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Nice work Jay....Glad you left a few for seed...lol

Nice work Matt. From what ive heard Manistee was a pretty good port today....Awesome!

Nice job Duane. Thanks for the detailed report.

Great way to spend the day and youve experienced another way to enjoy our great fisheries.

Thanks for the report Paul. Sorry to hear the terminal tackle failed you. Thats always something that erks ya.

Im sure the weather all week had allot to do with it. Has things all riled up. Need some stable weather and itll pick up again. Thats fishin...cant catch em on the couch. Nice effort.

Congrats on your finish....Had to be WINDY out there!!!

Send JWheeler a PM, seems to me he knows of a website with a great deal on some Raymarine units.

Thats awesome....My buddy has a deisel from around the same year and had allot of problems with injectors. Im suprised this is your first issue. Glad theyre taking care of business.

That could very well be the case Jason. I use my wires to get deep and the braid for the higher fish. In reality though, when i start getting into fish on a low diver its almost inevitable it seems that the high diver gets lengthened out to try and match the low diver if theyre not popping. Again no statistics to go by just some thoughts i have....What i do know is both work well and catch allot of fish. An angler cant go wrong in either case IMO. And i gotta agree Frank...wire always wins!!! But, so does braid when it tangles crosses with mono. And as with the minimal tackle they may cut off with a wild fish they also save allot because of their brute strengths....ecspecially when you have $40 worth of gear strung out on a single rod.

Im sure it will be a great succsess. Anything to do with getting children involved in the outdoors normally warrants a big turnout and lots of support.

They both work, some days one works better than they other. I havent recorded anything on paper, but its my belief that my wire takes more than the braid will at seasons end....I do run both simotaneously as does Matt. I run the PP on the two high divers and the wire as my low diver set ups. If you go the wire route, id spool up 1000' continuous. 1000' fits perfectly on a Daiwa SG47LC sized reel. Also, you have rod options. You can go with a twilli tip on a normal dipsey rod, a JR Tackle Wire line rod with titanium guides or a roller guide rod, which is what i prefer. Be sure if you go with a roller rod that it has good quality guides on where the wire cant jump off the roller. Shimano and Daiwa have some great roller rods IMO and have the same high quality AFTCO roller guides on them. Put some electrical tape at the bottom of the spool for the wire to grip on. I like to spool my power pro rods with 300 yds of 30# and back it with 30# mono.

Oh, i wouldnt say he's not a shooter!!!

Nice looking turkey, but i dont believe he has a spur on that right leg!

Not a problem Bob. I went back an edited it for you. You should have an edit button on your browser in the lower right hand side of your post should you need to go back and edit a post in the future. Great thing you guys are doing, all the best.

I like white reflective tape on the flags and sides of the boards. It lights up great with just the light of an L.E.D. head lamp.

Looks good to me Ken

Congratulations on your purchase. Im looking forward to seeing pics of your boat along with the transformation from this season to the next. Allot of sweat and blood goes into projects like that, but they are oh so sweet when theyre done....and worth all the effort.

Beautiful shot of the big lake....I hear ya buddy!

Welcome to GLF Chris. Glad to have ya.

Welcome aboard....good luck this weekend wherever you decide to go.

I agree completely. Thats why your graph suddenly goes from few fish adn bait to full of fish and bait as the light fades. The plankton get active along with the bait fish along with the predatory fish. And as it gets brighter it reverses. Its one big domino effect.

Good job Grandpa!!!

Should be able to catch all you want outta Linwood in 15-20' of water or off the mouth of the Saginaw River either vertical jigging along the island or channel or trolling the flats in that area in 11-15' of water. Fish are also being taken off the mouth of the Kawkawlin in 8-12' of water....Ive done all my fishing outta Linwood in the 18-20' range pulling deep thunderstick Jr, Deep little ripper reef runners and #7 and #9 shad raps. Deep and shallow HJ are definitely working though.....Guys are also pulling harnesses and taking fish behind inlines though....As far as the effects from the rain, it will probably bring the rivers up and flush a bunch of debris out. May be tough to troll and keep your lines clean as its all gonna end up in the Bay. We already got some pretty decent rainfall the last few days. Water will probably be pretty murky as well as its already tea colored with the precip we've already gotten. Might go to chocolate milk. In that case id look for some cleaner water. As far as motels, you have the American Inn, Northland Motel, Huron Trail, Holiday Inn and Euclid Motel are probably your closest options. Theyre located in Kawkawlin and Bay City's north side.