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Newt: quote: - freshwater fishing is all for coarse fish (by UK classification). Did a little game fishing years ago but not lately. Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is coarse fishing? :confused:

Aside from scopolamine patches and dramamine I've heard ginger pills or ginger ale work well. A few people I know swear that putting a sheet of paper or a paper bag on the belly under your shirt also works wonders in warding off nausea. I suppose if that method didn't work you could use the bag to upchuck. Or you could chum for fish if trolling

Great stories! John, you mentioned hand-fishing as a topic, so here is a good article on the history of hand-lining for walleye in the Detroit river: http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/fishing_...ng_walleyes.htm Also, when chinook salmon stage off the port of Manistee in Lake Michigan in late summer, they enter Manistee lake before heading upstream to spawn. It's a small drowned-river mouth without much room, so the fish tend to go in circles. Fishermen in boats will toss out a spoon, leave the bail open, and wait. Eventually a fish will get the line in its open mouth, pull the spoon from the bottom, and hook itself. Naturally, the DNR frowns on that kind of fishing. Good luck with your book.

I've used four Okuma Magda levelwind 30d reels for the past five years trolling from downriggers and planer boards in Lake Michigan (US), and love them - no problems. The drag system is good, IMHO, and compares favorably with Daiwa reels priced twice as much.