Fishing Michigan

Like I alluded to last night when I got home,  I had a great night talking fishing with the members and guests of the Huron Valley Sport Fishing Club at their monthly meeting last night.

I brought along several rod combinations to put on a rod rack for a display.  These were my cue cards so to speak.  I started out with the tactics that work this time of the year, so jigging in the river came up first.  I used a 6 ft medium heavy St Croix with a Northland Whistler Jig,  and then the new 6′3″ medium Avid.  I explained why extra fast tips are what you want when vertical jigging and so forth.  How I had them rigged, what type of Power Pro I was using, fluorocarbon line…etc.  From there it went to casting weapons/mayfly rigs, hair jigs and blade baits like a 3/4 oz Cicada.  Finally the trolling set ups,  and I had them set up for trolling in the spring with minnow cranks, then Hot n Tots, spoons and crawler harnesses.

As I walked through each combination of rod, reel and lure,  I was able to go back to the display table and explain some of the uses for everything there.  The spoons, the inline boards from Church Tackle, the different types of divers and weights,  how I make my harnesses and the uses of a Vexilar all year long with the different types of transducers available for  your boat’s needs.

Everybody seemed to have a great time,  and I really enjoyed myself as well.  There really is nothing better than getting together with a bunch of fish-heads and talking fishing and tactics.  The club meeting lasted for about 2 hours,  with my presentation taking up about 50 minutes.  There was food and drink, they had raffles for some pretty nice prizes.  They had a set of Church Boards, rod and reel combinations and lots of tackle to give away.  A really nice set up.  Everyone there walked away with some goodies donated by the companies I am on staff with.  Bass Pro generously provided the bags to put all the goodies in,  and those that were there had a little something, something for putting up with me.