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For sure! Saturday, everyone blasted offshore and we had the inside pretty much to ourselves!

Keith and I decided to fish the Bald Eagle Tournament with our sons on Saturday for the first time. We left the dock around 5:45 and headed East and set up in 90'. Not long after setting up, the bite started and was fast and furious until 9:30am. We started out with three skips and dumped our first two mature kings. The last one we dropped, ran 540 on the first run and came unbuttoned with 25' left on the counter. When Brayden got the spoon in the boat, the split ring and hook were gone! I haven't had that happen in years/ After losing them first two matures, we put three matures in a row. When the bite totally died around 10:00, we put some cowbells down and tried to upgrade a mid teens king in the box. We put a ton of lakers on the floor with nothing bigger than 15 and change. We went to weigh in hoping for a placing box and we did it. We ended up taking 3rd overall. All in all, it was a great first tournament with for boys and hopefully we can do it again this Saturday. 55',70' and 80' riggers, divers at 210 and 225, 300', 350' and 400' coppers wit mostly spoons took our fish. Green Jeans mag moonshine was the star of the day. IMG_2586.MOV

For decades, Lake Michigan captains had easy king fishing with huge numbers. Stocking cuts made their job harder and they boat very few kings. Clients went from huge numbers a trip to coming home with a couple fish. They are leaning on the lake trout fishery but most clients that have caught kings don’t want lakers. When clients spend hundred of dollars on a trip, they don’t want to only catch a couple kings a day.

Its easy to sit here and feel this way. When you are a charter captain on Lake Michigan, you might have a different opinion.

Talk to Michigan guys about how many kings they catch a day.... I will take 30lbers as a big one and teen to mid 20's kings in numbers over a 40lber as a big one.

2010 we put a 33.0 and a 31.12 on the board. Neither of them were in the top 20 at the end of the Fall LOC that year.

16 years of pounding that stretch and I have never snagged bottom! I have pulled some large branches / logs off the bottom in that stretch.

What amazes me is the amount of guys that say Seneca is dead yet guys do decent. Yes it had some down years but it seems to be coming back. We can all sit here and say the old timers say this and say that. Look what the old timers say about Lake Ontario! Some old timers complain that we don’t see 40lb kings anymore yet catch rates are through the roof over the last 10 years. Laker size is not something that happens in one year. Lamprey predation has caused big issues and it seems to be getting better every year. Again, lamprey control isn’t something that works in one year. Guys like Nick have figure out how to succeed on a lake that is tough. Those who haven’t shouldn’t be slamming him, they should be learning from him. Nick has given people my product and showed guys what he is doing and they figured out how to help out more fish in the box in Seneca. All lake have their ups and downs. Seneca will come back. It has the bait to support huge healthy lakers.

Classy...... And before calling someone an idiot, you might want to proof read your post before clicking submit.

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They must have changed it today. When I looked this morning, it said they would be back in 2022.

Anyone know if it’s a go this year? There website says they will be back and the dates are posted but I haven’t heard anything.

Awesome mount Bill!

It’s in Robs garage.

Sorry guys, these sold in seconds.

You’re welcome Manny! Congrats on your finish! Tournaments are great learning experiences. Take what went wrong and and right and improve your game for next time!