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Fished Leland once before I had a contour chip. Sandblasted my rigger balls pretty good that day. Cant imagine how the guys fish up around the straights. Would have me puckered so bad I probably couldn't get off my seat to raise the riggers.

I'd rather be out there Kevin but you would have to come out and tow me back in after I burned through my 6 gallon gas tank

Yup Ed I was wondering if you were a forum member. mr this is the first year I've taken my smaller boat out on the big lake. With the way the temps have been going up and down I've been keeping the I/O under wraps. Trying to copy FBD

3-23 Midday Fished Port Sheldon from 10-3. Went 2-3. 3 and 4lb brown. Lost another that was probably 6 or 7. All bites came on top of or on the deep side of the second bar. Spent half of my time in the second trough and even a little right up on the beach without a bite. Temps were 35-36.5 1-2 on gold with red stripe 3.0 Mag Lip 1-1 F9 brown trout One other solo at the launch with 2 browns also Fun start to the year

Went out Sunday morning and ended up 2 for 3 with 2 fat 8-10 lb steel. Tried from 60-190 fow from 8-11am. All 3 hits were in 130-135. White Paddle and white fly down 75 Dr Death standard 300 cu Hello darling standard 250 Cu Speed was 2.5 SOG We went into Muskegon Lake at 11 to try for perch. Had a pretty steady bite for an hour but mostly small 5-6 inchers. Bite shut down hard after a front blew through

I have to agree with FBD on this. We need to reduce the kings and reduce the lake trout. I agree that if we can get an equal predatory reduction in Lake Trout then we can hold off on the king cuts for one year but it has to be one or the other or both. We can't let predation continue at current levels and expect a legitimate future for the king fishery. I do sincerely appreciate the efforts put forth by the GLSI in reducing LT plants but you need to move from your king reduction stance

The response from the MDNR is that if you took all of the hatcheries around Lake Mi and only reared baitfish you would be able to feed the current predator base for only 2 days.

Got out for a couple hours tonight and we were rewarded with the best king bite I've had all year. Set lines at 7PM and pulled them at 9:15. Bite started as soon as we got set and ended at 8:20. Lots of bait balls associated with the bottom. 4 hits came off fish working these balls. 3 for 6. 6lb, 13lb, 14lb kings landed. All males. All natural. 2 screamers came unbuttoned. 1 broken line. 70-80 fow just North of Duck Lake. Only took bites going against the current at 2.4-2.7 SOG 1-2 flounder pounder mag down 52 1-2 white with blue dot SD with transparent meat rig down 60, Blue dyed brine 1-1 BW Mag meat rig with a king belly strip no spinny on a slide diver out 110 0-1 White spinny green squid high diver out 90 0

Yup but it was originally attached to my boat this time

Fished with the wife 6-915. Two shakers ho's in 100fow on a streak jr 40 down. Night bite started late as the graph lit up just before full dark in 65 fow. Took a 3lb King on a blue jackal on a 150 32Cu and then right after tied into a beauty on the full core with a green ghost J plug. just enough light to barely make out the board. Landed him in complete dark. Ended up pulling the boga down to 27lbs. New record for me and my boat

Nice boot!

Largest I've ever seen in person was 17lbs. About 12 years ago out of Manistee.

They are actually both Ho's. Just been a long time since we've seen double digit ho's. Nice catch!

Bob I tried to run my A side fillets with the backbone in and the backbone out just to see if that made a difference. Martin I have some blue colored fire brine on order. I'll see what comes of that. Last time I was at Rays they had some very good looking blue label in the freezer

Getting bites. I check for a good roll and have gotten bit in past years but there seems to be a lot of guys getting bit before the sun goes down on meat and I haven't been touched. All my bites are coming on spoons even though I'm running 2-4 meat rigs out of 6 lines all evening long.

I've used fire brine, John Kings borax and salt method, added brightner sometimes, added garlic sometimes. I've used variations of all in between. When it's hard to find cut strips I have no problem fileting my own but I just do not seem to have the success that others have running the same programs. I have not tried Big weenie brine yet but I can't imagine it would make that much of a difference. Anybody have some thoughts on this?