Line Dancin

i use glow sticks. I found a place in frazier michigan that sells all the carnival glow stuff. You can buy in bulk and they are like 17 cents a piece for 4 inch sticks by the hundred. They only work once but are cheap enough. if i remember right shippiong was like 5 bucks and i had them the next day.

well after looking at the price i may just go with the black 15 pound sharks for 8 bucks a piece more when ready. wow did their prices go up. this year it will just be finned 14 lb balls though.

Basically the same way i set mine up 300 yds PP 50 lb test 65 ft 40 pound mono copper then 35ft 20 lb leader. I also use albrights on all my connsections. i use a dab of fishing glue on the mono to PP connection just to protect from any slippage of the knot. I was told a uni to uni is actually better a couple weeks ago but i havent tried it. My copper to mono connections are both albrights. then just trim the copper tag end close to the knot. no heat shrink or taping required. I also hav been know to put a dab of fishing glue on these connections from time to time. 35d 300 yds pp 75 ft copper 45d 300 yds pp 150 ft copper 55d 300 yds pp 300 ft copper ( i think i had to cut back the pp about 50 yds but it was like three years ago and am not sure.) Best way is to have two reels of the same size wind on leader first then copper then backer and then back fill to your oter reel making note of the lengths of line you used.

thanks for the info when i was in the market a couple years ago all they were making at the time is a lighter one and i was gonna go with sharks but holy crap did the price go up on those things. i might just have to order four of those.

go to 14 lb round finned if you can return them. i HATED pancakes

30d will fit backer and 75 ft which is about the same as a half core 45d would fit 150 which would be close to a full core 55 d 300 close to a two full core.

i HATE fishing a port for fun when a tourney is going on. We almost got ran over two years ago off holland when they took off. there was no consideration by a couple pro boats for guys that were out there fishing already. i may try and make a couple of the local outings depending on work.

They are doing thier open house and sale saturday march 6th. they have some great deals on equipment at this sale. they also do a free lunch.

ok i fish out of ps all the time. just give me a holler when your out there.

I see your from dorr what port do you most fish? holland or port sheldon? is so give me a holler on the radio i would be more than willing to help. i just put a subtroll on last year and love it. dad had a fish hawk that was a pita.

I used the same site to learn more about meat and when i have run it i find the same thing tail on is the best piece to use

Outdoorsman in Jenison has whole herring or strips. they are reasonable on it.

The differences in the two are wire is used for dipsie and copper is not. Copper is used the same way as lead core to target a certain depth. the reason people are going to copper is that the sink rate is about double to lead core. So what this means is that instead of having to use 300 ft of 27 lb lead core to reach 40 ft 150 of copper will do the same thing. Some of the pros also claim it gives off a harmonic vibration like wire or the cable on your downriggers give off that the fish feel. i have switched almost primarily to copper and seem to be producing more fish than with the lead core. I also run two dipsies all the time and if the dipsies are really firing than i may drop in two more for a total of four in the water. if you are looking at something to run dipsies i wouldn't reccommend copper for the job.

Welcome aboard. My dad is with the Detroit area steelheaders. when i was on that side of the state i never missed a meeting with him, and know most of the old guys with the club.

Yes great lakes, inland lakes, quarrys. If there is a puddle i am in it, and if i am not salmon fishing i have a tank on my back.

me underwater :

see more of my pics here: http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?p=57400#post57400 sorry it took so long. had a ton of pics to go through to chooses my personal best.

Here are more pics for your enjoyment. i can only upload 100 mg a month to my free account so i have four folders set up to upload. Even here after using the cam for quite a while there are different things that come into play that you dont have with taking pics on land. you have bouyancy to contend with surge tides other divers that kick up the bottom. new fins that float up a little so when trying to be perfectly still you are still moving up by your feet. When you shoot underwater the trick is to time your breathing bouyancy surge and tidal movements all at the same time to get that one pic. sometimes it takes 8 or 9 shots to get it. My cam has 12gig in cards on board so i can junk the mishaps at the end of the dive. Enjoy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scubaaaronh/sets/72157623319982211/show/with/4361624328/

i have retied all my coppers and cores. refilled my reels with new mono put away cleaned and organized the tackle boxes TWICE, made a shopping list of new spoons i need and edited it, and been inside the boat twice in the last two weeks under the canvas. Nope no itch yet. this has been a very long winter.

I have always fished boats with four or more riggers. My dads boat had four mine has four. If i had the width you have i would have five across the back. My dads buddy who ran a 27 cherokee had five plus all the other stuff out the side. You have to be a little more careful bringing in fish but you will still have plenty of room. When the rigger bite is on it is the best way to kill fish having more riggers. than if you want you can only run three if need be. we used to only run three on his boat and remove two for tourneys. If it was my boat five across the back.

ludington tourney two years ago fishing on my friends boat. we followed the pro boats up to manistee 400 foot water. couldn't figure out their secrect so we went deep. all he had was about 100 ft cable on each rigger. we ended up running a 150 copper and a 300 copper and we started to produce fish. he was to cheap to buy new cable for the downriggers so that was the way we put fish in the boat. also adding a couple 1 pound balls to each 450 copper to get them deep enough. that was the only time i have ever had to do something that stupid to catch fish.

There are some inexpensive cameras that do really well for snorkling they are waterproof to like 10 ft. here is som olys that are available: http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_digital.asp?section=stylustough talk her into it it is worth it. sit her donw and run my slide show for her maybe that will help. have fun there and be carful.

Thank you very much. the scorpion fish i actually almost knelt on trying to get a pic of a free swimming moray. when i get a chance i am going to get more uploaded i have been a ltiile busy today. you know it is never to late to come back to diving or snorkling. i have had to take a short break with have our little one but hopefully next winter we will be diving eith nassau bahamas or cozumel mexico so more new pics coming up again and hopefully on a new camera. As far as snorkling on cancun make it a point to go. if you go over to www.scubaboard.com go to the mexico area and do a little reading you can find some really good ops to take you. sorry for the hijak of this thread by the way.

Ok while sitting here at work, working real hard i remembered i had a yahoo photo account. I had to update it to flikr. Now these pics on my flikr account are for about 6-7 years ago and uploaded 3 years ago and when i was first learning how to use my first underwater digital camera underwater. Now some of the pics arent great but i only had the camera for a couple months before we went and had never used it underwater. I just practiced in all light conditions inside and outside practicing the manual settings. I was using all manual settings, setting the white balance for depth correction (cause as we all know the deeper an object the more color loss) and messing a little with the flash. these pics were taken from 35 ft down to 93 foot down at the sand plateau before the drop to 900 feet. enjoy and i will post some later form our last trip. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scubaaaronh/sets/72157603011641392/show/with/1921207822/

sure i have to work all day today, but either late tonight or tomorrow i will upload some pics from my last trip to the south carribean island of Bonaire.