Steve Arend

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St. Joe Fishing League Lake Erie June 10th

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We have less then a month to go.

This is the Walleye trip to Sterling State Park June 10th. There are many of us going to the park on Thursday the 8th, Staying till Sunday the 11th. Here is a great chance for you east siders to come out and see what the St. Joe Fishing League is all about.

We will do a tournament on the 10th. entry is 25.00, Start no earlier then 5:30 am, quit at 1 PM. Weigh in at 2:30 at the campground and I believe it will be around site # 201. There are several of us that have sites in this area.

Lets keep the rules very simple, weigh your best 2 person Michigan Walleye limit, however can only keep a 3 person limit in the boat. Weight will be to the ounce. No cull, once you box it, you cannot toss it back. You can fish any water, Michigan, Ohio, or Canada, but you must leave from Sterling State Park and have the proper license for the waters that you fish. Michingan rules apply.

payouts for the largest walleye, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and biggest Sheepshead

Everyone is on their own this time for lunch. We will have some adult refreshments at the weigh in.

If your interested in camping at the park, get your reservation soon as this park does fill up on the weekends.

Boats going

Spanky

Running Arends

Adjusted

BdWalk

Danger Dan

Sixshooter

Spoonfed

Get your boat listed as soon as you can. Let us know if you will be there on thursday and we will do a get together of sorts.

See everyone in lake Erie.

Mark & Steve

Ok Levi...looked at FisherTackle and I'm not seeing any "Guppy". Are you holding out?

Look here: Fisher tackle Guppy

Not knowing what type of trim you have, I would start at the connection on the gauge. Is it electric or hydraulic?

Zurmmy,

Give me a day and I'll write you up a basic "how to fish with cut" and I'll get it posted for you.

Welcome Aboard Kayle. Just ask away there is a lot of knowledge on this site.

I hope we get to fish Fri and Sat!!

Feel free to share your coordinates if you find a school of teeners

We'll be fishing Fri. and Sat. it may be rough but at least I'll be up for it.

Don't worry about the coordinates, I'm heading out with Bret!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope everyone is stocked up on :cpox: (I just love these Pic's.)

With the wind and wave forecast for tomorrow we are going to hit the lake tonight and see if we can find a good school of fish for the up coming tourny on Friday - Saturday.

With the forecast for Thursday it will be anybody's guess has to were the fish will be on Friday.

Steve

Here’s a little info that I did not add to the original post!

The morning started out real slow and I could not figure it out. I was changing up all the colors and trying different techniques and still could not figure out my dry spell till my brother-in-law pulls out a banana from his bag and started to eat it. I immediately went off on him asking him WHY he as a banana and told him to toss it over. After tossing it over we box 2 kings and went dead again. I asked if he had any more bananas on board and he told me no.

About 10 minutes later he asked me if banana bread would count!!!!!!!!

I have (2) wire set ups on my boat that I use for running dipsies. I just started to use them for drop-weight set ups this year.

I use the Okuma SD-30D (Which they no longer make) Reels on a Diawa Heartland 9'6" rod with a twili-tip. I have been using these set ups for 3 years now and have not had to replace the rod because of guide wear. Yet!

The Diawa SG47 and the Okuma CV-30D reels work well with wire. You need a reel with a good drag system because there is no stretch in the line.

Oh! I use the Mason 7 strand #30 stainless wire.

Six I just have (1) question???????????

Where do you find all of those 7oz fish???????

I fished with a guy on Sunday how knows Ken Neidlinger and he told me that Denny Neidlinger Sold ProKing to Dreamweaver.

Has anyone heard this or know any back ground on it?

Fishing Report for the weekend of May 6 & 7

Well I hit the water Saturday morning with a friend and main goal was to target trout. We trolled from 80 ft. to 130 ft. We end the day 9 for 16 with 4 Lakers, 5 Kings. All but (1) laker was returned back into the water to be caught another day. They ranged from 25 to 30in. The kings were in that 8 to 10lb range with (1) going 12lbs.

Sunday the wife forced me to fish in the morning. Her sister was in town and wife made plans for me to take her brother-in-law and his dad out fishing. We head out to 100 ft and I set up a king program in hope to get them onto some fish. We trolled out to 150 ft. flipped it and went back in to 100 ft. and called it a day. We end up 9 for 11 with 1 laker and 8 kings. We had (1) king that was 6lbs the rest were 11+lbs with the biggest at 15lbs. We hit (1) double and (1) triple. We heard on the radio that someone box a 20lb king in 138 ft.

Sorry for the vague report but because of an up coming tournament this Friday and Saturday out of St. Joe, I don’t want to give out to much detail.

For those of you that are fishing the Summer Challenge, I’ll looking forward to meeting you. If you see us at the captain’s meeting or at the weigh-in just stop and say high.

Welcome to the site Murray.

Welcome aboard John.

If you’re fishing anything over 30 ft. a stacker is a good way to through extra baits in the water column to cover the range of depths.

Saturday the Magnum was hot but Sunday I could not buy a fish on it.

Steve- does the stuff you use list a main ingredient???

I'll take a look tonight when I get home from work

Well after a bad report that I received at the local bait shop I op-ed out of fishing the river and hit a local lake;) I started out jigging at the mouth of a small inlet where the walleye have been know to spawn and had one catch me sleeping at the rod. After the sun hit tree top level I started trolling. Throwing everything that I had at them and could not get a bump. I finally threw on old faithful, HJ-14 clown back 100. I took 3 hits but could only keep them on for a few seconds. Lost one at the back of the boat trying to steer, fight the fish and net it all at the same time.

Where is the Quantity and Quality?

I'm always looking for the most and biggest fish that I can catch.

I use did it for walleye some years back but have gone with a different attractant now and use it for salmon also.

Was this your shakedown for the big boat?

Welcome to the site. We like to hear reports and learn about new techniques.

Well after some long thought I've decided to hit the St. Joe River for some Eye action tonight. (Don't feel like hitting the big pond by myself.) I have yet to fish for walleye since it has opened. I'll give a report when I get home if it's not to late.

Man!!!!!! Do I head out walleye fishing or with a report like that do I hit the big lake.

I'll start with Mags on the main lline and standards on the sliders and then let the fish tell me what they want. If their hitting the main line all the time then I'll through down all Mags. If they hit the slider then all standards. I run the same color spoons for the main and slider.