jay d

from the water temps dont be scarred to run the beach north in 20 to 30 fow with plugs,aces high green ladderback glow and green scale glow have been good the last few weeks.from the looks of the weather you will need the coastguard boat to get out.we are headed that way mon morning.

i cant waite till october and they are all gone,nothing better than having the lake to yourself:grin:

take down there numbers and call the cops or sherrif.i have seen them waite and write them tickets in manisee,they should confiscate there boat till they take a common sense corse.not only do they put themselves in danger but me and you to.personally i would lump there heads as a reminder:eek:

i know what you mean,nothing worse than waiting for someone to get there so you can get on the water. nice work on the limit.i need some of that nice weather in manistee.i have not been out in 3 weeks,got some killing to catch up on:grin:

i second tunas those guys know there reels and are fast:grin:

glad the weather improved for you on sun,mother was not so nice to us on sun,only got 5 fish in manistee:(

defanitly our best year for numbers of fish,and the size is up there to.going to be hard to beat the size of fish we were catching the first year i hit the big water though.1 29#6 oz and 1 32#8 oz.have not broke 27# since:( this could be the year though:grin:

get them involved in fishing now,keeps him out of trouble latter,WTG frank:grin:

we broke the piers about 4:00pm and pulled the throttle back to fish tailing on the 40 line.ended up catching 13 fish in a couple hrs and headed back to the bank.fishing on the bank was a little slow ended up with 3 kings and a laker.the bite was on lead all day,riggers did nothing.1,2,3,5,7and 9 colors and a flate line with no weight.steelie stomper,orange tranny,fire ball,juicy fruit,blue green dolphin,glow back blue dolphin,glow bloody nose and bad toad did the damage.we eded the day 17 for 25 9 steelies,4 lakers,3 kings and a coho.

congrats on your firts lk brown,they are second only to steelhead on my list of favorite fish to catch:grin:

i have one in the shark size,ran it on 10 colors pulled like 300 ft of 45# copper on a board.have not caught anything useing it but it has not had much water time as most of our fish have been up highwill play with it a little more when the fish go down deep in a few weeks.i will let you know what i think after a little more testing

we had a lot of fish hooked up but we worked hard for them,we fished from 5:00 am to 5:30 pm to do it.adam worked his $@% off on the back of the boat,he's the man.the best part was we had that 1/2 mile stretch all to our selves not another boat in site:grin:frank i would have to put manistee down as my favorite port,even though we are a lot closser to the bay.i just love those silver fish

headed over to manistee yesterday morning with adam bomb and it was a blast:grin:.things started of slow we fished on the bank till the sun came up with little to show for it.the east wind did not help things.we pulled lined and ran out 15 miles looking for the breaks with no luck.fished out there for a few with out a hit.ran back in and found some fish on the graph and got set up for thr third time,took a hit right away and lost it,story of the day.then we got the break i was hoping, for the wind switched to the south and died right off.now it was on ,we had 2 triples and 4 or 5 doubles.by the end of the day we ground out our limit,but we had to work hard for it.we had over 40 fish on and got 23 to the boat.they just would not stay hooked,and yes we were using sharp hooks(gamagatsu mostly):grin:lead was the ticket today 2,3,5, and 7 colors riggers at 25,45,65 took a few.mixed veggies was the hot pattern for sure,steelie stomper,blue coyote,fire ball andnuked veggies took fish too.allmost all of our action was in a half mile stretch along the bank in 80 to 100 fow.we ended up catching 12 lakers,9 kings and 2 coho.adam your welcome aboard anytime:grin:

nothing better than water as far as you can see and no boats in site,hope that what we have tommarow.headed back out in the morning with adam bomb and his dad,first time fishing with them.should be a blast,will post when we return

i think we put 42 miles on mon.

where are you fishing?the offshore program has been the ticket in ludington and manistee.go deep and fish fast after the sun is up is the rule for july on my boat.

have to give adam bomb some of the credit,he passed on some info from a friend.it helps to have friends in high places:grin:it sure is frank,a little better since some of the nets are gone this year.allthough we have not fished to the south much at all this year.

they have been smakin them out deep in manistee for the last couple weeks,when you can get out there.we were 13 to 15 miles out yesterday.the cats out of the bag now:eek:

we fished in the morning on sun,starting out on the bank in 100 to 130 fow.we took a few fish and started to work our way out.picked away at them till noon and pulled lines.we made it out to 350 fow but it was to rough to make it out where i wanted.we ended up with 11 keepers and 1 throw back.8 kings,3 lakers and a coho.riggers 18,45,69 and 97 dwn.2,3 and 5 colors.agent orange,ultra glow nbk,nuked veggies,mixed veggies,steelie stomper,fire ball and a bumble bee did the damage.120 fow was the best. on mon we broke the piers at 12:15 pm,droped the throttle and did not pull it back till we saw fish tailing on the 34 line,700 plus fow.fish were on fire had 3 fish on and 2 in the boat in the first 10 min.we ended up boating 24 fish out deep.we kept 14,9 steelies,3 lakers and 2 coho.went into the bank to look for a kicker king.we set up in 175 fow and boated 2 16 inchers and a smaller one.then a rigger at 100 dwn went off,after a 15 min battle and clearing all the lines the wife had a 20#er in the boat,great way to finish our limit.riggers 20,31 and 100 dwn.1,2,3,5 colors and a flat line with a 1 1/2 oz clip wt.steelie stomper,mixed veggies,ultra glow nbk,bumble bee and a fire ball did the damage we ended the day 28 for 36,only 4 were small throwbacks

labor day is not to far off,then the amatures:mad: will be gone and we will all be able to relax again:grin:summer at the ramps can be an experince.

matt,we will be there sun morning,weather permitting.i will have the raido on

all the trak systems are the same that i have seen,big jons dont work unless you make a plate to fit in the trak,unless they started to make them recently.now that i have traks on my boat would not go any other way

just say the word,you should come with us for some of the fall steel fishing.once everybody starts deer hunting i have the lake to my self:grin:or at least it feels that way compared to summer