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Thanks Tom for taking me along. Had a great time, and really enjoyed your boat. Go get em tomarrow, wish I could go again. Yeah kitchen, we saw one net that was on the eastside of bouy 1 aways, where it usually is each year, and another further N.E. of end of channel, and maybe a mile east of channel marked with more like sticks.

Wow, eggs still? Whats the water temp up that way? Nice atleast getting a few in the boat. Good job John, gonna have to follow you out there sometime with my buddies boat. He got a rest of the year free pass at eagles landing as part of the big fish prize in the casino tourney we were in. Its that hypmotizer gizmo you got on the bottom of P1 that puts them in a feeding frenzy....doah. Sorry, wasn't suppose to say anything Frank:lol:.

If not back to work by then, I'll be there:thumb:

Nice catch! They pretty much all look nice size. Good job getting the hog in the net:thumb: Those are usually the ones that get away that everyone talks about later:lol:

Geat job:) Thanks for report. Sounds like some others are getting them over there real good also. Saw a 7 man limit on another site in same area. Hope the weather stays cooler this summer and fishing stays good thru July.

8th,9th,10th,15th,16th,17th..... Right now I'm out of work, so I'm flexible. Might just need to find a ride for a couple eastsiders trying to remember what salmon are:lol:

About July 23 weekend.

Hey Frank, how'd the surgery go? Saw Pauls wing recipe on this site, now I'm going to try em out next weekend, can't wait! You know you only need one hand to steer that tug on the calmer days:lol: We can get you into the boat:D

Tagged fish went the Capt.(shawn), his boat:D. It has to have 2 tags sticking out of back to be one of those worth $100. This just is a normal jaw tag. All the info on different tag types are in the fishing guide. He'll go on the DNR website and enter the info from tag along with length and weight of fish, and they'll send him the info on the fish as to where at, size, and when it was tagged. Pretty neat. I've got 3 in time living in B.C., and all have been tagged at dow dam on tittabawasee river. Someone caught one once at the mouth of Ausable that was tagged at dow dam. Guess they like to swim.

Fished with a friend in his boat out of LBM at 6:20 a.m. friday 6/24, and headed south. Straight off state park. Used 1 o.z. inline, and 1 oz. snap weights 6' to 8 fow. As long as harness was only about 3' down lots of weeds, need to be above them. We were running crawler harnesses 5' to 8' behind boards, trolling at 1.4-1.8mph. Was slow all morning from 6:30 until 1:00, only 7 keepers and that many throwbacks, plus a pike and a catfish. Went into castaways up the kawkawlin river for launch, picked up shawn's wife and headed back out to a couple waypoints where we got fish in morning. First pass, 5 on at one time Got all five in for total of 12, pulled in what wasn't a mess, untangle and run back upwind. Made another pass over same spot, bam...got our last 3. Only took 45 min. after launch to get 8 All together for day besides the limit was only 1 nice one lost at back of boats, atleast a dozen throwbacks, 2 perch, 2 pike,1 catfish,1 big dogfish, and something that yanked board and snapped line. They must have decided to bite! Or shawn's wife is a good luck charm! Even got his first bling on a nice eye close to 24". Good luck.....Ralph

Sounds great, I'm in! Just need a boat ride:lol:. Its all in the planning and keep updating the posts. Should be able to get quite a few people on that side. I've done quite a few on the sag. bay forum of another site, and could help if you need it, just say the word and pick a place and date:)....Ralph

Ok., just notice the other outings listed were 2010. Is there any for this year? I've done many outings on another site, and always had alot better response and participation by posting in the forum where those that fish the area frequent instead of the outing section.

How did the outing turn out? Any pics? Never mind, just noticed it was 2010. Guess I gotta read better before typing.

Is there any outings planned for westside salmon? See the last post was Feb.? Would love to come over there and try to catch a few if I can find ride:) Was going to delete this post, but dont' see that option. Just saw the other threads on the outings.

Been looking at different salmon/fish chowder recipes, and this one sounds awsome. Will be trying it when I get some fresh salmon this summer. Have you added anything besides salmon? Thinking of tossing in some "saginaw bay scallops"!(walleye cheeks:D).

Nice catch. We fished there sat. morning, but couldn't get to the deeper water due to the N.E. wind that kicked up. Got a few shallow.

Sempe Fi brother, I was a cpl also:thumb:. To hell with helping out, get over here next year and get your but in a boat out fishing! That's what its all about, boat cptn's taking out the vets and showing appreciation for your service to our country. If you want to lend a hand when your done yankin them in the boat, the more the marrier:D. Thanks for your service. It was a geat time and was very well planned out for first time. We cleaned quite a few fish, hopefully its about same time next year. June seems to always be best walleye month on the bay!

Yep, Bay City @ vets park downtown on Sunday. The over 80 boats entered are suppose to rondevue by the island out from rivermouth around 1 or 2 p.m., and be escorted back to launch by coast guard. Guessing by 3 p.m. there should be plenty fish to be cleaned:D. Here's info on the event.....http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367289

Their only fishing on Sunday. If anyone is interested in volunteering on this Sunday 6/19 to help clean fish for the "walleye for warriors" event(for disabled veterans) in Bay City, please post here or pm me. Right now we have 6 confirmed. There's over 80 boats and 3 per boat, thats 240 x 5=1200 walleye that theoretically could need to be cleaned!! I'm sure there won't be that many, but 500+ won't be out of the question, and thats alot of fish! There will be electricity for knives, and water along with surgical gloves to protect hands. Thanks to anymore that can help, we should have enough area set up for about 16 people to clean.....Ralph The post above for fishing out of seganing is suppose to read SATURDAY not sunday.

pink and white was hottest harness, and spoon harness was purple with black dot, and chartruese on backside. I just take the small jr. streaks or stinger spoons and tie a 2 snelled hook rig about 8" long with a snap swivel. then snap it on the split ring of spoon and hang a crawler from it. Works good as top line off a three way swivel w/hot n tot or t-stick jr.(deep diver) on bottom line. This time was just behind inline about 5'.

Hey Tony, if your fishing thurs. or fri. morning and need a rider, let me know. I'll be cleaning all their fish on Sunday, and fishing out of Saganing eagles landing in employee tourney on Sunday with Joe.

Nice job Frank. Hope everything goes well with the surgery. Will have to start frequenting this site a little more to catch up on your reports:D.

Was out last weekend for an outing from another site. We did decent on Sunday in the wind. Straight out of Sebewaing river to up on bar, turned and set up with waves and stayed around 1.5 mph with 1 o.z. inlines 25' back. Trolled towards fish point and all fish came over slot (12' to 16'). 8 of our 9 fish were caught by 8:45 a.m. on first pass, only 1 after that on second pass up till 11:00. Had to be in before noon. All on hanesses, 2 on spoon harness. Good luck....Ralph

Nice fish and pics! The larger head one looks to have x type marks on back, not sure with not a close up pic. Could be an underfed Atlantic? All the steel I've caught on eastside of state from Ausable down to PA have had orange meat in past, and Atlantic my buddy caught this past spring off Tawas had lighter colored meat. Nice catch regardless.