Gnarf

Temps for the great lakes salmonoids doesnt seem to matter as much.

Ive always heard "look for the 45-50 degree water and youll find em!

Most of my fish come in 60-70 degree water...

This time of year evening bite is mostly right at sunset.

You can pick a few up during high sun but its usually hit or miss. Meat rigs work for me mid day but not a ton of action.

Dave you are so lucky i lost that 20lber at the net

I love BW's stuff! Unfortunately, there was a spoon on the end of this copper.

it wasnt a double trouble was it? and was it bloodrun copper?

At that speed how do you keep the fish hooked up :D:D:D

17 free sliders

outdoorsman has blue label green label and erie deerie strips and premium strips.

gold coast in port sheldon has some aswell

If you want guaranteed fish (so to speak) and the weather permits, fish deep

150 to 220 will hold lots of coho steelies, mix sized kings and laker. Might not find lots of big fish but ill bet youll have lots of action. This time of year it seems to be the cool place to be if your a fish

my 300' 45lb snagged bottom in 78 foot with mag moonshine running 2.4 sog

and snagged bottom in 84 foot going 2.0 sog

a bit shallower with a big paddle.

Flashers and flies going out today. Good luck everyone and hope the stuff works:) BW

I never thought id say it but

"i love big weenie!"

If you guys don't mind a rookie(well at least compared to most of ya who have probably fished more times, on the big pond, in the last month than I have in my life) and I can manage to find a few riders, then I will give it a shot and bring my newly redone boat November Squaw-ler out on Saturday.

Bring it! this is a fun type league. Feels like a big league but the guys will answer questions and help ya catch fish. Ive learned a lot from WMFL.

Fish are scatterd or have lock jaw.

80-100 FOW and 120-130 FOW seems to hold fish.

Try a mix bag of depths and lures and work from there.

Seems most of the action is right at sunrise/sunset

Yeah, sure will. I may need to pick some of your brains before the event if that is cool. I have never fished out of Holland.

Some lingo you will pick up on:

"The sliders" - South of holland, a few big sand dunes

"The Ball" - even more south, almost to saugatuck, and old radar station that looks like a weather ball.

"The stacks" - north at port sheldon a large cooling tower for the power plant. Pretty easy to see.

and as said its pretty darn flat. Lakers can usually be taken at the sliders in 80-100 foot.

Blues and greens always seem to work, the dolphins almost always go down for me.

You running glow stuff?

Its my ticket for low light fishing.

Moonshine flounder pounder and blue flounder pounder take fish every single time.

But like jake said fish shallower. At night all the aquatic creatures rise to near surface depths and the bait soon follows... followed by the salmon

Paddle

"Spinnie" or spin doctor

Boats n ho's is in, come hell or 6 footers.

I was in port sheldon with the same situation. Only bites i got were right at sunset with moonshines.

Here we are all trying to get 8, 10, 12+ rods in the water with all different types of baits, delivery methods and presentations. Complex reels, lines, wire, copper, braid, etc. Every time I watch the west coast guys on WFN fishing for salmon its the same. Two riggers, 2 flasher flys, 2 mooching reels on 2 rods. They must find our methods entertaining.

They have stricter limits on number of rods. But yeah i suppose 12 rods with copper lead divers and sliders looks a bit crazy

silver j-plug red head

Planning on hauling my boat up to the ludington - manistee area weekend on august 10th.

Any suggestions on where to launch?

I have a 18foot boat, just never been to the area looking for places to avoid etc.

Also any general guidelines for fishing up there? I imagine itll be pretty packed.

Beats my biggest!

nice job

How do you guys store all those flys?

"Pool noodles"

I used to crack a beer and watch the show at port sheldon. Classic.

Awesome!

I want to try this so bad. Great video man.

For holland data text "45029" without the quotes to

734-418-7299

If you talking about in line planers....

let all of the lead out, plus 10 feet of backer. Then attach your board and let her go back to where you want. Set your drag so that it just barely holds, or even clicks once in a while. When a fish hits it will screaaam. Now i dont have my boards set to release, just personal preference. I point the rod tip down and reel it in.

if the board dives, back off and let it come back to the surface.