In The Net

we arn't going out of ps tmrw, but we are going out of holland and we are probably gonna go straight out and start setting lines at 130 fow and troll straight west and see where we mark/hit the fish. hope that helps

great catch and great job

yeah your going to have to see what people are saying about those ports at that time. It's too early to say which port will be better. but have you never been out of ludington??

ooo yeah the cohos were very tasty

we decided to take the boat out for the 1st trip of the year. We knew it was gonna be cold out so we decided to head out a litlle late. lines were set by 9:00 am and we were done fishing by about 12:00. ended the day 8 for 9. We got 5 kings and 3 cohos. the first king was a nice 14#. then we got three nice 7-10# kings. the other king was pretty small and the coho were 2-3#.

what worked:

-mag dipsey on 3 setting back 115 with DW bloody nose. 2-2 (also took are two biggest fish)

-150 32# ciopper with mini green flounder pounder. 1-2 (coho)

-rigger down 170 with green spinnie and fly. 1-1 (coho)

-200 45# with mongolian beef 1-1 (king)

- 100 32# with gold and black thin fin 1-1 (coho)

- rigger down 55 with blue and yellow nbk. 1-1 (king)

- mag dipsey on 3 setting back 180 with DW bloody nose. 1-1 (dipsey with bloody nose took the nice kings)

The alwives in the kings were HUGE and then the cohos were full of bugs.. Both are good signs in my oppinion

i figured, but we usually get out their early so we might b4 the boats

where exactly do you jig?? like what fow and are you inside the pierheads??

had the same issue last year. We lost ALOT of fish on our dipseys and we had 9 foot 6 inch rod and a 10 foot rod and we lost alot of fish. Then this year we switched our rods to short 7 foot rods and they work perfectly. We catch like 90% of the fish we have on our dipseys. Also make sure the drag is as lose as possible.

started in 80 fow and couldent get anything to go so we moved out to 130 fow and started hitting fish. we ended up 6 for 9. best speed was 2.5 at the ball. Everything came on mountain dew spin doctors with green flys except for the first fish which came on 200 ft copper with lemon ice. then the 300 copper took 2 with a mountain dew SD and green fly. the rigger with a green SD and green teaser fly rig went 1 for 2. Dipseys with mountain dew SD took 2 fish. Then we lost one on a torpedo with green SD and fly. And had a nice rip on the same 300 copper rig as above.

Caught most fish 70 down. green SD with chrome backs were best. All 6 fish caught were 12# kings. They were all identical fish. Then 2 of them that we lost were right behind the boat and looked like the same size. idk about the other one because we didnt see it. So alot of nice 3 year olds out their. Had a newbie out on the boat and he got to reel in all of the fish, and he had alot of fun. Great day except for the ugly storm

i know they are doing great.. we have fished ludington all year but we just brought are boat down to the holland area and we havent fished ludington/frankfort for 2 weeks. So i dont have the best details. Although i can tell you that if your fishing ludington then a safe bet is running about 5 miles north to what is called the bathouse and set down in 80-130 fow and troll north to what is called the point, and if you hit fish then turn around and go right back through there. Put a couple spin doctors and flys along with some spoons and see if you catch some fish. Good luck!!

thanks.. we just brought the boat down from ludington and it seems like ppl are killing them in holland so we should be heading out soon. Cant wait because this year in ludington it has been catching BIG fish just not alot of fish. but thanks for the info!!!

true we were 20 for 35 in 5 hours

was that today?? and if so what fow??

idk why their are so many doubles this year. We had a trip this year out of ludington where we went 8 for 11 and we had 4 doubles and a triple. Never had a single. If one fish hit then another did. The only problem was that we only had 2 ppl on the boat and it was 3-4 footers and alot of boat traffic. So I had to reel all the fish in. Loosen the drag on one rod and figh tthe other one. Alot of fun when its in a 1 hour span.

couldent agree more.. we had the same issue last year but we seem to be doing alot better this year since we have the drag really lose.. We have so lose so that it randomly clickes out line when trolling. Just make sure the drag is loose, and dont horse the fish in. We have caught 5 20lbs+ this year on the dipseys, and we let them take 300 to 400 ft of line on their first run. Just let them go!!

yeah i have not seen much big lake lure stuff around. I was just at gander mountain and i looked for some big lake lure stuff but i coulent find any. We might just have to run some standard SD fly setups tonight

i know abot the teasers ont he meat rigs because we run those but what do you mean by a teaser fly rig?? im not sure i have seen that

nice job. I think we will be fishing holland tmrw night.. It seems like spin doctors and flys are hot

our last trip ot we caught 2 steelhead on high divers and we also lost on on high dipsey. So it seems like we catch steelhead on our dipsey that are high in the water column and with bright colors. Such as mixed veggie and green dolphin

always attach it to your backer and yes you can cut off 3 colors and it would get you to 7 color

it didnt help that the 10 year old was trying to bring in the steelhead, but he sure did love watching them jump

yup every single one jumped 4 or 5 times. along with the ones we lost

we have had some really nice rips on flys also but moonshine spoons have brought in alot of 20+# fish this year. We have caught at least 10 20+# out of ludinton this year. They are BIG this year. We have had like 5 straight trips with at least 1 20# in the box. We had three 20# in the box a couple weeks ago.

Fished from 50-130 fow and the temp. Was WARM (60-70 degrees from top to bottom) but just south of the point the temp dropped to 54 and we found the fish. First we caught a 16# with a Mongolian beef back 100 on high diver. Then we had a SCREAMER it took 300 foot of wire out before it came off. That was a blue bubble spin doctor with a blue rubber poofster back 125 on a low diver. It hit well I was setting it. I went to stop the dipsey and it just kept goon. Then we had a double. First the green jeens on the half core went and then the Mongolian beef went. That was a interesting double because the first fish was a 15# and the second one was a 20#. The 20# got tangled in the rigger and dipsey so I had to hand line that into the net. We missed another fish on the half core so we ended 3 for 5.

We decide to run out deep into the 40's (400 fow) went 5 for 9. Went on a west troll and hit our first fish well setting rods. DDipsey 100 back with green dolphin. Lost it at the back of the boat. Then we just plucked away at them. We had a fish on every 15-30 min. Mixed veggie on dipsey took 2 steelhead. Carmel dolphin on rigger took one. Happed meal on rigger missed one. Green jeens on half core missed a stealhead that put on a areil show. 300 copper with meat rig missed a nice king. And the blue dolphins on a 7 color caught a nice steelhead and a 20# king. So it was a pretty good night. Just alot of jumping steelhead who were throwing the hook

What fow were you in when you went deep?

yeah we only have one moonshine plug (hapee meal) and we always run it on our copper and it seems to being doin good in ludington. The silver hordes have been good also