Reel_Screamer

That is a "pig" brown great job guys, that looks like a female brown full of eggs. Brown spawn= lots of steelhead. That is the only thing bad about the shake down is that the water is full of crap....

Great job fellas on the fish it looks like a good time. I bet ya guys had sunglasses on the whole time, with all that "BLING" on the stern of that boat:grin: . The boat looks great with the riggers Caz..

Congrats on the fish and the pictures glad you had some luck.....

I would think either perch or post/pre spawn walleye.

Welcome SpecialX climb aboard and enjoy....

Welcome aboard Glynn..

I'am posting this for a buddy he is looking for 2 or more Fishlander down riggers. He said location is no problem so if anyone has some for sale, or know where there are any just contact me through this site......Thanks

Welcome aboard Richard glad to have ya. This is a great site so if you have any questions about fishing the big lake just yell out.......

I bought 6 from a friend 3 years ago and they are holding up good, but i only use them for walleye. The reason i dont use them for salmon is they just dont

sound like they could do the job on a 15 or so pound king......

Sorry to hear it Caz i know what your going through, i just had to put my best

"buddy" down after 16yrs. It's like losing one of the family. And another one

will never replace the one you lost. But sometimes it's better for the animal,

no matter how we want it to be....Keep your "chin" up man.

This event is the day before a West Michigan League fishing event going out of Fishermans Landing on 12 August. Get your campsite, stay the night, and fish the West Michigan League event on Sunday.

I just finished spooling up two MA45DX reels with my first leadcore ever. I set up a 2 color SWR on a 8 ft downrigger rod, and a 8 color with a 6-1/2 foot Okuma medium action rod. I used 150 yds of 30# Spider Wire Braid as backer for the 8 color and 25# Ande as backer for the 2 color. Both have 50 ft leaders. I used the overhand knot, and stuff the mono or braid into the leadcore shield, to make the splices. I don't think I could make these splices on the boat. I may expand the use of that 2 color rig, this Spring for Walleye off the boards.

Cazz's thread on SWRs got me thinking about leadcore. I got a lot of good advice from some of the GR8 Charter Captains and GR8 members willing to share. TY all VM. I have an extra 10 colors of core in case I need to replaces some that gets cut off. If it goes well for me I may just spool up another reel. Three rods dedicated to core will probably be my limit. I think core will be like Dipsys, you either love it or hate it. Just for the record, "you know I'm a Dipsy man".

Welcome aboard Hardwork glad you have another Walleye Whacker to the clan.... Enjoy.

Shallow is good over here in central lake erie along the shoreline in the spring. 15-25 foot may thru june, thats when I run my other secret weapon. A diving body bait with no hooks and a 3 foot leader tied to the front hook ring of the lure with a stinger scorpion. very deadly..

Man you guys really make me jealous fishing that "deep water". This year i'm going to experiment wiht the leads on my dipsys.......And give "core" a fair hand shake.......

22-30 FOW. Bottom Bouncers with various color homemade crawler harnesses. More limits than not last yr, but a lot of under size fish. Should be another G8 yr.

Wow i was believing it to till the 42#er too.Good one Caz !!!!!!!

Excellent pics Mike i see you got them all uploaded lol.. Are you and the family have your tickets for next year. Sometimes i wish i had a monster truck when i'm driving down the road, dont mind me i'm just venting some road rage........LOL

I got the majority of my eye's over 68-70 fow, usually down 35-45 with dipsey's being the way to go. The hot lure till mid july were the MI Stingers in oil slick chicken wing, monkey puke, and superman. After about mid July I switched over to a larger watermelon, metallic spoon.And we couldn't keep them off the things!

Of course I always have 1 firetiger worm harness out there behind a big dipsey on "0" setting 35' back on the reels line counter. so figure 8' leader and 35' from the reel, right in the prop wash, the walleye like it there for some reason. And when one of them hits it it a beutiful site seeing that rod start dancing like it does ! I can't wait!

Good job fellas, man are those browns pretty fish.And they taste great......

Just wondering where everybodies best depth was for walleye. Mine was in the 23 to 27 fow. Our best set up was Big Jon mini disc with a varied length leader usually it was 4 to 6 ft depends on the clarity of water,and our hottest spoons were Silver Streak greasy chicken wing, wonderbread, and the hot lobster. Were by far the only spoons that repeated success for several trips, we atleast averaged 12 to 14 fish each trip.

Congrats minnow on the fish sounds like you had some fun, and got the cob webs out of your rig after winter. Wont be long and we will be fishing in t-shirts or no shirts.......

Went to the river this weekend, to find some steelhead, and that we didwe ended up with 7 fish boated and 3 turned loose and lost 2 not a bad day of fishing.Method of fishing, we drifted spawn and wax worms all fish came on waxies, not a 1 on spawn. Looks like next weekend will be my last trip, the river looks like I-75 Saturday.Get the big boat out and chase some walleye's.

Well for me its like the first few fish i get all excited but after that i just usually yell "fish", but i'm usually driving, now my brother in the back at 6'2 235lbs stay out of his way he'll take ya down. But i still get excited when a rod goes off especially when its still dark out when the spreader lights are on.

I thought it's getting close for the big water so this will get you a little more pumped......