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2 years ago we had an 80 degree day in October and fished out of Holland. Ended up releasing 3 lakers over 10 lbs w/ the biggest being close to 20 lbs. Of course, the season was closed. But that is a pig of a laker.

I know that Curt at Kell Labs has been helpful to people in the past. As far as the Canon Speed-N-Temp, it has been discontinued. I have seen the complete units as cheap as $200 on ebay. However, I don't think Canon will support it. I would work on the Depthraider. I know many people who have them and they seem to work great. Good luck.

Great job. We are planning on fishing Ludington next weekend. Glad to see the fish are there.

When will you be in Muskegon? Feel free to let people know, they will help you out. BTW, I am originally from your area. Grew up in Fowler. Once again, if you have any questions, let us know. Nick

I think you need a bigger cooler!

HI Dennis. I've seen you on some other forums, nice to have you aboard. I know that you have fished out of Muskegon in the past, there are a lot of Muskegon guys on this site. Let us know if you need anything,

That setup went 6 or 7 times last week 70-90 down on a rigger.

I stick with 2.5-3 times the length of the flasher. An 11" double crush glow DW paddle w/ a Big Weenie Glo-Nad fly was hot for us last week. I run them on riggers and divers. I ran an 11" double pearl fishscale Hotchip w/ a Green Mist Sigg's fly all the time the last couple of years on a diver.

Here is the picture of the king my wife's nephew caught out of Holland on friday:

Dave, I don't screw around with backing for wire. I just put a 1000' spool on each one. I would use a Twilli Tip, although some don't. It relieves the pressure on the tip. The reason I don't use backing and use a tip are the same: there is very little forgiveness in wire and any small defect can cause you to lose fish and equipment. Just my $.02

You probably need to get a good coat of sealer wax on it. The gel coat is porous and absorbs the stained water. That causes the stain. My boat was slipped before I bought it and cleaned with acid every year. I haven't had a chance to wax it yet and it stains if I don't clean it. I use a fiberglass cleaner that has acid in it. Can't remember the name.

You can either buff it out or try acid. Depends on how hard you want to work. And if your trailer is galvanized don't use the acid. It will react.

I haven't seen a lamprey this year either. I think I've only seen one with a scar. The DNR has really done a good job on handling the lamprey issue.

I was just glad to get out. When the wife said we were going to Lake Michigan there was no way I was driving over and not taking the boat. And after the Dreamweaver, it was nice to put a couple of fish in the boat.

Fished Holland yesterday morning before my wife's family outing at tunnel park. Had the Sugar Mama aboard the "Sugar Mama" along with her 15 yr old nephew. Do to the wishes of the crew we started a little late, setting lines at 6:15 in 90'. Took a rip on a wire diver set on 1.5 200' back w/ a blue slick/crush glow Pro Chip and Sigg's Mirage fly. Nephew let that one go after a short fight. Overshot the fish getting setup, ended up in 115' and everyone was catching them in 80-100 so we worked our way northeast and took 4 hits on a rigger set 70-90 down w/ an 11" DW white paddle and BW Glo-Nad fly. Also took a hit on a 11" Pro-Chip w/ a Sigg's Green Mist. Lost a screamer on a GCW free slider set over a Stingray Diehard 80' down. We had a few other releases but I'm not sure they were hits. Ended up with 2 nice kings both caught on the DW paddle/Glo-nad setup. The wife caught a nice 8 lb hen and her nephew landed and 18 lb 8 oz buck that fought him for 20 minutes, including 3-4 water clearing jumps that were very impressive considering the 11" flasher that was coming out of the water with him. I actually pulled rods thinking he was tangled because we couldn't budge him for a solid 10 minutes. Ended up being just being stubborn. Pulled lines at 10 am and headed for the park. I'll post a picture of the big king when the rain quites. Camera is in the boat.

OK guys, we have a few options to make up this event. 1. Reschedule for a different date. I can already tell you that this will be tough. I'm pretty busy the next few weekends and assume other people are too. 2. Fish saturday and sunday in Spetember. This way we would still get 5 events in. 3. Fish the last event as a double event. That's they way Rich did it last year. Reply in this thread and let me know what you want to do. Thanks, Nick

Yep, what Wayne said. It's just outside od town. 5 minutes from the launch.

Hey guys, I am going to call this. The weather just doesn't look good, and the wind isn't supposed to die off enough for me to feel confident we will be able to fish tomorrow. We have a couple of options to make this up. We can try to reschedule this month. We can fish a double event the last event. Or we can fish saturday/sunday for the last event. Our last event is scheduled for saturday, September 12th. We could fish both days and still have 5 events. I will ask everyone's opinion on what they want to do in either a post or PM this week. Thanks guys. Nick

Small craft advisory for tomorrow. We will try to fish on sunday. I will post by 12 noon tomorrow on the sunday blow date. We'll keep the starting time at 5 am.

Hey Mark, it doesn't look good. I'll post for sure when the next update is posted.

The split ring should stop it from sliding back. A lot of people tie them up so the rear hook hangs just behind the rear of the plug.

Good job Don. I have to get some of your good luck for this weekend. Last weekend shot my confidence.

I would have to see this to believe it. Most of the people who fish with me fight over who HAS to reel in leadcore, not who GETS too. That's why I end up doing it most of the time. That's about the only time I reel in fish anymore.

There are a lot more variables in the Detour area than in a normal northern port. I was thinking Lake Michigan ports such as Ludington or Manistee. In Detour you have shallow water close by for bait. You also have the effect of the St. Mary's River. I'm not saying that you can't catch kings in northern ports in the spring. I'm just saying the fishery isn't consistent. The numbers just aren't there.