algoma

[Mike Walerak]

I fished Kewaunee last weekend. We did alright each day and had one great day with multiple fish over 20 lbs. Only had one come on a spoon all the others were on tinsel flies. I would love to get back out there but it will be at least a few weeks.

mw

[Valv]

A-ha, I just booked Captain K for 8-24 to 8-27....

I know it's a ways out but I cannot wait for it right now....

Cheffrey, will you be there then ? Or anybody will be there during the weekend ?

[tunrevir]

Val, I might be there then if I can swing the off time. I met Cheffrey out there this weekend and they were catching a few in between rounds at the pizza bowl. We filled out for 3 guys and fished Friday morning and this morning. Went 15/27 this a.m. but it was wild from 345 till 530 with multiple doubles.

Tunrevir~

[Valv]

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Went 15/27 this a.m. but it was wild from 345 till 530 with multiple doubles.

Tunrevir~

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Ooohh...shut up ! Now I really cannot wait for this. I already ordered new line for the reels, got my Penn bases coming, I need to find another Mag 10 Cannon to match mine. All my lures are still good, but I will visit the hardware store there to get the latest. I still have to come up with a canvas for my top and rig some rocket launchers. I have slip 3 at Captain K, will be in a white Dodge ram with a Palomino camper on it

REEL CRANKY, a silver and burgundy Lund Sport Cabin 22ft with 2 Penn and 2 Cannon riggers.

I will try to convince Rick to sell cheap some huge FM decals to put on the side, it's good advertising, better than Google when in Algoma....

[Tom Linderholm]

Gentlemen, we have had some of the most productive fishing out here that I have had in the past 5 years. Daily limits for 5 people on 3 boats over the weekend. Spent our first day shaking out bad line, bad rigs and donating a shot rod to Lake Michigan. We have had 11 people leave from our crew with their limits and are currrently working on 15 more limits for the remainder here. Our best night we ran 12 miles North and set up in 90 FOW, we went 19 for 40+ on the Ballz Draggin with almost everything on Lead and Dipseys. We have caught some of the biggest Coho's I have ever seen with landing 6 over 7lbs yesterday. So far biggest fish for the week was a 18LB 37" King full of pee and vinegar. Flies and Flashers from Opti in the Blue Halo and Mountain Dew colors are the most productive on our boat. With little spoon action off the riggers. Water has been very calm with only one morning of fishing in 8-10 foot waves. Here are a few pics so far:

29 inch steelhead

Daily Double

29 inch coho

Burgler with a 34inch King

Valv, I won't be making it back out here this year, but I wish you the best of luck.

Randy, glad you got into them this weekend. It was nice meeting you on the dock.

[tunrevir]

Cheffrey, nice pics! Sounds like you guys did pretty well. Our best fish was about 34" as well. We got fish all over the water colum each day. Small 3 1/2" glow ghost j plug caught some really nice kings on the rigger set between 50-60', the flys and dodgers took alot of fish on the dipsey rods and our leadcore rods of boards caught some nice steelhead. Spoons off the boards were good with orange and chartruesse ladder back, evil alewife(EXWIFE)! he,he, watermelon and bloody nose all producing. Monkey puke and pearl weren't hot this past weekend in our boat. We experimented with a thunderstick junior, green glow off of one board on Sunday and it produced 3 nice steelhead. No hits while the kevorkian was down and didn't do anything with blue as far as spoons go. The aqua howe flies were hot as well as the green. Seems that the fish like them all tore up with less tinsel for some reason. Tom, nice to meet you looks like you had a great trip and the crew you were with seemed friendly as well. I'm hoping to get back out there 2 more times before the fall trolling heats up.

Tunrevir~

[Quickstrike]

Well me and cheffrey just got back into town after a long trip to Lake Michigan and I think i need to ice my back and forearms from reeling in all those kings! Some of the most productive fishing i have ever seen, one of the boats we went with actually had 7 fish on at once and landed all 7!!! Our biggest king ended up being 37 inches and close to 20 and we got a bunch of huge cohos, talk about a nice surprise. Full cores of lead off boards and dipsies were the ticket, although riggers would occationally get hot. We also got a few fish off snap weights. Everything was on flashers and flies, white inticers were the hottest in numerous color variations. green and blue glow howie flies were also the ticket. What a great trip with a great crew and I even behaved myself this year!

I have a bunch of great pics to post but i'm a little too tired right now....tommorrow hopefully.

[Nate McVey]

Quick and Cheffery, glad to hear that you guys had a good time and caught some fish......can't wait to get some of those on the smoker! As far as needing rest..........GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Couple less hours at the above mentioned Pizza Bowl might help that next year. Good job!

[Hermy Wormy]

"Couple less hours at the above mentioned Pizza Bowl might help that next year."

Less hours at the Pizza Bowl? What's that? Thats part of the trip!! I plan on leaving the PB and heading down to our boat for the morning catch! We'll be out there tomorrow around 2pm and can hardly wait.

I actually over fueled an airplane today because I was day-dreaming of all those kings I'm gonna catch tomorrow and Friday. The Captain didn't mind too much. He just said, "You can never have too much fuel... unless you're on fire."

[castmaster]

I'll be in Algoma the weekend of Aug 4th & 5th. Hopefully the fishing stays hot!! You guys have me even more anxious than I already was

[fishin magician]

I will be their on Aug.1st thru the 5th. First time out this year and I hope the fish are banging like last yeat. My avatar is a nice 23 lbs fish from last year.

Andy

[tunrevir]

FM the fish are there and they are hitting with the early morning hours being best but an evening bite that hasn't been half bad either. We actually had an anomoly this year as we limited in shallower water with three guys on a nearly flat morning with the best bites coming between 7-2p.m. I looked out on the lake and we had the shallow stuff all to ourselves as everyone else was out in the 100+ range and we picked up fish steady from 60-95'. Good luck out there, I'm heading back out in a week or two.

Tunrevir~

[luv2rapala]

We will be back as well Aug 1-5, things look to be a bit different then the last few weeks with warmer temps! Can't get enough of those chinese fire drills in the dark! Gonna try some new rigs for getting deeper/away this time.

Hopefully got the trailer thing figured out- got a new one! (6 blowouts in the last 3 years going over there)

Luv2rapala

Andover

Boat/Conni-D

[fishin magician]

tunrevir sounds like you had a great time. Nothing like getting into fish without all the boats around. We planned a little later this year hopeing to not run into all the tourney boats.

[Meat-Run]

Hey Guys,

I'm heading out in less then 3 hours to Manitowac for two days. I'm so excited and don't think we can get across cheese land fast enough. We have a 1-7pm on Thursday and 4:30-10:30am on Friday with Big Family Charters. For 10 people (two boats) we have limited out every trip over to Lake Michigan.

later,

Meat-Run

[matthothand]

You check the weather? Might want to to pack a raincoat.

[castmaster]

Anyone get out this weekend?

[matthothand]

I was out on friday and saturday. Went 4 for 9 on friday and 5 for 10 on saturday. Most bites came on boards and dipsies. Glow j-plugs on boards with snap weights and bloody nose spoon on one dipsy and watermelon spoon or white flasher aqua fly on other dipsy. Naked lady spoon worked best on SWR and best F/F was green double glow with kermit frog fly. The bite was very short lived each outing with hours of graphing constant fish and then only getting action for 15-45 minutes. Weather was great just wished we could've landed some more.

[fishin magician]

I am headed out Wednesday morning thru the weekend. We will be on the water looking for some nice fish. We are staying at the Timber Trails campground and will be fishing in a 19 foot Bayliner. If you see us at the Algoma fish cleaning shack say hi.

Andy

[tunrevir]

Hey Andy, I'll be out Friday-Sunday, we have a slip on the river for saturday then we will be transients. As always look for the guy with the faded grayish blue mickey mouse cap. This weekend we'll be fishing out of a 21' Crestliner. Maybe we'll see you out there like last year. Good luck and tear them up, be safe!

Tunrevir~

[fishin magician]

Sounds good. Not sure what channel we are going to be on but will scan the radio. I might give out a call to tunrevir from the Wild Thing. We don't call to many people on the radio but keep your ears open. Also I forgot your first name. ????

Good luck and I am outta here in the AM

[tunrevir]

It is Randy, We usually have the radio on use 16 as a standby I think and seven at other times.

Tunrevir~

[fishin magician]

SOunds good Randy. One last check on the web here and we are out.

Good Luck

[fishin magician]

Well we ended up with our limit of fish for the trip. Smaller fish this year but did have a few in the 10-15 lbs range. Randy we only spoke a little on the radio Saturday night but it was nice to talk with another boat out on the big lake. Best depths for us was 60-75 feet. Glow spoons with the spot light charged worked the best durning the magical hours. We are heading out again next week for a 3 day weekend.

Good luck

[castmaster]

Magician,

what hours did you find the best fishing? We ended up with 18 fish, maybe lost 8 more. We were out with a charter though and it seemed like later(we were done at 7pm) and earlier(headed out a 4am) would have been a bit better.

Also are you the same fishin magician that runs the charters out of Algoma?