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This weekend looks pretty good, we'll be back on the water tomorrow with the seasons first charter... Cooling issue is resolved... Rainy and windy here still not going to make it out this afternoon.. The wind gods have got to run out of breath pretty soon I hope

This wind has got to stop blowing sometime.. We did manage to get some fishing in before the wind a a cooling issue on the boat sent us back to the dock. We hit one 12# King off a 20 foot rigger and a Warrior Fire Tiger flutter spoon. We where planning on fishing again this afternoon but I have to see if I can get the cooling issue resolved...

What where you running for mono between the diver and the plug ?. I'm not a big fan of snubbers but unless you beef up the mono you will break a few off..

Cell phone thru this coming weekend. We should be in detour thursday morning, Friday afternoon and again saturday morning. Your 17 foot will do it if the weather co-operates, some of the best fishing this time of year is around the lighthouse, and right out of the mouth of Whitney Bay, on those humps

Nailer where you going to be staying ?, we'll be fishing the Detour area starting Thursday, weather permitting,

Spoons off dipseys work very well. If your flasher/flies aren't producing and the spoon bite is on there no reason not to run them off your dipseys ..

We run 2-7 foot Talora wire rods on our boat "non swivel tip", They are both Med action, we run mostly Walker deeper Divers, the 107mm. you shouldn't have a problem with the mag divers. The only issue we had with ours was with the non swivel tip, the wire sawing thru the the top roller fram, we put twilli tips on them for this year, not very pretty, but should be functional..

GPS is the way to go, SOG, water wheel isn't that accurate..

I doubr very much your could distroy the plates be trying to bring the boat up on plan..... you will know instintley the plate down when you throttle up..

Running a plate like that on a I/B inhanceses your ability to control the boat at slower speeds, Inboards work by pushing water into the rudder to. With the plate you can keep your RPM's up. we have been running one on our 252 Sportcraft for the past 2 years. Our biggest issue with the plate was getting it up out of the water when we where running, if you don't get it at least a little above level it act's as a BIG Trim Tab thats ALWAYS pushing the front of the boat into the water.. In Chris'es Baha he has the room to mount the top of the piston high on the stern of the boat to pull the plate up past level, we didn't have that option because of a built in cooler in the stern of our boat. This year we mounted the top of our piston to a kicker motor bracket, if the bracket holds up, We'll post a few pictures later this spring.

I just wonder how the heck their going to inforce those restrictions on Tribal folks ... Not really, we all know the DNRE has washed their hands on anything to do with tribal fishing

We haven't been out there since we bought the SportCraft and started chartering I would say 4 or 5 years since we have been there. would like to make it back, it's a nice fish

When fishing Wood Island Reef out of Munising we've had them spit out what appeared to be Sturgeon skeltons when they hit the floor.

Like I said above it could be a bit early but well worth a shot if you get the chance. It's more or less a midday fish that time of the yearI wouldn't start much earlier than say 8am, some of our best catches that early have come between 11am and 1 or 2 pm. Everything will be in the top 30 feet of water, Atlantic's, Kings, and Lakers, and a few Steelhead. most everything will catch fish thru out the day, Riggers, with a free slider added to the main line, dipsies, Boards with spoons and body baits off 1-2-or 3 colors leadcore, rotator and flies also will produce on some days. Spoon Color and sizemags ad reg size work: Monkey Pukes-Walmart (with the dots)-Blue and green dolphins-kavorkeans- Frogs-Sister Sledge. For body baits think smelt, blue backs, silver sides, yellow bellys- Wonder bread colors, Black back Gold sides and bellys. Flies: Bloody nose, What I call our money fly, green grinkle with a hint of Miage under the green, Flashers Greens and whites. Fish the edges of the shipping channel both green and red sides between Detour and Drummond, If your going to come out of Whitney Bay fish those red cans and there are a few humps there also. Fish the shelf that the lighthouse set on. We do better fishing dirty water look for it it move from day to day. Best thing I can tell you to do is pick up a chart of the area, fish the structure. If I can help you anymore drop me a pm .. John

April could be a bit early for the Atlantics, BUT the way this year is shaping up you never know. The ice is already gone. I'm on my way out of the house this morning Jose so I don't have the time to answer anymor questions right now, I'll post most later this afternoon.. John

Jim What marine antenna do you feel is worth the money spent , or bang for your buck..

You'll find most everything related to big lake fishing is pricey..One thing to remember, since your just starting out you don't need top dollar rods ands and reels, sure there nice but a $20 fire wolf rod and a $30 Okuma Magda 30 DX will put alot of fish in the boat. The set up your talking about for your boat is a good start, as money loosens up look at putting 2 to 4 inline boards with core or copper, also a dipsie set on "0" run down the shute, the shute dipsie has taken alot of very nice fish over the years. As for aour Braid Dipey's we us Spider Wire Stealth #50 you can buy that for around $20 a 300yd spool, and somewhere down the line you'll be looking at a wire set up. I can speak of colors on the michigan side of the lake, for spoons Your Greens and Blues (Green dolphins/ Blue dolphins/ Chilly Willy's/ Sister Sledge was good to us last season/ Blacks like the MJ/Screw ball/ and don't forget the Glows. As for Flashers/Dodgers. greens and blues again/Trash can/ black & White's/. Flies We tie our own, 99% of the flies we tie have a touch of Mirage in them and again Greens and blues for a main color/. about mid July we start running meat riggs alot, sky's the limit on these, big thing is finding the herring to put in them. If I can help you out any farther drop me a email or pm.. good luck. John

The clear tubing in the packages are for running braid lines. Also unless they "Improved" some how where the line is pinched to hold it in place, braid will cut a groove in the top of the diver, making it useless, a bit of epoxy will fix it if it happens

Will do Capt Dick, Thanks for the info

How is the Walleye fishing in Saginaw Bay the month of July ? we have fish down there in June and did well for a coupla Yoopers. This year we will be down the week of July 12th fishing out of Linwood or Bay City I think. Still pretty good fishing ?

We don't use any Fluorocarbon on the boat. Just a personal thing I guess but don't really see a need for Salmon or trout.. or walleye for that matter, try running a 6' leader of Trilene XL couple of pounds lighter than your main line when running spoons. it will give the spoon a better "Snap"

The lakers up here are not quite as consintrated in the spring as in the fall, but the spring fishery is pretty good, the fish are shallower. Thats one thing about Detour in the spring, when the rod go's off you just never know whats on the end of your line, Atlantic-LakeTrout- King. and the lakers fight pretty good also that time of year..

The sliders we run are from 3 to 4 feet long, I see no reason to make them any longer. For poundage, we run either #17 or #20 Trilene XL.

I was thinkin that might be you Do ya know of any other safe havens for a boat for a coupla weeks down there ? we've been able to schedule around all to "festivities" the last few years, this year looks like we are going to be there during the Russle Spencer. Drop me a email .. Thanks .. John

Another 2009 Fairport picture It's only kinda bad on weekends and tourneys Dan