stevesykora

Agreed. Got my bases from them and they are great. timely shipping as well, as I needed them for my Lund back in June as we used it as a emergency back up for the GH offshore classic.

Thanks... Can you or someone else post a pic of a "Flounder Pounder" ? I am new enough to big lake fishing that i am still working thru being able to ID names/color combos of lures. thanks in advance. steve

Thanks guys... gonna pass along right now. Have a great rest of weekend.

All - I have a friend heading up to Manistee (first time there) for 3 days with his son. He will be using leadcore, 2 down riggers and dipsys. Any basic advice on directionally where to fish (has a 20' Lund.. so limited in distance for motoring too far from port), FOW ... and basic spoon/fly combinations ?? I gave him some basics... based upon fishing with my friend out of Grand Haven.... (although we often motored up to Whitehall water). Any quick replies would be welcome... as I will text him some info... thanks in advance for the help.

23 - 28 FOW (at the time). Fish between Oak Point and Sleeper State park. Sometimes move out to 30+ range later in day. Bottom bouncers with crawler harness..... Green and grn/white combo seemed to work... but saw that purple/pink were productive colors as well. 1.4-1.8 sog worked for me. Weird thing was we hooked into monster catfish as welll... and that had not happened in past ten years. I also fished out of Grindstone... and the large walleye we caught in deeper water led me to believe they may have moved deeper.... but... I found them again in same area. Current reports from my relatives say fishing still hot in same water. hope this helps.

Sorry for the delay in posting. Had great success walleye fishing out of Caseville about 5 days. 22-24' FOW was the target with hot n tots and crawler harnesses, with bouncers a must. Green was the hot color. Limited out twice.... and also hauled in 5 20+ lb catfish... crazy.. never did that before. There were some reports as recent at 7/16 that fish moved out to 40' fow.. but honestly.. dont know where you would find that in Caseville/sag. bay basin. Grindstone... had great action there fishing for lakers, salmon, steelhead. 3 trips produced over 30 fish. Fished 70 - 156 fow north/n. east of the reef. Caught 3 steelhead that were 8+ lbs. and caught 3 walleye... each over 4 lbs. 50' down in 100 fow on monkey puke (magnum size)... Blue dolphin (mag) was the hot color on 7/13 for lakers.. caught 4 over 20 lbs each.. Steelhead hammered double orange crush (standard size)... while the salmon (coho, some small kings... and atlantic)... hit lemon ice, blue dolphin, monkey puke and derivations.... was surprised to catch a 6 lb king off a spin n glo off the rigger.. All in all... had a productive 2 weeks in sag. bay and lake huron.... honestly.. those that say the fishery there is dead... I would strongly argue against that.. in fact.. many of the days we fished.. which were beautiful days... 1-3 at most when wind kicked up... seemed like we were only boat in area... actually was surprised at the lack of fishing pressure. The productive we had... equalled the production when I fish out of Grand Haven... save the fact that Salmon size/mix cannot match L. Mich. fish. I was impressed.. had tons of fun... and cant wait to go back. Go Blue !!

Grant.. did you mean 6/23 instead of 5/23?... if yes.. thanks for the report... I am going to fish Grindstone for 3 weeks in July... I am not clear where you headed out to find them... Were you near the reef in Pt Austin? Speaking to some of the locals a few weeks ago, thats where to start in 80-90 fow.. then work out.. you started deeper... what was your strategy ?? sorry for what might be basic questions... still learing the big water strategy... a big shift for me from fishing inland lakes.

Thanks Peter and Mike. !!! Will do. I will be spending 3 weeks in July/August up there, so will post as often as I can.

All, I am a relatively new member.. this is my first post. I really enjoy the posts and updates from members fishing L. Michigan/Sag. Bay/Erie... but I must say.. I was hoping to get more updates from the tip of the thumb... I will be new to fishing the Grt Lakes and will provide updates as I go along. Is there a way I can get updates on what is happening in the Grindstone/Pt Austin waters? I see several posts on this site.. but alot of time between... Any pointers for me to continue learning would be great. Thanks in advance.