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8 for 15. Had a buddy out tonight who doesn't l fish much which was fun. Fish were aggressive and wanting to play tonight. Waves were sporty tonight at first. 3 footers. Ran out to 150fow. Spun the boat around and fished south east. 130-135fow was magic depth. Rigger with 11"slick pickle went 3 times. Inside dipseys 120 out setting 1 and 140 out setting 1 with white slick/sweet pea fly went 3 times, Kevin's girlfriend/pickle went twice. High dipsey out 210 setting 3 early with MOP blue ladder back plug went once early later 160 back with stranglehold bloody knuckles went. 225 copper went with ace high with glow ladder back twice. 250 copper went twice with MOP blue ladder 300 copper went once with bloody knuckles. Starboard rigger went three times with stranglehold hulk smash and bloody knuckles free slide. 75 down and 80 down. We couldn't keep the wire dipsey flasher flies hooked up. Not enough drag I believe at the hit and my buddy horsing them a bit. The last fish at 9pm took out everything! Dipseys coppers riggers. Everything! What a mess. It never stopped dipped the board and wrapped everything up like a bow! Argh! Fun night though. 18lb, 14lb a couple 11lbers a couple nice cohos a steelhead and a smaller king. 2.2 at the ball early when running paddles and flies and plugs. 2.5-2.9 later when running spoons in the spread.

4-7’ on the forecast Saturday am kept me at home. Was 1.2 at the buoy at 9

Great job! Funny, we haven’t caught more than a fish or two on a rigger in the past [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] trips. Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman

Great job! Beautiful fish.

Great king catch, what nice filets that one will bring! Sent from my SM-A156U1 using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

You killed it last night! Nice big fat king you got there. I fished that same depth of water the night before but south and came up with only one modest king. Nice work.

130 -150 fow 10 color with a blue dolphin ss took a 18 1/2 lb king. no diver bites or cu bites. all other bites were riggers and sliders. riggers down 60 and 70 with sliders pinned 15 feet above the ball. 8” white paddle with riverside fly went twice. green jeans, a-bomb and rosta goose all went twice. 2.4 - 2.7 sog. beautiful evening to be out. I’m glad the weather man got it wrong.

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Nice work! I fished Ludington last night and had a crazy 1 hour of bites, but couldn't get them to the net. Will be back to my usual Holland/Saugatuck waters soon.

PUG and the gang set lines in 130fow at around 7pm and trolled out to as deep at 155fow. Picked up a few right out of a gate zig-zagging in the 140s. SW and SE trolling directions were good and the bites weren’t insane but we had 4 or 5 fish by about 8.30PM. We were way south and down closer to Saugatuck and slide into that 130-120fow and zig-zagged there back and forth for the remainder of the night and that went pretty well. Speed seemed super important and we were constantly toying with it using the digital trolldown controls on the F300. In general they just seemed choosey tonight and only wanted to bite if we were 2.8.-3.1 ground speed. Ended up 10 for 16. Every rod on the boat took fish except the starboard rigger for reasons unclear to PUG. Highest hits up were on the copp150s and I bet they went 3 times. Twice they were steelhead. Those were orange and white spoons. Copp200 and Cop250 produced with moonshine spoons. Rigger had a decent one on after dark that came off unfortunately and that was 72 down on moonshine spoon. Copp300 and Copp350 both got smoked running spoons. Meat was quiet and eventually we switched them out for paddles and spinnies and flies and they all went. Big fish came on blue bubble spin doctor high dipsey out 240 (which put it about 60-70 down). Some of the matures we were netting were really darkening and showing signs that they had been up by the river already. Crazy to think that fall is just around the corner. 20260813_190243_1.mp4 20260813_210309_1.mp4

The NOAA forecast has really gone downhill the last couple years. My dad and I have had several trips wrecked because waves a foot or less turned into 2 foot whitecaps. This morning we went out right before first light and had to bail because of brutal fog that wasn't on the marine forecast. Good to see you found a tank out there, they seem to be running a little bigger this year. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

good looking cooler. interesting that your 125 cu was the hot rod set up in the warm water. thanks for the report

Nice box of fish. Surprised plugs and meat had no interest. Hopefully your Ninja board gets returned.

Had fun reading your report. Glad you got a few and hope the wait to get back out will be shorter next time.

Spent some time this morning calibrating the autopilot, got lines down in 120 FOW heading North at around 6am. #5 king on Standard UV Glow Bloody Nose spoon on 125cu #4 king on Mag UV Glow Bloody Booger spoon, slider on rigger down 60 #14.5 king on Standard UV Glow Bloody Nose spoon on 125cu Lost one on Standard UV Glow Bloody Nose spoon on 125cu, it crossed out 275cu and got off. Sacrificed the 125cu, Standard UV Glow Bloody Nose spoon, and a Ninja Planer board due to reel malfunction after that. Tried to circle around and find it, but no luck. Felt bad that we lost the line that was on fire all morning. An interesting morning for sure. Fish seemed slow to bite. Marked good, in that 110-140 FOW range, but not much hooked up. No hits on plugs, flies, or meat rigs. Shorter trip this morning, so not much time to switch around baits, otherwise we would have swapped some out for that red and orange color patterns. We've landed at least one fish on sliders almost every time we go out. Not sure why they like them so much, but we'll take it.

Been a month yes a month like back when it was smoky out there since I’ve been looking for salmon, and my schedule for the next few weeks is garbage. Been living off your reports so thanks for keeping it fresh. Got out about seven last night chugged out at 6mph as the and I quote “nearly calm” offshore forecast was putting waves over the bow if I planed up going NW and going with them wasn’t any option due to about 32,865 sailboats racing right out front. Set up in 80 8 rod spread not much in there but my hunch and Aaron’s report said that should work. Wandered out little birdy told me 120’ was the spot but that’s a huge ride back in at dark with a 7am customer meeting looming and a slow boat. So out we headed and would you not know as soon as we hit 121’ a paddle down 80 fired with a nice king. Lots of marks on 110-120. Headed back in at eight to leave fish to hopefully find fish same paddle fired at 110’ but lost that quickly. Got into 80 and a flounder pounder on a one color down 65’ fired another solid king. Then the paddle had a swing and miss then a wire diver ticking bottom with a green glow ace hi got ripped but came off. Then got a 4# king on the swr. All this by 9 so we are set for the dark bite. Never happened. Don’t know if I left my stuff too deep never marked a fish in 80. Long lines all four of them were up higher then never went all night. Packed up at 9:30 then marked a ton of fish in 75-65 on the ride in. Hmm. Fun trip but I feel I left some meat on the bones.

Thanks Aaron for the report. We will be out tomorrow night, Thursday and will let you know!