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PUG headed out later tonight, setting lines closer to 8.15PM. Just like the last few trips by the time the night was over south of Saugatuck off Oval and it was 10.45PM and we were still fighting fish… Thankfully Randy from Wave Dancer was already out there and had found the fish in 130FOW biting on a South troll at 2.5MPH speed is what he shared and sure enough he was right! Ended up going 8 for 15 with a 24# and 22# king in the mix. Had a few heartbreak losses on screamers that we fought for a while and eventually the hook just pulled. One tried to empty all our 10 color backing and the other just smoked a copp300 so hard it nearly buried the board. Still for only 2.5hrs of fishing PUG felt quite content with our results. What worked was that 130FOW mainly south troll at 2.5MPH Highest bite was 10 color which went 3 times so 40 down Otherwise riggers went about a half a dozen times in that 40-62 feet down range Copp300 went 3 times All of the above were on spoons that glow (mainly moonshine) High dipseys went 2 times with spindoctors and flies out 180-190 Fishing seems REALLY GOOD off of Holland/Saugatuck right now – not just is there a solid bite but the size of the fish suddenly seems to have improved – for example Wave Dancer who helped us out over the radio went 10 for 16 and they had a legit 30# king and a 24# king and a 22# king and then qty2 18# kings! CONGRATS TO THEM 20240726_215625.mp4 20240726_204921.mp4 20240726_204716.mp4

got a late start outta Holland but it didn't much matter... the bite for us didn't happen much until after 8pm anyway and we found em way south directly off Saugatuck in that 100-130fow copp350 raspberry carbon early on later it was riggers and 10colors with moonshine glow spoons repeatedly and also high diver meet rig out 150 caught fish up until 10.30pm trolling direction didn't much matter initially tried to mark em and catch them in much closer and was kicking around doing Saugatuck mud but they didn't seem to be in there so PUG made the decision to gamble deeper 20240725_215505.mp4 20240725_211008.mp4 20240725_221651.mp4

pug got a late start but ended 6for12 ...still heading back to dutch harbor - will try to report later

PUG may check em tonight even and if he does he will be sure to share info

bravo!

cool good luck man heading to see musical fountain - no trolling tonight for PUG and yes littleboat the fog was super thick off PS at sunrise for us too

what port this time?

1 for 2 was all lost a behemoth on a high dipsey flasher combo out 130 in 79fow at sunrise which was a bit of a heartbreak Beautiful morning though... Our stats always take dent when PUG doesn't come along so we kinda expected such

6for9 PUG got a couple to go in 110fow at around 8pm 7 more in that 69-72fow coming into and after sunset moonshine glow spoons meat rig silver spin doctor greenfly

Thanks guys didn't make it out this morning but my son who was with us last night ran a charter out of GH and they apparently filled two coolers in that 60-140fow - haven't talked to him yet so don't know much more - he may take Parker tonight out of Holland with his buddies so we will see how that goes...

based on some reports coming out of GH with cold water & bait, PUG convinced the 3 boys and I to try the Saugatuck mud tonight went 18 for 30 all in that 36-42fow kzoo river wash out spoons on riggers 24 down with the slider spoon 10 up worked best - sliders took 60% of the bite... it was almost comical dipseys with braid out 77 and 80 were big hitters too with spoons YELLOW spoons worked best Boards only went twice which was unusual - both times size3 chrome red head jplug 20240719_212011.mp4

great trip!

9 for 10 out of Holland (fished south more directly off Saugatuck though) 135FOW was the ticket SW troll and East troll was all that would work copp350 went with meat rig (big king weighing 23#) copp300 went with meat rig both 10 colors went with glow spoons copp200 went with glow spoon both riggers went with glow spoons hi dipsey went with meat rig low dipsey went with glow spoon fishing was shockingly slow until about 20 min after the sunset - literally 2 fish caught before 9.30PM we ended up with a triple at 10.30PM and managed to land all 3 and that was pretty exciting chaos and a lot of FUN - hats off to PUG and the gang we didn't even get a single tangle and the one fish we lost was just a pig of a king that smoked the dipsey so hard we thought it was going to snap the rod - we would've got this one too but we were finishing up on a double and trying to net fish

what a great report!

PUG was gone for the night (had other commitments apparently) so we went fishing without him, which typically means you is about to get skunked. Fortunately we still managed 6 for 12 even with the odds stacked against us. Trolled south from Holland and eventually further south ending up a couple miles south of Saugatuck even. All hits came in that 120-132 fow All that worked for us was a SSW troll running with the strong current, hence why we wound up 14miles SW of Holland Meat went 5 or 6 times on Copp300 and Copp350 and deep diver High dipseys with flasher fly out about 150 went 3 or 4 times Rigger slider down 32ft got hit too Great night out to be out on the water!

PUG had the itch to get out there again and we seen a little gap in the weather... ended up getting blown south so technically this is a Saugatuck report 5 for 8 2 medium size salmon 2 twenty#+ chinook 1 big laker all hits came in that 115-120fow 117fow was best on either a SW or SE troll rigger down 67 blue hulk spoon took half the bites (big king) deep braid diver out 115 scored with meat once (big king) copp300 happee meal spoon went (big laker) cop350 with meat went slider green dolphin type spoon down about 52 went at sunset ----- the boys' cousin got to reel in a fat 22# king and that was pretty cool had the deep diver boss king proceed to get into 3 different coppers and that added another 50min to the trip untangling all that and if that wouldn't have happened right at sunset PUG figures we would've caught another 3 or 4 fish but a great night nonetheless 20240627_180549.mp4

PUG was wise to decide to take us fishing despite it being a little rough set lines at 730pm in 150fow ended up for 7for10 all action came on north or northeast troll in that 130-150fow meat rigs took 7 of the 10 bites copper 300 was hot (until just a beast of a king ran out 300ft and actually jammed the copper to backing knot into the orange board in such a way that it broke... we lost all the copper and the meat rig) deep braid diver out 130 also very active

excellent job!