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Hard to believe Fin Warrior has been in the water since April 21st and this was the first time I wet lines. Fished the top of the water column with two dipseys tipped with spoons and on downrigger rigged with a SD & green crinkle fly two passes out. Set up just north of Saugatuck in 130 FOW trolling south at about 11:00am. After about 30 min decided to move out to deeper water. As I moved into the second of two slicks in 187FOW, the downrigger went off. Netted a 5lb king and released it. Made a quick adjustment to start turning south to follow the slick. Before I could get the rod back down, the port dipsey sporting a DW Mixed Veggie UV spoon brought in a 4lb coho which I kept. Just as I got the downrigger down to depth and finished the turn to the south, the SB dipsey tipped with a silver red UV spoon went off bringing in another 5lb king that was released. Got both dipseys back down and followed the slick in and out but the magic was not there. Changed direction to a north troll, back tracking my southernly run but not a bump. Did notice that the water temp at my Smart Troll probes dropped two degrees so on a hunch, decided to move closer to shore to get back to 54.5 degrees at 45' down in the water column. Got to that temperature in 170FOW and got a second hit on the dipsey with the Mixed Veggie spoon. Lost it at the back of the boat. Likely a coho by the way it was thrashing around. Pulled lines a short time later weary of the front moving in that broke up over the lake. Mid-day the lake was very flat and the flies were thick but not biters. The coho made for a great dinner! # Time Fish Weight FOW Latitude Troll Wind Dir. Speed @ Ball Rod Bait Depth Bait Temp Bait 1 12:19 PM King 5 187 42o 41.955 W SW 2.8 DR 20# 45 53 Dragon Slayer SD / Howie Green Crinkle Fly 2 12:28 PM Coho 4 192 42o 41.780 SW SW 2.8 Dipsey - Mono 45 54.5 DW Mixed Vegie UV spoon 3 12:35 PM King 5 194 42o 41.650 S SW 2.8 Dipsey - Mono 35 54.5 Silver Red UV spoon 4 2:09 AM Miss 0 170 42o 43.040 E SE 2.8 Dipsey - Mono 45 54.5 DW Mixed Vegie UV spoon

Kids and I decided to give full moon fishing extravaganza a try. Fished 10pm - 4am. Started with riggers and hi lo divers to see how we would fare with a sometimes less is more attitude. Shaker King off rigger 33 down 30 back Carbon 14 70fow North Slow going so added 2 boards in made some adjustments to riggers and dipsys and worked 70-130fow. Didn't change up lures mostly tried depths, speed, and direction. Lot's of crazy ivan's. Shaker King off board 2 color #14 Perch DDHJ 70fow East While it was slow fishing, the company and the experience was priceless. We would do it again. No fish pics we all know what Shaker Kings look like and really aspire to be

Better luck than me! I went 0-1. Lost a Steelhead at the boat when it took a tail dance. I thought he was spent. Shelly snack, rigger down 85 ft, 30 ft back. 2.5 mph sog. North troll. 125 fow. I fished north of the harbor. Beautiful morning. Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman

Went 2/2 today, finally got out after I installed a new water pump kit on my kicker motor. Fished solo north of Holland. 1-small king, 3.3#, 9:27am, ms std rv sniper on free slider, stb DR bk 55, 2.4 sog, N trl, ball temp 50.7, down 80ft, 156fow. 2-steelhead 5.13#, 9:39am, ms rv burnt bread, stb DR bk 55, 2.4 sog, N trl, ball temp 50.7, down 80ft, 150 fow. When I sent the 1st setup down a second time. The steelhead hit the main lure just as I attached the sniper slider to the main line. Beautiful day, bit of shake down cruise.. Temperature break was at 70-80 ft down. lake was almost flat. Rougher closer to shore than out farther. Also was buzzed by a drone near the CG station. Hovered over my boat as I just got inside the no wake zone and was heading toward the channel entrance. It surprised me at the crack of dawn. Sent from my Z5156CC using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

3 for 3; all in 195-200’; just little north of piers; 25.2 lat. Dink coho on 5 color on silver spoon with pink around edges; 8 lb king on 200 on gold rasta goose; small steelie on mini jager bomb. No other hits. Speed was yaual 2.5 - 3.2 Gorgeous day out there

Nice catches Ed.

Awesome fishing. We are heading to Bolles in 2 weeks. Can’t wait. Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman

We fished out of Bolles Harbor both days. There were a lot of boats fishing north of the dumping grounds and just inside the Ohio line. We kept going into Ohio waters by the Toledo shipping channel north of the Toledo light. There were no boats fishing around us both days. We had our first fish setting lines and had a steady bite. We fished the same area both days and got our limit of 18 both days. We started Saturday with spoons on diver disc's on one side and crank baits on the other side. They wanted spoons so we switched everything over to them. Saturday was overcast with patchy fog and 60 ft leads were best. Sunday was clear and sunny and we had a slow start until we extended our leads to 80 ft and the bite realy got going. Good luck!