Gnarf

Its snowing today.... This should help get my mind off it

BP Confirms Oil Spill into Lake Michigan From Whiting Refinery

Those of you who have upgraded drags on your reels, do you use em dry or with grease? Planning on doing all of my convectors, just too damn sticky. Also thinking power handles.

20# big game for flasher/flies 12# ande for spoons

About time I saw one of these reports! Gotta love fast action.

thats not a regulation football.....

Thanks to Dave and Dan for putting on a very informative seminar. Learned a lot and got lots of goodies.

Im all for it if the date works out.

I've caught limits of kings in 4-6 foot rollers. Probably not the best idea but if you can get your speed right then the rest is just fishing. Can be tough though.

I feel like I fall into what dave is talking about. I've thought about entering am or even pro in some tourny's, but I just dont have the money. It costs me $100 easy just to fish at all let alone a 2 day tourny, plus any prefishing. This is why I like the smaller leagues. I have the competition of a tourny without spending $1,000. It just seems with the 50-60 boats fishing the amature division the costs would be a bit lower, but I guess it depends on the finances.

I see michigan advertising the ice on the beach in july as a way to cool off. lol

I use scotty riggers and scotty releases. I can set the tension so darn tight the rod will snap or light enough to have a coho pop it.

A slide diver allows you to set the lure distance as far behind the diver as you want without having to handline the leader at the boat. Never used em but heard a lot about em. Also heard new weights are being made this year to get slide divers up to 150' down. Somebody who knows more will probably chime in.

If there is sufficient forage robins will stay all year.

Got my wire tag results back. Figured I'd share.

i mostly run big weenie combos. Whitey on the moon HD UV purple death Cracked Ice Blue/Glow UV and i have some capt john king rigs aswell. Chrome head 2 teaser green is my favorite. Run SLOW, like laker slow. and i use blue and green label brined whole herring with tails still attched. I also take the time to fine tune the roll just the way i like it. And alewives if i catch any and brine em.

There has been a lot of debate this past year as to the true running depths of copper, especially after blood run posted some test results showing much shallower running depths then normally thought. The only real way for me is when It snags bottom. and ive found that to be varying from day to day.

Ive got a whole box of Fishcatcher flashers, and even some crazy corkscrew looking ones. Im gunna try some experimenting this year...

Nice job! you fishing state side?

Ive used a happy troller plate on my boat for a few years. It works, but can be a pain in the but for inconsistent speed and direction control, especially in waves. Now I use buckets with one large 3 inch hole in the bottom. zero problems and a hell of a lot cheaper.

gas money never goes unwanted!

Thanks for the input guys. Guess im not the only one whose got big lake on the mind.