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Way to be a diehard, I was going to go this morning, but 25- 30 out of the northeast on this side of the lake was just a little to much.

I got a feeling with this many coho around come july their will be alot of tackle laying on the bottom of the lake. Once cohos hit 10 pounds they start destroying tackle. They don't grow out of that "coho roll" thing they do and a 10- 15 pound fish rolling in your gear will snap off alot of gear.

Nope, no break in the near future.

Ok guys, so it seems like everyone is killing the cohos this year. Is this a better year for cohos so far than normal? We got cohos up in Wisconsin already and that's got us wondering why cause either their a month early or their are so many fish this year they don't all fit on the south end of the lake. So be honest, do you normally do this well on cohos or is it an unbelievable year? Seems like every report is a limit.

Browns are a blast in the shallows. Nice work

Orange Killer

Nice work, looks like you are picking up on the important things already. Speed is everything.

What the hell's a looper????

Ya, I thought their were alot of reports already too. Should be a good year.

I pretty much new we were going to suck it up in milwaukee, but Randy and I found a spot a few years ago that we thought would be awesome for browns so we talked friday and I said I would check it out. Well needless to say it didn't pan out. Now we know I guess. Somebody had to take one for the team! Racine from now on though.

Jim, atleast you didn't get skunked. The water is way to cold in milwaukee right now. The fish are piled up in the warm water.

It's a nice fish but we get them that big every year. They caught the new world record off Racine last year 42.7 pounds so their are alot of big ones out their.

Well the first trip of the year was sloooow! 2 fish for the morning so narrowly avoided a skunk to start the season. Water is still ice cold 37- 38 degrees and no fish around. Didn't look like anyone was onto anything yet, but everything on the boat worked so wasn't too bad of a day. Cohos are showing up south, a buddy limited out this morning. 16#s on the digital scale

Can you subscribe for just the summer months?

Why would you ask a question like that! Just kidding, nice to see another Milwaukee guy. It might work for you but the water might be a tad cold around there. A buddy and I were just talking about browns today and the magic temp for fishing outside the warm harbor water is 40 degrees. If it's colder than that outside the harbor our expierence has been it's a waste of time. Good luck.

How much are you guys paying for this?

Hopefully next Saturday I have a pile to show ya!

Nice job Josh, that thing should fly through the water now. How long will that last till you have to do it again?

makes sense, thought your boat was on a trailer. Good luck

I'll try to answer your questions the best I can having fished milwaukee all my life. First no don't start out deep, I'm assuming you'll start in April. Next keep track this year of the days you fished good or bad results. Just write down coordinates of spots you did good in, the date and water temp. You can right down some notes about conditions and other things you think might help. Here's where I would fish if I were you and you will be the most productive this way. April fish in and around the harbor, your just catching browns and Lakers. May, don't fish Miwaukee again until the 2nd weekend in June, go to Racine as soon as you hear people getting coho in Kenosha, they are already in Racine. Fish Racine until AFTER the lake sets up, then go back to Milwaukee and you should pound the kings. Usually between the second and third week in June. Then stay in Miwaukee the rest of the season. If you do the log thing and fish Milwaukee and Racine at the right times of the year I would bet you can catch atleast twice as many fish as you would have if you stayed in Milwaukee all year. Other than that you will start to put some patterns together about what time of year certain spot are hot or dead. Main thing that is hard to do when you first start out is fish away from the pack. When you find a good spot and nobody else is there you do have to keep that to yourself. Lakelink is great for the guys that don't get out much but it has ruined alot of good spots for the guys that hads the guts to fish miles from the rest of the boat pack. I've had it happen to many times where I went to a spot on Saturday and a few other boats showed up that normally don't catch alot of fish, but the fish were stacked on a spot so they had their best day of fishing. Then on Sunday instead of 3 or 4 of us on that little spot their were 30 of us and nobody did well.

Ouch that hurts! Atleast you got a few.

For the leadcores Shimano Talora TLA70Mc For the divers Shimano Talora TLA80MH2 The leadcore rods are $80 and the diver rod is about $70 I think. But well worth the money if you fish alot. I know people have different budgets, but I have been burned to many times by trying to save a little here and there. If I can only afford 1 or 2 rods a year that's what I get, and wait till next year instead of buying 4 or 5 and then a couple years later replacing them with what I really wanted anyways.

Just a little more advice if you are going to get lead core rods, I would strongley suggest 7 footers. Unhooking a planer boards is way easier when you have a shorter rod. you won't have to walk all the way to the bow so the guy at the back can unhook it for you. Hooking the board on is easier too, you can hold the rod in one hand and grab the line with the other without setting the rod down to get to the tip.

Sounds like a good idea.

You beat me to it.