Missdemeanor

Bill .... Having those Fisher around is not necessarily a good thing... Especially for Turkey population. Those buggers eat a lot of young turkeys. I hunt in PA. The property owner said the Fisher population increased one year . Same year he saw zero turkeys ( normally saw large flocks). I agree they are cool animals, just killing machines....

Could have entered the Kentucky Derby with that sucker .. nice job Bill

I have Chinook rudders on my 31 Baha .. fantastic! Boat's trolling and On plane performance is night and day from the stock rudders. Another guy in my Marina has them on a 31 Tiara... I know he loves them as well

Just want to put a post up regarding some Muskie Trolling baits I just picked up. Holy cow! Cullen over at Muskie Candies customs makes some unbelievable baits. I've caught fish on the nightstalker bait, but decided to drop the hammer on a few more. Outstanding paint jobs, great action, and proven fish takers. If your serious about chasing the giants, look up Muskie Candies Customs.

Right on..... congrats!

Run north until you see bait.... some days it's in 450... other days it's in 600+. Don't fish temperature. . Fish the marks ..

Looks like a pro king... but I'm not positive

Whenever I have trips, I keep a sharp eye on the forecasts. The only site that had it remotely right was windfinder. Left port at 0'dark 30 and it was nice and calm so offshore we go. About 3/4 the way out to the Salmon superhighway, the wind ripped up out of the NE. I knew we were in for a rough day. I set up and trolled south west ( with them ) and started a pick on 2 year olds. Not fast and furious, but a decent chew. Magnum Carbon 14... Magnum Silver Carbon... Magnum raspberry carbon ,( comment theme here). My riggers were more productive than my junk lines. Like I said, it wasn't a massacre by any means, but we got our bites. The fish I cleaned were loaded with medium and larger alewifes...

Haven't posted many reports as of lately. Burning the candle at both ends is killing me. The past three days I've spent my time offshore. I absolutely despise fishing inside for stagers and will only do it when I have to. I ran north until I started marking bait... Dropped the rigs down to the bait ( temp doesn't mean a whole lot). Magnum Carbon 14 silver ladder back on my deep rigger, standard silver carbon on the mid rigger, standard Shelly snack on the high rigger. Divers had mag bad toad and custom Die hard. All moonshines. 400 copper with mag geezer. Friday night was very good chew. . Went back Saturday to same lat and long lines only to be greeted with negative fish. Ground out a box but it was a pick at best Sunday was a different story.Stopped a click or two south of my waypoints and settled in. Pretty good chew... Same spoons were producing. Everyone preaches Meat meat meat... Not necessary in my opinion. Yes it does work, but I'm a spoon guy and I go with what I have confidence in. Don't be afraid to bump up the speed and run smaller spoons . The bait isn't necessarily all big out there. Stomach contents confirmed my suspicion Good luck to all fisherman ( stream, pier and lake).

I completely understand.... I tell my wife I want a viking funeral and she's to use my rig...lol....

It was in the lake outside of Chaumont....not up there now... Thanks

June 17... Started out deeper. Not a big fan of fishing in packs of boats. Temp was perfectly set up with targets around the many clouds of bait we marked. Ran Warrior magnums on divers and riggers, DW regular size on free sliders. I'm a "Match the hatch" guy... So natural colored baits .. glows at first light and then some silver flash patterns as the sun was higher. I ran one 300 copper pulling a bullfrog slasher /white meat rig. The 300 took quite a few shots all day... Like the spoons, I changed the rig over to an "antique" flash slasher and meat rig. I love when the old stuff still produces .. Sunday 18th was a carbon copy day pattern wise. The lake was considerably calmer, so I ran a 400 copper with a Mr Measles and a Blue Angle stud fly...along with the same 300 rig from the day before. No real monsters either day, but the folks left with some nice organic fillets, fins and grins... Thing to note.... Lots of short bites and hook pulls... I attribute it to the fish not being super aggressive due to the large amount of bait. Stomachs were packed when I filleted our catch. Good stretch of weather this week, hopefully the conditions remain the same. Good luck...

Best guy ever

Nope..... I really put a lot of time into it .... Tons of Bait clouds ... And North east winds haven't helped. Possibly going to try some areas I have never fished later this week.

Spent some time chasing Walleyes.... Ran some deep diving sticks, and some short cores with shallow smithwicks.... Get out to 40 -45 fow and a 3 color core goes and pulls the offshore board under. Few head shakes and the fish starts swimming at the boat . I figured it was a big walleye or a big Sheeper... Fish comes up behind the boat and our jaws drop... A fantastic net job by my buddy and high fives... Fish released to live and destroy another anglers gear...

Got in the LOC for some customers who wanted to compete in the Derby. The night before Day 1 of their trip I spoke with the guy and he told me they wanted to get on the Derby leaderboard. No browns yet, so I decided to set up for the brown spotted devils the next day. I've never fished BTs on the west end, but how different could it be from home? Left port and took some water temps... 50degrees was ok... But I found a temperature break to 48 and some nice stained water . Deployed 6 board Flatlines pulling stingers and two flatlines with 2oz rubber core sinkers along the prop wash pulling Super slims in various gobie patterns . Day 1 we did catch a few BTs, but nothing for the board. I was confident with the game plan, so we went back for Day 2. Day two, same set up.... Difference is the water was a little warmer (51) . After we get set up, a rubber core prop wash set up gets hit .. I knew it was a decent fish by the way it fought. The angler played it perfectly to the net... 13.4 on the scales at the Boat Doctors. Blonde chicken wing, chicken wing, gold perch and mongoose In Michigan stinger were good. The Prirate Silver with black scales took shots, and the Green Gobie Super slim took the big fella... It's great when a plan actually kinda comes together .. hopefully the missing year class of BTs doesn't have much of a bearing in the future...

Perfect! Great job

It's illegal..... Unless the Captain or mate reels in those fish....

Shame..... It's a great launch... Lots of Parking... On another note, I've been at my boat ( at a slip on the Genny) every night last week.. lots of big logs rolling out to the lake... Water is getting higher as well... Be careful out there. I always have an extra set of eyes or two on watch when I'm running...