EdB

Nice catch guys! Wish I could have got out this week, cancelled vacation days on Monday and Tuesday with my girls for their spring break due to the wind, then work has closed in on me for the back half of the week. Looks like I'll finally get back out Sat. Weather (wind) looks bad for Sunday.

Nice report Matt, have fun these season!

Another good thing about this is that it also get you in state owned boat launches that required a boat launch sticker like Bolles Harbor or St Joe. In the past, I always bought a boat launch sticker for my truck-$24 A park sticker for my truck -$24 and a sticker for my wifes vehicle, another $24. They are needed throughout the Waterloo area where we live and we go the Ludington state park all the time. So we used to pay $72 annually, now we pay $20. What a good deal for a change. Maybe, maybe not??? What I'm expecting is that won't be manning the gates at many places anymore. If you don't buy it, you'll get in anyways because they won't be paying a worker to sit at the toll booth. With everyone buying these now, there won't be many left to pay entrance fees so why put a worker there when they won't be collecting much money. They might man big parks like Ludington but I doubt they'll man Bolles Harbor or the St Joe DNR launch. This is speculation on my part, we'll have to see what happens.

Nice smackdown on the fish!

The hot fishing continues, we caught 26 and kept our 20. After we caught our limit and let the 21st one go from a double, we started to pull rods and hit 5 more and released them as we cleared the deck. It was over with quick. It was a nice way to start to my 2011 boat season. Orange gold j-9 rap's on all 3 riggers down 18-22ft. They were the best. Small dodgers and orange/red coho flies on divers out 40 and 50ft and thin fins on boards.

We'll be out too.

Nice catch, sure is nice to see the year class of coho's we have out there this spring.

Nice job, those coho's are really snapping now.

That's some fast action!

That's a nice box!

Nice catch, wish I didn't have to work.

Great job!

Good job Kevin!

That's filling the box, good job!

Great catch!

Way to go, those fish are snapping now.

Nice catch!

Had another good weekend, I walked off the rock Sat with 2 coho, 2 whitefish and a chrome blue 9 lb steelie. 4 of us fished today and we walked off with 21. The catch was 12 coho's and 9 whitefish. I got 6 of them. Steelie skein was the hot bait today on the river side of the pier.

18 to 22 inches-chunky, they look good.

Hit the river this morning, I got 2 steelies, my buddy lost 3. All drifting spawn bags. Moved to the pier for the afternoon and we got 1 brown, 5 coho and 4whitefish between both of us. Had a great day, I caught 3 coho's to round out a limit for the day and one whitefish. My buddy had the hot hand on the pier to make up for his poor showing at the river. The coho's liked nightcrawlers 5-7ft under floats. The whitefish liked skein and single eggs. We also got some fish on spawn bags. Nice to use 3 rods. The boats were hitting a few fish too. Good luck!

Lake trout opens April 1 off St Joe this year when the new Lk Trout regs going into effect April 1. It will run to Oct 31st. That will be a nice bonus for the box. Next year, it is Jan 1 to Oct 31.

That's a good one!

Shawn, My first forschner was a 12 incher, that was back in to the 20 pounder days. It's great for big fish. I like my 10 incher best for the size of fish we have been catching in recent year.

Yeah Charter Sucks !!!!! Frank, Doesn't that computer customer service rep voice with 20 questions drive you nuts when you try to call them. If you have run into that, here's a tip. Just start shouting "you mother f'rs and a bunch of other swear words and I'm going to cancel my service and it will connect you to a live person. Learned that trick last year.

Congratulations!