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Black and blue flake chigger craws are my go to on the muddy Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers. The Tittabawassee usually Runs dirty but, more so with the dam failures up stream. The Tittabawassee avg 5-6 feet where I fish. The holes being 10-14 ft. The holes hold the bigger fish. I havnt figured out he crank bite yet but, what success I have had has been flashy cranks with the sun out and brighter colors with cloudy days. like I said above black/blue chigger craw kills it. Either t-rigged with a 1/2 oz tungsten sinker or as a trailer on 1/2 black and blue jig. Toss it up stream and work it back. Most of the time they will either hit it just as it gets to the bottom or first movement. I have also had good luck with pb&j colored jigs

Actually excited about this fall. First time I’m going to seriously fish it. Looks like we are going to have an early fall And it will hopefully get all the new fair weather fishermen back inside. On the flip side I have feel g that there will be a ton of hunters this year in the woods. Like more than we have seen around here in 25 years roughly 3 months to ice up

paint chips, scratches, tooth scratches on baits and dirty cork on rods all represent war wounds and should be shown with pride. Mechanical issues are taken care of as the arise or in the winter time I buy the best equipment I can afford to use and not re-sell . With that out the way and all said. I am slowly buying rod and reel sleeves. Scratching equipment catching fish is one thing. I’d rather not scratch it transporting rods and reels

This will be my first time fishing into fall. Depending on the weather I’m hoping to spend a day or 2 during hunting season fishing. Supposed to be a high of 65 for the next week. So I’m sure the water will be about that range shortly. Just picked up some lucky craft pointers. I havnt fished jerk baits a lot hoping to change that in the next 2 months before ice up

I plan on fishing into November this year. Usually I would have stopped buying tackle a month ago. So it’s either keeping the ball rolling or stocking up for next year . Oh I just won a 3 piece lot of lucky craft 110 pointers on eBay For 18 bucks . In this photo everything thing cane from eBay stores. 3 packs of rage menaces in black/blue flak, summer craw, and kvd magic, 2 kvd square bills in Chrome sxy shad and brown craw, and a white terminator stainless spinner bait to try out.

I’m a big fan of garmin. Clear picture and easy to use.

Only had my trolling motor hooked up for 1.5 months but, I love my terrova. However, I am quality tech where I work and sometimes even with a ton of quality checks. Bad product still gets out.

I would be using 1/4 oz tube. If there you were fishing a river with current go 3/8 For that depth I like the strike king tube jigs for the bigger sizes like 3/8 or 1/2 oz. cabelas has a good tube jig and they are cheap. I can’t remember the price think you get like 10 for 3.50 or 4.50. I have a bunch of those in 1/4 and 3/8. Strike king is a horizontal hook eye and Cabela’s is the vertical hook eye.

Waited out the rain for 45 minutes I. My truck. Launched from center street and headed up stream. Couple from today. Both on a chigger craw from Tittabawassee River

Harbor freight has a 6/12 volt 4 amp automatic charger for like 35 bucks. It has worked very well. This is my 2nd season using it. I like it a lot I use it to charge my interstate 24 group marine main cranking battery. I had an orange 2 amp Harbor frieght charger that lasted like 10 years before that

What do you run as far as trailers. I have a couple 3/4 war eagles and the plastic trailer always splits on me. Doesn’t matter what it is IE paddle tail, twister tail, or any other plastic

I like my war eagle spinner baits. I bought a bunch of booyas last year on clearance which, those were the first success I’ve had on spinner baits. Only issue is they don’t hold up all that well. Just purchased a white 1/2 oz terminator to try out from eBay. I like using 4-6 inch curly tail grubs for trailers. Matching what ever the predominate color is I’ve been using kailin grubs lately but, any will do. I seem to have more success using mono for line instead of flouro carbon or flouro coated co- Ploy next rabbit hole will be to pour and make my own

Pretty much my thought process also. Cover use a jig. t-rig if I’m just dragging random bottom. However, I do get get gut feelings and do the opposite. I am usually rewarded. Usually i know within 10 minutes if the lure I have tied on is going to work or not.

Try wet cat food or canned shrimp in a women’s nylon Nylon than put a knot in it. Dam craw fish you are feeding eat better than most people haha or I guess put the bacon in nylon

Had big plans today of fishing the Saginaw bay out of bay city. All that got shot to crap after fishing for an hour due to family drama with my sister. So I spent more time driving than fishing. The island at the mouth of the Saginaw river is right next to the shipping channel. The islands is maybe 2 miles from the mouth. Drops off to 10-14 feet almost 360 degrees around the island. It drops off fast in maybe 5 feet. It is a man made island. it is where they put the dredge spoils after dredging the channel for the freighters so that they can get in and out of the river . No bass in my limited time. I’m preatty sure a big pike bit me off and lost a war eagle spinner right off the bat. Luckily I had a duplicate. Lost a big cat after he rolled him self up in my line. I could literally feel him un wrapping himself once he was under the boat. Than boated this decent channel cat. Spinner bait was a war eagle 1/2 oz golden blades and shaft with chartreuse and white tipped skirt. Than I got the phone call and had a 20 minute boat ride to launch than hour drive home. havn’t caught crap on spinner baits all year. Last year I threw them on my black maxx with mono. So this time I broke the black maxx combo after an all summer hiatus. It still has 10 lbs big game spooled-up on it and had 3 hits on the spinner bait in an hour.

New pattern for my self after learning about black and chartreuse jigs in the tackle forum. Decided to make my own to try first one is a 3/8 oz Arkie jig and a 3/4 poison tail jig. Both Black and chartreuse. Both look good but, the poison tail looks wicked.

I’ve been using the 20 lbs flouro kote all summer on one of my rods and as leader material. For main line I’ve been using it on my swim jig/ extra jig pole and I have no complaints I think it may be better than the p-line flouroclear that I have rigged up on three rods. I’ve also been using it on my carbonlight combo as a leader with 30lbs pp braid for main line. I have caught a lot of fish on that combo so far. Bass on swim jig and that big old mr. whiskers came while using it as leader material fishing a chigger craw t-rigged

66% darker color 33% lighter color For example black and blue jig between 1/4-3/8 I use one full tab black one full tab and half a black tab. 1/2-1oz jig I use 1 full tab black, 1 full tab blue, and 1 full tab black. This is the same for any colors

They have definably maritime shell fish aroma. Sucks getting it on your hands but, it works

Craw fish do need to eat or they will die. They won’t be able to eat while in the trap and could start canabalizing the smaller ones ( the ones you want to use) im going by what Michigan rules state and I have no idea what Ohio’s are but, in Michigan you have legal tend or check the trap every 24 hrs. also the longer you leave the trap in. Somebody is more likely to find it. They could take it, take your crawfish, or destroy it.

Went and played around with fish finders to day at cabelas. The higher end striker 7 units were nice i think those were $500ish bucks. But, they had another garmin echo map plot unit for like $750 bucks that had chart plotter, down scan, side scan, and a live view ( need to buy a $1500 transducer for that though). So obviously I couldn’t really use it with my universal sonar in the trolling motor. Would I gain any thing by hooking my striker 4 to the trolling motor up front. Than having another fishfinder with side scan/down scan transducer at the back of the boat for the other better fish finder? basically running 2 fish finders.

Just ordered and picked these up to day from Cabela's in Saginaw . Plan on hitting Saginaw bay Sunday. In Michigan if your boats over 16 feet and going more than a mile off shore on the Great Lakes you need radio, flares, fire extinguisher, and life vests With whistles on them. you do t need all of that for the inland lakes but, it is nice to have I need to pick up a new fire extinguisher today as I think the one that cane with the boat has 1984 stamped on it

I just traded my 14 ft tin boat for a 17 ft Lund type boat. I needed a bigger boat to fish bigger bodies of water and to be more versatile. However, I’m going to miss my 14 footer with 9.8 2-stroke merc on it. You have to pick your days but, I could get into a lot places that bigger boat couldn’t. Eventually I will buy another tin boat to go along with the bigger boat. I had a kayak I think they are great for small rustic lakes and small to medium sized rivers. They scare me on anything but, that. Bad weather moves in at least you have a chance of making it in a 12 footer with 5 hp motor on it. Kayak not so much. You can get a tin boat, motor, trailer for less than what fully out fitted fishing kayak is gonna cost

Half a hot dog hung by a treble hook works too. Usually just hung it via wire so they can’t get to it from the outside or eat it in the trap. I always just bought the cheap coated wire minnow traps and opened up the holes on both sides so they can fit. 48 hrs is to long to set it. If you are able to I would check it every 6-12 hrs. I know in Michigan if you leave a trap un attended you need your name and address on it. I dunno if Ohio requires that or not

Are they using the gulp formula for these or is maxx scent a differnt formula? wonder if you had a open pack for a while and hit them with the gulp spray, How that would work out