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Good luck russell, u can buy similar dodgers your looking for made buy Yeck Gold star, and also wolverine tackles flodger. Hope ya find the ones.your looking for, there where a very good dodger

Looking for a little input on the fishing out of these 2 ports this time of year, what's available ? will more than likely be in that area by the end of this week, what should I be looking at for fish to target ?

There are a few fish in the detour area Dave, the reports I'm getting are Lakers and Steelhead, I'm sure there are Atlantic's around also its just a matter of finding them, things are just starting to pick up, we still had ice coming down the river 3 weeks ago, find the warmer water and you'll find fish most days. This time of year all the fish are in the top 30 to 40 FOW, boards and lead core, riggers with free sliders. This is the time of year we run all the rods I can. Weather permitting we will be fishing there Fri-Sat this week. Halcyon is the boat name we ride channel 68. Also Think Bankers hours for fishing this time of year.. John

Where you at, most time they will run a little sting op to catch them, and for the most part if caught they will lose most everything involved... I have NO tolerance for the so called captains that do that crap

We run the 19 strand Torpedo wire. Hard our taolas rewraped by Eyefull custom rods, no twilli tip, no problem, the eyes show no wear at all, the 19 strand suff does have a learning curve on getting it on the reel tho, follow the manufacture recomendations on spooling it up

Fished behind the Island last night, our first fish came about 6pm, 5lb Atlantic, Came on one of Big Weeines small Meat heads behind one of their "Greese Traps" . We pulled lines at 10pm, ending the trip. We boated 3 Kings 11 to 15 pounds, 1. Atlantic, 1 pink (went back into the water) and lost another 3 I do beleave. the riggers carried meat all night they accounted for 3 of the fish, and we lost one on them, the pink came off a 4 color (No telling how long we dragged him) with a Warrior flutter spoon in Steelhead candy, the Wire diver bite fired up just before dark accounting for one of the kings and a couple loses One of Mikes "Green" Eyeflies" Landed the King .. Got to Meet DooFighter last night also, Nice meeting you Gary and hope you can make it back to this end of the world again... Should have another report or 2 for you folks sometime tomorrow...

No bait, haven't seen a need for it in Lake Huron

Think cold water, thats what the lakers like up here. and for the most part this time of year it's going to be pretty tight to the bottom. Before you start bouncing your cannon ball off the bottom you need to have a real good Idea just what the bottom is made of, Mud flats are good --- Rock bottoms are BAD, (Better have a few extra cannon balls on board) Our best set ups of Northern Lake Huron Lakers are as follows. Trash Can Dodgers/Flodgers in front of a two tone glow spin-n-glow like jim has pictured without the skirt and with the Mylar wings and the Glow spin-n-glow with red dots. we tie our own riggs. the spin-n-glows are tied so they run 20-24 inches behind the dodger.These rigs are tied with 25-30 pound line We also run "Peanuts" Same color as the spinnies, these are tied with 50# line and only run 12 to16 inches behind the dodger(Running the peanuts on that heavy of line that close to the dodger give them a way better action) that you don't need running the spinnies. One of the biggest problem I see with die hard salmon fisherman consistantly NOT catching Lakers is "They DON'T watch the rod tips. 99% of the lakers we catch up here in the summer will NOT pull the line out of the release !!! It will look more like a very weak perch bite on the loaded rod, and if you don't catch that, and snap the rod free and reel like a mad man to take up the slack, he might be gone, if the hook stays in it's mouth after that for the most part you get what I call a "Heavy" rod the loaded rod just doesn't look right, thats caused by the fish swimming along with the boat but not quite as fast....... Hope this helps, if you have anymore question please ask, we do catch a TON of lakers up up here in the summer, and we are getting quite good at it "Most" days .... John

We run a 7 foot rods on our charter boat, Can't think of a reason to go any longer than that...

There are at least 5 nets in the Detour/Drummond area. there are 3 in the river itself. 2 of them are on the red can side 1 is on the green can side, they are out of the shipping channel but you still need the be carefull. there has been one off and on between the ferry dock and frying pan island also. There are at least 2 more down by espinor and one of those is a pot net (trap Net), the rest are gill nets, this was as of saturday June 15th. They move those nets from time to time so be on the lookout. On a high note, we did land 9 fish Saturday afternoon on a charter, 3 of the 6 atlantics we landed came in at 12 pounds each, we also landed a 11 pound King, 2-5 pound lakers and the 3 smaller Atlantics. We took fish on 1-2-3 colors of lead, dragging Warrior Flutter spoons (Steelhead candy both the glod and silver blanks, Mod Blue dolphins, and the chicken wing) the riggers were also pretty active, set fron 30 to 40 feet,( met. yellow tail, Warriors Mag Banana nut muffin, and there "mag Glow shark) free sliders in blur Huckle Berry and Banana Nut muffin Glod blank).....

There are Atlantics in the Detour area, The weather and the Dirty water coming down the St.Marys has made things pretty spotty most days..

Here's a update to MH-1 and MH-2 Splake and Lake Trout Regs. As of June 14th 2012 the Minimum size limit for Splake and Lake Trout will be 15 inches, the "slot Limit" is being removed

The FishHawk is a plug and play unit, Very easy to install.

One big thing you really have to remember with meat riggs is it is Very VERY hard to run any other program WITH meat riggs, Captain John Tomczyk makes some very good points on their use. If you want to run the meat then run ONLY meat. Our typical program is a 5 rod spread, 3 riggers and 2 dipises, and all carry meat riggs, if you learn how to run it, IT will produce more and Bigger fish in Lake Michigan (IMO) it has for us..And just as a side note I am not related or affilated with the John King from Manistee...

We have a couple charters out of Detour the end of this week Rick, then moving to St.Ignace for awhile, with any luck I can get you a report by the end of this coming up weekend.. There's been a few post stating the fish are there now on another board..

Splashed the boat at 4 with a party of 4, headed out to the Red cans by the Lighthouse, fished from there to Espinor (sp?) the areas loaded with Humps and Bumps, ended the night with 11 fish, 8 Lakers that REALLY liked a 2 tone Green Glow spin-n-glow behind a chrome Flodger on a 50 foot rigger and a wire diver with the same spin-n-glow and trash can dodger. 3 Atlantics also fell victim last night, 1 on a Warrior Mag Sister Sledge off a 40 foot rigger,1 off a 2 color and a Warrior Flutter spoon UV Banana Nut Muffin, the third Atlantic came off a 2 color also with a Warrior Flutter spoon in Firetiger.. Hope to have another good report for you tomorrow

I kinda figured something like that would happen... Anyway St. Ignace is very VERY slow right now.. We have been fishing Detour with very good results, Lots of Lakers, plus Kings and Atlantics. Can't tell you much on the cedarville area we have fished it.. If you want to catch a mixed bag Detour is the place to be right now

Did anyone fish this tournament ? or have info of the stats of it ?