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What lake you fishing in fishhound ? We fish Northern Lake Huron Detour St.Ignace area, the set ups we use are as follows: 8" Trash can dodger 16" in front of peanuts, our best peanut colors are 2 tone green glows and green glow with red dots on it. Shinny Chrome dodger and flodgers 8" with the same color peanuts. we also run a few spin-n-glows run them back to about 22 inches behind the dodger. Been playing with Big Weenies "Grease Traps" also they are begining to show some promiss also

We don't use them.

Manistique is the end of July. unless there one I'm not aware of

We'll thing are "starting" to improve a bit in Detour. Launched at 8am on Sunday with a party of 4. We by no means tore them up but with the condititions the way they where we ended up with 3 fish, A laker-A Steelhead and a Very Fat Football shaped Atlantic at about 8 pounds. the Laker and Atlantic came off 2 colors of lead dragging a Warrior Hey Baby flutter spoon and the steelhead hit a high line behind a board dragguing a Orange with black stripped shallow diving body bait. The river itself is still very very dirty on the green side, It starts cleaning up pst te green can and is around the lighthouse. Due to the wind- waves- FOG!!!! we really couldn't work the area very well and we never got to the east end of drummomd where I like to fish.. Find a bit of cleaner water there right now and if the weather co operats you should be into a few fish, we cancelled out the PM charter due to th called for 60mph winds and T-Storms...

Here's the skinny as I see it right now fellas. We fished from 2pm until 7:30 on the above date, Pickings where very very slim, we managed 1 very nice Laker and had 1 Atlantic on, but he never made it to the boat. From the Boat launch in town to about 2 miles south of the light house is Chocolate milk, I've never seen it like this before. The temps in the mud where running from 51 to 48 deg, run out of the mud and the temps fell off the table, 38 deg from 15 feet down to the bottom of the lake. The 2 fish that did hit came from in the mud in front of the entrance to Whitney Bay, The laker hit a Warrior Flutter spoon call Hey Baby on one color of lead, the Atlantic hit a rigger set at 20 feet with a Warrior Mag Shark glow spoon. So All and all if your planning a trip this way to fish you might want to rethink for a week or so till this water clears up. We cancelled today charter (Sat) But I think we are going to run the Sunday one mainly because I can't get a hold of them... So I should have another report on Monday for ya, with any luck it will be a little better ..

Keep me Posted Gary

Penalties reduced in fishing case April 23, 2011 By Jenny Lancour - Staff Writer ([email protected]) , Daily Press Save | Comments (4) | Post a comment | SAULT STE. MARIE - A recent appeals decision in tribal court has reversed or modified sentences against three Rapid River men found guilty of 79 fishing-related violations last year. Details on the court decision have been made available to the Daily Press. Andrew Schwartz, John Schwartz and Kevin Schwartz - brothers and members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians - were sentenced in August by a tribal judge. Each had their right to fish taken away permanently and were ordered to pay $13,175 in fines and costs and $15,214 in restitution. The three had been ticketed for 105 civil infractions connected to illegal fishing operations on Little Bay de Noc in 2009. The citations were the result of an investigation by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE). In September 2010, about a month after their sentencing, the Schwartzes filed an appeal to the tribal judgement and requested the court's "findings of responsibility, costs, fines, restitution, forfeiture and loss of fishing license be set aside." After seven months, the appellate court decision was released last week, specifically upholding (sustaining) and ruling against (reversing) parts of the initial judgments made in tribal court. On April 12, the appellate court ordered the following: 1 - The court ruling the Schwartzes illegally sold fish on Feb. 17, 20 and 23, 2009, was sustained. 2 - The court ruling the Schwartzes illegally sold fish on other days was reversed. 3 - The court ruling the Schwartzes possessed more than 100 pounds of fish on Feb. 17 and 20, 2009, was sustained. 4 - The court ruling the Schwartzes illegally possessed more than 100 pounds of fish on all other days was reversed. 5 - The court ruling the Schwartzes violated the catch report provisions was sustained. 6 - The court ruling the Schwartzes were illegally engaged in subsistence fishing with a non-native was reversed. 7 - The court's forfeiture of four snowmobiles was sustained. 8 - The court's order for $15,214 restitution, representing the economic value of the fish, was reduced to $3,349. 9 - The court's lifetime revocation of the Schwartzes subsistence fishing rights was reduced to a one-year suspension beginning April 12, 2011. 10 - The Schwartzes' due process rights were not violated because their attorney failed to appear at an Oct. 8, 2010, hearing on the fairness of the court's restitution decision. Appellate judges offered comments on how the DNRE conducted its investigation into the illegal fishing operations. An investigative concern was that the DNRE would have sought direct evidence rather than indirect or circumstantial evidence, defining direct evidence as evidence that stands on its own merit and defining indirect or circumstantial evidence as evidence that requires certain assumptions. Concern was also expressed the investigation should have been a joint effort between the DNRE and the Sault Tribe Law Enforcement. Other individuals cited for violations in connection with the above investigation are brothers Troy Jensen and Wade Jensen, tribally-licensed commercial fishermen, and non-native John Halverson, a state-licensed wholesaler. The three men, from the Garden Peninsula, are each charged with unlawfully conspiring with one another and four others to buy/sell fish taken without a commercial fishing license from 2004-2009 in Delta County. The Jensens and Halverson are scheduled for a joint trial in Delta County District Court on May 10. - - - Jenny Lancour, (906) 786-2021, ext. 143, [email protected]

I just hooked up Our Lowrance 7200C to a Raymarine X-10 course computer. The computer runs the Auto Pilot. Our Lowrance is NMEA 2000, the connections on X-10 are SeaTalk,- SeaTalk ng, - and 2 NMEA 0183 connection points. The Lowrance manual says I have 5 NMEA wires plus the sheild, Well looks like I have 6 plus the sheild. Here is what's in the Lowrance manual, Im thinking the wire color should be a "standard Color" COM- 1 To Unit Yellow (transmit) --to-- Receive (+) To Other Orange (Receive) --to Transmit (-) Device Shield (Ground) --to-- Ground Com-2 To Unit Blue (Transmit)--to -- Receive To Other Green (Receive)--to-- Transmit Device Shield (Gound)--to Ground I also have a Grey Wire in the same bundle, don't know what that might be yet.. My issue with all this is I am powering my NMEA 2000 system AND I am also powering the X-10. 2 differant systems independent. really need to talk to someone before I reconnect the batteries..

I just made new pins out of 1/8 brass rod, (Couldn't find any stainless anywhere local) Cut them to length, chuck them up in a drill, I used a hacksaw blade to cut the clip groove while spinning it in the drill.

Your going to have to be beating the fish off that #22 behind that glow frog

I put a X-10 core pack and ST 70 control head on out boat last spring. The boat is a 1998 Sportcraft I/B. It was a very easy install for us because of the raytheon that was on it, I didn't need to un any lines to the pump, and the pump was already attached to the steering cylinder.. My advice would be go for it. What control head are you mating with the X-10 ?

For the money you can't beat the Okuma CV30's we've been running them for 2 years on the wire rods.. And like most everyone else says, Scrap the mono and go with the braid, we run #50 Spider wire Stealth.. Love the stuff:lol:

I'll second or third the Church walleye boards, we run a full core on them with no problem

I'm riding with John on the "pistol Flares" We can NOT have them on our boat. Just make sure you check the experation date on the flares you by .. we get ours from Walmart most of the time.

Walker Deeper Divers- Size 107- colors, Clear or Black or silver. thats what works for us.

Oil is a personal prefrance thing, I'm a big fan of Amsoil products, I think the Filter is more important than the oil used. The NAPA Golds are Wix filters, watch for the Spring and Fall sales from NAPA on filters and you can get them for about $5 ea. Both our trucks have been converted over to Synthetic Oils and the Boat will be on it's next oil change, With that being said our charter boat is sitting with about 2,500hrs on it, and it has had nothing but Dino Oil thu it since it was new, Rotella T 30 or Volvaline 30. I'm just tired of feeding the oil companys anymore money..

3 feet no more...

3 is all we run unless we are in the river after stacked fish. The game now in the Big lake is getting stuff AWAY from the boat.

Dunn Sharpining system, In my opinion you won't find a better system on the market. http://www.dunnknives.com/services/sharpening.php

Give John (Daybreak) a call He's good people.. Here is his website: http://www.daybreakfish.com/

Spring we run a Bunch of 1-4 colors Benn. once the water heats up it's mostly 6-10 colors, BUT most often we'll keep at least one shorter color out for those high ones.

Don't always think of the lakers as being a deep water fish, early in the year they are up in the water colum, same thing at the end of the season. Steelhead fishing in Thunder Bay was great this past Oct. Lake Huron for the most part anymore is a Laker fishery "IF" your looking at going out and catching a bunch of fish. The high point for salmon are the Atlantic's, early in the season out of Detour the past few years have been nothing short of great fishing for them. Drop me a line if you ever want to drag your boat up in may to sample that fishing, should be able to help you out..

If your really interisted who is planting what, Where, and how many. here's the link to look it up. http://www.michigandnr.com/fishstock/default.asp