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    South Haven 7/13

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Went 4 for 7.

    3 riggers (65 55 65)

    1 dipsy. (100 on 2)

    White spoon with semi pink looking tape caught 2 fish. (see my last report for pics of said spoon.)

    80 fow all fish caught straight out with the troll direction towards the pier.

    1 laker

    3 kings

    A triple two trips in a row =)

    All fish thrown back. Had an awesome time not cleaning fish.

    Donated a new dipsy & flasher to the bottom of the lake. It appears line on a rod needs to be replaced even though its pretty new.

    Holland 7-12 A.M.

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    They've been catching steelhead off of the piers. That's why all the people. I haven't seen an alewive jump but we saw a steelhead completely jump out of the water in front of our boat yesterday in the river. I threw the boat in reverse because I thought someone hooked up. That wasn't the case but that's why there is a ton of people on the piers right now.

    South Haven 7/11

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

    Posted

    We went 4/7

    All kings

    3 riggers 1 dipsy

    2 Riggers @ 40

    1 Dipsy @ 75

    1 rigger @ 35

    We got a triple as soon as the sun touched the lake(evening) and landed them all at 40 FOW. Pure madness. We only had 3 rods in the water at the time & we were glad that's all we had in the water.

    The other fish was caught at 50 FOW. ~30 inch king (photographed & released.)

    White Spoon

    Mountain Dew Spin Doctor & fly

    Watermelon Spoon (or something very similiar)

    I'm not sure of the water temp but when I jumped in to go skiing in the afternoon I immediately jumped out. Its definitely colder. The kings wouldn't run today. Well, they ran at the boat. It was difficult to net fish that weren't at all tired.

    1 broken swivel(goodbye dipsy/spoon/fish) & 2 leader break offs(goodbye spoons/fish) from a brand new roll of line. Paid the price for going a little too cheap tonight.

    I'll upload pictures when I get them. Probably in the afternoon.

    South Haven Perch & Salmon 7/5-7/6

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Finally finished fixing the boat. Just a small job. Replaced the transom & floor. Took it down to an aluminum shell. 18 foot aluminum smokercraft. Took ~6 weeks. Had family come to town & went after perch/float test.

    27 perch yesterday 41 today(no gobies today at all). Some jumbo's. Go a couple miles north and you can find an area without gobies if you're lucky. 37-42 fow was best. Sometimes its hard to keep rods on the bottom. A good number of doubles. If you're going to go perch fishing. Get at minimum 6 dozen minnows. If you get into the gobies or smalls you'll go through them fast. If I had some patience and willingness to spend a few more hours out there limits could be caught. I'm personally not a huge fan of perch fishing.

    Last night went after salmon for just about 2 hours w/ just riggers & dipsies. Bites on dipsies at 150 and 140 and a rigger at 90. random plain purple spoon and a green/yellow spoon with black dots and a green spoon with a touch of red w/ a black eye. How about that for descriptions? 1 steelhead was caught and I believe it was 26 inches. 95-105 FOW

    I also now know what it feels like to pull the plug on an aluminum boat on the ramp slope and only to have no water run out of it. I was also shocked when filling up the gas tank after fishing each trip. A boat without water in it requires a lot less gas. I should probably post a separate thread with pictures about the rebuild.

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