Trina Rose

Dreamweaver showtime spin doctor with a blue fairways fly.

Moonshine uv wonderbread

Moonshine blue flounder pounder/ uv flounder pounder.

most will agree it doesnt matter. I have just plain lead color and this has been a great year for riggers, even in the daylight hours

I get the same thing on my boat seats. I use a mixture of bleach and comet. Takes it right out with some mild scrubbing.

Loomis street is ten bucks. Nice launch but im a cheap skate so we launch our twentyfive foot century at the free launch around the back of P. M lake. The downside is that there is no fish cleaning station and limited parking. Plus the drive around pere marquette lake. Loomis street and copean park have nice fish cleaning stations.

All i know is we fished ludington the afternoon of the 26th and the water was freezing at big sable point. We did not take any fish up there so we ran back and fished in front of the harbor. We marked lots of bait there and have heard reports of some nice kings being caught around the harbor due to the warmer water there. All we hooked up with at the harbor that night was lots of small one year old salmon. The wind is supposed to blow southwest next three days. That should warm the water some. Most charter captains have been running to the southwest to catch mature kings. Good luck out there.

18 feet of 20 lb big game and the 6 ft of 20 lb seagar flouro

We use 10 In Frankfort and 16 in ludington

Lots of dead bait on the beaches in frankfort as well. Ludington also had alot of small dying bait on the surface from the pier heads to three miles north of the point.

Thanks for the report. It's been dead in Frankfort as well.

Jakyl.

As Ed mentioned above, it also depends on the lure size and current. Best way to find out is using them. I hated dipsys when I first started using them. Now after five years experience with them I find they catch most of the fish.

The dive chart from luhr Jensen i believe tells u the depth if u are running 20 pound mono at 2.5 mph. It all depends on what u are running for line. Mono stretches and drags in the water more than braid or a wire diver. I run wire on all four of my divers and I know I can get a small diver with the small ring to dive to over 75 feet on the 3 setting. My low wire diver on the 1 1/2 setting will go over 100 ft deep. Like I said it depends on the line u use for your dipsys. I like wire. No stretch, less drag in the water. Hope this helps

20 bucks a trip. Usually. Frankfort is a short run to the shelf so my main fishing buds usually slip me a ten. Plus I am only running a 125 mercury now not a big block ford in my old Thompson. Twenty a person is the norm tho. Just to help with the fuel plus a little extra.

Thanks for the report. It is the same type of action up here in Frankfort. One or two kings. Either very early morning or late at night. The fish are very scattered.

Fished Ludington this morning. Set up in 120 fow in front of the bath house. Took one big lake trout on a high diver out 330 with a white glow spin doctor and a blue fairways fly. Searched high and low but never found any kings. Tonight I fished pentwater. Ran south to the silver lake dunes. Set up in 120 fow. Took one lake trout on the same spin doctor and fly. Also picked up a seven pound king on a 250 copper 45 lb, fish hit on a warrior uv mixed veggie. Tough fishing.

I heard the kings showed up in manistee a day or two after the tight lines fOr troops tournament. I am even hearing reports of kings in the Frankfort area. I myself have not been out, but some charter guys I know have been getting between five and ten kings per trip. We do have three days of north wind coming so that may not b good for the kings.

The last two years i was soaking my herring strips in herring oil before i put them in the water. I didnt really see a difference. I was also soaking my felt imitation herring strips in herring oil. Problem with that is you need to bring the felt strips up and re-apply the oil. I have found that the felt imitation strips do not work as good as the real meat. As far as whether or not oil makes a big difference, im not totally convinced. I am going to continue using the oil until its gone, than see how well regular herring works without the oil.