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Feels good when you get your own back running. Great pics and report.

lets hope the weather holds out for the weekend

Good luck Roger. You fishing GH Saturday with the dog?

Bearing suck. Had same issue this spring. Had to have a new shaft welded on. Good job on the kings. I'll be up that way end of the month, I hope its rocking for fish and a lake of glass....

Read this post and download the attached file.

It is very helpful

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16491&highlight=excel

Very nice report and fish. Thanks

I have nevered targeted lakes at all, just pull in greasy pigs by chance.

Thanks, great report

Wow. Great job jimmy. A lot of big fish this summer

I like night fishing the best, just because I'm not a morning person anymore. getting up at 4am to head to the lake to get that early morning bite kinda well bites...

we head out between 5-7pm go 20-30 feet deeper than the current reports, slow troll toward shore.

put the glow stuff out with about 1-2 inches of sun left on the horizon. and hang on just like the morning bite.

we have stayed out as late a 1am.

Great job - love them big old hogs

I'm really looking foward to my trip north at the end of the month.....

save some big hogs for me.....

thanks, helps a guy make it thru the week.

Stop at Capt Chucks bait shop, I'm sure they can point you in right direction.

Nice job Mark

start in 60 fow north of peir

head sw or nw until you take fish note depth, stay in that depth.

good job Matt, will be up that way the week before Labor Day. keep up the good work and reports

welcome to the site, I know we are limited on our days out, but keep an eye on the weather and play it safe. good job on the 1st trip

checking the wind speed and wave height at the mid lake buoy http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45007 is also a great help. watch the radar across the pond, like last Sat am NOAA had 0-1 but a big green/yellow/red blob was at the buoy and the wind was already gusting to 30+. we call off at 4am from home. and from what was posted later in the day 4-7 footers we made the right call. Sunday was a much better day on the lake.

here is another good link. http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/?lat=42.787339&lon=-87.132568&zoom=7&type=h&status=r&pgm=&op=&ls=false

also if you have a smart phone search for marine forcast in the market place. I can check this same map with a weater radar overlay right from the boat to see if anything that is moving in is worth pulling lines and running in.

Jon:

Can u post a pic of the steel pin and what matl did u use. Thx

lets try a little market test, how many guys would switch to this style of pin and what would you pay, I have only made a couple handfull up on a manual lathe, but if I could get enough people to buy I could setup one of the cnc up over a weekend and run a couple hundred in a couple of hours. Would just need to cover the material, tooling and machine time - I'm sure the owner would not object as long as he is covered for cost.

jon.

I use the wally boards with no issues pulling lead or copper, biggest copper I run is 300 45#, board runs a little close but no issues.

also replace the plastic pin with Stainless Steel, I made my own, after two lost boards. zero lost since.

ya all the grease fell right off that one.

the fish on the left looks a lil hungry

It was fun. Thanks Jake & Ken

Good job Kevin, we called off a 4am after a quick check of the weather. Going to try again in the morning

good work, thanks for the report