silver one

Nice to here there still catching a few fish. thanks for the report Terry. Im stuck at work this weekend. wont be any fishing untill the 3rd week of July.

Kalamazoo would be fine as I am halfway between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo within 5 mi of 131. Most people know Martin for the 131 Drag strip.

I am looking at the future for the silver one and two things I want to do as the boat is at the 20yr mark. 1 have the whole boat repainted as it still looks good but would look better with a fresh coat of paint. and 2 A new style Bimini top. I have an excellent canvas guy so the top is no question on who. However I have been searching for a place somewhat close to home that does good work for a fair price to do the painting. Notice I did not say cheap. I will pay a good price if the work is good. You get what you pay for. so I would appreciate some feedback from anyone who has any info

Nice Terry I was out Sat doing the salmon thing and ended up 1 for 1. Little rough to go out to were I wanted to be and ended up fishing 60 to 105 feet. Marked fish but no takers. wanted to perch fish but could not anchor up and stay in one spot due to the waves. Ended up pulling the boat home after being in for 7 weeks, What a mess. I have some serious scrubbbing to do.

Sat 6/14 Late report out of SouthHaven for sat the 14th going 7 for 15 netting 5 small kings,1 laker and 1 steelhead. Fullcore with spoons were the best set up with bloodynose and jawbreaker catching 4 of the kings. riggers with spoons and flasher/flys ccaught 1 king and one laker and halfcore on the steelhead. alot of 3 riggers trips and fish gone at first. Shortened up the leads and finally got hooked up on the riggers. Riggers were blue dolphin and and kovorkian. good flasher set up was spindoctor G/W with key lime actionfly. Had trips down 80,78,65,62. Started in 80' did not get our first fish untill we hit 140. kept on the Northwest troll and found good schools 180 with some good bait balls on the bottom. Marked fish in the 100 to 110 mark but no takers. Good action but alot of current I bleive cost us a few fish on the riggers along with more then likely there were alot of small fish there. All were under 8lb as small as 2lb. Started at 8.00am pulled lines at 11.00am.

I will be on the water tommarrow. I have a couple of steelheader buddies that fish everyday and the fish are out over 200. Mixed batch with steelhead on the surface. were going to set up shallow early and head out.

Thanks for the report. How deep were you and were you North or south of the harbor?

I was going to say the same thing but didnt want to get all the stinger guys all rielld up. However I do not see the web site logo anywhere.

Way to go. were you north or south?

once again way to go fellas. Cant do the sunday trip My oldest son just graduated high school and his part is tomarrow. good luck.

I herd you call and But my radio must not be as powerful as terrys. I did a radio check and got a loud and clear but did not here back . Glad you slammed them as well. Its nice to Have killer days like that, its what keeps us comming back, Nice pics on your post.

Had a great day in SouthHaven this morning going 16 for 23. Ran the Whole program from surface to 80' down. Steelhead on swr with red tiger thin fins on top. Halfcore with Red tiger silver streak and Mixed veggie DW spoon took 3 coho and a laker. fullcore took kings with bloody nose fishlander and jawbreaker stinger spoon. copper ran 1 with NBK stinger took one king and rest came on riggers 62 down with 1spin doctor and blue bubble next rigger 68 down with green/wh spindoctor with green Ice action fly, next rigger 72 down with fishlander blue dolphin and last rigger set up was kovokian stinger 78down. all rods took fish lost coung of which was which after a while. started 8.00am setting lines in 80' and trolled straight out on a NW troll out to 200' and done by noon. steelhead came later in morning when we hit the 160 range on the surface. one tripple on riggers and landed two. what a fun morning for my father in law my 10yr old son and his 10yr old buddy Nick on his first trip ever. ended up releasing one small steelhead and one small king. shook them off and whet away unskaved. here are some pics forgot camera so took pics in dirve at home

I will be on 10 good luck to you and terry,

Nice WTG. Anyone herd anyreports further south. Going to to do SouthHaven in the A.M. Sat?

What I really could have used is a boat that can handle 6 to 10 footers. this has been my nevises the last two years.

its a great lake for specs. In my opinion the one of if not they best in sw michigan. During the summer gets pretty suicdial out there with all of the vacationers from chicago. 65% of the cottages out there are owned by vacationers from the illinois area. I use to run my own business (Gun Lake Electric) as i live 5 min from the lake and most of my work was in the summer. Winter was dead. depending on time and dates I might be interseted in that with my 11 yr old.

You will catch most of your Big gills out in Beards Cove. That is Where most get them including myself.

Yes they do and its even better when the wify offers to cook them. I almost wish that sometimes that is all I could catch just for the grill. Good job on your catch as well jason.

Took the "Just Duckin one" ( camo duck boat) out on gun lake friday evening with my daughter and son and put 26 nice specs in the fish basket. Robbins bay,18' of water. Kids were fishing emerald shinners with approx 10' down with slip bobbers. I was fishing a 1/64 oz jig black with white and pink eye with a smoke color twister tail grub tipped with a wax worm. average size was around 14'' with my boy landing a 17.5 nice mess of fish.

Did an evening trip out with my wife and kids on sat ended up 9 for 11. 7 coho all 3 to 4lb class one laketrout approx 5lb and one nice steelie around 8lb. everything came in the top 15ft of water except the laker. hot set ups were red tiger thinfin, and copper tadpolly on mono surface boads 100' and 100 out. laker came on rigger with spindoctor and green gotcha fly 90 down.. steel came on two color swr on orange killer stinger spoon. started out in 80ft around 5 pm and took our firts hit at 136. stayed between 135 and 150 untill around 8.00pm good numbers were from 25.760 to 27.070. good speed was between 2.2 and 2.5

Coil could be a good possibility. Nailer mentioned copression. I would deffinently check that. I have a 1950 Johnson model TN that did the same thing. After going threw everything mentioned I pulled the engine apart and found a bad bearing on the crank shaft. I have also had this identical problem on a snowmobile. same thing bad bearing on the crank shaft. They would start up and run just fine until they got warm, then shut off. let sit for a couple of minutes, start back up then shut off after they got warm again. just my expirence with this simialar problem.

Was it just me or did anyone elese think that sat was more fishable then sunday? I ran down to the beach after they called it on sat and the lake was not even capping. I herd that the guys that went out said it was better then sunday.

Hi John One question on the flashers and flies. later in the year we can catch fish on flash/flies on either core or riggers or wire. earlier in the spring what have you found to be most productive. I have had good luck early with wire dipseys and flash/flies but have not been able to make other cobos work early in the spring. As you stated mostly spoons. the reason I am asking is to try and get that bigger fish for the tournements. One more fish last year would have made a big difference in our standings.

Im up for trying out new products.

have never had a break with 20lb Ande running church boards off of them and ran last set for 2 seasons before redoing the whole set up this year. Keep in mind I only fished approx 150 hours the last 2 years as the older my kids get the more of my time they demand for school activities. So if you use them a ton more which alot of guys do you will want to change the backing more often. I also keep my rods in the house when not using them to keep the line from being exposed to big temp changes out in the barn. the leader I change out every 2 or three trips as I always keep that fairly new. Also I would run big game with no hesitation I just use th ande because I buy it in bulk. If I was not using ande I would use Berkley big game. bolth have proven to work well for me