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Your Tie down is hooked to your cleat?

I find it hard sitting in the tree stand sweating my butt off. Last year I opted to salmon fish the first 2 weeks of bow season instead of hunting and I think I enjoyed that way more. For people that find it hard enough to do any kind of preseason scouting an early gun hunt would jack everything up. I find that living in the middle of state land exposes me to all the people who hunt these woods and honestly I have all but given up gun hunting cause its nothing but a bunch of friggin poachers. The DNR in my area frequently stop by my house to ask whats going on and all I have to say is sit in my front yard and just wait a poacher is riding down the road every 10 min. If anything extend bow season you would get much more quality managment because I feel dedicated bow hunters have much more respect for the animal and the sport. Just my 2 cents.

I would think that you would need to take too many factors into consideration to come up with an exact measurement. What I would do is setup with your usual setup and run out to deep water and get your trolling speed set. Then let out how ever much it takes to get your dipsey to bounce bottom. Then reel it up and run in 20ft deep or so closer and try it again. Keep plotting your depth and how much you have let out to get yourself a reading on what its doing. These readings may be inconsistant with other setups based on how your reels accuracy in depth changes as the spool thins out. Also trolling speed and direction of current will effect it. I have to believe you would find at some point the bow in the wire would flatten that dipsey out and like you say become neutral. I use to have a problem running mini dipseys on heavy mono and if the trolling speed was too fast the dipsey would roll over and surface from having too much drag in the line itself.

I had the same issue. I just couldn't get any action out of my fly so I pulled the flies and put spoons behind the flashers off the dipseys and pulled a King with the freakin veggie spoon 5 min later, should of changed earlier.

Killer blue dolphin took my big steelhead, but Craigs X-mas wore my rigger out. That spoons a mangled mess now, I've got to pick some more up. I probbably would of never run that lure had I not been forced to. Now I need to try some of the other spoons in my box that have never taken a dip.

Wind is starting to shift saturday to blow out of the N - NW but they are calling friday night 1-3's and saturday <2ft. I think Edgar is the one that gets blasted in the skull with the boom hook next week on deadliest catch. Love that show, I've watched every episode.

Love the look... I have had some my best success on Stinger spoons they do good work.

I would love to try that one out in the Stinger Challenge! Looks good to me.

Are you from the Future? I saw your post from 5/7 and its still the 5th I think:eek:

Mike, I havent even touched the new boat yet... I know...I'm a loser, but I am still working on some issues with the new truck, I'm taking it back to the dealer tomorrow to have it worked on........ These spring kings were HEALTHY and fought hard to the net, if thats any indication of how the fish are going to be this year we have our hands full!! HOLLANDPIPER... I live in Pullman about 10min from South Haven and I work in Holland, we probbably pass each other on the way to work every day:) I passed by you a few times and was telling my buddy that my old man had a boat just like yours but cream colored and was a great fishing boat. We ended the day about 5.2 miles north of the channel.

So your the guy I heard on the radio... It sounded like Viper to me, I need a new antenna on my boat. I was in the 17ft Dark Blue fiberglass Sylvan, witch boat were you. Here is the catch

Well the league was cancelled but it didn't stop Team UNREEL from fishing. We left the launch about 8:30 and moments later found ourselves hung up on a sand bar in the middle of Pigeon Lake. Once we freed ourselves we made it through the pierheads and set lines in about 35fow testing the waters. Waves were a mixed bag of 2fters sometimes 1fters but conditions were good. After rigging the set and changing some leaders from last year we finally picked up our first fish of the year. 14lb King off a fixed slider on the rigger at about 31ft down. Moments later we had the lead(full core) go and picked up a 12lb King. After resetting the lead it took off again for our final fish a 9lb king. We took the 14lb on a Stingray Yellow NBK and the 12lb and 9lb came off a #116 RAC spoon (gold/orange/black). The fish were in 50fow about 5 miles north of PS in 43 degree surface temp. There was a gradual temp break from 47-43 that was holding the fish. Heard some other guys on the radio catching a few lakers and some small kings but we pretty much had the lake to ourselves. I'll post a pick when I get the image off my phone.

I just checked and they updated again. Looks like they are calling for 1-3's now on Sunday!!!:) Saturday Night: West northwest wind between 14 and 17 knots. A chance of showers before 2am. Waves 1 to 3 feet. Sunday: Northwest wind 8 to 13 knots becoming southwest. Mostly sunny. Waves 1 to 3 feet.

Well I just put some money down on a 2000 Ford Expedition today, I am going to finish up the paperwork on Monday and then I'm good to go. Anyone looking for a 98 Jeep Cherokee Classic? I have one for sale.

Thanks for the compliments, I have a plan of attack for the coversion for the equipment from the UNREEL over to ???This Boat???? Another dilema is I need to buy a tow vehicle. My Jeep Cherokee just is not going to cut it for this boat. I'm looking at Yukons, Tahoes, and Expeditions. You guys have any thoughts or suggestions on that...

That's one I havent thought of yet... I kinda like that.

Just picked this up this week! It's a 1985 25 Sea Ray Sundancer. My wife, kids and I are really excited about stepping up and spending even more time on the water. It's probbably going to take me a few weeks to get her rigged up/tuned up for fishing. Untill then I am still going to fish out of the UNREEL. Right now I am busy thinking of a new name for this boat. That's always a tough decision.

Seen my first struter next to my house this morning, if it goes like 05 for me I'll be out my back door and done with my hunt in 15 minuites. If that doesn't pan out I got a phone call this weekend from a blueberry farmer friend of mine he wants me to eradicate his flock on his property. He said there were 5+ toms and about 35 hens out his back window when I was talking to him... Things are looking good this year for me.

Great Video I look forward to seeing much more this year. The water looked great out there that day. Must of been fun while most of us were sweating at work dreaming we were behind the rods:rolleyes:

Guy at works buddy went out of St. Joe Sunday in his boat and went 15 for 16 Choho in 2 and a half hours. EVERYTHING WORKED.... Man I need to get my boat out of the mud...

My boss went out last night to Port Sheldon. He wound up breaking ice throught the channel with his 18ft fibergass outboard boat. They showed me the video and pictures from that and man that was risky. It would have been one very expesive coast guard venture had there been any problems. One other guy in a smaller aluminum boat tryed getting out but they said he didnt make it to open water. They wound up picking up an 8lb steelie on the warm water discharge on an orange hot-n-tot.

I preferr to take the fish off the back. I try and keep a set of rod holders open for swapping poles around in a hairy situation. I also like to swing my riggers out of the way cause I've had some kings get wrapped up in the cable and snap off. I was wondering if any of you guys have tryed one of those magnet deals to put on the net that hold back the bottom netting untill the fish gets in there. If any of you have tried one of these I would like to know how good they work. I know that if the first attempt at putting a fish in fails, that excess netting flopping around can get hung up on everything.

You can sign the UNREEL up, we will be there.

I know a guy that runs a single downrigger off his sailboat and a dipsey rod, and I have seen him haul fish just about every time he gave it a try. Sailboats are silent and also can be deadly effective.

I shoot an Old Army Ruger .45 muzzle loader pistol. Using exclusivly American Pioneer Powder, the best on the market. I love pistol hunting because I am a avid bow hunter and enjoy the close range hunting. Plus I carry it in Shot Gun and then muzzle loader season. In shot gun I use it for close range and my shotgun is used out to 100 for long range. Beyond that I believe its best you use a rifle or a high powered 150gr smoke pole. I personally don't like taking long shots, I try to keep it in the wheel house.