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thanks for the report

fishing has been reportedly terrible - oldest son won the GH Pro Tourney on Fowl Hooked on Thursday so congrats to him and Captain Sam - these guys had to run 40 miles to get into quality fish though - PUG salutes you on your success! nonetheless, left PUG and the gang scratching our heads on what to try on Friday night though - ended up getting a later start but setup way down in Saugatuck mud - picked up a fish or two there in that 38-46fow but we weren't breaking records so we slid out slowly as the night went on - deepest we fished was 106fow off sliders ended up 7 for 10 bloody nose spoons worked quite well (thanks FBD for the rec) and went on dipsey out 120 and also rigger 5color went nice steelhead on what I think was fireball spoon (actually our biggest fish of night) happy meal went on copp200 have to check with the boys but there was a 3color rip on some tangerine spoon and then all the rest of the bites were rigger and especially sliders so that made em in that 50-55 down where they were chowing West and NW troll was all they would eat on for us Sadly, no huge Chinook although I lost one that was probably 12pounds when the hook pulled coming into netting (again that was rigger slider) 20260529_190343_001.mp4

welcome back

the BAIT sure was ultra -present as we pushed into and thru Holland channel in that thick fog - probably should've just fished in tight all night - one of my sons woke up early and went back with a cast net and loaded up early this morning - oh to be young and never have to sleep!

PUG setup in 140ish on a SW troll and hit like 6 bites right on the set so we all thought it was gonna be a banger of a night ended up 9 for 18 or something like that deepest we trolled was 175 problem we ran into was all the fish out deep were kinda small and FBD reported some bigger ones in that 50-70 fow so we eventually trolled in which was a conducive decision with the fog as thick as it was pretty much all the quality action came in the top 40 feet rigger with a half a meal moonshine spoon was best down 38 half cores went several times copp150s sounded off too high dipsey lost a good one twas a slow ride in and back to the dock on far east side of Macatawa as the fog only intensified as the night went on 20260524_214513.mp4 20260524_214328.mp4

what a haul - nice work

thanks for the report Littleboat

haha thanks guys - cheers to the beginning of another season - Zgrinder it sounds like you have been busy - 8 days in NOLA had to have been nuts! was there with a couple of my boys for a sailboat regatta back in November but just for 2 nights - when the sun goes down that town is no place for children or pug

11 for 14 off Holland on Sunday night – first trip out on Parker here in 2026 Blue Flounder was our best bait on rigger 50 down Yellow Gobie on Copp150 went 3 or 4 times too Trolled 190-110 fow – started deep and zig zagged in all night Only 3 or 4 of the Salmon were mature Got rough coming into sunset as the storm came in just like they forecasted Flies were MURDER despite it being cold out there with the surface temp 49 degrees PUG questioned his decision of returning to Michigan here in May and wonders if he should have stayed in Florida another 3 or 4 weeks catching Tarpon 20260517_180403.mp4 20260517_205748.mp4 20260418_225206(1).3gp

score!

1for1 tremendous current icey cold water huge bait balls of shad current was so bizarre that with the one we caught PUG was running 1.4mph and it was the far inside board on our turn so the jplug had to have been going .5mph and when it hit all we noticed was the board disappeared and the line slacked and then about 10 seconds later the Chinook which had been running with the fast current launched in thee air about 50ft directly off the bow Pug's friends at the DNR stopped planting Holland 3 years ago so this may be the last of the plants for us... beautiful night out there! COLD 20251009_185828.mp4

we find the Coho also scale out a bunch more than the Chinook

well done

shucks - the lake never flipped in addition to that my son & his buddies are catching Kings like this one last night far up the kzoo PUG fears his 2025 window is closing....

Thanks again for the heads up on the bite yesterday Littleboat Shoot looking at the forecast PUG is going to have to retie ans redo everything for skinny water pierhead trolling come Thursday morning - substantial East wind is upon us!

8 for 9 2 mongo steelhead and the rest 2-3 year olds very fun night and glassy calm goofed by sliding out to 120-130 after setting lines because it turns out the bite was in 95fow on a south troll (at least for us) copp300 moonshine mag green jeans copp250 racket jaw riggers with moonshine regular size down 50-70 all the action came at our following sunset... first 90min we has no activity good eaters! 20250929_180147.mp4 20250929_190802.mp4 20250929_193608.mp4 20250929_192620.mp4

went on metal boat with 15yr old son this Thursday night off Holland. Lots of fish marking on the Garmin. We knew kings were in there because of the lunker he had gotten alone on rowboat in the morning. Lots of sheephead. 3 color had a king on mag moonshine greenjeans but she came off. Then the other 3 color with size3 mongoose starts screaming 20min after sunset. Not a king but instead a monster steelhead! Jumped 10 times. Anyways, didn't have to clean fish tonight because it was master angler and so beautiful that PUG voted we get it mounted 20250925_195303_1.mp4

my 15yr old here on Thursday morning just netted the biggest king we seen all year in 30fow off Holland south pier on his rowboat all alone silver too!?

at 9am here Monday morning my 15yr old fishing alone in his rowboat just picked one up next to south pier - from photo appears to be mag spoon and I wanna say he said 3color ...another homeschooling victory!

great job tonight FBD! the gang and I struggled... lost 1 king south from piers in the 28fow on green jeans mag copp100 and then proceeded to boat 12 sheephead in a row over the next few hours - was fun but anticlimactic after a while - had numerous other hook ups that came undone early on and who knows maybe they were kings?? graph was nuts in there off the south end... son will try again tomorrow off his rowboat!

my 4 sons left PUG and I back at the dock and sure enough are getting into em!