FBD

Sorry to jump on your post but I can't figure out how to create my own. We fished deeper than I wanted to try to keep grass off the lures. Crew mentioned they needed a fish for Easter dinner. No pressure. About half an hour in see something big rocket out of the water, black edge flutterdevle found an 8.4# brown off a one color 30' from the boat. With the pressure off we got a 3# brown down the chutě, turned back to port had a lull then got a small king, small brown, and a whitefish. Shad raps and a live target copper smelt took the rest. Released the king and brown. But not the whitefish. That would be silly.

We were the 19th boat out of Port Sheldon this morning. Coasties were pulling people over in Pigeon Lake. Nice flat day water was 33 and clear. Managed one laker in 40' off a River Rocker. Way too much traffic in close to think about trying for browns.

In out sucks for fishing. Leaving your gear out all night and having them put it away the next morning. Or conversely leaving it out all night and picking it up the next morning. If it's there when you show up at 5am with your crew. Yep, drive 40 minutes to wait until 8am to be told "we did not have room to drop it last night". Mine came with a year of in out paid in full; I used that time to rebuild the trailer and was done with that by July.

As part owner of this boat, this disgusts me. The DNR took our license money, bought out the commercial guys and handed over the gear to the tribal fisherman. Then they set a stellar example by sinking boats at the docks (this is not the first time), losing nets, not pulling them on time, routinely blowing through quotas, and laundering several hundreds of thousands of pounds of illegally caught fish (some years nearly 20% of the catch) through "legal" agents. Goid Ole Levi, was it a broken foot that kept you away from your boat, or the fact that you were in jail for buggering a minor? These were explanations from his past screw ups...

We have three cars for two of us. Truck for truck stuff gets about 3k a year. Wife ferries kids around in a Jeep. I can steal either to tow. I drive a focus as I log 70-100 miles a day. If one pukes we just cycle in another until I can fix it get it fixed. As for cost the 100k focus replaced replaced a 228k escort, the jeep has been with us 17 years, and the truck was given to us as a favor to settle a debt.

I tied in a short section of braid. Back to back uni knots for braid to mono. Tie an overhand knot in the wire, run the braid through it, uni knot the braid around the wire then cinch up the overhand knot. Or if it will fit through your guides a small Spro swivel.

Pretty much no 2-3 year old kings in the lake. Lots of 1 year old fish and a good bait hatch, so optimism for recovery of the bait.

Any update? Would be glad to help set up the night before.

I have beat the crap out of my Sea Nymph. Still doesn't leak a drop. The older two strokes run forever. Mine's been in the shop twice in 21 years, once packed full of silt from chasing a crippled duck into no man's land, the other to replace a fitting and tune the carb. Get enough motor. You can run bags to slow down but you can't do much to speed up. I love my 14 but for what you listed a 16 would be better.

Depressing.

Nice job. I was at the fisheries meeting in Ludington thinking the whole time I'd rather be fishing than talking about it