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    Looking for Owner of Pursuit Boat Listing

    in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent

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    Looking for Owner of Pursuit Boat Listing

    Hello All,

    Looking for the owner of the boat in the listing at the below link. I suspect that because it's not listed on any other sites it probably sold long ago, but I haven't received a response to my inquiry through the site. Even if it's sold would love to take a look at this thing in person to see one locally as it seems to fit the bill for what I'm looking for in my next boat.

    https://boatselect.com/boat/forsale/pursuit-235-denali-ls-102927830.html

    Thanks!

    where to start after a big storm?

    in General Discussion

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    Fishing after storms is always tough. Any heavy wind with N in it though is going to cool down the water, especially up north because of the shelf. Watch the buoy temperatures and see what they do and then check the water temp in clean water around the pier heads before heading offshore, especially this time of year, the kings could very well be at the piers heads. They were catching fish in PM lake the last couple days without cold water in tight even. If in tight is dead, JD outlines a good plan for running out deep. Or just go pound for trout


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    [NEW] 9.9hp Yamaha Kicker Motor + iTroll Digital Throttle Controller

    in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent

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    My big lake boat experienced an accident two weeks ago that totaled both my main and kicker motor. Insurance is covering replacements but I will no longer need this kicker as I'm switching my main over to a 4-stroke with digital controls. As a result I have a brand new never mounted 9.9hp Yamaha kicker motor for sale. It has remote controls, high thrust, and is the long shaft model. It retails for $3200 before tax but I'll let it go for $3000 cash. Here are the specs for it...

     

    http://yamahaoutboards.com/outboards/High-Thrust/comparisons

     

    At that price I'll also include a brand new never installed iTroll digital throttle control with Hunt mode, one remote idle/run switch, and neutral safety interference. This package is $500 new and is a top of the line controller that is waterproof, freeze proof, and programmable with the Hunt mode for variable trolling speed control. More info can be found here...

     

    http://www.itroll.us/itroll.buy.html

     

    Can be picked up in Holland, MI. Contact Kevin at six one six-514-8640

     

     

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    Holland- 4/20-4/28

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Thanks alot man we only fished few hrs Tuesday was in the 180-200 range. Only one coho. So moved East for last hr 135-160 range got a steelhead and a laker. We're going in morning. Probably stay in closer hearing someone else think the Coho moved North.

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    We fished Tuesday in Grand Haven from 150-260FOW with lines from the surface down to 130ft and only went 2/7, with a coho and 12" king. Had a bunch of short strikes that just wouldn't stick. Never ran into a good pod of fish just a slow pick.


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    Tackle Boxes, Bins or Other

    in General Discussion

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    For us, spoons go on spoon pads and JPlugs in the Amish outfitters holders, both mount on the inside of the gunnels while fishing and go in their zip up storage bag and into the cabin when not. Paddles, spin doctors, and dodgers go in flasher files, some I custom made to better fit specific flasher/dodger types. Extra pre-rigged flies, meat rigs, and spin n glows get stored in the Amish Outfitters bait head caddy. Body baits go in a rust free Plano box. Extra unrigged flies, beads, meat heads, and spin n glows go in a Plano box. One smaller waterproof/rust free Plano box goes in the back corner compartment of the boat at the transom, this has all terminal tackle. Extra line goes in a Plano line spool box. Planer boards and dipsy divers under the gunnels in the Big Papa Sports planer pockets and diver duffle. This system has worked well for us. No exposed hooks anywhere, but everything is very accessible and stays dry and rust free.


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    Best Mooching Rods and Reels?

    in General Discussion

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    My first passion is fly fishing as well, been doing it since I could walk so the guiding the line thing wasn't and issue for me, but when you take friends and have to explain over and over what you mean by that well it just doesn't end well. Again on downriggers with mono it wasn't an issue tho. We run 20lb for spoons and 30lb for flashers on our rigger rods. I keep an extra set of reels and swap out depending on what I'm using. If I had to pic one I'd go with 25lb but run fluorocarbon. If you search my older posts on here you'll see some pictures of my rigs before I switched back over.


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    Best Mooching Rods and Reels?

    in General Discussion

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    We ran mooching reels on riggers and board rods for two years, started using them on our small 16' boat running 6-8 lines and they worked well. Diawa M-One have stronger drags than the Shimano's and they don't have creep, the Shimano's were almost unusable for that reason. We just switched back over to conventional stuff this last May/June because they were too much work using with 4 planer boards per side on our new bigger boat. We even ran copper off of them but the 1:1 just is too inefficient to make that fun and if you get a newbie on the rod they forget to watch where the line is going on the reel; with no line guide we had a lot of instances where it piled up on one side. That isn't a problem with 20lb mono though so they always worked well for riggers. As for the rod, those big long mooching rods aren't needed IMO, we literally used 7' Cabela's Whuppin sticks and they were a blast to catch fish on.

     

     

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    Favorite Plugs???

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

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    Silver Horde Ace Hi or Dreamweaver Captain's Choice are in the water for us 90% of the time we're fishing plugs. Had a little better luck late season around the pier heads with the Dreanweavers last year, their rattle is louder with a higher pitch and it seemed like that's what they wanted last year more. Colors that work year in and year out late July thru September are Green or Blue Splatter Back, Green Lightning, Yellow Lightning, MOP Black dots, Glow, Yellow Tail, The Grinch, Chrome Redhead, Green Ladder back, Easter Egg. This a good explanation on when to fish them, we pretty much use them at all the different scenarios described in the video.




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    Downrigger Weights

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

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    We run the same as Killerbe20 and have for a long time. The only thing I don't like is the amount of blowback below 100ft as was mentioned. We found ourselves having to go down there a lot more this past year so may try some torpedo's next season. There's a couple guys on the Lake Ontario United forums that make torpedo weights for a very reasonable cost with shipping if those are of interest. I may pick up a pair in the spring


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