littleboat

Fished 9am-1:20pm 2 for 2, kings in 120 and 130 fow. 3# and 4#. 1st on 300 32# copper, sog 2.8, sw troll with blue bones spoon. 2nd one on se troll, sog 2.1, braided diver set on 3, 120bk w/ meat rig grn/white/dots. The 1st caused quite a tangle up between a 45# 250 cu, 32# 300 cu and wire diver. Surprised me, because I thought it would have been a much bigger fish. . I had to do some wire cutting to keep the fishing going. 3 ft waves at the time about 6.5 miles off shore. We were out to 200 but started in 80fow.

Stopped at 90' on my way out. Water temp was warm all the way to the bottom. Headed for deeper water. Marked many, but no biters until I started a SE troll from 175'

Fished 6-8am 5.18# lake trout 1 for 2 in 135fow, sog 2.8, DR@125' back 40' w/grn &white meat rig, sse troll. Waves were 1-3' with the higher ones near shore. Second hit came on same DR 10 minutes later.

Headed out of holland. I'm usually am on 68. My smaller boat I usually run out of PS. Sd program seems to work the best off drs. Divers didn't do anything even with sd & flys. I'm going to try a different technique with them next time out. Marked alot of bait in the area, but it was only when I got away from the bait balls a considerable distance did I get bites.

Love the flag, been there!

Fished 4-8pm 3/3Â 6.35# LT, 7.25#KING and 2.65# king. Started sw of PS, no takers then from 7-8pm everything took off. Ran from 110'nw-170'sw-145'sse fow @ 2-2.7 sog. All bites were in the top of the water column <60ft. DR set @ 40' net minder sd w/artic blast fly 60' back took lake trout in 174fow. DR set @ 60' e-chip flasher grn & pearl with proofster fly set 40' back took king in 159fow. 400 copper w/lemon dolphin spoon took little king in 145fow

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