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Stannard Rock
erbentraut 
 		  Port: Grand Haven   04/06/2006 10:10
Brookie
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I have never fished Lake Superior before, but am planning a trip to Marquette to visit a friend and would like to fish Stannard rock. I am looking for referrals of a good charter service/captain in the area. Thankyou
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Re:Stannard Rock
salmonhead 
 		  Port: Muskegon, South Haven   04/06/2006 16:53
King
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I have fished the Rock twice on my own boat. The guys that went with me one of the trips used Uncle Ducky from shelter bay and were very satisfied. If you have access to a boat with enough range and seaworth enough, its pretty easy to do on your own. Lots of guys will get in the shallows in the morning and cast spoons for the trout. we jigged in 80-300' of water on ledges with 2-6 oz jigheads with a twister or bucktail tipped with a piece of meat. the meat only needed to be about 1" square with a tough hide. Sucker, sheephead or any other. we tried alewives too, but they were a little soft. Some of the fish places up there will sell you suckers if you call them ahead of time, but we threw cast nets off our local pier and got sheepies and suckers doing that. We trailered our boat from Grand Rapids to Big Bay and stayed there. launched each day for the run. Its 34 miles out from big bay, 42 from Marquette and 47 from shelter bay. If you go it alone, make certain your boat is ship shape and you have spares of things on board. One day we were there, there was only 2 other boats out there and that was only for a few hours. And they were all out of marquette, so we ran in and out with only our chase boat. Its a long way from shore.
If you go it alone, its pretty simple. I think we were on the NE side of the lighthouse. there is a shoal with a rock out of water to the SE I think. direction out there is weird. nothing for a bearing. there is a pretty sharp drop from about 140-280' that we hammered them on the first year. our boat caught about 140 in one day with 5 guys. The other boat that was with us, caught about 40, but had 2 over 20# and several over 10. We only had a couple that broke 10# and the rest looked like carbon copies at about 6#. Fun never the less. we only kept a couple that got gill hooked.
For jigs we liked the 3-5 oz the best. using medium on the light side and heavy on the other end, rods with no stretch braid line. We then tied a 3-10' mono leader so when you get snagged you can break it off. You will get snagged. there is rock and clay down there. White jigs worked great, but glow and chartruese had their moments too. we had the best luck with a fat body twister tail rubber grub on it with some meat on the hook. not too complicated. drive around till you find a drop off and drift and jig. It was hard to mark the fish with the topography out there. Watch the weather and go have fun. and it will be at least 10 degrees colder out there. the first year we went the last weekend in July and the water was 39 then warmed to 41. bbbrrrrr.


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