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I hold the tip of the rod up in the air and let out line until the knot (leadcore to leader) gets into the water, then snap on the board.

GRRR...perch fags.

Looks a bit odd, but I'll put anything down once. I went to the web-site and didn't see anything about a free lure??

As usual a great time was had by all and a wonderful spread (as usual) put on by the gals (Connie and SheKris). Too bad turnout wasn't a bit better, but summertime is busy for everyone. Thanks for opening up the lodge Steve and Connie for all of us to enjoy. Now onto the fishing part...I like to think of this tourney as two seperate divisions-with and without "Stupid Perch". I vote for the St. Joe events to be silver only from now on...take it from me and the boat I was on-losing by 3#'s sucks when that 3#'s consits of PERCH:mad: Anyone can go out and catch bait-right Don and Ben. We had good luck on the "Homewrecker" south all the way to the Cook Plant in 60-80' and our best action by far was the early bite. Core and riggers took the bulk of our fish-only had one rip on a dipsy. Moonshines early did damage then went to the usual suspects after sun-up. We ended up w/ 4 kings, 2 steelhead, and a coho along with about 20 perch that would have made great tip-up bait, but fryed up just fine thank-you:D It was a real nice day on the water and first place in the non-perch division is very satisfying. One final note...STUPID PERCH!!!

Compound bow hunter here.

I agree with Skeiner for sure on this one.

Jack-that is a sweet set-up. Hope it sells for you-looks like a good deal.

That's right, I had my dates of their trip mixed up...I thought it was this weekend and the next he was gone for. I guess I'll be hanging my shingle out then...why you need a crew or a dent in your boat?

Is this some sort of jab, or are you being serious?

A skamania is a steelhead. Most likely the fish w/ the pale meat was a dropback that spawned this spring. There is no way to distinguish the steelhead strain by the color of the meat, only a scale sample is definitive.

Come on down and fish the St. Joe League event on July 8th...we'd be glad to have you.

Nice job Eric and crew

All cookie cutter kings (4-8#) and the steelhead went about 5#. The two steelhead off the pier yesterday went 9# and 10#. The coho was the best fish IMO of the day as it probably went 6#-real thick. Edit: Woops, sorry for the double post

Fished out of St. Joe yesterday afternoon with Creek-Chub and his dad on their boat from 12-7 after whacking a couple on the pier in the AM. Wasn't expecting much, but it beat working and turned out pretty good. We started in 100' and trolled out to 150', picked up a real nice coho on a full core at about 120' on a mag blue and green Proking. Had a few stand-ups on the riggers (that trend lasted the whole afternoon with about 6 total) and I'm guessing fish were just slapping at the baits and not getting stuck. Picked up a king on a full core on the out-troll as well, another mag Proking victim. On the in-troll we took a rip on the wire w/ blue bubble set-up back 196' set on 3 (mag dipsy) and landed another king. Flipped it and headed out taking another king on the full core, this time on a standard Proking blue bubble. Hit 150' came back in and popped a double on the riggers-steelie on a SWR/standard blue bubble Proking and a king on a blue dolphin. Was quiet for a bit and we started woking our best depth (110-120). Took another king on the wire set-up, had a knockoff on the rigger, and lost another fish on the Powerpro dipsy as we were pulling lines. Water temp never got below 65* that I remember and speed was just under 3mph most of the day. Few boats working in close, but the water wasn't any cooler in there and didn't see any nets raised. All in all a decent afternoon going 7-9 with about a fish an hour average...I was pleased for middle of June to be able to pick away at them on a beautiful day.

No worries Tommy...that's a good decision, it was good seeing you again this weekend. Spanky... Not really any pain the next day where my hat was covering me, you know what I mean:D In all honesty it looked much worse than it turned out, no discomfort at all from my hat down. Damn Buddweisers anyway:cool:

I'll keep this short and sweet...had a great time with great people, combine that with some great fishing and you end up with a GREAT weekend!! Walleye were plentiful for all and I think everyone had a good time! I can't believe I'm actually looking forward to next year and contemplating trying to make it over more than once:eek:

So I should ignore the PM you sent me??

How much to ship all of the lures etc (bottom section of listing) to 49112 area code (USA)? Consider them sold if shipping is reasonable.

Thanks again for the great report!

Hells Bells...I'm young and I like crewing on your boat a whole lot more w/ the electrics! For manulas those Walkers Steve has now are the best I've used-and being boatless I've ran just about everything from pull-pin Rivieras w/ no counters to Cannons w/ no clutch (can you say blistered hands:eek: ). As for electrics having experienced 3 or 4 different brands I love the Tourny Walkers, but could live with any manufacturer these days.

What do I win Larry-a quart of tranny fluid? Good luck this weekend...I envy you!

I think it was Mitch.

I'm going out on a limb and guessing the title of this thread is supposed to be Indiana, not Indian?

Looking at adding a slide diver rig to my arsenal...for those of you that run them (and have success preferably:p ) what are your tried and true set-ups? By all means any other comments are welcomed as well-good and bad...i.e. slide divers suck and I have never caught a fish on one and will never run one again, etc.

I'll second the Franfort guess.