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Nice job Jarod, I may see you out there this weekend. I'll give you a call and we can swap some reports.

A few years back I did some jigging with some sweetish pimples and hooked one and never landed it. However I did see quite a few guys dragging some hoggs off the ice. This was over on the North side of the lake by the sports complex...I think thats what it is.

Husqvarna- Only because I ride their dirt bikes..And my uncle has had one for lots-o-years and no trouble. I think he got it from my grampa way back in the day. I know that you don't want to cheap out cause you'll wind up spending more fixing and replacing one in a year versus buying a good one to last a lifetime.

All I can say is WOW!! I am going to need more fish repellant for Don! That sounds like a HUGE undertaking but fun for everyone. I know that I would enjoy fishing closer to home and other ports every now and then. I can't wait to hear more.

Not shure if I quite understand Mike. Are you saying that each port will have 5 tournments and then the top 30% from that port fish a common classic event against the top 30% from the other ports? Can you break down a small senario to help understand a little bit. Would a division be perhaps St. Joe, South Haven. And another be Holland, Port Sheldon ect.?

Thanks Sixshooter for the correction... I had a blast fishing all these tournaments. I would love to do it all over again Sea-Mac cause that 23lb king BottomsUp75 hauled in is going to haunt me all winter long. It was a monster....

Sixshooter,

Your spreadsheet is incorrect, you have my big fish weight as my points for the 5th event. Also your finish place in the first column is incorrect.

Nice catch Mike, the fishing was tough this weekend. After experiencing the combat fishing out of Muskegon your better off trolling the shore for sure. I could'nt believe how rude some of those guys were in the channel. I would not call them sportsmen. I love the peace of the open water. Good luck in the Grand Haven tourney.

Nice Job.....4 at once, that sounds like fun!

Love the chrome on those fish pictures......Nice catch guys.

Nice job Tom, I'll bet you and Pat are having a ball up there this weekend. Keep up the good work.

UNREEL Will be there.

Nice report... You'll find those silver ones next time.

Nice report Tom........I had a similar setup out untill it got wrapped in my lead core..... That was the end of my lead program on Sunday, I stuck with 2 riggers and 2 diseys as well.

Thanks Don...You and your crew can do pretty darn good filling the cooler with big fish. I know you'll have everything fixed up in a couple weeks because you know I am only a 5lb king behind you!! I would bet if you call up sub-troll you could get that probe fixed or replaced pretty quick. I think the water conditions were tough on everyone in one way shape or form.

They are not the highest quality pics in the world there just off my cell phone.. I have a couple more I can email you tom PM me your email address.

Heading in for weigh in:

Channel Shot:

Channel Shot 2:

The Tipsey Toad was good! I know how hungry I was and I thought for sure you guys were going to beat me down for my burger untill yours came. That rough water sure does work up an appetite. I almost ate that GIANT Lampray we hauled in before we got to the tavern, I have a picture to prove it, I'll post up tomorrow when I get the pic from my buddy.

Nice catch Don, did you totaly lose your probe or just break it? Sometimes you have to get back to basics and rely on your intuition.

Heres my weekend breakdown. I will try and remember the best I can but its hard to remember everything cause I was working on about 7hrs sleep for 3 days.

Saturday AM- Fished from 7-11:30 in 100-120fow on the north nets out of port. I had a couple of rookies aboard and battled 4ft+ waves. We ended up 3 for about 7 or so with biggest king 14lb 10oz comming on a wire diver 140 back with a blue bubble spin doctor and mirage purple fly. Rest came on on downriggers 90 down and 70 down. Modified blue dolphin worked best.

Saturday PM- Fished for about an 1.5hrs and were just happy the lake finally layed down and I was able to do some more scouting and plugged in more net locations. We went 3 for 7 or so with a laker on a killer dolphin down 95. We made it out to 140-150 and the graph was loaded. As the sun dropped down the diver rods lit up and couldn't keep them on very good. We pulled in 2 medium sized kings and pulled lines to head in a sharpen some hooks for the tournament.

Sunday- Started the day south of the North nets were I wanted to go but the waves had other plans. It was tough to judge the waves in the dark and not eject you from the boat. At 5 am we shut down in 105ft and trolled south to get the lines set. We ran 2 riggers with sliders, 1 wire diver, 1 braided diver, and 2 lead core. Within a matter of the first 20 minuites and a attempted turn to north we abruptley tangled the lead into the braided diver and I don't know what else. I was busy trying to get out of 4 boats way and couldnt belive a guy shut down 250ft behind my boat in my prop wash. I could see there faces in the dark. So we locked down a south troll with no lead just the 2 riggers and 2 divers. We were at a lul for quite some time untill I saw the small front come over and I knew things were going to get interesting. We then were in 140-150 fow when the front hit us I felt a rush of wind, on top of the already high winds, and both downriggers poped and started peeling line. We hauled in twin 12lbrs and in a matter of 20 minuites had another smaller one come off NBK and killer dolphin on the rigger and then the wire diver was on fire pulling in out biggest 13lb king on a Mt.dew sd and fly combo. After all that we continued south and hit dead water. So we turn to the north and pounded our way back toward the south nets and picked up 2 more on the wire diver 200 back. To end the day we trolled toward the pier and in 95ft the braided diver finally took off 151ft back and were lucky to get this fish because the fish jumped and snapped the fly off and landed in the net:) with 8 min left in the tournament. All in all we ended the day 7 for 13 or so with multiple doubles. If we marked fish they were hitting but some just diddnt hook up very well. Had a great fun and look:) forward to fishing the last tournament!

Nice meeting you Ken. Great job on the catch Sat night. Look forward to seeing you again in a few weeks. I might have to give those siggs flys a try next time out.

Also I will repost the rules we will be following for this event. Remember the old rules will be in effect.

Can I get some clarification on the rules or old rules?

Where can I find updated net locations or does anyone have the coodinates?

I will be out of Muskegon Saturday and Sunday....

Andy

J1Musser,

My boat name is UNREEL

My fathers boat he keeps in South Haven: Voyageur

Fun fishing on my old man's boat with the family last night. We fished from 7:30-9:30pm and went 2 for 3. We were in 100fow trolling west and my mother reeled in a nice coho 68 down on a yellow/red/green striped lure and my daughter and I reeled in a nice king on a blue bubble spindoctor/fly 80 back on the dipsey. The old mans fish finder is on the frits so I couldnt tell ya much more than this. I diddnt even bother plugging in the sub-troll either. We just had some fun eating dinner and enjoying the evening reeling in the occational fish.