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    Muskegon 6/25

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Fished from 9-2 today went 2/4 and big kings were the rule of the day...

     

    Tons of bait and fish marked almost all day from 95-155 fow with 49 deg water about 55' down

     

    1/2 on wire dipsey 210' out on 2 setting white SD and little boy blue fly, 12 # king

     

    1/1 on 300 copper with mag moonshine halograph? - 31.2 # king

     

    0/1 on 100' copper on watermelon spoon

     

    Was a steady wnw blow and lake laid down a bit after noon

     

    Great day on the water! Tight lines... IMG_1066.jpeg

     

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    Muskegon 6/15

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Left the dock at 6 pm and fished until about 9:15 pm

     

    2 of us, and ran 2 corner riggers, 2 dipseys, and 2 boards...

     

    Trolled from 90 fow to 240 mostly on a sw heading and found no bait, and just scattered fish.

     

    Went 1/2

     

    Had a nice rip and fish on high wire dipseys out 250' with blue/pearl SD and pickled sunshine fly, but fish came off after about 10 minutes

     

    Then pulled a small laker on 75' copper with monkey puke spoon when bringing the lines in...

     

    That's about it, and the north breeze was chilly. Tight lines! Hope the weather straightens out and the lake sets up soon...

     

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    Boat Windshield Fixed!

    in Boat Maintenance and Rigging

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    I have VERY unfortunate issue with my front port side 1999 - 21' Proline cuddy - it's the curved piece and NO way to get a replacement. By all measures - to get a new one - if there was one - would be very costly $$$$$$$ - so I made my own - it worked great - hope this helps someone out there!

     

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    season opener - Holland/Saugatuck

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Very nice, how deep, what were you using? Headed to Muskegon tomorrow

    managed 2 kings this AM in the mud off holland/saugatuck (tried both) - fishing was slow as the lake hadn't turned over - still was glad to have scored a couple - i realize this is the time of year where everyone almost goes hush hush on the run - anyone else have a report?
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    Report dessert

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    I hate when that happens! Good work! Thanks for the report

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    Grand haven fri eve /sat morning, 115-155, low diver back 140 w meat behind 10” white glo spin doctor, meat behind 8” mt dew spin doctor, rigger 65 down w white flasher blue fly. Had to work for them, biggest was 26. ... also held several demonstrations on how not to do it out there this weekend...


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    Muskegon 7-1

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Sorry for the late report...

     

    Fished from 5:30 am and pulled line at 10 am, went 3/4

     

    Didn't have a hit until 7ish, even though we marked some fishing bait from the time we started trolling in 75 feet of water until 140 or so.

     

    It wasn't until we headed south about 3 miles south of port we found some active fish in the 130 range. Fish hit everything from wire Dipsy 150 out, downrigger 55 down, big rip on a 400 copper, that fish was lost, and the Deep rigger at 95. Oh no it was a good hour of catching, we caught an 8# laker on white paddle little boy blue fly, 12# king 55 down with glow green fire tiger moonshine, and a 11# steel head on wire dipsy, with blue paddle and protagonist fly out 150.

     

    It was a beautiful morning and the west wind kept a good shop on the water, but when the fog bankrolled in we called it a day.

     

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    2 and 3 color lead backer

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

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    I had a single copper rod that was hit 2 times in 1 week this past month that I didn't have enough backing on for various reasons - I had about 150 YDS of 50# PP and both times almost ran the whole thing out on the first run - that was the LAST time that reel would get hit - I added about 250 YDS of PP and now - let the big boys hit is all day...use enough mono to start with IF you don't have a little 'post' on your reel seat - otherwise the braid will slip on the spool - the mono helps keep it in place. After that - add as much braided backing so that the reel fills up properly with the copper or lead core after that.

    MUskegon 8-13 - 1 for 5

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

    Posted

    Fished 8:15 AM - 1:30 PM

    Hit the lake a little late - headed NNW to 125 FOW with some scattered marks - temps were 76 on top and 51 down 90'

    Stayed on a NNW troll to about 320 - turned back to 200 and headed back to 320.

    There were good temps and some bait balls here and there - but we could not get things moving

    What worked:

    3 rips on wire mag dipsy on 2 - 175 back with green/pearl SD and white fly

    1 rip on braided mag dipsy on 2 - 225 back with glo blue jeans SD and blue crinkle fly

    1 on DR - 90 down - glow mag green and white mag spoon - 8# steelhead

    not many guys seemed to be catching - not sure these fish will ever show up this year!

    Manistee 8/10 pm, 0-1

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Some guys were getting fish. The 3 guys I talked to were 4-4, 2-2 and 1-1. (Kings) Just nothing working for us. We ran a meat heavy spread. But, my captain also decided to make a couple pretty tight turns. You know...the ones where your outside port board is on the starboard side of the boat. So we had some tangles to deal with. We were also in way too shallow at dark. We were way inside the other boats. I wanted to be around 120 fow and we were at 75.
     
    The fish we lost was a nice king that found his way into the tangle that we were working on and he got off. He hit on a green paddle and fly down 70 on a rigger...the only fly I was running.
     
    So a lot of tonight was on us. We are going out in the am. I will run a more diverse spread and I am driving tomorrow so we'll see what happens.
     
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    Thanks Mega Byte for your reports...

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    Lack of reports

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Went out of Saugatuck 8/8 for evening when it was rolling pretty good...5 or 6 boats out trolling N. and South in 120 fow...I joined for a couple hrs with nothing to show...No bait fish, and no marks...Then moved trolled into 70fow with marking some fish, but no takers...Not sure when they are headed up the Kzoo river...But by the looks of it not anytime soon...Even with the water cooling off some about 50 or 60 ft down...
    Good job, we're they kings? What species? Thanks

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