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QUOTE (StandsOnLine @ Apr 2 2004, 04:30 PM) D.W. - wipers are a cross between striped bass & white bass. I think the state record is just south of 20 LBS. As a game fish, they hit like a bolt of lightning & are very strong fighters and willing biters. Hello fellow Hoosiers. Gotta love the wipers! I'm originally from NW Indiana and recently moved to Michigan. What a great satae. Any of you Hoosires ever try for Skamania steelhead in the Lake Michigan tribs? What a riot. We used to make trips to B-vill when I was at Purdue, in Lafayette. Those were the days.

Thanks for the welcome guys. Shoe, in Salt and Trail Creeks, simple wooly bugger patterns in chart, red, orange and black usually do a number on the summer skams. I have had better luck on waxies, night crawlers, and spawn personally. Only other fly I have had success tying is egg patterns. Those worked well on a #6 egg hook in the Manistee River last fall. I'll keep working at it. Time is on my side.

Hi all, glad I found this place. I'm a Hoosier native transplanted to Michigan in 2000. I found the reports via websearch and am glad to see many familiar faces. My foremost passion is lake trolling for salmonoids and walleye, but I am learning to fish the rivers more, and have developed a passion for discovering and fishing Michigan's rivers. I have fished with many good people, and hope to be able to share my experiences with you, and live vicariously through yours that you share. Again, glad to be here. I do some fly tying, but have not invested enough time to do a quality job (yet). I can tie a good spawnbag though. LOL