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Fished with Capt. Don aboard the Tangled Mess this weekend while camping in Holland. Sunday morning we headed out around 6:30 and set up in 120 fow on a South troll. We put down three rods targeting lakers and the rest of the spread was looking for silver. We picked away at the silver, but the lakers were the real deal both days. Plentiful and lots of size. Mark (Just Hook'n) was along with us also, very nice guy and family, glad to meet you Mark. I also got to finally meet Don's wife. We needed another body or two to extend the trip, we were boxed out by 9:00. Tin Cans and spin n glows on the wire divers and center rigger bottom fishing was taking the lakers and the BR copper setups with SS mags were picking away on the silver fish. We ended up with our 9 lakers and three bonus kings. The trip ended up costing me $400 though, this 36" just under 20# laker will look nice in the rod shop. I know there are larger ones in the lake, but I don't fish over there enough to slice that one up. Sunday afternoon was kids day aboard the Tangled Mess. My two sons, Dons daughter, and my nephew were the fishermen/women for the night. As luck would have it, they dominated us! We ran the same laker/king program that worked in the morning and never had any more than 5 minutes without a bite. We ended the evening with 14 lakers and three real nice kings coming on 19 bites! Why do kids almost never lose fish? I shot almost 2 hours of kids fighting fish in HD. I'll try to get some of the videos uploaded in the next day or so. Monday morning it was myself, Don, and his nephew. We basically paid for our earlier sins and the fish bested us. We ended up with 7 fish(two kings, 5 lakers) for at least 19 bites. We couldn't keep them stuck! The steelhead were beating us bigtime, going arial, throwing hooks and flashing the bird as they swam away laughing. All in all, it was a great weekend. Great fishing, great friends, and memories with the kids that will last a lifetime.

You put up numbers on silver like we do on our stupid walleye, unreal!!

Will do thanks.

Yep that SteveO. If Gold Coast has whole Red or Green Lable, problem solved. Thanks.

I need to get ahold of SteveO. He is a member of this board and several others, but I can't seem to find his contact information. I am looking to get some meat(whole red or green) while in Southern Michigan.

Great job Kevin, glad to hear the Bay finally behaved herself for you this time. Great fish there also.

Going to be made up with guys that can't seem to get away from the ER:lol:

Great catch Luke! Frank, how have you been?

Holy crap dude! I am thinking about putting together a fishing team called ER Bound:lol:. Hope your doing better now.

Congrats on the new boat, and welcome to the site.

I took some photos of the colors, I'll try and post them tonight. Kind of a hodge podge left from the shows.

$3.50 each or 4 for $10. Just PM me or call me at 989-397-0236. I take checks, credit cards, and love, absolutely love cash:D. Custom color blades by Silver Streak and CJ Baker.

Yep, we most likely drove right over lots of fish on our way out. I had it stuck in my mind that they were gonna be deep and it cost me a slow day. Glad to hear you did well on the R.I.P. rigs. Good job on the morning fish. I have lots of them left from the show season, so if you or anyone needs more..........

Fished with good buddy Dan Sahr aboard the North Forty today. We put in at Quanicassee around 9:00 am. Headed out to 1 & 2, set up in 22 fow headed west towards the black hole. Very slow to say the least. We picked away, sorting until we had 6 nice fish in the box at 2:00. We were on a south troll towards the dumping grounds on the west side of the channel and decided to pick up and head in about due west of the sparkplug. Bad move, we found out later that Paul Vantol and a couple others found a nice biting school in 17-18 fow near the sailboat boueys and the dumping grounds. Figures, we head in about a 15 minute troll from hot fish. Anyways, nice day on the water with friends. The usual Silver Streak spoons behind walker mini discs program. The 80' Blood Run setup took one keeper fish, and the slide diver took one also today. We pulled around a 7" fish on the 60' copper for who knows how long.

Awesome stuff Jonas! Maybe a weekender like Ludington, anybody interested:D?

Will do Terry. I will have to juggle family tourist stuff with fishing, so it may be fluid. Would like to maybe get my wife and kids out. Might make it easier to sell the boss on a larger boat if she sees for herself:thumb:. Dave, sounds like a date, maybe around a campfire or something.

Terry, we'll see you guys, looks like around June 30th thru July 5th. Stayin in the State Park. Can't wait to catch up with you and Don, both Dons. Great job on the fish.

Adam, great photos of what looked like a great event. I had good intentions of making it, but after two consecutive days of graduation party preperations, I was toast! Big thanks to all put this event on, it was a home run on the first attempt from what I hear.

Stopping in to Franks today, I'll check first hand there.

Water weenie for the boats that come too close? Great idea, not to mention fun in the slow times LOL!

Frank, good luck with your surgery, hope to see you out doing your part to keep the walleye population under control soon.

I can't fish Saturday (Daughters graduation party), but will be fishing Sundays event. I am planning on hitting it Thursday and Friday if weather cooperates. The areas you talked about have been very good lately. Not so much out by #1 but just south and east of there was very good last week.

Nice job Luke, I ended up not fishing at all. Daughter graduating Sunday and numerous must attend parties yesterday.

Mmmmmmm, yummy:thumb:

Frank I think your right on. We couldn't get the low fish to bite anything. It is hard to convince yourself to fish high in the water column, because you don't really see the fish on your finder up high (other than trash fish). I think it is because your boat pushes them out and away from the sonar, not being seen. We caught a bunch of fish with 25' of line out, never saw a one on the graph??? It is very tough to compete with the bug buffet going on right now, keep on them. Have you or anyone heard of any steelies being caught? Last year this hatch produced several for me out by 1 & 2.