Frank fort (August 19th and 20th) Its Hot

[caznik]

Hello Members,

Just got back home from Frankfort and was it ever a blast. First off after my wife and I and our other friends that had followed us up started the day going to the casino at the Little River and took some of there money and left. Once we happen to get at Frankfort we had dinner before we took a trip on the big lake. The place that we ate was Dinghys bar and had a very good dinner there. After that we stoped at the tackle box bait shop in Frankfort and got a fishing report. They are a great help on fishing reports and they have a great seletion of lures there to pick out. Well it was pretty good on the first night at Frankfort. The fishing was kinda slow that night but we happen to go 5 for 9 that night. There was alot of boats out there that night and herd alot of yelling on the radio over lead core. But anyways I stayed out of everyones way and still had a great time fishing there. The hot lures that night was the Blue Bubble Spin Doctor with a Blue Bubble fly on the dipsey 200' back. The second lure was the Green and Glow Spin Doctor with the Caznik Mirage Fly 200' back on the dipsey. The third hot bait that night was the Green Scally J-Plug on the full core rig. We fish in 100-130 FOW all night that day and had nothing go on our riggers.

The second time out fishing at Frankfort was really HOT. My fishing buddies and I got up at 3:00am in the morning to get gas,coffee, and just make sure we was on the lake at a good time. You see Frankforts boat launch gets very buisy there and if you want to get out a certain time you better get there early. So that morning we was fishing by 4:00am that morning and was the 8th boat there. We started fishing in 80' of water and had nothing going till we happen to get out at 170' of water. Then all H#LL broke lose. We just boxed 2 fish and all of a sudden out of 8 rods that I ran. In 5 min we had all 7 rods go at the same time. I didn't really know what to do. That was the first time I had that many fish at the same time since I ever fish on lake Michigan before. Well out of that 7 rods that took off, can you beleve my crew lost them all, thats right all 7 fish. After I set up again the fish was going crazy once again and we ended up being 10 for 27 that morning. I never had that much fun before in my life out there fishing at Frankfort. we was done fishing by 7:30 in the morning. The hot baits was Spin doctors and flies, dreamweaver lures, silver streak lures and J-Plugs. Full core was very hot and had most of the big fish on the weekend. The riggers went off from 45-65 foot down. The dipseys took off to at 200' back. I want to take some pictures fishing this weekend but was way to busy catching fish and just forgot about the camera. Our biggest fish that we caught that weekend was on friday night that went 20.8 Lbs. Most of all the other fish was 10Lbs and up. Let me tell you guys something. You must try and fish Frankfort, its alot of fun and a great place to take a vacation at.

After fishing that morning my buddies and I we back to the cabin at the Betsi River camp site and took a nape till the women made it back from the craft show that Frankfort has every year this week. Soons they made it back they woke us up and we went out to dinner at the Boone's Long Lake Inn at Traverse City. Let me tell you guys something, this is a very good place to eat. I had a 22oz. prime rib and that was very good. My wife ordered the perch dinner and that was very good to. The meals that you get is alot and you can never eat any desert later. So check that place out sometime if you are ever up there.www.BoonesLLI.com

Well here are a few pictures that i happen to take this weekend.

Our Cabin at the betsi River Campground

One of my buddies on a fish Friday night

Friday nights catch of the day(5 Kings)

Saturdays catch of the day(9 Kings and 1 Laker)

Caznik

[DIRTY DOG]

great job caz your o so write about boones my inlaws live up that way and that is where my father in law want to go for dinner every fathersday

[ratcityhooker]

Nice job on the fishies Rich.

Ludville is hot too we went 11 for 15 this weekend.

Larry

[GLF]

Rich, did you have any beers while you was up there? Sounds like you had a great time!