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Great job Tj! Thanks again for the ride back in April. Matt and I enjoyed it!!

Fished out or Rockport Sat& Sunday with Here Fishy Fishy from Holland. Fished between Stone Port and False Presquile in 100- 150 Fow. 85' to 115' down.Riggers dipsies and copper 250 &300 all worked. Sat 6 for 10 or so All large lakers 26" to 30" lost a walleye and a couple of salmon. Home made gobbie rig took 4 other two on spoons that I had never seen before. Sunday 7 for 11 or so. 5 large lakers all 9 to 10#'s per dnr scale 1 ~10# steelhead and 1 ~10# king. Tossed two 15-18" lakers back had and a couple of screamers which were gone by time got the rod up. Fished 85 to 100 down in 100 to 140 FOW. Many large bait balls and fish marked in 75-85 FOW near bottom but no takers. Water temp was about 68 F. Didn't get any bites til moved out deeper and fished the temp break.:)

Fished Rockport for a couple of hours tonight. Went 2 for 2. 1 4# walleye and 1 3 or 4# Atlantic salmom. Fished 85FOW 75' down on the riggers. Both fish on a mt dew white glow spinny with a home made goby lure with some red and chartruse glow beads. Marked many large schools of bait fish with suspended fish mixed in.

I've been using cheap pool thermometers for many years. seal them up with rtv . drill a hole near top for quick draining. to use attach to cannon ball or end or rigger cable swivel. Lower down. wait about 10-15 minutes and bring up quickly[manual rigger works best] read temp. If temp too warm dump water out and try deeper. Also can used to check temp at depth fish marks are appearing to help determine type of fish being marked. My son has a clip on fish hawk that I like too but they cost upward of $100.

Hey Ryan its a Brown trout. Browns= spots below latera line square tail Atlantic spots-[x's] only above lateral line Slighty forked tail mouth usually black-dark inside Mouth does not extend beyond the eye. I caught an atlantic out of rockport-lake huron tonight and it was checked by dnr fish checker.

Hey the walleye guys from sag nasty bay claim the mesquito thermocells work well. also of a report of burning mesquito coils as a workable economical alternative. It seems like worth a try.:thumb:

Whats a SWR? Why not run standard rigger line with a inline weight like the walleye fishermen do. After the in line weight put a fluorocarbon lead to the lure set up. Amount of inline weight plus number of feet behind ball determines how far away from the ball and how much deeper you run. We had to go to this type of set up due to the clear water in lake huron several years ago.When we fist started to do this we used a 3-way swivel and drop sinker to get closer to bottom when trolling structure.Found it worked when the the fish were suspended in the top 50' or so as well. You can run sliders but really have to get to the pole quick for slider bites. Stackers can cause problems with tangles. Have been playing around with the smallest dippsy's set off to the side inplace of the inline weight when running stackers. Not much experiance to report on this set up todate

Fished rockport again today with Here fishy fishy from Holland. Went 10 for about 18. One 31" lake Trout plus three other nice lakers. 1 king and 5 cohos. Fished 99 to 130 FOW Fish came on riggers 76 and 105 down and on dippsiesfro 75 to 100 back. Hot lures were any black silverstreaks with a latter back, latter back color didn't seem to matter . 31" laker came on a supperman. Majority of bites came after 11:00 AM. Had 1nice size laker on a black hookster with green latter back.:no:

Went 11 for 19. 1 steelhead 2 lake trout 1 king 1 atlantic 6 coho lost a couple screemers. King on 250 copper blue dolphin Atlantic on supperman cohos on kavorki..[sp?].and purple and black nailer steelhead on ho made green dolphin 1 coho on three color lead core rest on riggers 70 down in 100 to130 FOW.:thumb:

Good job matt

Nice job matt! Thanks for the report.