Dwight Hottle

I got that one covered.

You did have a tilapia hard gill.

Now I feel left out.

Sweet looking jigs Mike.

I use a St Croix AVS66MLF.

Great cold water topic. I'll bet you thanked your wife when you got home. Thanks for bringing the subject to light and I'm glad you & your buddy made it to fish another day.

Sweet write up & great pics. Those steelies are a gas.

That I will never really understand the female mind.

Talk about a beast in high school straight to the NBA. Think LeBron James. I enjoy watching the heat.

I share your concern but this tread won't last long.

If you can't find it call humminbird service & they will send you one. They might even send it n/c.

I'm glad your are going to be done with the chemo. There is a lot to look forward to once it is over. Keep the faith.

Hey Steve I just saw this thread man. Welcome to the St Clair 50" club. That is a beast. You were in the right place at the right time with that fish coming in from the guide in the back and diverting to your bait. Awesome story. Check out LAX taxidermy for your replica. They did my pike mount & I would highly recommend them to you. Funny thing I have concluded that a 50" musky is the equalivent of a 7lb smallie in rarity. Two special trophy's in one year. Congradulations.

That random plastic plug when installed will solve your problem. The water is actually coming up the hole that the plug blocks.

Nishiki!

Dan Gapen wrote another book called Treeline and Beyound which really covers northen Canada for the guys who like to chase lakers & pike. A really great read if you get the chance.

Fish them naked. Tip with a live or dead minnow. Or use a pork or plastic trailer but keep it on the smaller side. Scent might be an option as well or even a gulp product. All options will work.

Welcome.

I heard Jeff was going to Mexico for some bass prefishing. But yea we could time it with A-Jay or Jeff. That way we would have a referee for when we start fighting over jerkbaits & gobies. Actually the dragging retreive would work well with jerkbaits if the wind cooperates. Best of both worlds bottom contact & suspended.

Better buy two, one for you & one for me. Cheaper than gas buddy.

Almost all species are eating the gobies. Walleye, pike, steelhead, brown trout, etc. What the toxin effect on the predator fish is unknown but I'm sure it contributes to the fish eating advisories the great lakes issuses so often. The gobies have provided an additional food source for all the predators. All the site predators in the great lakes have bennefitted from the clearing water just look at the smallie & musky populations. Pa has only pay fish cleaning stations or bait shops. When you talk to one of the fish cleaners they say everthing is eating the gobies.

Yea but Catt your detailed reports are skewed because you don't use a jig very often.

One of the better world series so far.

Joe Balog baits? He is a pretty good smallie fisherman. It's a goby imatation of a tube. Drag it or work it slowly. I passed on them based on the price. Regular gobies have a straight fan tail. If you try one remember gobies do not have air bladders so they can only swim horizontally. They dart around the bottom. They are soft rayed & very fatty. I think that is the reason smallies don't puke them up. They most digest very quickly.

Yes and the state of California will be supporting him for the rest of his natural life.