littleboat

Holland 4-7pm 5/23 Took the doctors medicine, started out at 155', set the DR with blue/green SD and artic fly at 109' bk 40'. King took it, 8.35# 28"lg. 2.6 sog, sw troll, 42 degrees at ball, lake was flat. 1/1 nothing else. Picked up at 7pm headed in. Littleboat

Holland 5-14 am 8-12:30 Congrats on the catch. I went south along the shore with no luck for about 4 miles looking for a brown. I headed out to deeper water to change the game getting only a couple of releases but no fish. The water was actually more calm out farther 120' deep. It was a beautiful day and I picked up only one rider. LB

Stopped by the docks and channel tonight 3/26 6:15pm, water is open by the launch with ice chunks still in the entrance. Littleboat

Is there much ice fishing on Lake Macatawa? Port Sheldon? LB

I have a Crestliner Sport Angler 16 1/2 ft. with a Minkota autopilot (Terrova) motor is 12v 55lb thrust with foot control option also runs on a single battery. I use it on the Detroit River, St. Clair River and lake. It runs very well with the autopilot. BUT, I added a Ray Marine autopilot on it this year. I troll with my boat main engine which gives you much better control on the big lake, especially when the waves start to grow to 4ft. On the river the small I-pilot works fine and the big lake if the water is calm. You may want to upgrade to a 24v motor if you will be carrying a heavy load while you just use you I-pilot. Using the main (60hp 4 stroke)with an my Raymarine auto pilot takes cares of the power and battery issues. LB

Thanks, we are looking to buy a house and move over there, we really like it.

Lake was calm to lazy rollers. 3 for 4, two on wire dipsy with NBK flasher and artic blast fly, back 168 set at 1(lake trout and steelhead)). One on DR down 70' with 40' lead with net minder SD and blue mirage dancer 2 fly ( caught the king). SOG 2.3 -2.8, Depth 147-170' and zigzag pattern. Sizes Steelhead 5.47# 25", king 11.71# 30", laketrout 9.43# 30". Loss chicken wing lure on 200' 45# copper when it got hit by something big. No hits on lemon berry or blue dolphin spoons today. Good conversation on the lake today with Dr. Hook. Pulling the boat home. See you next season. Goodluck and good fishing. I'll be checking the posts for your progress. Littleboat

Fished south of harbor. Set up in 80'. Trolled west 250 degrees out to 120'. Marked fish but no bites.From the chatter on the radio, not a lot of bites overall. Those AM fishermen must have caught most of the fish. Had a bullet type hit on my blue splatter back j-plug on a 200' 45# copper on a board and a short release. I moved out into deeper water 165'. DR went off 78' down trolling monkey puke fly with crush glow sd at 2.6 SOG west to east 115 troll. Cranked in a huge lake trout, which laid over from end to end  the entire net as it bowed in the middle filling it. As I tried to pull him in, the he shook the hook and got free. The only fish caught of the night got away. Heart breaking. The lake was extremely calm. We marked more fish deeper than shallower. Hope the weather improves for the weekend. LB

What a MONSTER! Congrats! LB Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

Lake was calm, went 3 for 4, one of each 10.36# lake trout, 8.45# steelhead, 6.36# king. Lost 4th fish king (big) as I was netting him. The line broke when the wife couldn't walk any farther with the pole in the boat. Fished 105-160'. Most hits came in 120 fow on a E-W troll 2.4 sog. DR lead 60 back with SD with green edge and purple/green/white fly 88' down got the LT. DR with same SD with artic white fly got king same depth. Wire Diver with green cheap meat rig, set on 2 105 back got the steelhead. Lost one big fish (king)which took my meat rig and SD at the boat. I was just south of harbor LB

Last night's catch. The fishing station was a busy place with people standing in line. LB

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2 for 4 , lake was basically flat, DR down 88' with green glow SD and white fly got 9# lake trout in 167 fow, SOG 2.8 E-W troll. Water temp was 43@ 90'. Steelhead caught in 20' on slide diver set on 0, back 80' with 75' lead in 189 fow on E-W troll 2.4 sog. Loss 2 other steel heads on wire diver meat rig and double orange crush spoon on a 5 color, both were in 190-205 fow. LB Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

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1 for 3 and the one wasn't a big one. it was a small king, which I released back. The two other hits were steelhead that threw our lures. The water temperature has really messed up the fishing. Not a lot of bites from most of the fisherman. Surface temp was 52-58 @ 40' it was 43, water depth was 150 -202 ' at the stick. SOG was 2-3 to 2-6. You can see the lure I caught the BIG KING on in the picture. All my hits came on 5-8 color leadcore. Fishing here was pretty much like being in a parade. Find a slot and fall in. I hope the weather improves for fishing, but we will be leaving and not be able to enjoy it. Some guys did ok, but overall it was tough on the rest of us. LB Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

Congrats on the catch. Those are definitely night fish, because we worked that area during the day and almost got skunked. Nice sizes! Good luck keep it up. LB Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

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Slow day for the littleboat only one steelhead. Fished 10-2:30pm. It was 8.06#. Caught on 250 32# copper, sw troll at 2.5 SOG with an orange NBK in a 152'. Trolled between 80-160'. Water temp was 66 and 40 at 77'. The lake was very calm today. Actually saw the board I lost yesterday, but couldn't get back to it with all the lines just set. I was sw of Port Sheldon. The fish must have all gone to the Holland today. Isn't that just how it goes. LB Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app