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The best knot I have found is a figure 8, pass the loop twice through on an over hand knot pull tight it forms a figure 8 and is slip proof.

Check out drspoons.com, they have some really great and innovative colors and the UV stuff is really killer. My buddy Dave owns the company and he fishes out of St. Joe. U won't be disappointed with his stuff. Here is a link. http://www.drspoons.com/Store.asp

Thanks for that information, I had only assumed that 1 minute equaled 1 mile. Now I have solid confirmation. The good thing is that GPS is a lot m ore accurate than our old LoranC positions. My current GPS readings can get me to within 10 feet of my way point, close enough.

We fished St Joe as always Sunday, and the radio traffic from Holland, Muskegon and Port Sheldon was non stop. I am not sure why the traffic was audible in St Joe, but it was nice hearing guys finding some Kings. St Joe has been spotty, with 5 to 7 fish per trip and a lot of guys filling out with Lake Trout to get some fish in the box. We released our 2 lakers on Sunday and had 2 nice Steelhead and 2 Kings in the teens. Water temp was 68 on the surface, and 43 degrees down 65 feet. all of our hits came between 20 and 45 feed down, 4 color 6 color and walker deeper diver 124 on 2 out 90. All on spoons. Any on have any Ideas on why radio traffic from that far north was audible in St. Joe. Radio wave propogation must have been off the chart..

?Fishing is spotty in StJoe, we fished Sunday from 6:30 til noon, 6 strikes. Boated 2 Steelhead and 2 kings, released 2 lakers. 80 to 120 FOW, and everything came fairly early, when the sun got up it died. Took me a while to get started but put away the meat rigs and went all spoons then we got bit. North and South trolls worked best there was a strong current. Temp at 65 Was 43 degrees, and at 50 it was 47. Speeds around 2.8 on the Fishawk at the ball and 2.3 on top. Stinger glow Christmas and Stinger bloody nose were the best. Perch pack was straight out and south to the pump station. Don't know how they did.

Just checked the Cook Plant buoy, and its reading 66.8 o surface and 66.1 at the 8th thermistor, really kind of different! Is this accurate?

You might want to try a wide gap single hook instead of the treble, they usually give a better hook up. Just try to match hook weight. As for releases I still think that the #33 rubber band on a big jon band buster is the best way to hook fish.

Got to watch that program today, very nicely done Captain. Very well explained on technique and also on lake configuration at the rock.

Steve: I live in Michigan and have since the late 1960's, but I know Boring well, my mother taught school there from 1962 until the middle 1980's. Her name was Marjorie Stafford, she taught English at the 7th and 8th grade. She still lives in Milwaukie, at Willamette View Manor. In Michigan I have been fishing Salmon since the early 1970's, and we have been primarily a hardware fishery. We run meat but it is only for the late summer King fishery. We are just now getting into that time of the summer.

Pro's and cons on meat! I run it when nothing else is working. If I don't have to I prefer not to. I hate running Spin docs, Paddles, dodgers and attractors. It changes the presentation a lot. That said when we are forced to go with big attractors, we do use DW and Big Weenie meat rigs, I buy commercially brined and frozen herring strips, u can refreeze them if you don't use them up. Biggest draw back is they are smelly and expensive. An average meat rig cost is around 15 to 20 bucks, then there is the Attractor, Depending on Brand 12 to 15 bucks. I am personally not a fan of running big flashers on copper rigs, its hard enough bringing in a 300 or 450 copper with a spoon on it. As of today I have not run any meat rigs this season. We average around 10 fish a trip and spoons have done 95% of our work.

That has never been a problem, The slider goes to the apex of the bow in the line, and it is impossible for it to go against the current and get down to the ball the bow of the line prevents that problem. Sliders have been really good for years. If you are afraid of that problem go to fixed sliders but they are usually set closer to the ball than I like. Most guys fix them at 10' above the ball, and that doesn't seem to work as well as the free slider.

We run anywhere from 12 to 15 rods. 4 downriggers, up to 8 boards and up to 4 dispy setups. Our normal set up is a 12 rod set up with 4 riggers, 2 wire dipsy set ups and 6 boards. I plan on adding a chute rigger soon to up my set up to 16 rods max. I so run free sliders on all of my riggers.

Not bad at all, got a few on the wire dipsy lines but not any more than an inch or so .The rest of the lines were clean. I am going to order some of the Bloodrun sea flea, I still have a spool of Flea Flick'r but don't like it. I think it costs me strikes.

U got it . That is good information! USE IT.

Got a late start, left the slip around 7AM and ran out to 90 and started setting lines, my buddy told me there were trout on the bottom there. I decided to try to avoid them. We got to 130 and first fish came on 4 color nice coho, on a stinger glow Christmas. We played around and got out to 190 taking a fish here and there all the fish came on 4 color, 6color and 10 color with stingers. We ended the day with 2 Coho, 1 Steelhead and 2 lakers, and 1 laker released too small. Had no hits on dipsy's and only one on a rigger. Water is about 66 on the surface out in 170, and 43 down 36. Before we started I changed out reels because of all the Sea Flea talk and should have stayed with the regular mono.

Bloodrun tackle sells their flea flickr line, go on line to see and order there is a link in a previous post to get you there.

Sharp hooks are Coho medicine. They are notorious for rolling after hooked, and they wrap up a lot. Short strikes aren't the issue most of the time, the hooks aren't sharp. If you don't sharpen your hooks right out of the package you are making a big mistake. To tell if the hook is sharp, drag the point across your thumbnail. If the hook grabs it is sharp if it just slides and doesn't leave a scratch sharpen it. I personally have gone to changing all of my hooks to Gamakatsu blood reds, they are factory sharp and the red seems to appeal to the fish, especially Coho and Steelhead. Nice job on finding a school of fish that were willing.

To you Wisconsin fishermen, this is a valuable asset for the Salmon and trout fisherman, you can check out what kind of information you get at this link.http://uglos.mtu.edu/station_page.php?station=45026. You will appreciate the info on wave height and duration, and the temp at depth down to 55 or so feet. I highly recommend this to all Great lakes fishermen. If you can get the grant money it is a free site for your use.

Nice job Paul. Got blown off Tuesday, hope we get out Sunday. Weather?

I suggest you change to a solid mount with backer plates. no more problems. Even my 14# weights blow back. What is critical is getting the same amount of wire out to reach the same depth consistently. I actually run a 12# ball on my wire that has my Fishawk probe on it. Good luck.

Planning on fishing tomorrow will let you know how we do.

My Fishawk recently quit giving down temp and would not calibrate, I tried new batteries and all the other stuff, finally called Fishawk on Sunday and left a voice mail asking for a call back. They called Monday Morning, I went thru all of the issues and the lady says, I am going to send you a new display head to see if that solves the problem, just return mail the old one. Great. 10 minutes later she calls back and says the Boss says send both the new Display and a new probe, that should solve the problem. Just return mail the old ones. and we are good. Now that is service. I can't say enough about the product service they provide.