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  1. FBD
    I'm back. Life and cranky outboard motors have conspired to keep me off the big pond since January but I finally have given up on fixing the old motor and bought an even older one to replace it. Only to have that one have issues. So I bought a kicker to have a back up. Only to have issues with how and where to mount it. So after a couple trips on Mac which produced some very nice walleye but not much excitement, we hit the end of the piers and motored up. And got soaked as the kicker was in the wash. So I tilted up the kicker and took off and the main shut off. Come on. Well when reaching to tilt up the kicker I knocked the fuel line off the main. Set up in 50' a few good marks worked that 50-60 hard until 7 with nothing showing. Picked up the next line up of lures and headed out. Pulled a glow plug off the rigger put on a green dolphin shipped it down 70. Grabbed the slide diver and went to reel it in and the half core came with it. That would have been fun. Dicking around with that look over rigger is popped up. Just as I go to grab it, the rod hunkers over and starts screaming. I've missed that. Oh did I mention there was a slide diver and a half core behind the boat? Somehow we got that all squared away. Only to have the king run into the other rigger as I went to net it. And this bugger wasn't even 12 pounds. Trolled out to 105' back in and then pointed it at the piers. Pulling lines in 65' I spun a crazy Ivan by accident and when I straightened back out the 7 color stayed behind the boat. Reeled that in and found a nice 5.5# coho impaled on the single hook on a blue dolphin. So while not as inspiring as some reports on here, this was a very important mile stone.
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    Fish have been bipolar lately.
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    Excellent details felt like I was right there for the ride.
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    Fish Holland a lot and have dropped a few boards before. Gotten all but one back eventually. Hope it works out for you too.
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    Worked in front of Holland for steel that was fun with all the holiday traffic and sail boat race traffic. Once it got dark changed over the banged these two quickly before it was too dark.
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    Local marinas should be able to let you rent a transient slip for a day especially during a weekday???
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    Coho size this early is impressive
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    Tournament in SH this weekend
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    Is this a report or an ad?
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    We caught some kings last spring close enough to the dredge to need ear plugs…
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    Basic economics. What is something worth? Whatever someone is willing to pay. Plenty of lots of crap Carrylite duck decoys asking $50 a dozen on Craigslist to attest to that. Just sold some $179 new Abu Garcia reels for $60 a piece and it took two months to get that.
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    Cool report. Really interesting spots on that bottom brown. Almost thought Atlantic at first.
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    You’ll be lucky to get 25 cents a piece for old Northport Nailers. Pity as they still work. The other spoons I see are Producer’s spoons which you might be able to give away. Swap meet last week barely used currently popular spoons we’re going for $2 each.
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    I know you just bought a boat so you’re used to spending $$$ but cannonball prices are stupid these days.
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    10-12 and those are on manuals. Anything lighter and you get a ton of blow back and poor hook up’s.
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    Cool never heard of that one. Can you get more?
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    Did you choose the pug life, or did the pug life choose you?
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    Producer’s brand made a lot of knock offs in the day but they’ve been closed a while. I know they had a “banana” lure in their inventory.
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    It could be a Flatfish, a Kwikfish, or a Mag Lips. I don’t think it’s a mag lips as they have more pronounced eyes. A flat fish should have a size number molded into it.
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    Second Mystic. Did my 309’s myself. Also greased the drags. Back off the drags when storing the reels. Work over a cookie sheet. I remember an incredibly small spring and pawl falling out only way I knew where to put it back was the grime was missing where it was…
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    Trolled the beach south of Holland this afternoon. Nothing from the piers to the dune climb. Slid out to 20’ after we turned around. Nothing there either. About a mile from the piers slid out to 27’ or so and had a pull back on a planer board we lost - 2 color orange edge flutter devle. Then the other two color went off green dolphin DW. Rigger down 23’ fifty pulls back went DW mag green dolphin. Ended up with a pair of nice lakers both fell off in the net so it seems they were not too aggressive. Fishing in January in hoodies and no gloves. Weird.
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    $2 rectangular stone Because it works Hook needs to hang on a fingernail with no pressure applied
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