doughman

I consider myself a pure gentleman, always go out of my way to be curteous on the water, use good language when reporting but today I got p'd off. I had a fish on in the arms and got ran over by two charter boats, the first ran my line over while fighting a very nice fish, when it was caught in their line another went right between us and broke us off. I didn't say a word to them, just went about my business. We had two young boys with us under 6 years of age, people in the channel yelling obscene things back and forth and the radio F bombs got out of hand. Why does fishing got to get like this, isn't fishing suppose to be somehting you do to destress and hangout, introduce kids to nature etc. Thanks for listening I feel much better, we ended up 3-4 on the day. Marv

We made it out this morning, set lines on a NW troll in 60' it was all action right off the bat, we couldn't get more than 3 lines in the water with only two of us in the boat. We ended up with 6 nice kings 10-15lbs, they were int he 40 ft down range and we took fish on 6 different rigs with the main bite going on Moonshine lures. We hit a lull from 7-8am but then we took a double to limit out at 8:40am. Water surface temps ranged from 71-74 degrees. Perch fisherman said today was the slowest day of the week with some 15" fish being taken yesterday. Marv

I have floss ties to my bow, when I get it out of the case I hold Bow in postition and wind direction is instant., I also hang it in the tree, when the wind swirls or changes I know. Marv

FB got out Sat Morning fished from 7:30-11 went 7-9 in the 100ft range, the 3 baits of choice were mixed veggies, NBK and Lemon ice, 3 of the 7 were lakers. the 4 kings were in 3-4 lb range. he had one fish break him off on dipsey. Marv

Went back out with Fat Bastard this morning, dropped lines at 7am on a northwest troll in 110, 70 down, 8:15am we took our first of 4. 3 fish came on this rod all on lemon ice, the last came on a NBK 130 behind dipsey. All four fish were great fighters in 4-8lb range but full of piss and vinegar this morning. Surface temp at 110 was 57.1 degrees We pulled lines at 10am. Doughman

I fished with buddy from work on his boat this morning, we ported out of GH at 5:45am, we didn't get our first fish until 8:15am on lemon ice, we didn't touch another fish until 9am when we preceded to hit a double, both on lemon ice, the next fish came on orange crush doctored up with a ladder back. The last fish was a shaker that we took when pulling lines. we ended up 5-6 for 5 hours of fishing. Biggest fish of all 5 was 5lbs. The fish are definately getting smaller. The highlight of the day was our 4th fish right after the double header, were fishing with sliders and we take a hit on rigger set at 74ft in 170 ft of water, it feels like a monster, after about 5 minutes and not making headway, we realized the fish was in our other rigger line also armed with a slider, once we reeled the rigger in the little 3lber came in like a minnow. Here is the great part, all four spoons were into this fish with at least one hook, it was bleeding like no other, this fish was not going anywhere. Marv

I took a family friend out hunting this morning, we set up at the bottom of a ridge right next to the swamp. We heard a deer come thru the crick but it was out in front of us to far to see. A minute later we here 2 rounds go off right by us. Two Amish boys neither of which were 18 took a couple shots at the deer which was a spike. Next thing I know they are tracking this deer all thru the swamp, after talking to them they said they had hair but no blood. We then headed up to the top of the ridge and the 2 boys kicked out a doe which we left for another day. We packed up and went to the North side of the same swamp and man I tell you what, I found 6 very fresh scrapes. Is this a little early or what? The boy is setting on a rifge covering these scrapes tomorrow. Marv

This is probably the easiest/cheap/clean method I have found. 1/4 cup salt 1/4 cup sugar 1 quart water Mix/shake ingrediants until salt/sugar has disolved. Place eggs in a bowl with solution salt/sugar and water. let stand over night in fridge, strain and rinse. Your eggs should be clean and hard, perfect for tying. marv

Hello Jeff, the guys and gals here are great, always willing to BS and sometimes help you out:grin: Take care look to hear some good fishing reports Marv

Am I right to assume on these TOPO maps that Green meets public/state or federal land?

:grin:Ok I am feeling generous today and I am giving out my famous recipe. Ingrediants Deer cheap hamburger 1-2 lbs depending on how much deer 1 lbs jimmy deans sage sausage (Sage) is th eimportant part Seasoning of choice. Grind your deer into burger, I usually have about 15 lbs of venison at this point. Put it all in a clean and steril cooler, add in 2 lbs cheapest hamburger I can buy. Add in 1-2 lbs Jimmy Deans sage suasage. I use Boone's seasoning from Boobes in Traverse city. I mix in about a 1/2 cups of seasoning, some garlic not to much, a little lowery's. Hand mix all ingrediants together like you would mix meatloaf. Once it is mixed I re run it thru the grinder, this gives entire contents 1 consistancy and it mixes everything together. Package and seal. I am telling you what this makes the best burger in the world, you unthaw and its ready to cook, no need to add anything. If you do this and do not like, please let me know I will take it off your hands, don't want you getting sick or anything Marv

Frank, your good with us, how have you been? Have you been out lately? I am going to go out in the morning. Marv aka doughman

Eric Peterson Fat Bastard wanted me to say hello for him. So Hello for him:grin:

Mike them there look like they be pets. For real thems nice deer.

I took a guy from work, his only 2nd ever salmon fishing trip and we were 5-12 should have been 9-12, we had 2 realeases no one home and 1 got off after being hooked for about 20 seconds. The others should have made it to net. 3 fish were busted on riggerline while fighting multiples, one was neat though as it snapped my line I was running a stacker and the fish slid right down to my other line and I realed it in saved lure and all. 8 of the hits all came on #3 pearl-silver J with red face. 2 hits on black ladder back spoon NBK and 1 on Lemon Ice and 1 on watermelon. Most came 20' in the arms

Mike I got out this morning fished the arms went 5-12 with 1 break off, fish had a one way ticket to Milwaukee and 2 others snapped off in the downrigger wire durring triples with 2 guys to man everything. The waves were 4 fters but long rollers the water in the arms was perfect. Get out and do some battle, the ones we got today were fiesty buggers Doughman

The two guys I fish the tournaments with went out thismorning and went 6-8 from 8am-9:30am. All fish caught in the channel(muskegon) all on chrome/green J's 20 down, according to them it was a zoo. Fatboy another friend went out tonight by himself and landed 4 of 7 returning one (black fish) from 7pm-9pm all in the channel, he didn't get any hits on j's all came on spoons. I'll be heading out to combat fish in the morning, weather might be bad but can't pass up the op. Marv a.k.a. doughman

I'll give you a hollar, we'll hit the water at 6:30am Doughman

Well the Floating Turd made it back on the water finally, but not without trouble, got to the launch to find I had a dead battery, minor setback, while doing all the trouble shooting this past week I forgot to turn off a switch. We went 1 for 1, finally getting a 10lber in the channel on a green ladderback j-plug, there were a lot of guys at the mouth of the channel jigging with decent success. I was still trolling and some guy coming from behind me on an angle cut me off 3 feet in front of me, he had 4 rods out all trolling dipseys, guess what both on my side of the boat got tangled in my downrigger cable, Luckily nothing lost for anyone. If this guy wouldn't of been so friendly I probably would have 2 more dipseys than what I got now. The fish being caught in the channel and lake are already turning dark, the fish I caught today had 2 eel markings almost side by side in the belly. I let my rider have em Oh well it was great to be back out even though combat fishing was at its finest. I'll be back out tomorrow morning and I am not leaving the channel/mouth area as there are plenty of battles to be had in there. Doughman

Well lesson learned, it happened to be the tether. $40 at halls to tell me that, boy I felt dumb, but lessons are sometimes costly. Boat is back on water tomorrow Marv

initially I was told it was a bad cap not venting correctly, then they said the line from tank to motor was no good, before I knew that, I tried repeatedly to start it and think I flooded the cylinders out. Update, I just pulled the 3 plugs and turned it over for a brief second, gas came out everywhere, cylinders were soaked, when I was trying to start it before I must have pumped way to much into the motor. Plugs reak of gas. I believe the fuel pump is ok, I am going to air it out tonight and place 3 new plugs in tomorrow and hope everything is ok. One guy I am working with tonight said meybe the coil pack is bad. Marv

A few weekends ago I had to be towed off muskegon lake my motor wouldn't start. The next day I went into sportsfisherman center and after a few trials the guy helped me get it started, he said it was the 6 gallon tank, the venting was bad creating a vapor lock. My boat ran fine for a week and now it is back to same problem. I went to halls they said it sounds like my line from tank to motor was bad I replaced it, motor still will not fire. My hope is that my motor is just flooded, I am going to pull plugs tonight and turn it over and let plugs dry out overnight(plugs are new last weekend) What else can/should I do? (60 HP evenrude 1998) Marv aka doughman

Great job plumkrazy, it looks like Adams been laying in the box with the fish (red shirt) See y'all in a week. Marv

A friend of mine and I got started about 5:30am, we almost turned around at the pier heads, I didn't know if my boat could handle the beating we were about to take but we were both good swimmers so we ventured out. We only fished with 2 rods until light becasue I could stand up in the boat. We took 5 kings in the next 45 mins and missed one more. 4 came on a green and white glow spoon fishmans something(bought at meijers), 2 on a glow J-plug green and white #5(one got off) and the other on a moonshine with 3 black dots. It was fast and furious and then of course someone told the fish breaksfast was over cuz they were gone. All Fish caught in 70-80' 35-45 down and the 2 on J plug were 110 back on dipsey. Marv

Redeye, how deep of water were you fishing?