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Thanks for the report. Got back from vacation in Canada last week, and have been itching to get back on the big lake, but need to catch up at work first. Should be out Saturday and Sunday though! I'll probably be looking for steelhead in 100-200 fow. There should be next years kings out there too. Planning to fish small spoons quickly with mostly long lines. 2 color through 400 copper to start!

I run an 8 year old Humminbird unit so I don't know the Low range settings, but I think I have mine set on Clear Mode but have the gain turned up all the way. The Elite 7 is a decent unit. Try running the 83khz setting to see if there are more marks around.

With the warmer water slightly deeper, I let the mag divers out a bit more than 2 times the depth to cold water. So for cold water down about 100 feet, I would run them at maybe 225 and 250. Down 80, maybe 185 & 215. What kind of fish finder are you running?

Yes, we had a busy evening . Kings were mostly 14-18 lbs. Couldn't get number 10 to finish the limit. Things seem to shut down right at dark.

Odd weather. Nice work! Wind was swirling in Frankfort yesterday evening. Couldn't pick a direction. But stayed under 7 knots the whole evening. We were watching remnants of the storm cells cross south of us.

Had a friend join me and we decided to try West Platte Bay tonight. Fished in 130-160 fow. Meat, plugs, spoons, flasher flies all took fish. Speed 2.0-2.4. All lures 60-120 down. 7 kings, 1 lake trout, a coho.

Nice work while getting beat up in the chop! Another option for rough days which I don't fish very often at all - I've found it easy to run 2 coppers on leadcore. Set them in my diver holders on opposite sides of the boat and forget trying to put boards on. Or just run one with a board. Would have to go with the waves so you don't tangle up. For me it beats leaning on the corners of the boat to set my riggers.

Nice work! I fished Ludington last night and had a crazy 1 hour of bites, but couldn't get them to the net. Will be back to my usual Holland/Saugatuck waters soon.

So they're still there, just a bit deeper down. Nice work!

Love the mud. Should be more fish each time the lake flips moving forward here!

The successful lured have been 2 oz EJ jigs. Jigging the lure straight, no bait. The for bait, I've just been putting an alewife on a slip bobber set at 30 feet or so. And then on the other one I run a basic slip rig for the pier with a 1 oz weight and a 6 foot leader. But so far, no bites on bait. Maybe helps bring the fish in? Its been hard to keep the bait from tangling up.

Took of work early and took my dad fishing. Launched at 5 pm and got some bait on sabiki rigs before running to Little Point. Saw a charter? working 80 fow or so, so ran a mile past them and spot locked in 70 fow. Dropped two bait rods and started jigging. About 15-20 minutes later charter shows up honking at me and complaining that I set up in front of them. And aggressively pulling boards to make space. They had half a mile inside of us or 80 miles outside. Not sure on etiquette here but in my opinion a 5 degree course correction a little early would have solved their issue. Also I can't move very fast with my motor off running spot lock... Anyway their boat noise pushed some fish our way and we had our first fish pretty fast. And the rest of the night was pretty successful. Ended up 2/6 jigging with 1 coho 1 king. At 8:45 started trolling back to port and had a spectacular hour of fishing going 5/7. Still in 70-100 fow. 3 color went, 100 copper went, down riggers went with spoons. Then my meat rig on a diver took 4 hits and go two nice kings to the boat including an 18 lb fish. Diver back 55 ticking back to 80. Never made it to 80 - each time got hit on the way down Meat rig was on a 10" chrome spin doctor dragon slayer. Was running a whole salted and alewife that I salted after a Ludington trip a few weeks ago. That one alewife survived all 4 strikes and was still good to send back but we decided a 7 fish box was good enough and opted to run back to port before it got really dark out. Waves were, well there were no waves. It was glass out there and the water temp was from 50-60 degrees.

Didn't feel like posting a whole new thread. Tried the jigging thing again Saturday afternoon. Wasn't able to find any bigger concentration of fish, but had maybe 6 or 7 follows between 3 of us on the boat and got one nice king in on a white EJ jig 2 oz. Seemed to me with the flip, most of the fish were in the upper 20 feet which makes jigging a bit more tricky. Fished 80-120 fow by the point.

Took a short trip this morning. Primarily wanted to catch some alewives, which was accomplished fairly quickly in the harbor with a sabiki rig. Put some in salt but kept a few in the livewell. After running out to 70 fow I stopped and dropped an alewife down, and started jigging with my second rod. Had many fish swim in interested and had 4 hits. Ended up catching a coho. At 11 I decided to troll back north towards port, but although I had multiple fish following the flasher fly on the downriggers, only had 1 hit on a diver back 70 feet with the flasher fly. Pulled lines around 12:30.

I was in 70-90 fow. Also right around 9:30 LiveScope started marking schools and schools of bait fish.