jdh

No reports from me.  Still working on fixing my main outboard & my kicker.  Both quit working on the same day.

Thanks for the report.  Sounds like June fishing to me...

6 hits 6 different spoons, 3 sizes, multiple colors.

-JD

16 minutes ago, Steelhead#1 said:

What happened?

Electric problems.  Plugged carbs? I hope.  Couldn't get either running last Sunday.

Not going to be able to make it, unless I get my boat fixed. Main & kicker are not functional right now.

Not too sure about slow lures - except that i'll second the jointed orange rapalas.  I use a lot of Dreamweaver superslims and they troll pretty fast.  If you use big snap swivels, they troll even faster.  It's an aggressive technique meant to cover lots of water.  I troll these 3.5 - 5 mph.

Good job!  Good to hear of a good number of kings being caught up north this year.

Kevin - funny how a super free slider can be super pricey at the same time!  Bob,  I'd rather donate a paddle and meat rig vs. dumping a fish.  I'm bleeding them off the side of the side of the boat now and I'm scared I'm going to make the same mistake some day.

-JD

Nice job!  Weird how stuff works as all of our fish hit after 8 am.

Wound up 8-8. Bite shutoff not long after the last post.  Big laker and king were around 15 lbs

Pictures of Kid Coulson posing with the fish.

2 more fish.  Scumline mt dew again.  300 copper dreamweaver uv modified caramel dolphin.  6 kings, 1 laker so far.

2 more fish.  400 copper dreamweaver caramel dolphin.  Diver back 180 mt dew scumline pro king flasher with mirage fly.

3-3  2 kings (3-6 lbs) and a pig lake trout.  W & S trolls 2.3-2.5 at the ball. 160-175 fow.

Rigger down 101 ft - BLL blue spoon with a yellow edge stripe.

Rigger down 150 ft - Spotted dick BW meat rig

300 Copper - mag streak lemonberry.

Still 0-0.  Out in 160 fow.  Marking occasional fish 60 down to the bottom.

Threw my coffee cup overboard... One of those mornings.

0-0 right now.  Only 'warm' water down to 80 ft in 125 fow.  Threw away a meat rig after setting it up and forgetting to clip it to the diver.  Tangled up a 150 copper ...  But we are fishing now.  6 lines in the water.

With a forecast of 15-20 knot south winds and a 2-4 ft sea offshore I'm going to have to sit this one out.

JDH

( King Possible)

I only fish from 1 boat and trailer from Grand Rapids.  I do have 4 boats right now though - although only the one is currently operational.  I bought the others as projects. I keep busy with projects during the winter.

Fished Holland on Saturday.  I got out there before the tournament started and immediately had trouble.  My the pull start wouldn't turn the motor over.  Luckily I bring lots of tools on my boat and after 20 minutes of messing around I got it turning over.  Then the carb float got stuck - and I was messing around for another 20 minutes trying to get it started.  Finally we started fishing and didn't really do anything for about 2 hours - we went from 70 to 125 fow and finally picked up a lake trout and a coho in 125 fow.  After that we ran out to 180 fow and quickly picked up 1 king & 2 more coho.  After trolling around for another while without anything we picked up a shaker and then pulled lines and headed in. Final tally 6-6.

South haven was a little different story.  We started around 7 am in 75 fow after running 7 miles north of port.  We were marking a decent amount of bait as well as fish from 20-30 feet down, but they were not biting.  After trying for an hour with nothing on those high fish we switched to lake trout fishing.  We got our butts kicked by the lakers  - we had around 9 fish shake the hook on us, but we managed to put 3 in the box and also picked up a coho.  At this point we ran out to 220 fow and trolled back towards port.  We went 2-3 out there on coho.

What worked in Holland:

300 Copper - Silver Streak Mag Blue Dolphin - Laker & King

3 Color - Dreamweaver Superslim Steelie Dan - Coho

Rigger down 90 - BLL Blue Kato - Shaker King

Slide Diver on 3.5 out 90 with an orange Stingray spoon - Coho x 2

What worked in South Haven:

Rigger on bottom - white spin doctor on bottom with chartreuse 00 spin n glow - 2 Lakers for ??? hits

Mag divers on bottom with 00 spin n glows - 1 Laker for ??? hits

150 copper with Dreamweaver normal sized Sea Sick Waddler - Coho

200 copper with Dreamweaver Super Slim Full Nelson (Think Lemon Ice) - Coho

400 copper with Silver Streak Mag Blue Dolphin  - Coho

I just had the same problem in South Haven on Sunday.  At least it didn't stop working until we were within 1 mile of the piers on our way home.

King Possible is in.

-JDH

Ha!  Just need to figure out how to attach a hook to the back of my prop.

Well, my order of 000 spin n glows showed up.  The big lakers don't stand a chance!

I got out solo after work and went 4-4.  I ran to 210 fow pretty much straight out.  The lake was flat, but there was a little chop to the surface.  I dropped my rigger & free slider down to 50 ft with stinger spoons.  Picked up a 15-inch king in about 1 minute.  I reset and picked up a 4 lb coho (my biggest coho this year so far).  After that it was a whole lot of washing lures.  As I was pulling my riggers in, I picked up another small king on a 200 copper and a BLL Patriot spoon.

I ran to the pierheads and decided to troll for some walleye.  I pickup up a 30" or so right in front of the piers, and then trolled back into Lake Mac with no more hits and called it a night.

The weather was awesome.

I got my 4 fish in about 30 minutes.  Two on flasher-fly combo down 70 ft.  One on flasher-fly combo on a diver back 225.  One on 3-color mini streak miami dolphin.  ( I had already caught one in Muskegon in the morning - but that was it up there)

I ploughed through the chop at 4 pm today - it took me about 30 minutes to make it to 160.  I found the coho like you said from 210 to 230 fow.  They were a little bigger today, and had been eating alewives & mysis.