DIRTY DOG

A good friend and my self made our annual combo trip to Portage Indiana for perch and coho . Fishing was nothing short of outstanding, we left the ramp around 8:30 and headed off shore to the perch grounds , about half way out to them we ran into some very thick fog but continued on and fished our perch limit with some very nice jumbo around 10:30. After that we headed straight south to the Gary light and made one pass from just west of the light east ,to the end of the wall and finished with our limit of good sized coho , all on custom painted thin fins from Silver streak ran clean back 75’ off the boards ,speed was 2.5-2.9, water temp was 36.0 to 36.9 . All done and back to the trailer by 1:30. Dang I love early season perch and coho down there. Here is a picture of the boats , and some of the catch.

Nice job , Ile be out in the morning.

THERE HERE!!! Wasn’t going to fish yesterday, decided to get some things done around the house, but one of my old Steelhead fishing buddies call about 11 and said let go to St Joe and try and catch a few Coho, so we did. Left the dock in Benton Harbor at 1:30 and as we cleared the piers we noticed quite a few people fighting fish in the south pier so we set up just on the out side and trolled our way down to the pump house and back to the pier. We did that lap twice and had 10 very nice coho and returned 3 for a total of 13. Great couple hour cruise for mid day. The bait were all the same as the day before 60-100 back on the boards with a speed of 2.7-3.2 with water temps of 42-43

Haven’t posted on here in a long time, mainly because I haven’t fished a lot in the past 3-4 years. Well I’m back, sorta. I left the dock in portage with my dad and a good friend in search of perch about 8:30 a and after a week of rough weather it had the lake clouded up very bad to the point you couldn’t see more than about 12” down so about 11am we headed south to the Gary light and put the trolling gear down and finished the day at 2:30 with 15 very nice coho. sorry for not having a picture of the box but I do have a picture of the baits that worked. All custom thin fins 60-100 back on the boards. Spread was 2.7-3.0. Water temp was 42

It was pretty warm Sunday , seemed to be a lot of boats out , but every one was scattered , no one to the north , I think to to the mud flowing that way .

I also fished south haven Sunday from 11am to 3 pm and did very well , they were about a mile south and in 35-40’, fast and feriuse at times.

Yes sir 11.39lbs, it actually had some spawn let in it.

Did a shake down cruise on the DIRTY DOG 3 before putting it in the slip for the season. A fiend and I left the dock around 8:30 after we had a no show and headed south to Saugatuck. We fished 15-25 fow and finished the day going 14 for 17 with 8 coho, 2 nice browns, 2 Lakers and 2 small Kings released Here is a list of what took fish sorry I forgot Peice of paper to take a pic of the baits, next time. 1) Red and Black Thin Fish on a hi line. 2) Gold and Org Thin Fish on a hi line. 3) Margarita Silver Streak mini on a 2 color 4) Smurfet Silver Streak mini on a1 color 5) UV Mixed Vegi Silver Streak mini on a 3 color 6) Hot Lobster Silver Streak mini on a 3 color Direction didn’t matter , down speed was 2.8-3.0 and water temp was 40.4. and hears the catch not a bad 4 hr tour.