Nailer

Nice job Guys! Sound like the lake was rough but, the temps where nice.

Very nice Ed. Sounds like a great time.

I made the mistake of making my son gut his own deer last year. Now he wants nothing to do with it:(

Good Luck on you endeavors. Bring the camera and take lots of photos.

Last year.

Frank, I've had it on my two out riggers. It first I thought it was good but, after a few (4-6) years it looses strength. I lost 3 balls before I gave up and switched it out. I believe what S.X says about it hooking the other riggers. We also trouble with that in deep water. Stay with the wire.

Ken

That is way too cool.

My daughter reeled in here first salmon when she was 5. Great job with the family Andy.

That's great Jay and Wife. Squirrel stew tonight?

them are hogs ..do you mind me asking what you run ?or any tips

Don, This is not a big boat fishery. %95 of the time we slow troll the steep breaklines with a bow mounted electric trolling motor. We run the drops at 10-12'. The best drops are the ones that drop off directly to deep water. We rarely if ever fish during the day light. The fishing really gets good when the water hits 40 deg. Some of our best lures.

Casting these same lures over shallow flats can also be productive.

There are some guys that troll the river channel from The black Buoy down to the Power plant and do ok on the suspended fish during the day light.

Just about every break on the lake will hold fish at some point. The key is to find them .

Good luck.

We'll start some time around the first of November.

Ken.

Sounds like a great night Andy.

This year was great, other than the weekend blows. We got fish every time out, and the size was noticeably bigger than last year.

Nice looking smallmouth Ken! Have you ever ate smallmouth? They are very tasty!

Yes, back when I was single and food was in short supply. Unfortunately for me most of my family doesn't care for fish. %90 of the smallies we got where of keeper size.

I took the day off and went with my retired friend to the Muskegon River.

We fish back to the basics (hook line and sinker). A couple of split shot a few feet in front of a single hook, tipped with a minnow and drifted or cast over the deep weeds. The smallies where loving it. We lost count how many but, I'm sure it was more than 20. We also picked up 6 or 7 pike. All the fish went back. Here's two from a double I had.

Wow! great job Mike.

What brand is that? It look like it has a nice big fishing deck.

I took my boat with a retired friend and my cousin had his boat with a rookie crew. Not that great of a trip, with warm water all the way down to 100', and fog. We only got one fish in 135' back 210' on the magnum wire diver/sigs mountain dew fly/yellow tail coyote flasher. We also lost one on the 250' copper with a green Mylar J-plug. The fun began when it got dark and my cousins gps locked up. We where both out in 135' but had no idea where the other was. Long story short about 1.5 hours later and a hand held compass, he made his way back to shore. I had no worries for us, as my gps has the lake shore line on it but, with 1/8 mile visibility, his crew was a bit nervous. Most likely my last time out this year. With my boy in Football and my daughter in Equestrian team, my time is limited.

Thanks to all that have been open to helping us this year.

We had a few 1 fish trips this year but, our skunk less streak is now at 2 years:ps-020:

Ken

I average 10 - 20 trips to Muskegon every fall. We normally don't start till the water flips (some time late October or early November).

We fish them up until Ice up.

Two hogs that where released after photo was taken.

My 12.75 that I got mounted

My sons 11.4 that went back.

Nice job Jay.

That's great Tim! Now we need to get him on Muskegon in mid December.

Nice rig Jason.

I bet that fast down was the trouble, I have had no tangles but, my riggers are some old Walker electric ( they are very slow).

Nice going Jim.

Nice Job S.S.

Thanks for the report Hourlate. A lot of the guys that post a bunch have slowed there fishing down. As fall approaches and school starts it's hard to get out as often. Keep up the good work.

Ken.

It's called a Fish Locator. I'm %99 sure it's isn't made any more. Cabelas did sell them.

Wolfe, check out this thread.

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9440&highlight=night+program