Nice looking walleyes! Congrats
congrats! nothing better than homemade jerky!
Fishing Couple wrote:
Here's the page in the 1983 Lund catalog with your boat, the Mr. Pike and my boat the Super Pike XRF 4.9 that I am redoing. My Johnson though is a 1994 model. Hope you find these pages interesting. If you want the PDF catalog private message me and I'll try to send it to you.
Wow, cool info. The seller had a legit shop manual for the motor from Mercury he gave me. Pm sent. Thank you.
Motor is very clean. I'm just the 3rd owner.
Doug Lemmon wrote:
Nice looking ride Mcgiven! If your looking just for the mapping, you could buy one of the lower cost Lowrance Hook series or Garmin Striker units. They work very well for mapping, just lack a lot of the sonar features of their more expensive big brothers. At the same time, your phone can be protected from the elements and remain charged just in case.
Thanks Doug, didn't think of the phone getting wet lol. Better idea to get a unit. thx.
Matt S. wrote:
Very nice. Where in Michigan do you call home? I’m in East Lansing.
Hello Matt, I live up in Harrison north of Clare.
20 lakes in 20 minutes has been our chambers claim to draw in tourists since the 60's.
Mark
Picked up a 1983 Mr. Pike in Wisconsin and towed it back to Michigan. Pretty excited to fish it asap. I've been blessed to have a few different boats and think this is going to be the floorplan for me. It's in excellent shape with a solid floor. The original 50 hp purrs like a kitten. Old flasher graph but I can always upgrade. I do kind of like the immediate info the flasher gives you though so thinking about getting Navionics for my phone so as to have some mapping available to find contours.
Going to paint it so we can start over and add our own character memories on it's sides lol.
Hopefully I can make the next meet and greet and bring it along.
That Table Rock Lake looked like a great place to explore. when down there in Branson last fall we checked out a fish hatchery nearby. Quite the operation raising trout to plant they had there. Hope to get down there to check it out with a boat some time.
billmoody315 wrote:
Those hammer handles should be legal as they eat ALL the juvenile bass and walleye ...i toss back because WE have to follow the regulation in our state....i ask the fish biologists and they say i am correct but in those waters with Tiger Musky...a sterile fish they say they focus on those stunted bluegills but i talk to Musky non- tiger and they say the best live bait is a 8 to 10 inch white crappie but everyone fishing live bait uses big suckers....one day every fish habitat will be balanced is my dream.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those hammer handles should be legal as they eat A... (
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We have a quite a few lakes up here that are so overrun with the hammer handles they don't have a size limit on them. Below are the lakes just in my county, (Clare) that you can keep 4 hammer handles and one over 24".
Eight Point Lake, Lake Thirteen, Little Long Lake, and Long Lake: no size limit on Northern Pike and up
to five (5) Northern Pike may be retained in the daily possession limit with only one (1) greater than 24
inches
A friend of mine on Wiggins Lake in Gladwin County has helped hold two tournaments in the last couple years, (DNR approved) that the prize money goes to the smallest weight of the stringer to cull some out of that lake.
Wish I had good info for you. I know Manistee/Muskegon piers are getting some action. 59 degrees on the bottom, lake side of the pier at Manistee I read. shouldn't be long down that way.
Nice fish!
Congrats on the retirement!
I see the light at the end of the tunnel but it's a couple years away yet. lol
Yikes, that's a close one!
Got skunked on Lk Huron today, Tawas area. Smokey here too. My partner was having a reaction like it was pollen.
PapaReels wrote:
I'm a big jitterbug and hula popper guy!
Same here sir! By the time go fast boats are done at 7 it doesn't take long for things to calm down and throw some jitterbugs. Love to watch the topwater strike.