littleboat

I didn't find any nicks on the guides, but it only happens on the slide diver when I use the heavier weight and ring regardless of the line type. I noticed on the larger ring that the part that it's edge seems a little sharper and that the front of it where it is somewhat square it's edge is even sharper. I have since sandpapered all of the rings edges and the square area just in front also on the larger ring. I'm going to test it without the ring at first just to see if it happens at all without the big ring. I have never been to crazy about that spring set up. Is the surgical tubing you use the same length as the spring? The standard dipsys don't have the sharp edges on the ring or the little square form near the front on the larger ring if one is attached to them. The rings are very smooth. Thanks for some ideas to try. Have you used the heavier weight and ring? Sent from my SM-T713 using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Has anyone been experiencing slide divers breaking the line as they are being retrieved near the back of their boat without any fish on or caught on anything obvious on the boat. I have experience the lost of 3 slide divers in the past week on different line types. I have used these units for several years with no problem and the proper knots for the type of line. These were new divers from different stores. I'm wondering if they are having a quality control issue leaving edges on different components that fray the lines, leaving them to break under non fish load conditions. Anyway for the report. Launched late 11:30am-4. Fished from 110-150. Went 1/2 catching 9# king in east troll, 2.5 sog with SS mag blue dolphin on 250 copper. Marked lots of fish. Catchable fish in top 50 fow. Lost 1st fish when it spit the hook as it neared the boat. Waves were a choppy 2ft and laid down very late.

Nice looking boats, your Crestliner looks like it has some size to it. What's it's length?

This is my actual "Littleboat" a 16 -1/2 ft Crestliner Sport Angler. I use both on the big lake, but the smaller, I use for walleye and perch on the little lakes and rivers.

The fence weigh in at about a pound, but it put up the bigger fight! Easier to clean though.

Fished 70-200ft, 1-3 ft rollers, surface temp 60. 2 for 3. First bite broke my hook on my RV MS Blue Jeans and took off. Second bite was a 9 ft piece of orange snow fence that wrapped around my prop. I had to hang on in a very challenging position to cut it away. I lost about 30 minutes while I worked on it. The final hit made it all worth while. A 22# king, taken with a Mag RV Flounder Pounder, on a 270 copper, 2.3 sog, east troll in 195 fow at 11:41 am. Also ran into another owner of a boat like mine only a foot shorter up from St. Joe on a coast guard exercise.

That's a pretty of a KING!

Love it! Go get them!

What did the king weigh? Looks like a good one.

Nice looking kings!

The fish must have forgot to set their alarm clock! Great catch!

The fog is patchy, so it might looks worst than it really is. I fished Tuesday solo and went 4 for 7 with 2 laketrout, 1 coho and 1 big king, then I had rain and fog. The fog was all the way down to the launch site and you could barely make out the channel sides.

What a day fog fog fog! We ( with me, my 89 yr old uncle, drives up from Michigan City) fished South Haven from from 9 a.m. this morning till 2:30 in 90 to 120 feet of water going 8 for 10. Wire divers, slide divers, 210 copper and 250 copper were the hot ones. Lures were all mag size, MS Raptor, Monkey Puke, MS Green Jeans and MS JJ Mac. Divers were back 110 and 150. No rigger hits. Trolls were north and south at 2.5 to 2.6. Ball temp was 44.2 and surface was 53.8. We ran out of steam and called it a great day! Biggest king was 20.41# others ran between 6.75# and 14.61#. Also had one 6.71# steelhead. I cleaned my uncles 4 at south haven and mine at holland. South Haven has a very poor cleaning station.

Nice king pics. Love that bent spoon pic! Great catch!

Great catch under difficult conditions. Similar situation last time down there, some boats nailed it and some within eye site with similar baits were not as fortunate. Like that king! Congrats!

Great catch! Real nice pics.

Great catch!

That's the St. Joe cleaning station.

Headed down to St. Joe to fish with my 89 year old uncle. We went 6 for 8 all kings. Total of 70#. He worked me hard with my littleboat manual DRs. Fished 12-3pm. Ran 210cu, 250cu and 9C with caramel and green dolphins plus a Hud, all mags. DRs had "nickle nuts" and "mirage catch a bunch" flies with light green crush and protroll fin chartreuse paddles. Trolls were north and south at 2.5-2.6 sog at 85-97fow. DRs were down 46 and 67 feet with 18ft leads. Had one triple when we hit a school. Fished painted well on sounder. Catching kings was like dipping for minnows at the baitshop. Surface temp was 53 with spots as high as 55, drs temps were 45.6. We could have easily got our limit, we couldn't close the lid as it was, but I could see my uncle was tiring and I needed to get him back to the launch. It was a great day!