mrhookup

Anybody have any experience with these? Found a really good price on a pair of triple holders and trying to decide if they would be a good deal/of good quality.

i love seein freshies like that, a great sign for sure

im looking at making some custom 3 holder trees, wiring and adding some more lights, adding a couple more single holders, a vhf and antenna and boat name decal.

there's plenty of fish below 6th street too, I went 10 for 16 on steel in about 3hrs yesterday morning

man quit giving these great reports all ready! I can't wait to get down there!

Go get em Kevin. By the way how is the boat working out?

Mike, it worked great! Unfortunately we only got it out a couple of times but she still catches fish:thumb:. Would have taken it out more but with work and not having a car that can tow it (i had to con a vehicle off a buddy a couple times ) it made it difficult to do more than this. But that's ok, we only had the 2 downriggers anyways, she'll really be ready to go in the spring after I make some trees this winter.

east or west sige

Either the east at the Post Office or I'll be wading out in the center run, coming in from the west side, haven't decided yet. If I'm wading I'll probably be the one casting the big spey rod or I'll be centerpinning the PO run.

at 6th? i'll be there fri night and sat morning

all the cohos must have been in the ladder then, it was full of them sat morning

check this site

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/product.php?site=grr&product=omr&issuedby=grr

water temp was 72 on the beach yesterday according to this, they report everyday at 11am so you can see later this morning if it's dropping yet. they're predicting south winds today then switching over to NW tonight. Then NW all day tomorrow and N all of Sunday. I'd personally wait until Sat or Sun to go, but if tonight is the only time you can go, then go because there's always atleast a few fish around the pier heads this time of year.

yes

Most people here net fish out the back of their boat. The down riggers are on the back corners. No lines out the back. So the 7 foot rod is closest to the back. The other rods can easily go over it. The 7 foot rod never needs to go over any other rod. That's why the 7 foot makes sense. In your case... Probably not.

I think my post was misleading, we net the fish from the back of the boat, there's just not a lot of room between the two rigger lines of the back corners. You have to steer them in between those lines is what I meant I guess.

There are really two good reasons for shorter rigger rods. The first is that they are easier to get other rods over and around. The second and the most important is that you can control a fish better with shorter rod. Most of the time, your riggers are the shortest lines out and the fish often come to the net quick and very green, so being able to put power to the fish and have quick reactions is important.

Ok, I see why it's easier to get around shorter rods, but I've always thought it's easier to control fish with longer rods? Maybe this is just from me being mostly a river fisherman over the years. I wanna upgrade my rigger rods this winter and on our smaller boat it was nice to be able to steer the fish around lines at the back of the boat this past Saturday with our 8'6" rods. Do you think I could still do this with 7 footers?

there isn't much structure for the fish to sit in immediately above the dam so they move through that area pretty quickly usually after they get past the dam. I personally like to fish the tribs above the dam as they concentrate the fish better. Floats and spawn, casting hardware, or fly fishing all work fine at any of these places

We've used both yellow and white painted cannon balls with success with each.

Got out on the water for the second trip with the redone boat but with the intentions this time of getting on some fish. Checked the webcam and forecast and it looked like about a 1-2'. Got on the water at 6:30pm and was greeted with 2'-3' with the occasional 4' mixed in for good measure . This is about as bumpy as I like to go in our little boat but we took our time and rode out to 80ft and set lines. Trolled west to 110 then back to 95 and turned south. About 5min after the turn a rigger set at 70ft with a standard DW glow Yellowtail fired. Netted a 9lb coho for the first fish on the redone boat . Bigges coho I've seen in a while. Decided to cirle back around and hit the same spot. Again, as soon as we made the turn south in 102ft into that area the same rod fired again. After a couple of looong runs we put a solid 10lb king in the boat. Called it a night about a half hr. later as the waves were starting to build. Fish 6:30-8:30pm, went 2-2, 95-100 FOW being the best.

here's the coho (cell phone pic, kind of grainy)

I see a lot of guys mentioning that they use 7ft rods for riggers. Why do you guys prefer the shorter rod as opposed to a 8"-8'6" rod?

a 15lb Coho, that sounds like a heck of a fish, any pics?

good job Mike

So when are you putting the Yamaha on it?

Looks great though, it will be nice when you put that first layer of fish slime in it.

Haha yeah...definately meant Suzuki 30

Question for you guys again. I see on a lot of boats in the background of pictures spoons hanging under the gunnels on the sides or back of the boat. What are you guys hanging them from? I'd like to add something like this to the underside of my downrigger board to make it faster to get to baits.

thanks

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mrhookup

Welcome to the site Nick!

the only 2 trips in michigan that get plants are the St. Joe and Big Manistee. Anything showing up in GH are strays from one of these systems or the many creeks in Indiana that get planted.

its always good to hear a solid report out of port sheldon, way to go on the kings

sounds like a great evening great job