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Good Job boys. We went 6-7 in the same water between PS and Holland. 6 kings landed and 1 ho knocked off with the net trying to get fancy netting a double:rolleyes:

Pretty cool listening to 3 different boats answering your call for help. When we set down in the arms we heard your call and tried to answer seemed like you werern't receiving on the radio. Shortly after heard buster found you so he must have been real close:thumb:

The port Sheldon buoy has temps in the 40s 60 feet down.

OK gotcha. I thought you meant at the surface

Did you try in closer at all? We are heading out in the AM and the cold water at the buoy has me thinking we should try a little closer first.

Which buoy has cold water?

Good job! Put us to shame. We went 2 for 3 in the PM. Started in 150 at 6pm. Took 3 hits in 155 in the first hour. Went dry for an hour. Headed out to 170 turned around and headed East all the way to 85 without getting bit. Pulled lines in the dark at 9:30.

1 hit on green 8 inch spinnie meat

6lb laker and 8lb king on 11 inch white paddle hypnotist fly 120 down

Which way did you get hit? Had a strong current from the Southwest so we had to do 2.1 to stay below 2.7 down speed headed that way. If you were doing 2.1 SOG in any sort of North heading your lures must have been barely moving. Maybe that was the key

Started in 80fow just south of Duck Lake around 6am. Never got bit til 8:30.

3 for 3

6 and 10 lb lakers

15 lb Steel

2 bites on 300 copper standard spoons.

1 bite on 10 inch UV SD with BW Mango fly 150 down on rigger.

Surface was 68 inside of 220 and 63 outside. Went all the way to 330. 2 bites at 10:30 in 310. Pulled lines at 11:30.

Water conditions were perfect. Down temps, currents, location all match productive days. Just don't know where the fish are:confused:

Good job,

We went 3 for 7. King, ho, steel. One hit in 80 feet. Rest in 150-160. Everything died at 9:30

4 bites on boards

2 bites on riggers

Nothing on meat, spinnies, or dipseys:confused: 2 on plugs and 4 on spoons

Yup very well done Captain. Is there a particular part of the season that the fish are colored up more than others?

I always heard you had to pay people to fish with your cranky butt!!

26 lb

Grand Haven

July 2003

Downrigger

copper monkey puke spoon

It was dead calm in the middle of the day. I had just started fishing in 2001. actually stopped the boat and pulled lines(only 3 at the time) so my brother could land the fish. Remember seeing it 30 feet straight down in the water doing circles like wicked Tuna LOL. Tickled 26 a couple times since then but never beat it. I usually don't fish the pierheads or river fish so I don't target the bigger fish in the fall

Pretty much the same as Ryan. I have not seen any other data but I have zero reason to believe Bloodruns data to be anything other than 100% accurate

Love those Superior lakers

We fished the Walleye for warriors today had 4 World War 2 Vets on board all 90 & 91 years old. We managed to pull a 8 person limit (40 fish) including me, wolf a camera man to make up for the limit.

Awesome job guys. I had 2 Nam vets on board. One a Navy weapons radar controller and one an Army artillery man. This was the navy man's first veterans event of any kind. He was one of those guys that felt like hiding I was the best action. Those stories you hear about how those guys were treated coming back were true. he shared how they were coming back to San Diego harbor and people were dumping trash on them from a bridge and had baby killer banners flying.

Yesterday he was welcomed back with hundreds of flags and arms waving at him, music playing, and his family along the shore cheering him on. To see him choked up trying to hold back the tears was a sense of pride I will carry with me for some time to come. He came to me before he left and said "I am so glad I did this. I really can't tell you how much this has meant to me"

Where did you guys find your fish? We worked the sailboat bouy area starting off with hardware and changing over to meat. We were marking fish but could not get them to go consistently. After a 30 minute dry spell we finally picked up and took our beating out the the plug and took 4 keepers and 5 or 6 shorts and lost a few in a little under an hour. Ended the day with 4 in the 18-20 range and 3 16's. Wish we could have gotten out there earlier but I didn't want to bang the crap out of my guys off the get go

Great box and win guys! Were you taking your bites on the warm side or the cold side? Thanks!

Thanks for having us and it was nice to see the new faces and structure of the league.

We laid down in the same 53-54 temps that worked for us last weekend. Watched the temp drop from 58 down to 53 from 185 to 210 and set down in 210. Worked the teens for a while with nothing and turned East when we should have turned West. At that point it was 9 am and we were committed to that water. Had 8 bites and landed 5 of them mostly in the 190's. All in the top 30. 42 degrees was from 35 to 20 feet down depending on the fow. Had a 6lb king do a damn good impression of a steelie clearing the water 3 times. No troll worked better for us. There was no current in the top 50. Speeds were around 2.5 when we got bit. All spoons and one spinnie bite. Started pulling lines at 11:20 instead of noon thinking we had to be at weigh-in at 1pm. Learned the noon was important not the 1PM. Rookie mistake:D

Can't wait for the story Don. Victory well deserved. You've put a lot into the fraternity of addicted salmon chasers. Good to see it rewarded

Good job on the fish! What undersize fish are you seeing? I'm guessing they had to be lakers? Can't imagine guys catching many salmon under 10 inches

we're in. see everyone tomorrow

temp break keeps moving in and out. 59 at th buoy. migjt be some out a ways depending on where it starts dropping. Similar condition and current last weekend favored a westerly troll

Hey no fat jokes!

Trying to get a crew together

Sounds like a great morning to me. 18lb is about as big of a fish as I've heard of so far out of that area

Well done fellas!!

100 copper with streak jerry lee

Nicely done Don.

I think I'll make sure to put one out this weekend to honor a pretty nice guy.

Gale Force Tacle is still in business and producing salmon spoons.

http://www.galeforcetackle.com/products/spoons

Thanks Ryan. Not like anyone needs anymore spoons but the spoon with the tape on it has been my top producer this spring. Only one other color has gone and only once. But the taped one has gone multiple times on all 3 trips and on 3 different presentations.

Just wanted to say Thanks for the detailed report; because of your post my son and I had one of our best days ever on the lake this morning. 9 for 10 with some great size! Great day spent with my 15 year old. Thanks again!

No problem. That's what its all about right? The guy in yellow is my 15 year old son and we have benefitted from reports on the site many times. Always want to make sure I give back.