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  1. Headed out to South Haven again this weekend with a little luck. Took one coho first thing in 80 fow 43 down on the Downrigger with a killer dolphin spoon. We missed a fish on the Braided Dipsy140 back set on 2 in 85 fow. Had 2 hits on the full core with a killer dolphin, one being a big steelhead. It was the biggest and prettiest steely we have ever boated!:no: Had one more rip on the half core with a red head j plug. Everything started off fast and furious with most of our hits coming in the first hour. 80 fow was the best and the killer dolphin was hot! Next weekend is the youth deer hunt so unless I get a deer Saturday we wont be out for another couple of weeks. Good luck out there.

  2. Thanks guys!

    Sounds like a couple of fun days on the water. I know exactly how you feel when you talk about catching fish on your homemade lures. Im a long time lure builder and there is no better feeling than catching fish on something you crafted yourself. Well done.

    Yeah I was so happy. That night I think I stayed up close to 1 tying different colors of flies for the next mornings trip!:no:

  3. Saturday- Fished from 70 feet all the way out to 145. In 100 fow a steelhead took a rip at the double orange crush on the two color and after a few jumps he said goodbye. Then in 140 fow I was sitting on the bow watching a butterfly try to land on the inside planer board (full core) and all of the sudden i see the board go straight back and the rod ripping line. My grandpa was along for the ride so we gladly handed the rod to him. It ended up being about a 15 lb female that hit a killer dolphin and afterwords he kept talking about how hard it was to reel it in and how sore his elbow was:lol: Our only other hit was in 130 fow on the downrigger 88 down. This setup was the one that had a blue bubble fly I tied with a blue spinnie and it was an 8lb king! I was thrilled to finally catch a fish on my own fly regardless on how many fish we caught that day:D

    Sunday- We setup to the south and continued moving south til it was time to pull the lines. Took a laker on full core with killer dolphin in 100 fow and another lake trout on a green fly I tied behind a 11 inch UV protroll. Got one steelhead in 105 fow on half core with red head j-plug this fish was about 8 lbs. Had one other steelhead hit the braided dipsy set on 2 175 back with a killer dolphin; this was a 12lb dandy:no: Our only other fish was a small coho on the same setup the bigger steelhead hit in 110 fow. We also had a small yellow bird come flying down and land on me. He stayed on the boat for close to 2 hours and just flew around eating bugs! Ended the day 5 for 5.;)

    Also both days we marked big schools of fish down on the bottom and couldn't get any hits from them:confused:

  4. Another really slow day of fishing. Only got one fish which was a king on a killer dolphin stacker 43 down in 115 fow. That was the only hit we had all day and we tried everything:confused: What are we doing wrong? Are we keeping our presentation to high in the water column? We had the downriggers at 57 and 47 for awhile with spinnies and flies and even tried them deeper for a lil bit. We varied our speeds and direction. We also marked a ton of fish!

    Well the perch wasn't very good either. Got about 25 in a few hours but they were all good sized and we threw a lot back. 47 fow was the good spot for us.

    Next week were off to Maniste to try are luck there:)

  5. It was a pretty slow morning out on the lake as far as salmon were concerned. One shaker on a flounder pounder on the DR 40 down in 80 fow. Also got a big coho on a green orange crush on the Braided Dipsy set on 3 75 back in 100. Missed a fish on blue spinnie with no see um fly. Then went perch fishing and picked up about 30 fish in 57 fow with a few jumbos mixed in. We ran into Jarod (J1musser) and it was pretty cool to get to talk to him. We are going to try again tomorrow with hopefully better luck!:D

  6. Did you troll in the passage or go out past the light house, i always stayed between the first and second green bouy, 120-130 ft of water...

    We usually stayed in the passage but did go out past the lighthouse once and had a few hookups including a nice fish that we lost at the boat. We hooked this fish right in between the ferry docks in ~100 fow.

    Thanks, Justin

  7. Sorry I'm late on the report. We fished at least once every day. The salmon fishing was pretty slow but there are still lots of lake trout for the taking. Our biggest king was 16.7#s and good enough for fourth place:D

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    The best color for us was purple. We also lost another big fish at the boat:mad: Monday morning because of the fog and storms we went up to see the Soo Locks and on the way saw two huge wolves!! The weather was amazing, each day was mid 70s or low 80s and only it only rained once:no:

  8. Nice job out there. Good luck up at Drummond. My buddies been asking me to go for years, one of these years im gonna go. They have a riot up there.

    We have gone up there every year for the past couple of years and I am pretty sure that is my favorite place ever!!!! The Salmon Fest is going on, so that should be fun. We usually do pretty good on the walleye in 4-6 fow drifting crawler harnesses its a blast. The smallmouth hit good around the islands also:grin:

    Thanks guys, we will post a report when we get back because we wont have internet access up there.

  9. Ran out to 70 fow and was marking some fish so we set lines. Seemed like we marked a lot about 60 foot down and also a lot of bait fish. Fished all the way out to 115 and nothing. Turned back in and in 88 fow the swr 57 down with a blue spinnie and blue bubble fly went. Nice king ~15 pounds:no: Trolled around that area for a little while longer without anything happening. We decided to run in and try for perch. The fishing was pretty good in about 32 fow in front of Deerlick and in front of the 1st dune. Picked away at them for awhile before it was time to go in. It was nice and cool out there this morning! Now were headed up to Drummond Island for a week, I cant wait.:D

  10. For a couple of years before we had downriggers we used 1 pound lead balls with 2 Church clips on each. It was very easy to tell when there was a fish on and you just take the weight off like you would a planer board and then continue to fight the fish. We never lost a weight. Our most productive setup, as said above, was 10 and 5 colors of 27lb leadcore. Hope this helps and good luck.

  11. Fished South Haven this morning for this first time in a long time. Ran north a little ways and then set up in about 70 fow heading SW. Went out to 110 and then back and didnt get anything. In 74 fow in front of the dunes the downrigger with a killer dolphin 43 down went. This felt like a very very nice fish and after a short run snapped the line:angry2:. A little while later in 80 fow the SWR 60 down with a lemon ice tripped. After another short fight this fish came unbuttoned:mad: Same set up in 76 fow took a laker. Then on the way in, in 90 fow a braided dipsy with a dirty harry 170 back on #2 fired. This felt like a pretty good fish and sadly got off. We usually have a better hook up ratio but i guess it just wasn't our morning. Ended up 1 for 4.

  12. We decided to try for some perch this morning. Ended up with 33 fish kept and threw back some small ones. Didnt catch real big fish but they were decent sized. Fished a little bit north of Palisades in 25-30 fow. When we finally started getting the fish pretty steady it was time to go. Oh well haha if we stayed we prolly could of worked for a limit, it was a ton of fun and no bugs! Also no gobbies were caught!

  13. Nice job, its slim pickins out there. I did see some bait fish schooling out in about 30fow while perchin yesterday. I would of loved to troll back to the piers and see what would happen but we were afraid of catching a cigarette boat. Those guys need lessons on boating I seen them run by a guy perchin at full throttle at a distance of about 20ft.

    We marked some schools of bait fish on the bottom in about 120 fow. Im guessing they were alwives. O and no kidding we had a guy come by right off our bow all opened up in his big ol boat when we were trolling.:eek: not cool

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