bucktail

Move Richards??????

Dont know about that, he is the heart and spoul of the team, reminds me of a more pissed of Steve Y!

Think that was a bad move.

Spent from Sat till tuesday afternoon camping out on Geo Bay and fishing hard for some big fish.

It was completely different then a year ago, last year all we saw and caught were Muskies....too bad we were a week early for that.

So tghis year we went on muskkie openor and fishned hard for 4 days.... this year the pike and smallies were everywhere with one nice eye thrown in ( didnt really fish for them )

We probab;y caught between 80-100 pike and smallies, 1 eye and one muskie.

Caught the muskie on a big muskie sized bucktail spinnerbait 30 minutes into the trip.

my budddy only had his camcorder with him so I grabbed my OFC sign.... I am holding it upside down!!! and very quickly took a fast pic before putting here back in to go.

Didnt get my 50 incher I have been trying for but might go back for a long weekend in a few weeks and try some mature weedlines.

Hope you enjoy.

Darren

Didnt get a pike over 10 or my 50 inch plus ski I have been looking for forever but saw a few and had a few VERY Large fish turn on it, but couldnt ID them so this is the only confirmed ski of the 4 days

I know... Im using a single hand hold but I ddint even transfer her to a two hold as it was simply up and then back in.

She had been worked over pretty good by the males on the spawn so I was trying to get her away as fast as I could.

Taped her out at 46 inches, didnt bother with a girth.

Beautiful fish...super clean!

I got a 46 on Saturday that looked like it went thru a meat grinder from the spawn!!

Nice!

Same problem here, you can get into it if you have a message but once you read it and your nmessage box contains no new email you cant access it, I had oe of the guys send me a PM then i opened it and bookmarked it.

IE 9 here too

Weird

Darren

I am going to concentrate on learning deep water smallies on Lake Erie this year.

I have a few spots but its so big it can be intimidating, would like to break the 7 pound barrier.

I was out on Sunday fihsing perch in the river mouth and got about 25 with a few jumbo's in the mix.

Hard to say if they are in or are late or have left.

The grand is pouring a huge amount of water uot so I think this is spreading the perch out more then most years.

Darren

Awesome....more!!!!

Nice going!!

Is that the teams newest entry there?

Just wondering what the water temps were out there, doing my annual trip in 2 weeks and wondering if its late like most places this year.

Thanks

Darren

My 2000th post and this one is deserving of WOW great Macro shots man....thank you!!!

News to me , Ive had one for years and almost all the games are always on. Maybe it had something to do with the temperary subscription.

Sirrius Radio is one of those things I would nevr go without.

Darren

If I rememebr Long Lake is pretty deep in the center so if your going for pike try those rocky points at the mouths of early shallow weedbays.

Temps should be in the fifties there and a few big ones should be hanging out on each transition area.

Wish i couold help you more but good luck and post lots of pics when you get back!!

Darren

Billy Bob nailed it right on the head!

Wondering if someone could give me a few pointers on flippin and pitchin help mostly pitching.

I have a couple Crucial - Curado flippin sticks loaded with 50pound Power and now one with 50 pound 832.

I was wondering how you guys had your reels setup? I have mine backed off all the way but still get the initial over run on the biat especially when i am trying to skip something under a doc and such.

I keep wondering if I am missing something.

Any help would be appreciated.

Darren

Congrats on the improvement!!!!!!!!!

I was going to email them and ask about the colour issue but I went on there web page and could not find a "contact us " link.

Does anyone know one?

Would not want to be in that position right now, with the demand for the postal service dropping, not much barganing leverage.

At least I am ini the business that never goes down, delivering water to your house.

Im going to try that trick of putting on a dressed treble I think! Good idea.

As for the colour bleed maybe I got a bad batch, my hands were as green as if I had been weeding the garden., and the line on my reel looks like 3 year old power pro now.

Still like it tho and definatly recommend it.

Finally got out to put the new Suffix line and the Sebil Swimmer to the test.

The Suffix 832 inline behaves much better out of the box then Power Pro or Fireline, less memory and stiffness the the other 2 braids and better casting.

The draw backs are the one the colour bleeds quickly and I ended up with green hand!

Also by the end of the day throwing big cranks it appeared to lose some of its shape and started to flatten like Power Pro does after a while.

Over all I would buy it again and would rate it higher then the other superbraids.

As for the Sebile Magic Swimmer .. I used the 7inch silver and bkue herring colour sinking model.

Looks great in the water at a medium retrieve.

3rd cast I get a nice 15 pound pike coming in late on the retrieve and and blow the hookset as he nipped at the tail.

Had a nother fish blow up on it before leaving.

Great start but my bad hookup % continues. Couldnt tell if it was the fish or me again.

Good review tho , definatly worth it.

Darren

Great posts!!

Great pictures too, now if they ponly genetically engineered rock bass to be 10 lbs!

Has any used them yet?

Thinking of adding a couple to my box for muskie before my Geo bay trip in 4 weeks.

Any thoughts?

Smallies in Julky are almiost everywhere, as stated above the pike will be in areas that are from 15-35 feet.

For eyes try the weedbeds near the mouth of the river.

As for how big the pike get I saw a 50 inch one last week and check out my avatatar somewhewre between 28 and 32 pounds

Too hot for me man!!

Dont be afraid to fish shallow for the eyes, dont think I caught one in deeper then 12 feet last time.

Beware the mayfly hatch that happens there, but then there isnt anything you can do about that except fish for pike.

Have my hooks sticky sharp, almost all of these fish were sight fish so Maybe I am just alitlle over hyped on the hookset....

Frustrating beyond belief