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Nice fish Jonas. Whats your favorite way of cooking them?

Great job Terry. I sure am missing the Muskegon area this year.

Nice job Bob!

Nice box of fish Ken!

Nice job R-turn.

Nice job Todd!

Nice job Robert!

Nice job on your first trip of the season!

Nice job Tony!

Nice job Dave!

Nice job Jimmy!

The weather was questionable(wondering if there was going to be lightning) this morning, so we dragged our feet a little bit heading out this morning. Finally started setting lines at 7:30am. I did not have all of the lines set and we were into our first fish. We ended the day 6 for 7. 3 chinook, 1 steelhead, and 2 of them were lake trout that we released back into the lake. We worked 80-100FOW, and caught fish on the following. Stinger size blue dolphin on a rigger parked at 80'. Stinger size blue dolphin on a rigger parked at 60'. Stinger size Steve Wonder on a 1/2 core. Silver Horde(blue mylar) on a full core with a 4oz dive bomb, went twice. Chartruse and gold prochip 11, with a Siggs Rigs Green Apple trophy fly on a wire diver on 1.5 with a mag ring with 175' of line out, went twice. Here is my son Hunter with his 16lb(weighed on a scale) buck caught on the blue mylar Silver Horde. We pulled lines at 11:30am and headed in. I will be back out in the morning.

Nice steelhead Bill!

I have not seen anything good come out of this thread. Nothing in it about changing the rules. Maybe someone talked about it on a different website, but all I have seen here are different posts on how BCT are cheaters, criminals and should be prosecuted. Any black eyes in the sport as a result of this belong to the Tournament Trail. They new what the fall out to the Tournament Trail, and the sport would be by allowing BCT to bow out. If they had a case they would have prosecuted. What about the city of Ludington...they had a steak in this also. No charges have been filed by them either. Lots of rummors going around.....someone saw this and saw that, people can say this, and say that. Here is a fact everyone can spread around. No charges have been filed against BCT by the city of Ludington or the Tournament Trail! Our justice system has failed when someone is guilty of a crime without a trial. BCT is not guilty of anything until there is a court ruling convicting them of a crime!

I heard a story about a boat that was fishing a tourney with a 6 rod limit. They were not doing well and decided to put out more lines, even though they were "not planning" on weighing in their fish. What if another boat saw them with more rods out? What if they did not know the other boat was no longer in the event? Is it right that they put out more rods because the tourney was still going on, or would this be considered cheating? People need to look deeper into the picture before they go spouting out with all of the accusations of, he said, she said BS! No one but the the crew on the BCT, and the Tournament Trail directors knows what happened, what was discussed, and why the withdrawl. As far as I am concerned, a boat that is "near" that witnessed an event, is not close enough to what is going on to file a protest. I have not seen a single fact! Everything is hear say. Show me some proof! Show me some court documents, a sworn statement from the protestors, a statement from the Tournament Trail committee, or BCT. I have to see some proof before I label someone as guilty. Do you think the Tournament Trail has the money to take someone to court and lose? Do you think they did not discuss all of these options before they allowed BCT to withdraw? I am sure if they "thought" they could win in court, they would have prosecuted. I do not know what happened behind closed doors, and neither does anyone here. I can write a post on any website and make it read however I want it to read. This is why I do not believe everything I read on websites. Whatever happened to our legal rights? Innocent until proven guilty.

Nice job Todd!

Nice job Jake!

Sorry to hear about the fire. Good thing you were not on the water when it happened. Many years ago in my bass fishing days, I had just finished up a day of prefishing, put the boat on the trailer and headed down the road. I happened to look back in the mirror, and saw smoke coming from the boat. I stopped the truck, grabbed a fire extinguisher, opened the hatch and put the fire out. I got lucky, and escaped with very minor damage. I had a marina put a jack plate on the boat earlier in the year. I never caught it, but the steering cable was rubbing against the positive terminal of the battery after the installation of the jack plate. Eventually it rub through the coating on the steering cable and shorted out causing the fire. The only thing that needed replacement was the battery and the steering cable. The marina took care of me.

None of this would ever hold up in a court of law. No weights added, no fish tampering, no fish given to them, and no fish pulled from another cooler. There is no connection between Dave, Bill and myself. I have only met Dave and Bill at some of the shows, and it was only a general greeting, "hello" or "hi". I believe its time we get over this and move on.

We are at $200 now. Still have $600 to go. I am accepting donations till 7 Aug. Send me a PM if you would like to donate. MANY THANKS to everyone who has donated so far!

Nice job Phil!

Nice job Tom. Keep on them!

Welcome aboard RJ. Nice to have another person from the West side of the lake on board. Let out a shout if you need anything. Mike

Nice photo Ken! Here is some more information about the Pelee Flyer.

Nice job Eric!