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I'm with Matt. Love the Taloras.

Nice Buck Ed!!!

Went out this morning before light, started setting up at 80FOW. Worked out to 170 with nothing. As it started getting light, we headed south. worked that 170 to 200 most of the day. Water temp at the surface was 56, down 85 it was 55.2 no matter where we went. About the time we turned south it all started. By the time we had a second to look around, there were only two lines left in the water. As it was pretty bumpy, we only ran 8 lines, 4 on the riggers, 4 dipsy divers. Here is what worked, anything we had on a pole, EVERY pole took at least one fish. Paddles and flies, spoons and meat. White and green flies, green, white and red spoons. It was a great morning, my daughter was able to catch three, including a great steelhead!! That is what its all about. Ended the morning 11 for 13, Steelhead, kings, laker and a Brown, really wanted that coho for the slam!! The odd part was, we NEVER saw another boat on the lake, we quit at 11:15. It is kind of nice to have the whole lake to yourself, but as good as the fishing is, I was kind of shocked.

We saw that boat headed north off of Grand Haven about a month ago. Kinda cool to see, at a distance.

100FOW out to 250. Fish are spread out, but they are there.

Went out this morning, set lines in 100FOW. Forgot the meat at home, so all spoons and flies. Trolled from 100 to 250 turned back made a couple loops outside of 140 and headed back in, pulled lines at 100. Kings early, steelhead later. 7 for 10. 4 of the fish came on a bluish green fly made by Charger. That fly has caught us so many fish we may have to retire it before it is completely destroyed!! Red headed moonshine got smashed a couple of times, got off. 225Cu took a couple, 150 copper took the other. Slim and smaller spoons did pretty well. It was a beautiful day, the lake was really busy for this late in the year. Some people still have not learned how to drive, you would think in 200FOW people would not have issues, think again. All in all a great trip, all three kids got to reel in their fish and they had a blast!

Impressive!!! I wanted to go pretty bad this morning, but the weather was not on our side.

No one in GH is killing huge or large numbers of fish. We have not caught one over 20 this year, last year was our first year back into it in 20 years, we caught half a dozen over 20. We typically slice the stomachs on most every fish we catch. We caught one big Coho mid summer, had 7 alewives in it. 80% of all we caught were empty. There are issues out there, Last weekend should have been amazing, first skunk of the year, no one could find them, they are not up the river yet in any numbers. The big boys are coming in empty too. I am holding out hope that this weekend will produce some fish, but I have my doubts. The affects of last winter are unknown, but they may have a negative impact on the fishery, hopefully we do not follow it up with another like it, or worse.

Really Odd right now. Should be gang buster combat fishing. It is no better south. Struggle may be an understatement

I noticed a real lack of reports lately, so I felt like i should.

Went out at 6AM, set lines in 50FOW, riggers, wire and braid divers, and short coppers. Started marking bait and fish, no takers. Headed west, worked out to 165, worked back into 30FOW.

Here's what worked:

Here's what didn't:

Meat, flies, spoons, plugs, riggers, divers, copper. Went the whole season without a skunk, until today. One guy claimed 5 for 5. other than that it sounded pretty rough.

There were plenty of boats.

After spending Saturday and Sunday out on the lake, Here is what i have to report. Save your gas, save your $$, stay home. Based on what we found, and what we heard on the radio, and reports from the cleaning station, there is not much going on. No one was catching enough to make it worthwhile. Sorry. I had much higher hopes for the weekend, the good news was i didn't have to watch either of the michigan teams choke.

They will bury the 44's too. Had it happen Sunday, last Sunday too. The big ones will do it. Not much you can do, feed it some line and try to get it back up, slow the boat down and hope.

We have caught a half dozen or more. They are fun and good sized. We fish out of GH.

Okuma Coldwaters and Convectors.

i have to say the reverse is true for me. i have never saw a big boat with gimbal mounted riggers. i agree with ryan put them on tracks! riggers are way too expensive to take a chance with. what i dont understand is why all the folks that use the boat for fishing and playing need to have no trace of fishing stuff on it when doing the other things.if i take someone out for a cruise and they are turned off by the fishing "stuff" they dont need to come back. i can see if some stuff gets in the way but everything ? as far as the weather if it cant take the weather the company president needs to be beat over the head with it !

We fish a 37' boat and use gimbal mounts. Went and talked to a friend that charters Saturday, gimbal mounts. They work perfect, when we are done, pull em out, canvas goes on as it should with nothing in the way. When we go swimming there is not fishing equipment in the way, the kids can jump off anywhere and there is no worry of them hurting themselves on it, or messing the equipment up

Went out deep friday morning. Chrome and Blue J-Plugs, couldn't keep them in the water. Flies and paddles solid, Moonglow spoons great early, Meat was dead. 12 for 18

Saturday, go out and run the same exact set up in the same exact depths, we struggled to 2 for 5. Apparently we need to pay more attention to the water temps and the affects of the winds.

Sunday, get a little direction from a friend. Stayed in tighter, ran plugs, moonglows, paddles and flies, no meat. Took over an hour and a half to get the lines set. Everything was going, moonglows went first, paddles and flies and plugs followed. We had a slight issue with getting them to the boat however. I see a couple of other posts that had the same issues, not sure why, the hooks were sharp!!! Ended 9 for 21, 7 kings and 2 steelhead. One king was 19 another was 18.

Great weekend.

Great report. Its crazy, our meat was dead and took nothing, Plugs were crazy!! Flies were pretty solid. The deep water was loaded on the top for sure.

We did very well deep on Friday, deep. Twelve in the boat friday morning. We were one of the boats that went out deep saturday, assuming. Bad move.

same issue. 9 for 21.

I believe you are correct. It layed down quite a bit when the wind changed. But other than that one hour it was less than impressive.

Went out Friday around 7PM to try some night fishing. Ran out to 150 and set lines and headed mostly west. Pretty slow. Hit 200FOW around 9PM, 225 CU went white paddle and white fly, nice steelhead. Got that back in the water and the Dipsy diver went with a meat rig, 15LB king. Got that back in and the Meat rig on the downrigger went, another mid teens king. We thought this is going to be a fun night. Then it Slowed down. Next fish came at 11PM on a 150 CU blue anchovie, 12.5lb steelhead. The first 4 were all in 200-240. Then it really slowed down. Last fish was a laker on a diver with a meat rig in about 90FOW about 3AM. Great night on the lake, 5-5, had Fun lights worked great, would have liked the pace to keep up a bit, but they were all nice fish.

Try Keenan on spring lake

A lot of rain and higher river levels pulling it all down is all I can think of.

Lake was like glass, fog was not too bad, flies were not terrible, I wasn't sure I was in the right place after the last week or two. Set lines a little before 6am in 80fow. Basically kept her on a west troll looking for some fish. First one came at 150fow, frog pattern paddle with a green and white fly made By Charger, that set up has caught us more fish in the last two weeks than the rest combined!! Trolled the 180-250 area for the most part, nearly all the strikes on a west troll. Hits on blue Sarge, bloody Carmel, blue and purple DW, white paddle/green meat rig, white SD/green fly. Downrigger, 150 & 225CU, and wire dipsy diver. Ended 6-9, one steelhead and 5 kings, biggest was 15lbs. Nothing huge, but all decent. The paddles with the echips did quite well for us.

There was nets to the north. Not sure if they are still there. We have done better south