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Tough fishing up north in Pentwater too. Not marking many fish and when we mark them they do not seem to be hungry. Missed 2 and boated 1 dandy king on a meat rig Sunday morning. Beautiful boat ride though.

Well done guys ! Thank you for the details. I have a question for all you guys. What length is you meat rig set up ? I typically run a standard 68”rig from Dreamweaver and haven’t had any more success when I play with different lengths. Speed and rotating action seem to be more important than the length.

Thanks for fishing report BLP. We went looking where you left off. We had a short window to wash some lures Sunday evening at sunset so we took advantage of it. Started in 125 fow south of PS. Marked bait when we got into 85 fow. Picked up a king and a laker on 200 copper and a rigger. Ran all SS spoons. Beautiful evening for a boat ride.

Well done Ed. Netting a 15# king fishing solo can be exciting . Thanks for the report.

Great strategy for fishing solo.

Nice catch for your hard work. We did a quick shake down yesterday out of port Sheldon. The only thing we forgot was the cooler . Got lines set at 6:30 pm and pulled them at 7:45 pm. Port high diver back 100 in 55 fow with a spotted mixed veggie went and we missed him. Starboard rigger down 45 in 55 fow with a green dolphin took a nice spring king. It was pretty bumpy and all the gear worked well so we ended the shake down and headed for the trailer.

Well done and Nice catch. Good looking spring kings.

Big kings are tough to get in the boat. That’s why we fish for them When the hook breaks you know you played the big boy correctly. we lost a good one down deep under the stern also. It escaped when when the point broke off the hook.

Sounds like you had a great boat ride on Lake Michigan on the last day of September. We are all blessed with that opportunity over here on the west side of the state.

Great pic of sunset !

very interesting. I wonder if it's out of convenience or if large alewives are not around at feeding time.

Nice work boys !

That’s a really nice steelhead on the top of your box of fish.

Swimming and steelhead fishing in September! Who has it better than us? No one ! thanks again for sharing your knowledge. The steely’s put on a great show. We plan on fishing those acrobats as weather permits

Thanks for all the coho info. I like the fact that they are increasing the planting down in our part of the state. The fish are fun to catch and they are tasty. I did measure the coho and she was 26 inches so we came up short on a master angler. wow a 29 lb coho is huge. That’s why we fish, even if reports are bad. You just never know. Based on conversations back at the boat launch yesterday, there are a lot of steelhead in the area. Everyone seemed to be using different color spoons from mags all the way down to super slims. They steelhead were hungry and feeding. I’m assuming the amount of steelhead in the area is partially because of the large schools of bait fish ? Sonar was lit up with bait balls between 90 and 120 fow. The bait was mid depth to the bottom.

Very interesting. You have done your research. Thank you for that info. So what river will an adult coho run that is spending time in the holland/port Sheldon area ? I was under the impression that most coho migrate to the Platte River.

After a better look at that 4 yr old fish it was a coho.

Thank you jolly time for yesterday’s report. We worked your intel into our spread. Set lines in 90 fow and trolled out to 150 fow and then back in to 90 fow being chased by rain on the radar. Starboard high diver back 200’ went 2 times. Port high diver back 140’ went 2 times. Port low diver back 130’ went once. Starboard down rigger at 90’ went once and that fish escaped. Port down rigger at 100’ went 2 times. Once on the slider and once on main line. Pulled lines at 9:00 so we wouldn’t get wet. Boated 4 steelhead and 3 kings. 1 king was a dark 4 yr old female. all spoons this morning. Mongolian beef, A-bomb, dancing anchovy, glow frog and green jeans. All spoons were SS and standard size. Boats at the launch had success with mag spoons too. Fish were hungry and swallowed the hooks this morning.

Nice work on keeping those steely’s hooked up ! Great pic of 4 steely’s. That’s a tough pic to get most days. Thank you for the detailed report.

Thanks for info.

Nice work ! Any depth of water in particular or best presentations ? Slim spoons have been pretty good down here in the holland region.

And no moon light