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  1. Mega Byte
    Which launch do you use in Muskegon? (That's another port I haven't used yet.)
  2. Mega Byte
    My crew wants to fish Grand Haven tomorrow instead of Pentwater. I've never launched from there before. Is the Grand Haven Municipal launch the best site to launch from? (On another map I see the same location being called Harbor Island Boat Launch.)
  3. Mega Byte
    Well, they went from stocking around 8 million kings a year in 1995 to a 330,000 last year. That is a huge change. The logic was the invasive mussels are messing up the food chain which is killing off the alewives, which is 99.9% of what the kings eat. However, I am amazed at much bait I've seen the last couple of years. And these kings are getting huge. I think we are catching more fish, and bigger fish now than we did when they stocked the salmon in the higher numbers 20 years ago. I know some guys and 1 charter captain that got out of salmon fishing - sold their boats and gear while there was still a market for it - thinking the collapse was inevitable like it was in Lake Huron. But, these low stocking numbers have allowed the alewives to rebound, and with them the salmon. What I was expecting to be the worst King fishing of my life has been some of the best these last two years, and now onto year 3. For 2018, the DNR now plans to stock 553,000 Chinook salmon, up from 330,000 that had been planned previously for this year.
  4. Mega Byte
    That is a great catch for 2 1/2 hours and only 3 lines in the water. Well, you probably only had 2 lines in the water most of the time. Man, it seems like the rigger bite has been going crazy lately. That is great. Keep sending those fish North. I'm going out of Pentwater on Wednesday.
  5. Mega Byte
    My guess is you won't notice much of a difference cutting through the bones. You could probably argue that the 50 degree angle might hold it's edge longer. You might notice more of a difference trying to get skinny and strip those rib bones off of your fillet. I have the same sharpener (just ordered some bulk replacement belts last week) and I keep it simple and use the 40. But hey, you should do some research on this. Fish, fillet, report and repeat until we have a good sample size.
  6. Mega Byte
    Wow, what a day! Great job. The SWR was hot for us last week too. It's great getting them on the rigger. Great job. Thanks for the report.
  7. Mega Byte
    Decided to go where the fishing was hot for our first trip of the year. We pulled lines at 7:30 because of the long drive home. We finished with 5 kings, 2 coho and 3 lakers. The hot bait for us was NBK on a SWR with the ball at 40'. It took 5 fish, including the big 22# king (pictured). Our best water was 105-116 feet. Speed at the ball was 2.7. SW troll was best. After us another boat came in that had 5 and another boat that spent time in 120 fow came in skunked. It definitely got rough out there. By the end of the night, some of those swells were an easy 5'. Baits 40' - 60' down worked best for us for kings. Mostly a spoon bite for us.
  8. Mega Byte
    That is one busy morning! You didn't lose many fish. Great job.
  9. Mega Byte
    Nice!
  10. Mega Byte
    I thought this was pretty interesting... http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2018/05/lake_michigan_endured_two_mete.html
  11. Mega Byte
    Nice job.
  12. Mega Byte
    @BlueEye FYI
  13. Mega Byte
    I've never had an issue with the fat, but I bleed them out and remove the skin every time. Buy some of this, remove all skin, coat each side and edges generously, fry uncovered in a little bit of extra virgin olive oil just a bit over medium heat until the internal temp is 135 degrees. (Flip half way through.)
  14. Mega Byte
    His probe worked fine on my boat.
  15. Mega Byte
    Looks a lot like my Pro-Line 251.
  16. Mega Byte
    Nice job.
  17. Mega Byte
    How did I miss this? I've been looking for 1 or 2 for a while. Oh well... Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App
  18. Mega Byte
    I read that they don't want to stock under 10,000 fish in a location for cost/efficiency reasons. Must be whatever number their algorithm produced was less than 10,000 and they don't believe in rounding up. There still should be some natural reproduction in the river though. If the alewives are able to rebound and the king stocking stays low, we're going to see more very large fish. This is a delicate dance the DNR is doing between the alewife population and salmon population. (And the weather, because that affects reproduction rates of both species as well.) So far they are doing a good job in the lake as a whole.
  19. Mega Byte
    A missing adipose fin is a sign of a stocked fish like the one pictured in this post. If there wasn't a stocking program in place, I'd be more apt to consider catch and release. If reproduction is a concern (which I don't think it is), that can be addressed simply with the stocking of more fish, or reducing the # of fish anglers can keep. I agree with your statement that Lake Michigan is "figuring out a way to survive", but the threat to Lake Michigan isn't the over harvesting of salmon, it's the invasive species and the disruption of the food chain. If all the Lake Michigan anglers got together and agreed to do catch and release, the DNR would stop the stocking program. The net result is the same number of fish in the lake, but now I have to buy farm raised salmon from Meijer.
  20. Mega Byte
    This will give you exactly what you are looking for: http://www.michigandnr.com/fishstock/ County Water Body Species Strain Date Number Operation Avg. Length Fin Clips, Marks, Tags Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/14/10 44,831 State Plant 4.02 oxytetracycline Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/12/11 43,800 State Plant 3.62 adipose, coded wire tag Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/03/12 45,520 State Plant 3.82 adipose, coded wire tag Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/13/13 15,039 State Plant 3.94 adipose, coded wire tag Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/08/14 15,081 State Plant 4.09 adipose, coded wire tag Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/09/15 16,068 State Plant 3.94 adipose, coded wire tag Ottawa Lake Macatawa Holland Net Pen (06N 16W 34) Chinook salmon Michigan 05/20/16 15,127 State Plant 3.82 adipose, coded wire tag
  21. Mega Byte
    Holland got 15,000 in 2013. http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10364_53405-297817--,00.html
  22. Mega Byte
    Pentwater 8/29 AM 1 for 3 Marked bait and nice arches in 60 - 80 fow. Fished them for about an hour and 15 minutes with no bites so we pulled lines and ran deep. I didn't really think we'd get them to hit, but when the graph lights up it's hard not to at least try. We started setting lines in 180 fow, NW of the pier heads. Had a fat coho on a green moonshine flounder pounder down 60 on a rigger in 184 fow. You'd think that fish was trying out for the US gymnastics team. Lots of jumps, flips and twists. Even after he threw the hook he kept jumping and twisting and flipping over and over. I think he was just trying to rub it in. Nice fat fish though. It looked very thick. Boated a small coho on the same setup in 239 fow (West troll). Lost the final fish on a green paddle and meat rig on an E troll in 220 fow. I heard of two other boats that didn't get a single hit. One other boat got 1 coho. I'm wondering if the cold nights these last few weeks has pushed the kings up river sooner than normal. Last year at this time we were still catching nice kings. I've landed 1 king in the last 10 days (5 trips). The rest of the fish were steelhead, coho and one skunk.
  23. Mega Byte
    How long does it take you to edit and produce a video like this?
  24. Mega Byte
    I enjoyed the video. Nice job Dan.
  25. Mega Byte
    We are going out on Tuesday and will give that a try. Thank you.
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