DIRTY DOG

Yes I spoke to his today and he did not know for sure, he said to keep calling and he will give me a answer tomorrow.

Aaron, I work with his son inlaw and will check for you at work tomorrow and let you know.

Justin I have spots open as well , send me a pm if your interested.

Yes Todd, the plan is if anyone want to compete for the end of the year big fish contest you will need to donate 1 new in the package Spin Dr.. The team at the end of the season with the largest fish regardless of species will get all the Spin Dr's. Ps, remember you can get in this at anytime but need to have donated the Spin Dr before the fish is caught:thumb:.

This is the official sign up thread for the first 2015 west mi. Fishing league event. It will be held in South Haven and sponsored by Silver Streak. With that said who wants to play?

I agree with a lot of this , I will posT reports like I always do, I just have not been on the water yet for more than a boat ride.

Nice job Mike.

To any one that is interested , the Holland Steelheaders is haveing our spring meeting tomorrow evening at Bay Shores Yaht Club in Holland. This is free to the public, we will have free dinner and our guest speeker will be Capt. Craig Colman from Silver Addiction charters in ludington , he will be speeking in Trolling for spring Brown Trout. There will be a social hour at 6 and dinner will be served at 7, with a table and 50/50 raffle to follow.

Well with only 3 weeks till the first event , this will be May 2 in South Haven and sponcers by Silver Streak. I will put a sign up thread up around the end of next week.

Thanks Tj , the bottom is smooth already, do I still need to sand it, or just clean and paint?

Just dry and chalky

Here's my question , my new boat has not been in the water for about 4 yrs , the bottom paint is chalky, my question is do I clean all the chalky paint off, if so how, and two, do I need to put a barrier goat on before bottom paint.

This may sound like a dumb question , but will this work on hydrolic or cable assist?

Ok, that's to bad Kevin.

Just got confermation that Morgans Tackle will be one of the leagues sponcers this season.

I have another idea, back in the day every Capt. That wanted in would donate one 8" flasher weather it was a Spin Dr., Protroll ect and who ever has the biggest fish regardless of speciese at the end of the season takes them all. Would any one be interested in this. It would have to be a new in the package flasher.

Lmao , I haven't had it made yet , but will post a picture of it when I do. The plan is to trailer it down And get a slip for the weekend Joel .

These are the rules and schedule we will play by this season. Sorry for not getting the dates out sooner. 2015 Rules • Shot gun at 6 am , all boats need to be with in 1/4 mile of the pier heads and pull lines at Noon • Weight in 1pm at the fish cleaning station • We will fish predicted seas of 1-3' or less. (or game day call) • If small craft advisories are in effect we, will not fish. • I would like to encourage reports posted from teams after the events. Communications encouraged on channel 72. Keep it clean for this is a family oriented event. 1. Max of 9 rods in the water at one time. 2. Tourney Fees. 25 dollars for tourney, 5 dollars for big fish. 3. Tourney Pay Outs will be on 20 boats or less a. 1st place 50% b. 2nd Place 30% c. 3rd Place 20% i. 20+ boats = pay down 4 boats 40%,25%,20%, 15% d. Tiebreaker will be biggest fish. e. Big fish is winner takes all of big fish money. 4. weigh your 5 best fish with 10 points per fish and no points for lake trout 5. Max of 3person limits per boat may be kept. 6. Money is due at weigh-in. Gentleman's honor to pay. Please pay if you are signed up. If you are having issues please contact me before 9am. So that I know not to look for you at the scale. If no contact is made you are expected to pay your entry. 7. Start out of the same port as the weigh in. 8. If two members are fishing together, than the boat they are fishing out of gets the point. 9. Follow all other State and Federal Laws. The captain is responsible for his crew. Keep it safe. 10. Blow date will be the following day. 11. No charter Capt. and or current first mates. 12. You do NOT need to fish all events to partake in this league. 13. There will be a trophy awarded as "Points Champion" at the last event to the team that has the highest, 3 accumulative scores no matter how many events are fish , So the more events you fish the better chance you have. 2015 Schedule May 2 South Haven - Blow Date may 3 May 23 South Haven - Blow Date May 24 June 20 Holland - Blow Date June 21 July 11 South Haven - Blow Date July 12 August 8 Holland - Blow Date August 9 August 29 Holland - Blow Date August 30 With all this said I look forward to seeing as many that can make these, it would be great to see 20-25 boats in each event. Also this year we have some great sponcers that are doing a great job of donating to this league, and they are as follows so far. Big Weenie Brand Silver Streak Big Pappa Sport Fishing Products Fish Hawk Pyle's Port Hole Lake Shore Tackle And Fire Arms Big Lake Lures LLC. There is a couple others that I have calls out to that Im waiting of responses from also.

Yes I will post them wen I get home .

Lol , Ken the boat is the "Magnet", and yes I bought a new to me Star Fire 245 Hard Top Fishermen last October. In other words it been a LOOOOONG winter so far. This is the link to the DIRTY DOG 3 http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37268

sold !!

Ok, as some of you may have noticed there have been a few things removed from this thread, Ive heard both sides of the issue with rule number 11. And understand both side very well. But the rules have been set in place for this season and we will vote on this as a change for next year. If there are any other issues regarding rule number 11 please voice them thru privet message.

Matt the South Haven pro/am is may 15-17.

Ken , the only big ones I was trying to steer around was the big red and the one in South Haven, most of the others were ones ran by eather the Holland or South Haven Steelheaders. I help with all of the Holland Steelheaders events. The only other options for May would be to move eather one to April 15. Or doing the 9th and the 30th , if we go that route they we will be doing one on Mother's Day weekend, and if it's the 23rd it's on memorial day weekend.

It was just brought to my attention that the second South Haven event is on Memorial Day weekend. What's been desided is to vote after the first event as to move it to keep it as is, or move it to the weekend of May 30.