Thread: Time to hit the spring hotspopts

Originally Posted by wicklundrh

Gary,

Sunset, in my opinion, is one of the best kept secrets on the bay. It is a little north east of Bay city outside of Unionville. They have a nice campground and a really nice marina. They run their own dredge and their canal that leads to the bay is one of the shortest around. Two different launches make it nice in the morning. In the afternoon, usually one is used for incoming and other for outgoing boats. The only thing they don't have is a fish cleaning station. From the entrance to the canal, it is about 3 miles to "Thomas Reef". I fished that reef from the 3rd of July until late August and hit good numbers every time out. Most days, I was the only boat around. Meanwhile, the radio chatter out by Linwood and the shipping canal had boats on top of one another.

As for Detroit. Other than a few day trips (not planned) I will be on the river pre-fishing for the first leg of the Michigan Walleye tour from April 5th through the 8th. The tournaments dates are the 9th and 10th. As you have seen from Kevin, he will be pre-fishing the second leg of the tour (Saginaw) in Early May. Kevin and I have teamed up this year and will be fishing the entire series. The first leg is on the Detroit river (April 9th and 10th), the second leg is in Saginaw on May 14th and 15th. The third leg is Alpena on July 16th and 17th. The last stop in the tour is August 12-13 in Sault Ste. Marie.

I think Kevin will be in Detroit around the same time as I will. Unlike most teams, Kevin and I will pre-fish in different boats. The reason is that together, we cover less water. By splitting up, we can cover more water, cover more areas at different times, and find more fish. We can also each have people in our boats, try different baits, and techniques, than we could if we were just doing it together. Steve will be my partner on at least one of my pre-fishing days!

We still have sponsorship spots if anyone knows of a Michigan based company that wants to get their name out there!

hey rich, good luck to you and Kevin doing those tournaments!!
I love tournaments, just hard to get enough time to do the whole trail thing
and I live to far from the bay to fish it as much as I would like.
maybe after I retire in 5 or 6 years

I'm getting the "proof" back today or tomorrow. I will finalize my order and see what we can do! I know the minute I show this shirt to my customers down state, it will go quickly. I have to be careful when I introduce something, I've had a few ideas stolen by major companies this year!

I also have some cool looking stickers coming in as well. I've been so busy, I've actually had to close my site down for sales just so I can get caught up. I hired Brian and my dad to come down and help me.

Of course, dad took way to many "union" breaks on the company dime and Brian surfed porn on the company computer... I had to fire them both!!! But that was on Sunday. In the end, both got a nice Prime Rib dinner out of the deal. Brian got a new Shimano Symetry fishing reel and dad got a new three bank battery charger out of the deal! And me, I got caught up for the first time in nearly three weeks.

My boat has been angry with me. I walk by her every night. This week, I need to put the new "Smooth Moves" seats in. Then give her a good cleaning. Then it is on to putting new line on reels for jigging, pulling my old line counter reels off and putting the new ones on, new line on those.... the list goes on and on and on. At least it is the "fun" kind of work!