Jolly Time

Isn't fun getting new equipment! The new technology is crazy especially the cycling up and down. I believe it will truly help with getting more strikes. I have heard it works really well when coupled with a 1 or 2 color SWR rigger rod. It creates a whip motion. Did you try in tight this morning or just blast out to 120fow? What was the surface temp out there? What was the temp at the ball? It had to be cold. I can't wait for the work week to end and get out on Saturday. Thank you for the report.

Went out this morning in hopes of catching some fish before the blow that may happen this weekend. 7 for 9 and three drive bys. I think they were biting the teasers on meatrigs. 200 copper (plug) mother of pearl blue ladderback 225 copper plug Wonderbread m of pearl. 150 copper white w/black ladderback. 3 fish taken on outside high dipsey 120 back setting 3. Salmon Candy flasher (white with green ladder uv w/krw moneyshot fly) 1 on rigger down 55' Mr. Chrome mag green & blue w/free slider. Mr. Chrome green with spots. Fish came 70fow +/- 10' pretty much between 40-55' down. South of Holland.

Going out in the morning. Thank you for the report. We're you north or south of Holland? Or, straight out? Thank you in advance.

Oh we had one person over the side the last hour. I felt so bad but they didn't want to quit. It's fun when the rods are going off.

I hope you get into them. Current wasn't too bad last night but the wind and waves were. Let me know how you did. Good luck!

Well, I haven't posted in a while. Sorry everyone. Fun night out of Holland. Woof...a little sporty out there tonight. Definitely not 1 footers. More like 2-3's with an occasional rogue 4'. All I could really handle was a sort of south troll. My angles were terrible and I did not pull a good line all evening. We did manage to catch some fish though. We went 9 for 12. 3 nice 4 year olds and the rest were 3's and one steelhead. We caught the steelhead early on a 225 copper pulling a ace high green ladderback plug. With the exception of a high diver with Happe Meal spoon, I ran all meatrigs and plugs. We started in 130-140fow and just angled in through the evening. 8:30-9:30pm we were in 100-105fow and we were having fun. 225 early green ladderback ( Steelhead) 325 10"SD meatrig (white/white) 15lb King 300 copper (mother of pearl/blue ladderback) 15lb King Inside Dipsey 140 back meatrig black slick 11"paddle with custom rig. Went twice lost both at back of boat Other inside dipsey 125back 10" white SD with with pickle rig and uv head 12lb King Starboard high dipsey 210back with white/black ladderback plug went twice landed 1 8lb king High dipsey port side (Happe Meal mag Spoon) 180back 8lb King 325 went a 2nd time 10lb King 300 went a 2nd time 11lb King Starboard high dipsey went again 160 back 18lb King Fun night. Hard fish. Great laughs and my first triple of the season. Good times.

Phenomenal evening out of Holland this evening. Went out at 6pm. Set lines around 6:30pm on a south troll in 100fow. Drift out to 125fow and lost marks. Took three fish before 7:30pm. Worked our way into 80fow. No go... Got a ways south and screen fizzled out. Quiet the current working to the north. Turned and trolled north and out. Once we got back into 100fow +/- 5' we started catching fish. Here is what worked fir us. Mother of pearl (blue ladder went X3 on 225 copper White green ladder back glow low diver went 3X back 90' White slick w/white meat rig went 1X 250 copper High diver back 130-140 went 2X

Phenomenal evening out of Holland this evening. Went out at 6pm. Set lines around 6:30pm on a south troll in 100fow. Drift out to 125fow and lost marks. Took three fish before 7:30pm. Worked our way into 80fow. No go... Got a ways south and screen fizzled out. Quiet the current working to the north. Turned and trolled north and out. Once we got back into 100fow +/- 5' we started catching fish. Here is what worked fir us. Mother of pearl (blue ladder went X3 on 225 copper White green ladder back glow low diver went 3X back 90' White slick w/white meat rig went 1X 250 copper High diver back 130-140 went 2X

Hey everyone. I want to thank everyone that sent messages and offered suggestion that really helped. The network of fishermen here is strong. Thank you again everyone. 10 for 14 and a ton of fun. 90-140fow. Once you find the troll angle...you are good. Meat, spoons and flasher flies all worked. Tried a whole bunch of new stuff this morning. Big Red next week! It's going to be fun!

Nailed it this morning. Two of us and a two man limit. Back in by 9:30am. Meat, greens and flasher flies all worked. Riggers with free sliders 100 and 80 down. Meat rigs early and then switched out to spoons. High and low dipseys 120-150 and 210-270. 250 copper was hot!

Going to fish out of Whitehall this weekend. Anyone been out up there? Any suggestions?

I run the following spoons. Based on what has been in their stomachs dictates what size spoons I run. The past two days they wanted mag and standard size offerings. This week plus yesterday and today) Fuzzy bear orange (mag) High diver back 115 setting 3 - took hits Coho killer (standard) 100 copper took hits Five eyes (mag) rigger back 70+ feet down 15 on SWR two color rod took hits Yeck fireball w/singles (Standard) 4 & 5 color lead took hits RV moonshine wonderbread (Mag) high diver and 175 copper took hits. Orange slice 100, 125 coppers

All standard or mags. These are the lures that have taken hits and fish the last two weeks. Yeck fireball w/dingles Orange fuzzy bear mag Coho killer standard Five eyes mag Agent orange standard RV wonderbread mag Orange Slice mag Hailstorm (Mr chrome) standard I run them on outside dipseys 90-120 back 100,125,175 coppers 3,4,5 color lead Rigger line back 70-80ft down 15 on 2 color swr rod

Was out this morning as well. Tried 120-140 with plenty of marks but just tough to get anything to bite. Water temp at 103ft. Downwas 48.9 degrees. Thermocline is at 63ft. and 59 degree water. Nothing good happens with those conditions. At 9:30am slipped out to 170fow. Marked a lot of fish from 25-50 feet down. Ran a complete steelhead program on port side of boat. Took 4 hits and landed one steelhead. Rough!

Fished 6-9:30pm. Put 5 nice Kings in the box. Biggest one on meet rig inside deeper diver setting 1 240' back All the rest of the fish came on riggers. 60-100feet down with sliders. Dancing Anchovy and RV crabface were hot lures. Did not take a bite on any boards. We ran all the following 100-175-225-250-350-400 coppers. Not a hit. We marked fish the entire evening lots of smaller marks 40-80 feet down. Quite a few rogue hooks down 120-130 feet down. We stayed between 130 and 160fow all evening. Thermocline was roughly 80 feet down. 46 degree water was down 120+/-

Fished 6pm - 9:30pm. Went out and to the south. Found fish 145-170fow. 150-160 was the best. First fish - rigger down 90 meet rig. Hook set was not good. Lost it. Second fish 100 copper wonderbread UV mag. 10lb steelhead. Third fish - high diver #3 back 175 Dancing Anchovy mag. Great rip and fought it for a couple minutes and off. 4th fish - inside port mag dipsey #1 wire diver 11" paddle meet rig back 200 14lb king. 5th fish - inside starboard mag dipsey #1 wire meet rig 220 back 15lb king 6th fish - 225 copper moonshine bloody nose mag 10lb king 7th fish - 10 color Dancing Anchovy uv mag. Small guy. Ended up 5 for 7. Meat was working. Go deep! We marked fish pretty much all night between 145-165fow. Most action happened the last hour and a half. Stomachs of fish had large alewife in them.

Well, it's a bit of a tough fish out there right now. I believe the fish are there, it's just tough getting them to cooperate. We got into 4 year old fish for the first time this season. The first was on a Meat-rig on rigger down 70ish in 150fow. Dipseys weren't working high low up or down. We took fish on 7 color orange fuzzybear mag in 200fow. We took fish opposite rigger on blue flounder pounder with slider. Down anywhere between 65-80 180fow. We lost some and we released some. Beautiful out there this morning. Maybe too nice. A lot of boats in tight most of the morning. Quite a few out deep and a few in-between. We took fish on Northeast troll and south west troll angles. Nice to see surface temperature going up.

Nicely done! Oh my that lake was flat. Fish are funny. You were out where we were the day before at least in depth and we couldn't buy a bite on our long lines. It's blowing hard today. No fishing today. Maybe we should all take up surfing. Thank you for the excellent report. You always have nice details.

Great morning out and to the north of Holland. Went out to 160fow of water caught one and fished out to 190fow. We did make it out to about 210fow a couple times. Most fish came on south east troll or south west troll angle. The south-east kept the entire spread on the best angle and pulling the best. Many of our bites came on turns or change of direction on outside of turn (speeding up). Our speed at surface was 2.0-2.6 and our speed at ball was anywhere from 1.9-3.2. Some wild currents. The water temps where in bands and any time we passed through a band of warm(er) water we got hit. We took hits on 325 copper, both riggers (60-120) down, high dipseys setting 3 (190-260) back, low dipsey (deeper diver) setting 1 (130-180) back. What worked for us were meat rigs early on high diver and lower diver. White slick/pickled sunshine a couple different places. Spoons worked throughout the morning all mag bites. We ran small spoons and they never took a hit. Dancing Anchovy, UV crabface, spoons were our best spoons. Really any spoon with UV tape and w/black or blue colors seemed to work the best. We did have some hits on spoons with green both with spots and ladders. 14 bites. 11 hook ups. 6 nice Kings to clean and a few sent back to grow up.