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3/5 last night in 120’ fishing 300 copper to riggers on the bottom. BWP down 100-105’ took the kings glow ace high 80 down on a SWR took a coho and lost something. Had out last hit by 8:30 could not buy a bite trolling back in through 120-80 even though our graph looked like demo mode also. Bailed at 9 to catch dinner but the restaurant closed at ten and we got there at 10:02.

thanks for the info over the radio last night - PUG was looking at getting skunked until you clued us in to that 90-95fow down deep bite

Nice night for fishing, nice coho, surprised with that fishfinder picture more weren't biting....what's up with that? Solo fishing is certainly a challenge. 3 rods vs 6, 9 or more change the results.

Exactly. Will hit the farmers market this morning to pick up veggies.

Coho for dinner!

Glad you got them to go. I was on top of them but couldn't get them to go with spoons and plugs. No interest in glow after sunset.

Fished solo from 5:00pm to9:15pm. Started in 120FOW heading south with 3 riggers and 2 sliders with a mix of spoons and plugs. Missed one on a bloddy nose down 100' to the lure about halfway to Saugy. Marks were on the bottom with a few up in 20'. Turned around south of Saugy and worked 90FOW heading north. Again marks all ove the bottom. Picked up a fat coho on a mag blue dolphin down 95 on the DR counter. For the night program, put down moonshine glow spoons and on #4 glow plug, ran dark superslims on the sliders and raised the baits in the water column. Varied speed from 2.1 to 2.9mph and zig zagged from 90 to 105FOW but it didn't get a bite. Graph showed the fish werr there but no hitting what I put out. Great night to be on the water.

Nice box of fish. Landing the quadruple! Epic. Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman

PUG managed 9for14 all in about 95fow 70-90 down fishing north of Holland off Geneva deep diver out 140 meat was good high diver out 260 meat as well riggers and copp300 with moonshine spoons also performed started super slow with no action until 830pm - had a quadruple at sunset and landed em all so that felt good

This one and the next one are for my friend's new smoker.

Many thanks for the report Ed. Glad your keeping the freezer stocked. Have not been out in 2 weeks to the day. Cleaned up the boat and going out tonight. I regret to know it will be packed with boats on a Friday night, especially in late August.

Nice fish.

Quite bouncy today, fished 90-150, best depth was 105-115 Went 1 for 5, picked up 11#-5oz king in 110fow, on rigger dwn 60, with a silver streak hot lobster mag spoon, 2.3 sog, ball 59.9°, SE trl at (7:48am). Lost 2 on the way to the boat others were flybys. Alot of boats out. No hits on divers or 250 and 300 ws

So pumped you guys g9t up there and we're able to put the smack on them. I/we caught 52 fish over four days. Pretty incredible up there. We'll worth the drive! IMG_20260821_100200.heic IMG_20260820_125024.heic IMG_20260820_125010.heic

Congrats on a fun and productive morning. Figured it was a great day to be out- but work kept me off the water. Hope to be out this weekend

Great job and box. Always fun when you don’t have time to get all your poles in the water!

Wow, way to go!

Thanks jolly time for your report on the 20th. We waited for a break with the wind and trailered north this morning. We were finishing up setting the sixth rod in 50 fow and it was game on. Never could get 6 rods set. At 7:30 we had our 2 man limit and only 1 rod left in the water in 70 fow. 7 color, 150 copper, both high divers and both riggers all took fish. a-bomb spoon and plugs of all colors did the work. (green, blue, pink dot, natural glow, and a chrome frog) Mini’s were a little better than 5” plugs. ( all dreamweaver ) I really don’t think color mattered. Everything we put out took a fish.

I remember fishing in the 3-5's and all I could think about was how I was going to get back in after running with the waves. Glad you got one for table fair Ed. And JDH, agree that is a great approach to run 2 long lines off each side w/o a board just to get something in the water that is easy to manage. Looks like we got a good blow for the next couple of days - time to catch up on other projects I suppose.

Nice work while getting beat up in the chop! Another option for rough days which I don't fish very often at all - I've found it easy to run 2 coppers on leadcore. Set them in my diver holders on opposite sides of the boat and forget trying to put boards on. Or just run one with a board. Would have to go with the waves so you don't tangle up. For me it beats leaning on the corners of the boat to set my riggers.

Well you earned that one Ed ! Great effort sticking it out and you were rewarded with a nice king.

What a rough fishing experience today, a forecast that called for light winds and 1ft waves. It turned out to be 3-5ft waves that continued with no break. I had to call it at 7:30am because it got to dangerous for solo fishing for me. But I was determined to get something and I went 1 for 3 with a 12#-6oz king on a RV GLK Dolphin spoon I just bought yesterday. I only could put 2 riggers in water because of the conditions. Anyway got him on a N trl @2.6sog, ball temp 57.1°, dwn 57.5ft in 79.4fow at 6:42am. I crawled back to harbor still catching spray every other wave. Nice to be out again... I think?

epic salmon fishing ! you got them dialed in for sure. thanks for the report