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That has to be quite the dinner plate. Steelhead and walleye. Man....I am hungry now.

Great report Jim! The fishing has been fantastic up and down the coast.

2007 Stinger Challengers 1. GLF -pd 2. Redeye - pd 3. DIRTY DOG/Heavy Action - pd 4. Priority1 - pd 5. Hunt4Ever - pd 6. tltorrice - pd 7. Sea-Mac - pd 8. mariner - pd 9. doughman - pd 10. anmetcalf - pd 11. caznik - pd 12. Dv8oR - pd One change.

If you have not booked your campsite, I would highly recommend getting it done. I am not sure how many, if any are left.

Ahhh....the good info! Thanks for the report and filling the holes. Nice job on the kings Mark!

On the riggers, I was running the baits 50-60' behind the ball. I had one rigger go off while I was drawing the rod down. I thought I popped the release by mistake, but then the drag started screaming. FISH ON!!!!!

You are more than welcome to join in on the pig roast and holdem. The cost per plate for the pig roast is $7.00.

We showed him how to do that last weekend

Is he going to fish with you this time Terry????

FISH ON! Nice fish...I cant wait to see a picture of it!

LMFAO :lol:

Make sure you get a lot of sleep. I am sure no one will sharpen your hooks for you while you are sleeping.

Nice box of BIG fish Terry. I dont know about any of you guys....but when the 15 color went off again, you could not pay me to pick up the rod

I spoke with Rob on Friday and he was in the process of filling the order. I had two extra lure packages coming, but they have both been spoken for. If someone decides they can not make it for some reason, you will be the first to know. Mike

I made it out again today. We left the dock at 6:15am, and headed for the lake. At 6:45, I shut down in 105FOW, started a North troll and started setting lines. We fished 105-115FOW all day. I was setting the 4th line when a rigger fired. Eric grabbed the rod, turned a few times on the handle and said there was nothing there. I explained to Eric what a slider was and the importance of cranking fast until you feel the fish. This was the first of MANY fish that we would loose today. I reset this line and was working on another when a full core went off. After a short battle, we lost this fish. I reset this rod set a couple more, when a wire diver with a Custom Fishing Products, 11" Hotchip with a Siggs Rigs, Green Hypnotist trophy fly went. We boxed this fish(8lb Laker). I finally got all the rods set and manned the wheel. We were way North of where I wanted to be. I swung the boat to the South and head to the area where I had caught fish the day before. Once we hit this area, rods started popping! We boxed a couple of doubles and lost SEVERAL more fish. After I had everything reset, I swung the boat back around to head through the area again. We picked up few more, and lost a few more. We made a few more passes through this area, and picked up fish each time we went through it. We pulled lines at 11:30 to head in. All said and done, we ended up 15 for 28 or more. I lost track of how many fish we lost after the 10th one. 9 kings, 3 coho, 2 steelhead, and 1 lake trout. Our biggest one weighed 14.5lbs. We also put in two more rows of corn, another row of beans, and another squash plant. What worked......We did not have any one hot bait that out performed the rest. Riggers set at 35', 45, 60', and 80' fired muliple times today. Full cores went several times today, 1/2 cores went several times today, and we also caught them on 2 and 3 colors. Michigan Stinger Stingrays, Craigs x-mas reverse, Craigs x-mas, Glow Dolphin, NBK, Carmel Dolphin, Green Puke, Blue Freakin Veggies, and Tangerine. We caught several fish on wire divers. The hot bait for the divers was a Custom Fishing Products 8" Prochip, white blank/double pearl fishscale, with a Siggs Rigs Orange Bubble Trophy fly, set on #3 with 175' of wire out. HOOKED ON FISHING After my son caught his first fish on Lake Michigan yesterday, he is hooked! He asked several times to reel in fish today. On a couple of the smaller ones, I put the rod in the corner rod holder and let him reel it in. He reeled in two half cores all by himself, once I removed the boards! Here he is in action cranking in the first of his two fish he caught today. What you can not see in this picture, is dads grin from ear to ear. This was the high light of the trip!

Nice job Scott! I just missed you this morning online. You could have came out with us.

Nice job Phil. I think he is pointing at the camera in the second picture, but it looks like he lost his right arm.

I am not sure about the stores in GR, but D & R Sports in Kalamazoo has all 15 Stinger Nitro colors, along with a nice selection of regular Stinger Spoons

In a way, you can say this was your shake down trip for salmon. Are you going to have it back together before the Stinger Challenge? Get any BIG ones? Any pictures?

Nice job on the steelies. Any pictures?????

I am fishing Sunday morning, so I decided to put some gas in the boat today. After putting gas in the boat at Harbour Towne, I could not resist the call of the big lake. So.....I made the left turn out of Harbour Towne and headed out. I shut down in 100FOW and had 9 lines at 1:30pm. It was not long after I had the lines set when a full core went off. I grabbed this, and my oldest son manned the wheel. While I was fighting this fish, the full core on the other side of the boat started going off. By the time I put the rod in a rod holder and grabbed the other rod, it was gone It had a Michigan Stinger Stingray size, Craigs x-mas reverse. I picked up the first full core that still had the fish and reeled it in. This ended up being a 14lb king. This came on a Michigan Stinger NBK. I had just put this fish in the cooler when a rigger down 45' went. After a short battle, we boxed a 5lb steelhead on a Michigan Stinger magnum, Glo Dolphin. After I reset the two rods, a half core went off. I reeled it in and took the board off. I felt that it was a small fish and asked my son if he would like to reel it in. He said yes, and I put the rod in a rod holder for him to reel in. He reeled the half core in and the fish. This fish was on a Michigan Stinger stingray, Chicken Wing. This is my sons first fish from Lake Michigan. We pulled lines at 2:30pm to head home. Our catch for the 1 hour we fished....3 for 4. Not bad for an hours work. All of the fish came from 105-115FOW. I did not bring a camera because I was not planning on fishing. Had to wait until we got home for the pictures.

2007 Stinger Challengers 1. GLF -pd 2. Redeye - pd 3. DIRTY DOG/Heavy Action - pd 4. Priority1/Reel Screamer - pd 5. Hunt4Ever - pd 6. tltorrice - pd 7. Sea-Mac - pd 8. mariner - pd 9. plumkrazy - pd 10. anmetcalf - pd 11. caznik - pd 12. Dv8oR - pd The dead line to sign up is over! I have placed the order, and I am not taking any more teams. Those who did sign up will be getting a couple of "exclusive colors", and possibly a third "special color", in their lure package. These colors are not available in stores this year. Because of the exclusive colors and possible special color, I may not be able to post a preview picture of the lure package on the net. I will be sending out a pm to all challengers next week.

2003 Polaris Sportsman 500 HO, Mossey Oak Edition, brush guard, 2,500lb Ramsey winch, 1222 miles. Has two ripped CV boots. $3,800 OBO Located in Otsego, Michigan

Woo Hooo.....Nothing like a good fire drill to get the blood pumping! Nice job Tad Pole!

Congratulations to Catfishhoge and everyone else that fished in the tourney! Thanks to all the sponsors for sponsoring this event. A big "Thank You" goes out to caznik for putting this together. I am not sure how many of you are aware of how much time and effort Rich puts into this, and his other tourneys. An even BIGGER THANK YOU to caznik's wife! Things had to be hectic this year with the graduations, weddings and these tourneys, Rich please tell you wife how much we appreciate her allowing you to run these events. Also tell her thanks for bringing up the flash card for the camera and taking all the pictures. She did a GREAT job with the photos. Thanks again Rich! Mike