May 8, St. Clair Signup

[Revtro]

Event: Lake St. Clair
Date: May 8
Time: 6am  (sunrise is around 6:30)
Location: Ballard St./St. Clair Cutoff/Crocker Ramp. (whatever you want to call it) 
Backup Lake: Lobdell

Who's in/who's out?

Tom O. - Boater

[yukonjack2]

Jack C - non boater

[LennyB]

Len B. - Boater

[EKennedy]

I'm in as a boater.

[fiker]

In - non-boater

[stackenem]

Not going to make it I'm up north turkey hunting with my son and grandson that weekend.

Bill

[Bass_Cat]

I can't make this one but will see you guys on the lake. I'm fishing with a different club that day. Should be fun!

Mark

[Mojo]

 I can make it as a non boater

[fiker]

Sign up tally as of  Sunday May, 2:

Boater

Tom O.
Len B.
Eric Kennedy
Bob Galloway
Mike McGrane

Non-Boater

Jack Cahn
Rick Fike
Mojo
Bass Assassin
Tom's friend Everett is fishing with him


Non-attending members
Mark Hill
Bill Head

Early season scouting report:  The new Xtreme tube in Mayfly color is working well.   Some anglers are reporting a good jerk bait bite, and others claiming rattle baits.   Water is clearing from last weekend's muddy water due to East winds previous.

[Firefighter Jeff]

Thanks for the update  !!!!  I'm heading that way either tomorrow afternoon or Monday morning for a few days.    You get much rain up that way last night???   Jeff

[bob620]

I plan on coming as a boater. 

                                        Bob Galloway

[bassassasin88]

non-boater

[mjm6]

Mike McGrane boater

[Revtro]

I'm trying to find an oil leak under my cowling.  I may not make it if I can't fix it. I could come as a nonboater, but I'd be a depressed nonboater.  Not sure if I would come.  Hopefully it's a simple fix. 

[Revtro]

Weird.  Can't find a single leak.  I traced every oil line and found no leaks.  I did change one small line since I had to remove it to check out the auxiliary oil tank.  Ran it for 5 minutes to let the aux tank refill and never saw a leak. Oil level stayed constant in the aux tank.  Strange huh?  I guess I'll be there Saturday and just see what happens.  I will have a friend with me, so I'm set with a nonboater. 

It will be cold and maybe a little rain.  And it'll be W I N D Y.  However, the winds will be out of the West according to Wunderground.  So if we stick to the Mile Roads, we should be fine.  Chance of rain about 50/50.  I don't see a need just yet to switch to our backup lake.  They aren't calling for Thunderstorms, so we'll be just as cold and wet at Lobdell if we were to switch. 

Let's see what the weather says on Friday.  Hopefully this front will make it's way through earlier than expected.

[Revtro]

BTW- My partner for Saturday is Everett, for whoever is doing the pairing.

[fiker]

I thought that Jack was supposed to do the pairings.  Then I talked to him and that was only for the first event.   In fact Jack has schedule conflicts with several of the dates that we have.  My suggestion is that we get one person, and stick with him for the season.  

I've done it this time just to get us rolling.   I've  tried to make it so that nobody is fishing with anybody that they fished with last time, since the whole idea is to meet and fish with different people.  If and or when we get into regular meeting dates, we can actually do a sign up and a drawing of names at those meetings.

We are supposed to arrive at the Crocker Rd. & Jefferson DNR launch at 6:00 AM Saturday.  

Suggestion:  If anyone has a VHF radio, would you please bring it?  We could then communicate scouting reports.   Barring that, we could use cell phones.


Tom O.- Everett

Len B. -  Rick Fike

Eric Kennedy - Jack Cahn

Bob Galloway - Mojo

Mike McGrane -  Bass Assassin

According to several sources, the bite has been in about  8 FOW, and the reports I'm getting are saying mostly tubes and jerk baits, with some claiming rattle type baits as well.

NOAA weather forcast for Saturday:

"Scattered showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52. Breezy, with a west northwest wind between 23 and 25 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%."


See you Saturday.

[Durand Dan]

Just a heads up if you decide to go to Lobdell Sat. Winds out of the north @ 12 to 20mph, high of 48deg. and 50% chance of rain. It's all yours Oh, and possible flakes early on!

[EKennedy]

Saturday: SW wind 14 to 22 kt becoming NW in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 kt. Scattered showers. Waves 2 to 3 ft.

Looks a little windier and wavier farther offshore so far.

Thanks for the work Rick!  

BTW...we riding over together?

[fiker]

GALE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT SUNDAY...

SATURDAY...WEST WINDS 20 TO 25 KNOTS WITH GUSTS TO 30 KNOTS. GUSTS
TO 35 KNOT GALES POSSIBLE. CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS. WAVES
2 TO 3 FEET. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED.



I"m thinking that we should either cancel, or head to our alternative site.

I know with my back, it doesn't make sense to go out there and pound around for fish that are bedded, when we can't even see the beds.  Fishing for large mouth in the cannals doesn't thrill me either.  I've talked with Len, and told him I'm not going to Clair.  I'll fish Lobdell it that's what we want to do. 

Since we don't have an event director, how shall we make the call?