Sea Eagle

Here it is.

Yep - that would be it.

Silver Streak Watermelon

Close but not exactly the same

Here is the spoon I named dirty dog. It was an out of production Silver Streak spoon I picked up in a cut out bin at one of the spring fishing shows. I only purchased one and it soon became one of my favorite spoons. Being scared to death I was going to loose it I frantically searched the web and posted requests on several fishing web pages all to no avail.

A friend, Shawn (the Eliminator) was out on my boat one day and the " mystery" spoon had caught several fish. When I told him the story and he turned over the spoon and announced it was a silver streak, I almost fell out of the boat. I had thought I had looked at it several times.

To make a long story short, a text messaged photo from Shawn to the Dirty Dog got me a 1/2 dozen new spoons in short order. Seems like the original name has been lost, so now I just call it dirty dog

Thanks, Terry

...and fishing buddy Denny (Sea Hawk)

Here is a photo of the fish

We have been wondering where all the kings were lately. Can't say where they were, but a few showed up in our fish box yesterday. Went 6-8, 4 kings and 2 steelhead. 15 lb and 12 lb were the two biggest kings and 8 lb was the bigger of the two steelhead.

Fished from 4:00 to 10:00 pm. First fish hit at 4:30 and last fish hit as we pulled lines at 10:00. Fished straight out to the south of the pier head from 80 to 135 fow. All fish came between 100 and 120 fow. Strong west/north west current and mixed temps 65 ft down at the ball between 41 to 55 degrees. Found fish in temps less than 50 degrees at the ball. Cooler water in shallower and warmer water beyond 120 fow. 2.2 to 2.4 mph at the ball and a southwest to southeast troll seemed to work best.

Mountain Dew/ pearl SD green fly meat rig on 200 cu took the first king.

The big king hit a pink alewife spoon on 300 cu.

Missed a fish that hit on a full core with an unknown named spoon that is kind of a mixed veggies with seeds looking spoon that dirty dog had made up for me so I now just call that spoon dirty dog.

Another pink alewife spoon on 200 cu and a small UV green gator spoon on 300 cu took the two steelhead.

Lost a nice king that hit on a glow green flounder pounder spoon on a SWR DR down 70 ft when the hook and fish got tangled on the outside of the net.

The last two kings came on a full core glow George spoon and 1/2 core glow Mongolian beef spoon.

Our best trip of the year so far.

Fished SH on Saturday (7/19) from 7:00 to noon straight out to slightly north and south in 80 to 110 ft of water. Went 1 for 1 both steelhead. Missed fish hit a 1/2 core Jerry Lee spoon, broke the surface and spit the spoon. The other fish hit a green moonshine flounder pounder spoon on a SWR DR down 65 ft. So many sea fleas on the line that we hand lined the fish in before I could pick all of the fleas off of the line.

Fifth trip out this year, first report.

Construction projects associated with my move into a new house have really hurt my fishing this year. But based on how many fish we have caught in those five trips, it does not sound like we have missed too much. Only two or three fish each trip. Even got skunked trip before last and that has not happened in more than a decade.

Don't really have much to report this trip either, but thought I would post anyhow since there have been very few reports out of SH this year.

Fished from 7:00 to noon with fishing buddy Denny (Sea Hawk). Went 3-3. Two lakers and a nice steelhead. Trolled northwest of pier head shallowest around 90 ft out to 160. All three fish came in around 125 ft of water. Caught one fish just about every two hours.

First laker came on full core with a special mixed veggies looking spoon from an out of production SS pattern that Dirty Dog had made up for me this winter. A big laker came on the DR down 65ft with a Mountain Dew/pearl spin doctor- green fly and the steelhead hit on the other DR down 85 ft with a UV blue dolphin spoon.

Thanks for the report. Best report I have seen in a while. I was beginning to wonder if the fish were gone. Heading out in the morning. Now I'm a little more encouraged. I thought maybe were were just going out for a boat ride. I will post if we get anything.

Good job. Going to give it a try tomorrow. First trip of the season.

Great job Terry. Got my boat out of storage yesterday. Going out to start getting it ready. Looks like it is GO Time

I agree with the advice to keep a short lead on your DR presentations unless you go with a SWR set up. Too long of a lead does not allow your presentation to run correctly.

However a Secret Weapon Rig (SWR) is usually 2-3 colors of leadcore + a mono leader that allows you to run your presentation back further and the leadcore stabilizes the presentation to allow it to work correctly.

I like to run one two color SWR on one down rigger and one three color SWR on the other down rigger just to put some separation between them.

Wish you could have joined us Shawn. Need to get you out on the Sea Eagle sometime soon now that you are boatless.

Fished out of SH this AM with good friends Denny and John. Went 6-9. Two Kings a real nice Coho, a Steelhead and two Lakers.

Fished between 110 to 140, with most fish taken around 110 ft mostly north of the pier.

11" Pearl dodger/green fly meat rig on a Mag DD set on #2 back 145 took one and lost one. UV blue dolphin spoon on a DR/SWR down @ 65 ft and 75 ft took two. Mixed veggies SD/green fly on a full core took one and lost a real nice steelhead. Pink alewife spoon on 200 ft of copper took one. Carmel dolphin spoon on a Mag DD set on #2 back 120 took one. Denny said we lost another, but darned if I know on what. I just drive the boat.

Outstanding job.

What time did you set lines? Were you fishing before sun up or catching the fish on the moonshine stuff after the sun came up? Or was this a night trip?

Nice steelhead. Always a challenge to get one to the net. Good job.

Went out with Sea Hawk (Denny) Saturday morning. Went 5/5, two kings, two lake trout and an undersized coho that had to go back. First time out in a month.

Fished straight out from the pier to the south and then north. Tried to stay outside of the pack for the most part. Set lines and trolled in an out between 70 and 120 ft.

First fish (king) came on a DR/SWR @ 55ft down with a UV blue dolphin spoon. Next king in hit 200 ft of copper with pink alewife spoon. Went thought a dry spell between 8:30 to 10:30 then we got the first laker on 300 ft of copper with a pearl SD/green fly combo. Had the last laker hit the other DR/SWR with a UV blue dolphin spoon @ 75 ft down as we were pulling lines. Found the undersized coho on the other 200 copper/pink alewife spoon rig.

Sure was neat to see all of the boats out for the Operation Injured Soldier event. Great job South Haven Steelheaders.

Thanks for the report. Have not been out in a month. Looking forward to getting out this weekend.

Great job. We fished in SH on Saturday and could only scratch up two fish. We fished between 85 to 160 ft of water. Sounds like we should have went out deeper.

Thanks for the report! Big laker, did you take a picture?

Reel Therapy

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=7084&catid=member&imageuser=319

Not the best photo, but it filled the fish box

Thanks for the report. Are the flies still bad?

Not too bad for most of the morning, but they were getting real annoying by 11:00.

My fishing buddy had even said "knock on wood, no flys today" right before the first few showed up, so you know who got the blame.

Fished out of SH this am. Went 2-2. 8 lb steelhead on orange NBK on a 1/2 core and 15 lb laker on a SWR on the DR down 75 ft with a UV blue dolphin spoon. Fished to the south of the pack from 85 ft to 160 ft. Both fish were caught somewhere around 100 ft of water.

First time out in three weeks. Have been hearing better reports better lately, but slow day for us.

Friest decent report out of SH in some time great job on the Hos. How deep were you fishing?

Came over to Erie from Southwest Michigan last weekend to chase some walleye since the salmon bite has been real slow.

Put in a good 8 hours on Saturday and a few more Sunday morning. Fished out of turtle creek around the L can and them out to north east of west sister island on Saturday and around the K and L cans east on Sunday morning. The best bite was running west on a line between the monument on put n bay and west sister island. Marked the most fish in this area as well. Lots of dead mayflies out in that area.

Ran hot and tots in anything that looked like an emerald shiner and later in the day the larger tots in wonderbread and pink/white/gold.

Picked away at them with an average of one walleye per hour, but 3 sheepshead for every walleye we caught and a couple of white bass.

We did better than that we must have caught 20 sheepshead today. Of course we were on Lake Erie. Got tired of the slow bite on Lake Michigan and decided to give walleye a try. Caught 8 walleye, but a heck of a lot more sheepshead.