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he died around a month into opie season i also think it was cool that sig and phil went through with the 2 jakes after talking about it 2 years ago. the show aint gonna be the same come the start of opie season though. plus does everyone else think that jake harris just likes seeing his face on tv?

head to the joe at 2 this afternoon got lines set about 330 345 half way from the pier heads to the pump house south troll and got on the radio for a report only report was boat dead in 55 fow and no body closer offered help so pulled lines and went and caught me a 22ft bayliner that was d.o.a. towed them in got into a fist fight with a couple of natives in benton harlem cause they wouldnt pull thier lines off the docks so we could load up the boat lake wasnt bad wind is still kickin out there

hard telling where the fish moved to. i am willing to bet it was because of the winds waves and currents and all the fish i caught yesterday were south of the pier heads and there was alot of boats from the pump station all the way down to cook

katrina i fished st joe yesterday and it was still slow compared to what last year was this time due to the recent winds. you were right in your water range and after making a call to the dirty dog i found it was slow for the master fish killer. i am gonna try st joe agian durning the week sometime and maybe it will change but on the 17th i would recomend along with nailer to goto the friendly get together out of so haven. i will be there hopefully

set lines just north of the junk cars in 23 fow trolled south to just pass the a-frames miss 1 on a 3 color down the chute loaded with a hot steel xrap picked up 2 lakers with a blue/black/purple peanut fly behind a orange flasher picked up a 4 pound coho on a high line 100 ft back loaded with a clown xrap back north up by the treatment plant picked up a splake on braided dipsy #3 setting green/yellow with pink spot thin fish small ho on 3c with hot steel xrap big steelie on 3c with hot steel came unbuttoned at the boat water temp 44.1 to 45 sow 2.1 to 3.1

i will take 2 of them in black mike

now introducing DILLIGAF hope i did it right

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well i pulled the trigger and bought a sea ray today. its a 1976 24ft sundancer with the 230hp ford v8 with a mercruiser gen 1 out drive single screw. it will not be ready for the water till next year because it does need some work done since it is 34 years old. but i figure with a little bit of time and hopefully not alot of money i can make it into a class act fishing boat. i will post pics when i pic it up saturday. a big thanks to mike (glf) and andy (2unreel) for even answering thier phones when they knew it was me to offer thier advice.

from gr area to st joe is about an hour if you run down 96 to 94

well as of right now everything is falling in place for the purchase of a "new" 1985 sea ray 26ft sundancer with twin screws. they guy who wants to buy the bass boat has called 5 or 6 times today asking little stupid questions and is driving in from south lyon tomorrow to look at it and "fingers crossed" buy it so i can make the deal work with the sea ray so all in all if you see pics under a post from me of a sea ray it meas the deal went through

call paul havenaar at sign impressions in kalamazoo on ravine he does one hell of a job on lettering

Went to Brooks Archery in Kalamazoo and the owner set her up with what she needed paul ted is my uncle and i personally will not buy a single thing from him ever agian he is just worried about the bottom line and cares only for himself. for archery deal with kruzinga on m-43. now d-n-r is a great place to deal with some of thier staff are clueless but most of them are knowalable on alot of topics and if all else fails talk to randy he takes time to talk to any customer who needs his help

talked to andy about it since he is a searay owner and he said he would take some time to take a look at it with me and give me his thoughts on it

well found a 1985 searay 26 footer with twin 350's today and made the call and went and looked at it and gave the lady an offer on it just now sitting here waiting if she will take the offer. the boat is not rigged for fishing at all but after being out with andy (2unreel) yesterday i think its a good foundation for a fishing boat. so if anyone has any thoughts on electronics and other rigging ideas that make fishing more productive please feel free to add to this. my thoughts were the fact that the engines are under deck making for open deck for fishing. twin screws just incase (after what we went through on 4-2). the cabin to get crew out of bad weather if it pops up. and its trailerable

but hey we made it back had some fun shootin the crap. andy and randy tried to becomes pros at drift fishing for ho's with lead and mono. it was better than sittin at home. and it was good puttin a face to the name and voice of people i have chatted with on here

mike i know its after sun up we just leave all our stuff down till past the bridge and yeah you get the picture

i put 15 to 20 feet of 30lb mono inbetween the lead and the power pro and clip the boards to the mono cause they seem to slip on braided backer

road work on the main drag is done all whats left that i know of is the hardscaping and planting

i have gone through that round-a-bout with a tri axle dump truck pulling a 38 foot equipment trailer so yeah you can get through it with a truck pullin a good size boat no worries plus it was the company i work for that did the paving and dirt work so dont blame me i just need the pay check lol

i fish out of st joe south haven and saugatuck and have had good luck with copper set ups (300 and 450) also with leadcore from 5 color to 10 color set-ups with clean spoons and the best luck i have had is with dipsies loaded with spin doctors with blue or green flies set back 150 to 185 feet at a gps speed over water from 1.2 to 2.8 mph. hope this helps and welcome to the site alot of good guys here with alot of info

in st joe right on niles ave about 5 miles off i94 there is the silver beach hotel that is nice. also stay away from benton harlem if you dont want to be filling out police reports from your car/truck being broken into or stolen in new buffalo 4 winds casino resort has nice rooms and the place is clean. south haven not sure of lodging but there are a few good places to eat a few are.. thirsty perch-good food priced a little high captian lou's-good food priced alright and right on the black river at the draw bridge taco bob's-good food for a good price plus they have the roof seating

peter if you get the itch and need a tow i got 2 trucks that can pull your boat plus i am just down the road from ya.

welcome to the site tj looking foward to seeing your reports for your neck of the woods

congrats ken