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That's exactly what happened to me last year setting up next to team Dirty Dog. Since I fished with him the night before, I knew what he was doing. Well I got 1, and he got 15! Frank there are a some of these event when a few of us stay at Yatch Basin Marina. If you can make it here, we would be glad to take you out. No expenses needed on my boat, but be warned I like Beer.

Great looking pooch there.

That's a nice area you have to fish in Rick. Welcome.

Amen to that brother.

I personally asked Terry to fish the league last year. I wanted his expertise to be available to all. Terry will give information to anyone that asks. I believe it's a plus to have that kind if experience in the group. I know that Terry would give anyone that ask the location, depth, lures, and all other details about where and what is working. And fyi, My son Jacob works as a First Mate during the summer.

I changed the fish amount to be the same as the Muskegon guys, so yes to weighing in any 6 fish. The bfk is Saturday July 28th out of Muskegon. They are signing up now. If you plan to fish it get with Jim Six. The facebook page is here.

Kevin if your nice to those guys, they will help you.

The changes for this year are; 1,weigh 6 fish of any species 2, lakers @ 5 points, and coho @ 10 points 3, mystery weight for 3rd place. I changed the point system to be more inline with the MSCST guys. The Mystery weight will be determined by a card draw, and who ever is closest to that weight will win 3rd place money. 1st, 2nd, and big fish winners can not win mystery weight. This gives the teems with lesser catches to have a chance at a prize. I hope to have sponsors again this year. My plan for the sponsors is to get enough product to allow every one to use it, and have a prize for whoever gets the biggest fish on that product.

2012 West Michigan Fishing league Official Rules Event 1,2,3,and 4 set lines at 6 am and pull lines at Noon Event 5 set lines at 7 am and pull lines at 1pm 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. We would not exist without the site's. Please be open to helping other league members. 1. Communications encouraged on channel 72. Keep it clean for this is a family oriented event. 2. Max of 8 rods in the water at one time. 3. Tourney Fees. 15 dollars for tourney, 5 dollars for big fish. 4. Tourney Pay Outs will be a. 1st place 50% b. 2nd Place 30% c. Mystery weight 20% d. Tiebreaker will be biggest fish. e. Big fish, is winner take all of big fish money. f. Mystery weight amount will be drawn the day of the event. 5. Weigh your top 6 fish. Weigh Big Fish First. Only one fish may be weighed per boat for Big Fish. a. 5-Lakers b. 10-Coho c. 10-Kings d. 15-Steelhead e. 20-Brown f. Point Per Pound 6. Max of 3 DNR limits of fish per boat may be kept. 7. Money is due at weigh-in, unless you catch me before I leave the dock. Gentleman's honor to pay. 8. Start out of the same port as the weigh in. 9. If two members are fishing together, than the boat they are fishing out of gets the points. 10. Follow all other State and Federal Laws. The captain is responsible for his crew. Keep it safe. 11. Blow date will be the following day. If both day are blow days, it will be a lost tourney. 13. You do NOT need to fish all events to partake in this league. 2012 West Michigan Fishing League Dates. Holland DNR launch located next to (east of) Yacht Basin Marina. Approx. 1840 Ottawa Beach Rd. Holland, Mi 49424 Weight in will be held in the overflow parking lot across the street, next to the fish cleaning station. The battle of the Leagues will be the MSCST against the WMFL. Tentative dates are: May 12 Holland June 2 Holland July 7 Holland Aug 11 Battle of the leagues. Grand Haven. Launch at the Coho drive ramp.(not yet confirmed) Sept 8 Holland The winner of the league for 2012 will receive a guided night time Walleye trip by me in November, or December. (If they desire.)

I was glad we had the 20# on last year when the big boys where around.

Great stuff Paul.

Great series Jim. Thanks for sharing.

Although Ipilot is nice, not necessary for salmon trolling. A standard Minkota unit with auto pilot works just fine. The standard unit works on a compass heading. The one time I used my small boat (17' sea nymph) for Salmon trolling, we had the Minkota down with ap on, and the big motor for propulsion. It worked very nice.

Thanks for sharing Captain John.

Very nice.

You can run planer rods off a Pedestal holder, but it's hard runing divers off a tree. For your boat the pedestal 3 rod holder is the way to go. You may want a tree later. Its nice when running planer rods form a holder to be able to use the duel axis holders. Ie; Traxstech, or Canon.

4 is fine, but like Jim says, Keep the outside riggers higher. Also use a longer lead on the higher riggers. A "V" pattern both Vertically, and horizontally works most of the time. When the fish are stacked up at a certain depth, don't be afraid to run all the riggers at/or near the same depth.

Just get a spot light and keep it on your boat. They work great for charging spoons, and are very nice to have on board. If you are looking for another boat in the dark, a spot light is a must.

Let the wackin and stackin begain!

Very nice.

It hasn't seamed to have any long term effect on these two boys.

No, but that's a great concept.

Thomas, that's great. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool. Thanks for posting these.

If you have 3 miles of open water on both sides of us, Than why did you have to buzz the back of our boat and cut off all 4 of our boards?