BillM

Google is showing a bunch of reviews. Probably a good place to start. Make sure you make a trip report when you get back!

This is well worth the hassle.

Hooks are definitely not the place to cheap out. Kinda like tires

Drop a Yamaha or Suzuki on that boat and you'll probably have a lot less stress

Let's hope 99% of the fish are headed back to the lake. I'll be fishing residents.

Make sure the receipt for the trailer is the lower of the two

Happy Easter Dave!

MAGIC LURES! lol people kill me.

Did you check the furnace circuit board to see if there's anything connected to C? First thing you really should do.

Mar 14th for me. Had to bust up a lot of ice at the ramp..

I'm not a fan of thin gunwales. I'd definitely mount your riggers on pedestals inside the boat.

Nice Brian! It's too bad the gauges are on the rise today lol. I need to break in that MyKiss II of mine.

You're definitely not seeing the prop spin when the bait is in the water, it's spinning way too fast. All you'll really notice is a subtle side to side roll and you'll wonder why fish bother to even eat these things. Then you'll have days where it's fish after fish after fish and they won't touch anything else. My setup is nothing special. 2500 series Sustain FE, 6lb Nanofil and a 10lb flouro lead on a 7ft med/fast Avid.. If I could change one thing about my setup it would be the rod, something around 8ft, much softer tip (Think glass crankbait rod) with some backbone for long casts would be perfect. You wanna make bomber casts with these things and yes, it's the most boring type of fishing there is. You really need to focus on your retrieve and slow it to a crawl to make sure you're in the zone you want be fishing.

I need to get out to the West Coast chinook fishing

Triploid chinooks in Lake Huron? Can say I've never heard of that before. At least not on the Canadian side.

I love Gbay opener. Especially if the winds are down and I can go fish my spots that are out in the big water. I usually start with a spinnerbait (And like you said, right up in the rocks). If nothing, then I'll toss a 1/2-3/4oz bullet sinker in front of one and fish it a bit deeper but still pretty fast. If that doesn't work out comes the spybait and I start picking apart those deep sections (8-12ft). Hasn't failed me yet. Topwaters and the big open water blue water of Gbay has never been a good combination for me. Now, if I go in shore a bit where the water is off colour, that's a completely different game.

The Lucky Craft Rick Clunn wakebaits are deadly, it's too bad they've been discontinued for a while. I've got a tray full of RC1.5's and RC2.5s Although I'm not tossing topwaters for Gbay smallies on opener.. Spinnerbaits or spybaits depending on water temp. That being said, my fav topwater baits are the original Japanese Yellow Magics.

Cash is king at the Odyssey.

Thanks boys, got myself a pair of 10lb'rs.

1.) Spinnerbait (Any colour as long as it's chartreuse) 2.) Spybait 3.) Tube Jig 4.) Ice fishing spoons. 5.) Suspending jerkbait (XRap, etc)

Interesting list, I'd use 1 out of the 5 baits you suggest, lol.

Salmon aren't too bright, I'm sure they'd eat that without much of a fuss.

It's definitely the EXIF data embedded within the picture. Most phones attach GPS data to pics and people haven't the slightest idea. Within your camera app makes sure GPS location data is disabled.

Lots of rivers up there to fish for them. Kazan, etc.

Sewing machine oil works wonders in the proper places.