Sea Eagle

Here he is

Sea Hawk is the screen name of a GLF member and is not the charter out of St Joe.

Fished the morning bite today with Sea Hawk. Went 3-4. King, Coho and Lake Trout. Fished West and South of the pier 80 - 125 ft of water. 90 +/- was best. Moonshine Flounder Pounder on SWR/DR down 65 ft took the King early. UV Blue Dolphin on the same set up took the Laker late morning. UV Green Dolphin on a full core took the Coho mid morning. Lost one mid morning on a UV Mt Dew SD/UV Gasoline Meat Rig combo on 200 copper. Took a rip and buried the board, but gone shortly thereafter. Watched a pleasure boater rip his trailer wheel apart on the post at the entrance gate at black river boat launch. We were cleaning fish when it happened. He had no spare.

Sure am glad I have never done that - recently. Thank god I was still tied up to the dock, but had already parked the truck. It took me a couple of minutes of wondering why the bilge pump was running to get to that oh crap moment. Don't believe I ever moved that fast to get the trailer back under the boat and up the ramp. Sure seemed like it took a lot longer for the water to drain out that it took to get in.

Saw this in South Haven on Sunday. The Van Buren Sheriff boat was on the scene. Anyone know what happened? Hope no one was hurt.

Just to echo what has already been said, it has been tough fishing out there this year. I've been at it now for more than a decade and have not come home with an empty box in years - that is until this year. I remember how you feel. Back when I started, everyone use to talk on the radio and it sure seemed like we were doing the same stuff everyone else was and everyone was catching fish but us. But hang in there, it will get better and this is some of the most exciting fishing around. All of that said, the best advice is to find someone who can show you the little things that make a deference. There are some good fishermen on this web site who will be more than happy to help you.

Yep - that would be it.

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.