Last couple weeks

Finally made it up to Lake Michigan yesterday and trolled all day and only had I hit. It was around noon and I had a steelhead take an SOG spoon at 60' down in 160 fow. He made it to the surface in 2 seconds jumped once pulled the line tight, the drag wasn't letting out line so I tried to loosen it. The fish jumped again and when I started to tighten the line the fish was gone.
Things to remember: Check drag on all reels periodically through the day especially in the morning.
Anyway here's some pics from the last couple weeks. The first pics are from LM then the rest are from Tippy.

starting lineup

2nd team

lures washed and ready to go for next time

Well one more week and then it'll be hunting season. I'm going to try and get up to LM again next week and try for some Kings again. If I can't go "Oh well" hunting starts in a week. : )

Another first

I went to Tippy yesterday because it is suppose to rain the rest of the week. I put up with the wind all day, and I was rewarded for my sticktoitevness. I landed a decent bass (one of many) and the first pike I have boated at this lake. I new it had muskie and I read that it had pike also, but have never caught one there until yesterday. I have had many muskie follows and could only hope they didn't want to bother with such a tiny offering. I had a great day on water even though I never took off my hoodie and sweats, and the wind never seemed to run out. As I was fishing I saw my first Bald Eagle for the year and the first I have seen on that lake. I also watched a couple Ospreys' circling, looking for an easy meal. The Eagle came and left so fast I didn't even get a pic.

 I didn't catch anything to bring home to add to my fish meal but I had a great day anyway.

Makin' a meal one fish at a time

The post I didn't write up last week was fishing at Big Cedar lake. A buddy of mine told me he and a friend of his did pretty good on rainbows so I decided to give it a try on my way home from Max. I did hook up with a walleye on Max, sorry no pic. So I headed to Cedar and trolled for 2 hours with what has become my salmon and trout mantra this year, "without even a bump". As a matter of fact this was the only rainbow I saw.

Now this week was a little different, I went to Tippy and caught a bunch of fish. The bad news was I only caught one keeper white bass.
But like the title said, eventually I will get a meal it just may take me a couple trips. Don't worry I'll make it through somehow.

Looks kinda small when he's the only one on the board doesn't he??

fool me once shame on you....... fool me 83 times.......

After the 2 1/2 hour drive to Lake Michigan I hit the landing at 5:25, only to find it the lake was socked in with fog. So like any optimistic fisherman I decided to wait for the fog to clear.

It finally did around 9:30 so off I went, only to allow me to troll endlessly from 55' to 100' without even a false release.

I marked some fish and some bait but couldn't get anything to hook up. So I think I'm done on the big lake for a while. I'm going to go catching instead of fishing at least until the kings start up in the early fall... the boat goes away at the beginning of the hunting season September 1st.
Oh yeah by the way if you want a post from last week's fishing the big lake, just reread this post minus the fog, and add about 20' to the depth on both ends.
I'll catch some fish next week and get some pics up here for your viewing pleasure.

IIII'm baaaaack

Well since I got some steady work with 3 other job offers I decided to treat myself to some fishing on the big lake. I gave my neighbor a call and we hit the road at 3am, trolled all day and headed home at 5:30 pm. We did have a great day on the water, it was almost glass which was good considering we had to motor out to 70' to start. We trolled all the way out to 127' then back in to 60' before calling it a day.

Tom's first coho

Since Tom was my guest he got the first fish which turned out to be a nice Coho.

 Well as you can see there are 3 fish on the board.... and since we know Tom caught the one closest to him I'm sure your wondering why I wasn't sharing. Well, after I fought my coho and got him landed we went through many dry hours of nothing but washing lures. Since it had been a couple hours since the last time I checked my lures for weeds and after noticing the right downrigger rod acting funny, I thought it should be brought in. While I was bringing it in I thought it felt like I had a big weed or some other sort of sea trash. That was until I saw the coho on the other end....he had to have been on there for at least 2 hours. Oh well, one more for the box.