Note to Fisky

[fivebucks]

Fisky,<BR>Got out over the weekend with the downriggers I bought from you last fall. Just thought I'ld let you know that they worked great. I saw in another post that you were out on Sat. You were right about it being a hot one out there. We rigged about 5 miles east of Long Point and did pretty good, released a 27" and got a good meal for the 3 of us. We went out again Sun. morning and picked up 4 decent fish, 21" the biggest but we had one pig that got off not far from the boat. Never saw it but it had to 30"+ the way it compared to the 27". Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I used the downriggers and they worked great.<BR>

[fiskyknut]

fivebucks,<BR>Glad to hear they're working out good for you. I had that set of riggers for a long, long time! I did however put updated clutches and bearings in them 2 seasons ago, so they should work great for a good long time for you. The deepwater trolling bite has been red hot the past couple of weeks for sure. Saturday I was out to 12 mile doing the bouncer/spinner/bait thing and we got into fish bigtime out there for a couple hours, like you I also released a 27 incher that day! I would have been pulling hardbaits but I had my brother from Michigan out there and all they do out there {Erie, Saginaw} is troll so when he makes it up here he wants to drown meat all day. I've been doing the leadcore thing up on the NW end of Big Traverse for the most part with very good results in 31-32 fow.....Except for the day of the Streiff's tournement a week ago Saturday, when we could'nt scratch a big fish to cash a check. Plenty of 21's and 22's that day, and plenty of 17-19's. Funny cause the Wednesday before that tourney we fished the same waypoints with the same leadcore/lure set-ups and probably released 12 or 15 fish over 24 inches with the biggest just shy of the 29 inch mark, and it was hard to get the little ones that day! I figured we were gonna place in the cash doing the same thing in the same place at the same depth but that's fishing!<P>Great to hear you had a good weekend.<P>Best regards....Fisky