We fished the MOMC Special Olympics charity muskie derby yesterday onboard Passin' Gas.  ~43 boats entered into the event.  We were able to pull the 3rd longest fish, 49"X19".

Livewell Shot

Crew with their catch

Fished the opening day of Muskie Season on Lake St. Clair onboard Passin' Gas.  We would end up going 6 for 7 over the course of the weekend.  Our two largest fish were both in the 40-42" range.

We made it over to the Grand Haven Offshore Challenge.  Thursday we found a pod of fish up towards Muskegon and had 15 or so strikes on the little time that we fished our marks.  Friday we got a late start and set up south of Grand Haven; we only pulled around 7 bites before the wind and waves blew us off the water. 

Saturday we decided to make the run up to Muskegon again and fish our marks.  We boated 2 steelhead in the first 2 hours.  Not the kind of action we were hoping for.  We thought about running south, but decided not to.  We had radar, but felt we should be safe.  Around 10am we switched up to a Laker Program.  We would pop 9 lakers, but 5 of them would end up being under the 20" minimum (3 of them were at 19.5").  We ended the day with 8 fish, good for 30.3 pounds.  Being that the limit was 12 fish, and each fish being worth 10 points we found ourselves back 40-50 points behind the leaders.

Sunday we decided to work the south water and we picked and poked at the kings all day long.  We boxed out and were back in the harbor about an hour early.  Our 12 kings would weigh 76.05 pounds.  This would be the top amateur catch on Sunday, 3rd best catch overall for the day.  Even with the strong second day push, we could not make up the points and ended up placing 17th place in the Amateur Division, despite having the 4th highest weight total.

Fishigan made it up to the Archers and Anglers Lexington. 

Captains meeting at the Cadillac House was fast. They quickly ran us thru the rules on the entry form. And thru the boat inspection and cooler pickups.

The weather was actually perfect for fishing. About a 1 ft chop on the water.

41 boats entered the $100 event. They weighed us quite early and we post 60.2 lbs. It held up for about 25 coolers and then Early Dawn posts a 60.6 lbs. A few more coolers go thru and then Anticipation posts a 65.0 lbs. And then the second to last cooler Ivanhoe posts a 67 pound cooler. So we end up in 4th in the event that pays top 3. Not bad for just having two guys on the boat.

But our steelhead at 6.6 lbs wins top fish honors and gives us $50. Then my dad says that our coho was 3.6 lbs, and the dry/erase white board shows a 3.2 lbs coho as top. He asks them to go thru the weigh-in slips to double check and sure enough, we did have a 3.6 lbs Coho that would take top honors as well with another $50. So we won our entry back, got some free pizza, 10 nice fish, and were only out the gas.

I was planning on doing the CanCan, but at the salmon stakes some of the other BWSA boats convinced us to fish against them in the Lex event.

Wow was the weather man off a bit. It was calling for 1-3 and 2-4 footers, but the offshore wind kept it to a very fishable 2ft chop.

We set lines at 6 right in front of the harbor and made a troll up to cherry creek and then back to the harbor.

We were 5 for 6 on silver bites. We landed 3 (8 pound) kings, 2 coho.  I think we released 4 lakers too.

Bombers took the kings back 125ft on inline boards.

Water is clear so get your baits at least 100 ft from the boat.

I guess we should have stayed up just north of Cherry, cause those guys really got into the ho's up there.

Fishigan will be out this Saturday for the Salmon Stakes.  We will be 1-6 miles North of Port Sanilac working 15-40 FOW.  If you are in the same area as us, give us a shout.

If you are not going to be on the water, at least come on down to the weigh-in at The Voyage.  It is a great time and they will be raffling off a trip to Alaska.

We updated alot of stuff in the Gallery section of the website.  Added the 2007 images.  Also added some Video galleries.  Expect to see some more vids in the future as we get 2008 rolling.

We also added the Update Index in the left hand menu.  This will allow us to keep all of the updates sorted by year.  2008's updates will remain on this page.

We will try to get the tournament page updated again shortly.  We have all of the dates of the MOMC Muskie derbies, so that should be updated as well.

Updated the 2007 derby page with results.

In the past, we had some very quick movie files mixed in with the photo gallery.  Shortly we will be separating the images from the videos.  We also have some video editing tools to hopefully provide some better quality videos.  Our first edit can be found HERE.

We also purchased a Dazzle VHS to Computer movie converter.  This allowed us to convert an old 1993 fishing trip out of Ludington from tape to computer.  We touched it up a bit with some editing.  Here is the first half of it.

Updated a bunch of stuff.  2008 Tournaments page updated.