Nailer

That hat is great. Got to love those days on the big lake when its flat calm and the fish are biting. I'm always impressed on your ability to get fish GLF. (Brian isn't it?)

I took this shot June 25th looking back to shore out of Port Sheldon.

I can see raising it a few dollars, but doubling it??????

I am thinking this may create alot of poaching. People are going to wait until they shoot a deer, then go purchase a license to tag it.

That is exactly what it will do!

Thanks Jenny.

I took my 12 year old out this am. for the youth hunt. At 9:00 am this nice buck fell to a shot from our Black Power Gun. (I hope he doesn't think it's that easy all the time.)

The Radio in my boat that I put in a few years back has never transmitted very far. I can listen to other that are 5-8 miles away but, it will only transmit about 1 mile. I have an eight foot antenna. Dose the antenna have to be calibrated to the radio? It doesn't make any difference if it's on local or distance.

Any ideas or suggestions? The radio is an Icom.

Thanks.

Ken

Congrats on the title Phil! and thanks for all the Port Sheldon reports.

Ken.

Welcome aboard.

I don't know how the Rainbow act in Idaho but, in lake Mi most fisherman that target Rainbow like to use a mix of Orange in there spread. I have got Rainbows on a White flasher / Green fly combo though.

That's a nice fish you've got there!

I like to run my drags a bit on the loose side also. The one thing thats helped me this year is sharp hooks and letting the Boys reel the fish in. When the boys reel the fish in, they take there time more than I do. I have most of my fish get off when there in the dipsey set up. Good friend Tim S explained to me to take and loosen your drag before even taking the rod out of the holder. We also took our flies and Snell a single hooks with a treble. It helped but, by far the dipsey still losses the most fish (that could be because it also gets the most hits?)

I have a few lures that I put singles on and, the hook up percentage on them is not as high.

I think losing a few fish keeps it challenging,

Ken.

I have found this site to be very good for repair troubles

http://forums.iboats.com/index.php

After the Muskegon WMFL turney we went to White Lake and hit the night bite.

We started North at 5 pm in 60 fow trolled out to 150. First fish came after the sun set. Ended 4 for 5, all in the 11-13 pound range. all in the top 40 feet of water. Green/chrome J plug off the dippsey set at 80 took one, Moonshine-Brook trout and Night Crawler took 3 and stinger-Coyote lost one.

Most of the fish where South of the channel.

Nice job on the fish and nice display board you've got there.

So nailer I guess what I'm getting at is if you tie your fly directly to the swivel on the flasher what do you do if you want to change flies. It would seem that if you cut it loose to tie another one your leaders would keep getting shorter.

I've got two that have been doing very well so I haven't been changing that much. Yes if I do retie, I snip it off at the knot and lose a small amount, and some times I just make a new Snell rig.

Very rough out there, motored out to 120 fow, set lines at 7:00 pm Trolled to after dark with only one small king to show for it. Tough night after the great weekend fishing. We all need to get humbled once and a while.

#1 I tie my flys 20-24" directly to the swivel (Trilene Knot) that came with the flasher.

#2 I retie my fly with a #3 single hook snelled to a #1 VMC treble

#3 I use 50 pound leader material from Cabelas by Seaguar.

I don't recall his name on the boat, but his first name was Mike.

He was located on the West side of the channel.

A very nice Caption who was not shy about sharing information.

It was an invite trip for my son and I from a Friend/Client, who had bought the trip at a youth church event.

Started the morning Saturday with my son and 3 others on a Chartered trip out of Saugatuct. Set down in 70' with the glows and started taking fish right away, Continued taking fish till the sun came up. Headed to deeper water and pecked away at them. pretty much all rigs took fish but, the spoons did better.

(I was not the caption so I didn't keep tract of the details) ended 15 for 20 +-. Most of the fish where on the smaller size.

I took my son again that afternoon to Port Sheldon, Started in 140 fow north of the stack, trolled NW. hit the first at 149, 56 feet down on the SS. Smurf, turned South and things started happening. Ended 5 for 10, Smurf got 1 more, D/F/F back 150 took 2 rips, Moonshine Brook Trout also took 2, the best part was when I was fighting a fish on the rigger rod, the Dipsey/Flounder Pounder go's of. My son takes it just to have it come unbuttoned after a short fight. He puts it back in the rod holder (with out reseting it) to net my fish and It takes off with a different fish. A great night on the lake, made it in before the pack at the launch.

Here's Jake with one of them.

I need to adjust the Timing on my 1975 OMC 115, I looked but, I cant find an adjustment. can any one help me with this?

Thank you.

Ken.

Nice Job Mike, Got to love letting the Kids real the fish in.

If your going south on US 31, the first exit to Saugatuct has a new Bait Shop located 2 block West (of US31) on the South side. I checked them out the other day and they have all the spoons you could ask for.

Sounds like us all of last year!

Nice day of Hooky though.

This is a great link of the fish cam at the power plant.

http://www.lssu.edu/arl/fishcam.php

Thanks for the link, I'm now all set to camp for the night.

Is there going to be a prefish big fish contest?

Nice job GLF. How did the 55 pounds place you in the turnee?

Nice job Eagle, I have never ran a spin doctor off the lead, but it sounds like we should try it.

Way to go.

I took my son fishing tonight. We started at 60 fow North of the stacks, trolled south out to 85 fow (nothing there) headed back in to shallower water. the first fish hit the Blue Bubble Fly/ Flasher/ dippsey set back 75' #3 in 59 fow, soon after that the Green Fly/Flasher/dippsey (same 75 back) goes in 49 fow. hit a dry spell until the sun set, then the 6 color with a Moonshine Night Crawler goes off. We only had the 3 hits and landed them all. by the sound of the radio chatter we did as good as most and better than some.

We got all the fish South of the peer . The water temp varried from 47 in 50 fow to 51 in 80 fow. all the kings where like this one.

Does any one know the phone number to the campground at fisherman's Landing?

Thanks, Ken.