In The Net

Sorry for the late report but we had a very eventful night Friday night. We ended up 6-13. Our ratio for actually catching them wasn't the best for 2 reasons. First was we had a totally newbie reelin in the fish and well he thought the fish were bass and he was really trying to horse in 15 lb kings. Another reason was we had 5 kings hit in about a 5 minute period. So we had 5 14-18 pound kings on at the same time. We caught 2 of those 5. 3 of them came together behind the boat and snapped themselves off. But 5 kings on at the same time is extremely entertaining to say the least. We also had a double before that. And we only caught 1 of those. The double and the 5 header all happened around 9 pm but the 2 hours before that we just picked away at some fish 1 by 1. All the kings were 14-18 pound kings including the ones we lost.

We hit all the fish in the 100 fow range anywhere from 30-70 down

300 copper with purple meat rig (hot)

250 copper with green flounder pounder

200 copper with U of M froggie spoon

200 copper with blue meat rig

150 copper with blue meat rig

Dipsey out 175 with blue SD and fly

Down riggers down 40 and 45 with green and blue moonshine spoons

Also slow speed from 2.1-2.2 was the best

Just curious If anyone has any info on ludington right now. Fow? How far down the fish are? What's working? Anything would help

so what FOW was that?

Went 6 for 9 in 120-140 fow. Started setting lines in 120 fow and as we were putting the 1st rigger down it popped and the line started singing. 10 minutes later we had a 15lber in the boat. Then we were dumb and continued to troll west all the way out to 170 fow with nothing. Finally turned around and once we hit 140fow we hit another fish and between 120 fow and 140 fow during the last 2 hours of fishing we managed 6 fish and 3 misses.

All kings! One 10 pounder. Three 15-17 pounders and a 22 lber. O and a small king

What worked:

Down riggers 3 for 5 with moonshine spoons (green and blue was good)

Dispeys 1 for 2 bloody nose DW and moonshine spoon

Copper 2 for 2 (200 and 250 45#) UV green flounder pounder and u of m silver streak

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Did you get them all 40-60 down?

Went out for the first trip of the year just hoping everything would work and didn't have much trouble. We went out planing to stay pretty close to shore to try and catch some browns and steelhead but the water looked like chocolate milk. We spent awhile in close and finally decided to head out to the clear water which was about 50 fow. We started marking some fish about 40 down so we threw some riggers down there with both body baits and spoons. As soon as we got south of the pier heads we hit a 8lb laker. (Uv wonderbread moonshine spoon) By that time we had been out there for awhile and we were starving. (Forgot to bring some food with us) so we called it a day and headed in. There are definitely lakers between holland and saugatuck at about 50 fow. Our problem was that we went north and shallow. But it was just good to get out their on the water and get the boat running! Can't wait for the kings to come in! When that happens it won't matter how hungry I am!

Wow nice

Alright we'll be out there also. Prolly just gonna see if we can't find some brown an steelhead in the shallow water.

Hey I know the whether has been absolutely terrible but were going to take the boat out Sunday just to break everything In for this year and was curious if anyone knows much about the fishing status out of holland right now

The boat name is in the net but we don't actually have it on the boat. It's a 21 foot trophy

Yeah you too. We can't make it out Sunday mornIng but were heading out Sunday night

Beautiful morning and the were hitting pretty well. We fished a little south of the point in 120-150 fow. We finished the day 12-20. Missed a lot of really good rips. 70-80 down was holding the most fish.

What worked:

Riggers down 70-80 with moonshine spoons (green flounder ponder being the best) 4-7

Dipseys back 225-250 with green sd and fly and green sd with green meat rig. 2-5

200 copper 32# with green splatter back jplug 1-1

200 copper 45# with white with black ladder back 1-2

250 copper 45# with green flounder pounder jplug 1-2

300 copper 45# with hapee meal jplug 3-3

yeah we use the magnum dipseys and idk if the color makes a difference. we use clear ones though. and moonshine spoons witha uv finish has been HOTT. wonder bread, blue and green jeans, flounder pounder all have been good. all moonshine spoons. o and green meat rig has been good.

yeah do exactly what rascal trophy fishing said. what days are you going to be in ludington gary?

if your fishing salmon then it should be no problem. they are away too deep for them to even hear that.

sorry for the late reply but i've been busy. eyes N leapers all that stuff should work well. my two best pieces of advice for you are try to get as much copper out as possible because has been hott for us lately. one day like a week ago we had 5 coppers go at the same time. and the 6th one went about 5 minutes later. also but a fixed slider on those riggers. with all the steelhead and coho on the bank the slider catches alot of fish. it catches alot of nice kings also. the moonshine uv glow as a slider has been hott all year! o and the bathouse is about 6 ish miles north of the pier heads and the point is 8 miles north of the pier heads. if you fish between those two spots and get your lures in water with good tempature then you should get some fish! Also i perfer the 6 walley boards bc you can hit alot of depths. i like the 150 copper or even the 100 copper for steelhead as the outside board and the 200, 250, and 300 copper are great for the kings.

went for a pretty short trip because we had to pull lines by 9am. started a little south of the bathhouse is 160 fow. we got all the lines set without a hit and then a little south of the point we hit a lot of fish. by the time we turned at the point we were 5-8. then we headed south and didnt hit a fish for probably an hour but once we popped out to 200 fow we hit alot of fish. we caught 7 fish out there and missed another 5. so we ended 12-20 on the day.

what worked:

riggers anywhere from 40-70down. bloody nose uv moonshine spoon, blue jeans moonishine spoon and uv wonderbread moonshine spoon.

dipsey 150-175 back with sd fly or green meat rig.

coppers 150, 200, 200, 250, 300 all did really well. all had moonshine spoons on them and the 300 copper had purple meat rig on it. coppers were hot. they caught over half of the fish

nice job. we were up in ludington during those same days and we killed them just like you. the fishing is simply fantastic in ludington this year.

we fished in ludington all week last week and killed them. we will be back up there in a couple weeks so we will have to give youa shout when we get back up there

What a great night. The weather was great along with the fishing. We got our 3 man limit of fish. 15-25 the average size of the kings were15# plus we had 2 8# steelhead. We went north to the point and fished 130-160 fow. Most hits were anywhere from 40-80 down.

What worked:

Braid Dipsey back 175 with green SD an meat rig 6-7

Braid Dipsey back 145 with green SD and green/yellow fly 3-3

Rigger down 80 with blue anchovy 1-3

Rigger down 70 with ble jeans 1-4

Rigger down 70 with green jeans 0-2

150 copper with lemon ice 1-2

200 copper with yellow jeans 1-1

250 copper with uv green flounder pounder 2-2

Wonder bread slider 0-1 or maybe 2

Got a late start on the 4th so we didnt get Rods in the water until 8:30 but we still had a ton of fun. Went north in 130-210 fow and hit a lot of fish. We ended the night 8-22. Yeah I said 22. We couldn't keep them hooked up. But we had 2 triples and a quad. We fished mostly 40-80 down

What worked:

6 color with blue dolphin 0-1

150 copper lemon ice 0-1

200 copper yellow jeans 1-1

200 copper bloody nose uv shine 0-1

250 copper flounder pounder uv shine 2-2

Braid Dipsey 150 back with green SD/fly 3-4

Braid Dipsey 150 blue bubble 1-1

Rigger 70 down blue anchovy uv shine 1-5

Rigger 80 down blue jeans 1-6

Went out on a friends boat this mornIng 7/6 and we went 9-18. A lot of the same info as above

North in 180-210 foe to start and 130-140 fow later

Got out at about 7 tonight and a slow start but that didn't last long. We got a steelhead to start things off and about 9 we couldn't keep rods In the water. We had a fish on at almost all times for about 2 hours and ended the night with a triPle. The final count was 12-22 (7 kings) (5 steelhead) we lost some really big kings but what can you do. A lot of 13-15 pound fish

What worked:

6 color with blue dolphin (1 fish)

250 45# copper with green flounder pounder uv (2 fish)

300 45# copper with happe meal (got broken off)

Dipsey back 175 on 3 setting with green SD with green fly (missed one)

Dipsey back 150 on 1.5 setting with Mongolian beef (broken off by a monster)

Down rigger down 70 with blue jeans and wonder bread uv slider (caught 5 and lost 4)

Down rigger down 80 with blue mOngolian beef and red crab slider (caught 4 and lost 3

Ill just start of by saying wow what a great morning of fishing. We started at about 5:30 and we were headed in at 11. We ended 14 for 19. 4 steelhead, one laker and the other 9 were kings averaging about 14 pounds. The steelhead were nice steelhead also. Any where from 6 to 10 pounds. We lost about 15 pound steelhead right behind the boat. All those nice kings put up quite the fight also. The only negative to the trip was the broken/lost tackle. We had 3 brake offs. 2 big kings broke the line and a stealy broke another. But it's worth it because of the 160+ pounds of fish in the box.

Now to the important stuff. Fished from the bathhouse to th point in 70-130 fow. Hit the fish anywhere from 35-70 down. 50 down being the best.

What worked: moonshine spoons on riggers in the beginning, spoons of dipseys in the beginning, and spoons off of copper when the sun was high. 200 copper with blue and green chilly willy did great! Spin doctor and fly went twice and meat rig went once. Great fishing trip!!

lines were in the water by about 7:30 and we were done by 11. we went a total of 18-19 because we threw three little shakers back. 16 of them were coho and 2 kings. mostly everything worked but dipsey with bloody nose back 130 on a 3 setting took 7 fish. mongolian beef took 3 which we started on a 150 copper but ended up moving it to a torpedo. we decided to take all the copper out of the water about half way through because we couldn't even keep the dipsies and riggers in the water. copper i think did take 4 fish in the short amount of time we had it out there. dipsey with orange chilly willey took one. green spin doctor with green fly took 3. mongolian beef also took one on a dipsey. overall dipseys with spoons took 9 fish. torpedo took 2. copper/lead took 4. riggers only took 3 though. best depth was 170-190 fow. great day out on the water