happened to come with a 5" Lowrance 2nd Gen HDS with a built in gps. Hopes this help.
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Good question, my wife always asks me the same thing. I enjoy different types of fishing. Alot of times (jigging etc ) the launches are too small or too shallow for a larger boat and jigging off a larger boat is much more difficult. I can can do rivers and small lakes etc when I do my walleye thing. Hence the "litteboat". This past summer I had to cut my fishing short many times and stay closer to shore because of the waves especially when it turned to chop. The larger boat lets me go the distance 200+ fow and feel safer. Now I can fish on more days under conditions that my littleboat would be borderline. It's a safety issue mainly as opposed to pushing the limits of a smaller vessel.
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Thanks, the autopilot is a Raymarine EV-100 with a hydraulic pump since I have hydraulic steering on this boat (this boat is a 2102 Trophy with two 4 stroke motors). My "Littleboat " is mechanically steered so I have a Raymarine Sportpilot on it. The littleboat is a 16 1/2 ft Crestliner Sport Angler. On this new autopilot, I bought the autopilot, had the hydraulic hoses made up for the length I needed and installed the system myself.
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I just picked up a 2012 trophy boat. It is a 2102 with an 150 mercury cruiser 4stroke. I'm adding a autopilot to it. The boat has a seastar cylinder for the ram and helm pump. It has red fluid for the hydraulic steering fluid. I see that seastar has a yellow fluid for their systems. Mercruiser uses a red fluid. Are they both the same just different colors? The boat manual doesn't indicate the fluid since it is OB. Can I mix the two, since I will be adding and bleeding the system? Are they others out there that have figured out that have been in a similar situation?
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Port Sheldon 10/01/15 am
littleboat replied to tbutcher's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
How was the wave action out there? Temperature same as databouy top to bottom? -
Holland 9/20 AM
littleboat replied to Dr Hook's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Holland am, 9-16
littleboat replied to littleboat's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Caught a channel salmon today looked more stubby then I thought. I was jigging down the channel while my efforts to pull hard baits, spoons, flys and plugs failed. He broke my hook. I used a 1/2 oz jig (way too heavy) and a plastic minnow (frosted pepper). Waves were breaking over the pier occasionally. Heard 1 salmon caught in 90' and another. On the radio.
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Port Sheldon am, 9-10-15
littleboat replied to littleboat's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
The squeaky wheels are rolling. -
Port Sheldon am, 9-10-15
littleboat replied to littleboat's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
Just heard back from Rollie. DNR approved new light. Consumers has the work order to install on post nearest the launch and it is on their schedule. Let's hope they are night/early morning fisherman too. Maybe they will surprise us and even install it on a new post even in a better position? -
Holland Pier
littleboat replied to nancy1000's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Holland Pier
littleboat replied to nancy1000's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout