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  1. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    I would like to hear the rest of the story of how you got a 51" muskie into the net and into the metal boat. That makes the story even more incredible. What an epic catch. Hope your sons hand recovers just fine.
  2. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Love that Mag Atomic Melon. It is a 'Go-To' spoon in my arsenal for top of the water column action.
  3. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    That bird is cute! Pulled Fin Warrior on Monday. Sadly done for the season.
  4. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    It was a great day to get out. Happy you found a few. Would have been nice to land that runner on the long line, just to see how big it was.
  5. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Reindeer pants are a go-to fishing attire. And she has her game face on. I tip my hat to I assume is your daughter.
  6. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Yep, I believe I trolled past you at one time or another. Great work on getting a number of good silver bites in that skinny water.
  7. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Fished solo outside of Saugy from 6:00 ish to 8:30pm. Boated one mature king in 45 FOW on a J-plug down on a rigger, perhaps 15lbs at best. Started in 70-80 FOW with lots of marks and two tip ups on that same J-plug with a dull hook. IT was a fixed harnes otherwise I would have swapped it out for something sharper. This fish I caught I shortened the lead to 3 passes and that got it done sort of cause ths hook fell out in the net. The hook will be gone tomorrow. I have to admit I am not that good fishing near bottom in shallow water. I wind up with too much of the bottom on my baits. Yes I do check them often but 20min with a null presentation hurts the effort. The current was wacky in tight tonight running N/S.
  8. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    What a great bite north of Holland. My compliments to the both.
  9. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    That is a big catch day indeed.
  10. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Exactly. Will hit the farmers market this morning to pick up veggies.
  11. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    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.
  12. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    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.
  13. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    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.
  14. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    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.
  15. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    NW winds can be hard to get fish to go but you killed it. Lot of plugs in the spread - thanks for the report! Glad you made it back safely.
  16. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Get well soon my friend. There are fish to be caught.
  17. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    You killed it last night! Nice big fat king you got there. I fished that same depth of water the night before but south and came up with only one modest king. Nice work.
  18. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Hey my friend. I run my Ninja divers on Power Pro with a Seaguar fluoro leader. A micro swivel connects the two lines and a small bead prevents the diver running past the fluoro leader connection. I was running 30lb PP but lost a set up. I retooled both my rods with 50lb PP a few days ago, feeling better about not losing gear. My leader is down from 9' to 7' of 25lb test Seaguar fluoro. As you know, fishing solo is a chalange at the net so I shortened the former leader by 2'. My reels are fully loaded and I have measured the accuracy of the line counter at full load and it maps to the line length close enough. So when I put out 35' of line that does not include the 7' of fluoro leader. I have trolled this set up 2.1 to 3.1mph. My rods afford me to put an OR-8 clip on close the the reel that I can hold the line a bit if the pull takes out too much line on the drag setting. I have been running these a lot only from the point to understand how this could be better (or worse) than my short leader DW dipseys. Plus, not a fan of hand pulling in a long leader dipsey line with a fish on - frankly I find that insane but Charters do is so more power to them.
  19. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Set down @ 6:30pm in 150FOW north of the harbor and pointed the bow south. Ran two Ninja divers with 40-50' leads tipped with reg and superslim spoons for SH & coho down 30 & 45' and a 5-color LC on a aft DR with a mag moonshine spoon; bait down 65-70'. Marked a good number of fish in the bait range and up higher running with the waves into 135FOW. Friday night in August = lots of boat traffic so zig-zagging or making a big push to go shallow or deep was not an option. Kind of a 'stay in your lane' night. Sun got behind the cloud cover about 8:00 and made the switch to Green Hulk & Raspberry Carbon RV (back charged) on the Ninjas and a green ladderback J-plug (charged) on the deep line now up about 60-65'. Green Hulk down 44' took a 6lb king almost immediately in 130FOW but nothing else. Before reaching Saugy, made an 8:30 turn to a north troll in 125-130FOW and ran that direction until ripping lines at 9:15. Fair amount of boat traffic on the inside trying to get into the harbor. Was able to pick out the traffic with radar and able to spot all the running lights. But of course, there is that rush to push into the mouth of the channel and lack of 'give way' that you have to keep your antennas up for. Nice night to be on the water regardless of the lack of catching.
  20. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Nice box of fish. Surprised plugs and meat had no interest. Hopefully your Ninja board gets returned.
  21. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Had fun reading your report. Glad you got a few and hope the wait to get back out will be shorter next time.
  22. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    great king! Thats is what I like to fish for.
  23. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    Capt. Adam of Reel-2-Reel must have convinced you to load up on Pickled Sunshine flys. He never forgets to mention them in his vids. Nice catching last night. Even though the warm water has piled up, it appears the fish are coming back in after the blow we had about a week ago. Thanks for all the information. You put a good mix out for me to consider on my next run.
  24. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    It sounds like to me that your success with a little high intensity chaos just bought a few more trips with your wife and son. Good work captain! And congrats to landing that nice size king with a dipsey + SD wrapped around the line. Never an easy chore.
  25. zgrinder on Fin Warrior
    That is a great short morning trip. Jealous you found a nice size king and on a slider of all things. Yep the weather is a com'in.
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