Steve Arend

We talked to a guy Sunday at the ramp that had boxed 12 fish with few kings, one was 18lbs, that caught them out in 45-52 fow north of the Nuke Plant and south of the A's. I should be back out on Friday if the weathers nice.

Welcome to the site. We won't hold that against you yet.

Welcome to the site Rockfish. Feel free to ask any question and add your input.

Welcome to the site slipknot.

Welcome to the site Spankster. Any time you would like to hit the water just let me know. I owe you one.

Welcome to the site.

Sorry I’ve been out for 3 days had to get my fishing fix in. My plans were to hit St. Joe Saturday, Sunday and Monday but as most may have known, Saturday was a blow day. So I had a few items at the old house to work on before we close on Wednesday and since I could not fish I worked on the “Honey Do Listâ€. Sunday I was up by 6:00am and was ready to fish but my brother-in-law had never made it in to town the night before so a sat around moping till the wife told me to get out of her hair and do something. I had the 2 older kids suit up and I would take them fishing. We were on the water and had lines set by 9:00 and fished till noon out in front of the pier heads. We ended the morning going 1 for 3 with my daughter reeling in the only fish, a nice 4 lbs Coho caught on an orange mini spin doctor w/ mirage 2†fly. After having lunch at the in-laws my brother-in-law and I ahead back out around 3:30pm and fished till 8:30pm out in front of the piers again and ended going 4 for 7 all Coho. With the Orange R-11 been the hot chose for the night taking 4 hits. Sunday we were on the water by 7:30am and started out in front of the piers again running in and out of the river water. By 10:00 we had only boxed (1) Coho and lost another. We pulled line and head south to the Nuke plant. We set down just north of the plant in 20 fow and set up for a troll south. We hit the edge of the property line and head out to 50 fow and trolled across the front of the power plant by the time we hit the other edge of the property we had 5 Coho in the box, so we turned around and started heading back toward the pier heads hoping to pick up that last Coho and call it a day. We trolled till 3:00pm and never had another bite. We end the day 5 for 10 with the HJ-14, Clown taking 7 of the 10 hits. The next 3 weekends it looks like I have only fishing planned. That’s going to bite!!!!!!

I would check for condinsation build up and possible rust in the tank. If that means draining all the old fuel out, well then yes drain it out.

Nice to have you a board.

The only ones that come to mind are: Greasy chicken, mud bucket, slime ball = Lake Trout Football = Brown Trout Tail dancer = Steelhead Silver Side, Jack = Coho Reel Screamer, Drag Burner = Chinook (King Salmon)

Looks like a beared hen. I just about ran 4 hens over Monday night when I got home from work as I turned into my drive way. They were standing right in the middle and one had to take to the air because she could not move out of the way fast enough.

Good point Rich, one of the more important points that were over looked

As the St. Lawrence Seaway opens for its 47th season, huge sea going vessels will begin plying the Great Lakes again. The ships represent an important part of the region's economy and a competitive edge in the increasingly globalized economy. But some of those ships may also carry unintended cargo and a serious threat to our way of life. We're not talking dirty bombs or chemical weapons. We're talking about alien creatures from distant waterways, stowed away in ballast tanks, that find a new home in the Great Lakes basin and often undermine indigenous species. Congress misses the boat on invasive species

MARQUETTE — Lake Superior’s water level is down, but not as much as forecasters had expected. Superior is down to 600.9 feet above sea level, below the 601.3 foot target level set by the Army Corps of Engineers. According to National Weather Service forecaster Andrew Just, the biggest factor in low lake levels was the lack of ice cover over the winter. Lack of ice promotes evaporation and increases lake effect snow. Much of this winter’s evaporated lake water appears to have fallen as snow within the Superior watershed, though, meaning much of that water may find its way back into the lake, Just said. Lake level drops

Lake experiment to restore delicate balance By Kristopher Wenn Herald Times Reporter MANITOWOC — Although charter-boat anglers caught a near-record amount of chinook salmon last year in Lake Michigan, the four states surrounding the lake have agreed to stock it with 25 percent fewer chinook this year in an effort to help prevent the fish from eating themselves into oblivion. Wisconsin has agreed to cut its statewide stocking of chinook salmon by 21 percent, according to Steve Hogler, DNR regional fisheries biologist. But no one knows whether the biological experiment — cutting chinook salmon stocking levels and therefore propping up the lake's supply of alewife, the small fish that chinook salmon eat almost exclusively — will work. Fewer young 'kings' stocked

The fate of commercial fishing in Ohio waters of Lake Erie is at a tipping point in the wake of a yellow perch rackteering scandal in which 10 individuals and five businesses have paid fines totaling $356,000 for their part. Yellow perch are a superb food dish, prized by both sport and commercial fishermen. They accounted for three of every four dollars in the $4 million in Ohio commercial fish landings in 2005. So their importance and high profile are a lock. The outcome of the following series of recent developments could change the way the state's commercial lake fishery - with its 18 licenses and 12 license-holders - is managed, or how it ends: Bad apples could cost Erie its commercial fishing industry

John, You need more rod holders on that boat!!!!! It doesn’t look like a porcupine yet.

I can't tell. The glare coming off the top of that head might be a give away. Looks like Photo finish II

Yep! That's Brett and his fishless crew:(

The rule of thumb for snap weights is for ever oz. of lead you’ll drop 10ft. So if you are running a half core your down around that 20-25 ft mark, add a 1oz. snap weight you be around that 30-35 ft. mark. 2 oz. snap weight around 40-45 ft. and so on. To add the snap weights to the core just add it onto the backer right behind the core/backer knot. You can use the snap weight pinch-pads or the poor man’s snap weight which I use, a rubber coated snap swivel used for stacking down rigger called a “Stacker Sticker†they take a little more time to remove from the line when fighting a fish but are a lot cheaper then a snap weight kit. Now once you add the snap weight to the line you want to run 50-60 ft of line out before adding your inline board or clipping it to your otter boards.

Amen to that!!!!!!!!!!! There should be no reason to spend more then 5 minutes MAX. at the ramp Unloading or Loading.

We started our program targeting brown from the get-go. We ran to the pump house and set lines between the sand bars with 4 body baits on high-lines off inline boards and 2 (2) colors with spoons off inline boards and spoons off 2 riggers set up tight to the ball and we ran 1 wire diver with flasher/fly looking for a king. We went 1 for 3 out in front of the junk cars and worked down to the new houses flipped her and picked up our king back in front of the junk cars on the outside of the second sand bar. After that we went dead in the water for a long time (to much boat traffic.) We made a troll to the end of the piers and hit a school of small Cohos and boxed 3 with in 15 minutes. Took a troll on the north side of the piers (less traffic) and then headed out to 50fow were we picked up your bigger Coho. After improving are box with the bigger Coho we switch gear and rigged for kings with stacked riggers, 2 wire divers, and some highlines out looking for some big browns. By this time the wind had picked up and was making the north-south troll next to impossible.

Sorry for not posting earlier but I spent most of yesterday with my boss getting lined up on a new job before he heads off on vacation. Well I want to thank everyone for making the Brown Blast one of my favorite events of the year. We had a great turn out this year with 19 boats. We had a total of 57 fish weighed in with 9 of them Browns. The biggest brown this year was a 7.2 lbs caught by Horseshoe and his crew and they also caught 3 of the 9 browns. Catfishhoge caught 2 of the 9 brown and Reel Turner, Fist Full Of Dollars, Fish-On and Running Arends each caught 1 brown. The big fish went to me (Running Arends) with a 12.2 lbs spring king and smallest fish went to Six Shooter with a king that would not even register on the scale. Here was the standing: 1st place – Horseshoe weighing 5 fish – 3 browns – 24lbs – for a total of 89 points 2nd place – Catfishhoge weighing 5 fish – 2 browns – 19.8lbs – for a total of 79.8 points 3rd place – Running Arends weighing 5 fish – 1 browns – 21.4lbs – for a total of 76.4 points 4th place – DonP weighing 5 fish – 0 browns – 22.2lbs – for a total of 72.2 points 5th place – Fist Full Of Dollars weighing 4 fish – 1 browns – 12.2lbs – for a total of 57.2 points 6th place – Sixshooter weighing 5 fish – 0 browns – 7lbs – for a total of 57 points 7th place – Sidfishious weighing 4 fish – 0 browns – 13.8lbs – for a total of 53.8 points 8th place – Fish-On weighing 3 fish – 1 browns – 11.4lbs – for a total of 46.4 points 9th place – Adjusted3 weighing 2 fish – 0 browns – 10.2lbs – for a total of 30.2 points 10th place – Reel Turner weighing 2 fish – 1 browns – 4.4lbs – for a total of 29.4 points 11th place – SalmonSlayer weighing 2 fish – 0 browns – 8.2lbs – for a total of 28.2 points 12th place – Midway weighing 2 fish – 0 browns – 6.6lbs – for a total of 26.6 points 13th place – Ned weighing 2 fish – 0 browns – 5.6lbs – for a total of 25.6 points 14th place – DangerDan weighing 2 fish – 0 browns – 5lbs – for a total of 25 points 15th place – Andge weighing 2 fish – 0 browns – 3.8lbs – for a total of 23.8 points 16th place – Leprechaun weighing 1 fish – 0 browns – 2.4lbs – for a total of 12.4 points 17th place – Caznik weighing 1 fish – 0 browns – 2.2lbs – for a total of 12.2 points Spoon Fed and Brett came in with no fish. Now the South vs. West the standings were: South team – 37.26 points per boot West team – 49.67 points per boot The West ended up taking the Wooden Fishy home. Once again guys thanks for a great time and I’m looking forward to the King Challenge and bringing the Fishy back home. Steve

You had to point that out!!!!!!!!

That a sweet ride!!!!!!!! Reel Turner