MARCH 2008

WINNER

To the great staff at Pro-Cure,
Having used your products and learning about them fishing salmon while I was stationed in Washington State on Whidbey Island, I have found your products to give me a certain edge over many other anglers.  I have since moved back to the Mid-West and I frequent the open waters of Lake Michigan as often as conditions will allow.  I have taken and used your products here in the Great Lakes and have found a permanent spot for them in my rig.  I've only got a 17' boat so my angling days are limited on Lake Michigan.  When I do go I typically run at least two diving planers of some sort, typically dipsey divers with spoons and also dodger/flashers with tinsel flies or squid.  I also run two down riggers and fill the spots with our limit of lines as the bite dictates.  This day found me late in morning looking for one more kicker fish to finish out the day when I heard the drag scream on my starboard dipsey.  After a 10 minute bull dogging, the Brown emerged and my partner flawlessly operated the landing net.  The tactic was nothing more than running a spoon on 6 feet of 25lb mono behind a clear dipsey diver.  I don't use snubbers as my main lines are 25lb mono also.  I've found the breakoffs are few if any as the mono affords me enough stretch and give to absorb the bites.  The snubber was overkill to this set up so I simplified it by just eliminating it.  I hope to increase my bite more by changing all my dipsey lines over to super line for the 2008 season, affording me greater diving dimension as well as little to no line stretch, of course the snubbers will have to be employed again, but that's minor.  Here's my photo of a "foot ball" shaped Lake Michigan Brown Trout caught 4.5 miles South and East of Manitowoc Harbor, Wisconsin in 53 feet of water on a dipsey diver 95 feet back according to the reel's line counter. Sincerely, Nathan T. Van Dyn Hoven