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- Birthday 04/29/1990
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Justin
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Caledonia, Michigan
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PS 8/15 AM
JVanderVennen replied to JVanderVennen's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
Simply grouping baits in a targeted range where the fish were active. When I get a strike and mark fish at a certain depth I usually try to hone in on that deep with the most active lures for that day. Started the morning running the riggers with about a 20-25’ spread but slowly worked them together. We had other baits and lines spread through the water column too. -
First trip of the year and first post in awhile, so why not, unfortunately no fish stories today but a bit of info for the guys headed out tonight. As I said no fish in our boat this morning but we did manage to find them on the sonar. Worked 180-200 fow from 6:30-10am, two rigger knock offs, no body home. Marked continuous fish between 40-60 ft down and 80-100 ft down. Riggers were set 77 and 79 down in 185 fow, dw double uv crush 8” paddle w/ white fly and 8” white/ green spin dc white mirage fly. We’ll try again another day, good luck!
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September is a great month to catch coho on the Grand River below sixth street dam in downtown Grand Rapids. I've found that blue fox spinners and Rapala rip sticks work good along with hot n tots and thundersticks chartreuse or orange is a good color. The Manistee River below Tippy Dam is another GREAT spot to put some long hours into fishing. It maybe be one of the top rivers in the state. It normally provides good opportunities to catch salmon in the fall along with steelhead throughout the winter and in my opinion it offers one of the best spring steelhead runs in the state. The best way to learn to fish any river or inlet is probably trial and error. But local bait shops can offer good advise and if all else fails just sit and watch other anglers. Find out who is catching what and most importantly how they are catching them. Also find good local fishing reports to help you locate where the fish might be throughout the state so that your maximizing your fishing time. Hope this helps a little Sent from my SM-G930V using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App
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Holland 8/26 PM
JVanderVennen replied to Whatahoot's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
FBD, then what's your opinion on the current salmon population?Because lately I've heard a number of people stating the same thing. I still stand as up in the air with the whole proposal and I am wondering what other fisherman's thoughts are. Sent from my SM-G930V using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App -
Holland 8/26 PM
JVanderVennen replied to Whatahoot's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Holland 8/26 PM
JVanderVennen replied to Whatahoot's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Port Sheldon 7-31 AM
JVanderVennen replied to phantom17's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Started fishing this morning just about straight west of Kirk Park in 85-105 fow. Ended the morning 1/3 with about a 5 lb king. Fished a 5 rod set up with 1 full core 2 riggers 47 and 59 down and 2 dipsys set on 1 with green uv spin doctors. All three hits came on riggers with 2 on moonshine flounder pounder and 1 on uv green dolphin. Best trolling direction seemed to be anywhere from North to east. Marked a few fish till about 9 am then they seemed to scattered, not as many big marks as last week for sure. Fun end to the weekend with myself and my dad.
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Port Sheldon 7-23 am
JVanderVennen replied to JVanderVennen's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Tried catching the early bite this morning started fishing around 6:30am and ended 2/2 with an 22lb & 16lb king at 10am. 130 fow +/- a few feet was the desired depth to run for us this morning with a sog of 2.6 - 2.8 on a North troll. First fish came before 7am on a braid dipsy set on 1, 149 ft back with green splatter pearl SD and a white pickle fly. Second fish was just before 10am on downrigger 49 down with uv pearl ladder back spoon.
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PS 7/10 AM - lakers
JVanderVennen replied to fishoak's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
Well we were one of those fishing the 80-100 range and didn't do much, 130 fow took a rip on 8 color core and lost it...oh well nice job on the fish though!- 1 reply
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Went for a fun holiday trip this morning with the family. Set lines around 8am well north of the stacks and pulled them about 11 am straight out in front of the channel. Consistently fished 80 - 90 fow because we kept marking a lot of fish 35 - 60 feet down in that depth of water. Started with three lead cores 4 color, 6 color, 8 color and two riggers 40 -50 feet down, with a North and South troll all morning. With no luck switched to a quick trout set up and went 1/2 south troll in 85 fow 70 down on riggers. Two tin can set ups one with 4 foot lead and slim purple stinger spoon behind it, the other 3 foot lead and pickle fly. Both trout hits were at slow speed around 2.1 - 2.5 sog
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Quick trip last night fishing after work from 6:30-9pm. Started north of stacks in 60 fow couldn't find anything on the sonar so we moved out to 90-110 fow. Then we finally marked fish along the bottom with a few suspended down 50' but needless to say still couldn't get a bite. I ran four rods last night 1. Deep rigger with tin can and fly 2. High rigger uv mixed veggies 3. 4 color with watermelon spoon 4. 5 color with yeck fireball and double orange crush. I think there are a few fish around just not hungry last night, hopefully this weekend is better
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First trip of the year aboard Tha Double V and happy to say everything went great. Motored north just south of Grand Haven and Fished from 9-11 am in 60- 70 fow on a east to west troll pattern and ended 3/3 with all steelhead. What worked was 4-5 color lead with mixed veggie and watermelon spoon and rigger went once at 35 down.
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