Fishrmac

Jmiron25 - thats a bummer with your son. I've been fishing with my dad since I can remember, I am 33 and between my kids, dad and brother it's hard to beat family fishing buddies. If I am in Pentwater September I will look you up and we can hit the lake!

Goof luck, have fun! I will be putting steel on a roof instead of fishing. Gotta support the addiction somehow

Marine radio...never leave port without it

I have friends that are like "what if we take last in the tournament"

My response is always "someone has to so we might as well fish"

Hoping to jump in one soon

How does one decide what presentation to run while solo? Go with quick rods like riggers or just experiment and see what they like?

Sharp hooks are awesome!! Everyone should sit with a 6 pack and just have a hook sharpening afternoon. I did and have about a 90% landing rate the last 2 years.

Nice!! Those kings will be running rivers in 5-6 weeks so the eggs are getting close. Doesn't seem like it's approaching September already because kings just got going good

Awesome on those home mades. If your other lures are that poor hook up % I would be sharpening hooks. I ALWAYS sharpen mine and my total lake michigsn this year is 17 for 18 in 4 trips

Nice fishing! Best looking fishing crew I've seen on here...lol

I run a 17' sylvan and I have 2 more rod holders in the front of my boat I run high lines on so with 3 people I run 8 lines with no trouble. Last night I tried a stacked rigger for 9 rods just to get the maximum out there.

2 riggers, 2 dipseys, 2 deep coppers, 2 shallower copper or leadcore

Went 3-3....not shabby. Got fishing around 6 southwest in 70. Trolled around out to 125 and came back to the 100's. Marked good fish all night.

8:00 laker about 5# grabbed antifreeze meat rig behind a 10" SD 80 down 100 fow north troll

Sun went down and we thought it might be done so started heading east.

9:15 225 goes ripping out...bout a 12# king in 86fow

9:20ish same thing and about a 10# king in 78 fow

Spoon was a yellow frozen toad BIg Lake Lure magnum.

Beautiful night, hope it keeps getting better. Sounded like there were a few picking away at them after 8:00

Gotta love getting those kids on the rods. Mine are 8, 6, 4 and the older 2 boys are getting the hang of down rigger rods on small lakers. Not willing to hand them a $300 copper set up yet on a big king

Eltrain84 -

We fished just west of the harbor out of Leland at that first drop off from 50-130ish. 3 of 4 lakers came in the 50 water and the kings and steel were as we were heading off the break any west direction.

Such a cool spot to fish with that kind if drop off to key in on a path

No we caught 3 in our 2 trips. Never fished that area before but spent 5 hours in 2 trips for a total of 7-8. 3 lakers, 3 nice kings, 1 steel, most of which had good ales in them. I understand stocking was cut, weather has been really tough but fish are out there, just gotta be lucky to find some feeding I guess

Hit another 15 lb king in Leland this morning that was full up on ales. Great to see these fat healthy fish! I could definitely fish Leland again next summer

My guess is your nascar spoon was an orange flounder pounder...just a guess though. Nice catch and good first report

Caught / kings in Leland Thursday. One was empty, one had 7 alewifes or herring, who knows. They came within 1/2 mile of one another. Lakers were full up too. Bait is there, I think we just got lucky as first timers out of that port

Wow! Best report I've seen. Awesome job! And didn't have to go far to do it

Awesome day right there fellas!!!

Wow that is a hoss brown!!!

Same set up I run in my 17'

Looks like 25lb....great camera work! That's a beautiful fish

I will be up in Glen Arbor July 13-19...would love to pitch in gas money or take someone who knows where to fish during that week in the Frankfort area.

That's an awesome fishing time. I'm about ready to start doing that instead of running for salmon

Got chased off by the waves today in the 17'er. Took a few over the bow and called it a day. Tried with a couple rookies but driving the boat was too hard and setting up. Marked good fish in 85-100 though straight out of holland.