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what a great night! way to go!

https://www.glangler.com/blogs/articles/lake-michigan-mega-kings-a-fad-or-the-future-by-captain-mike-schoonveld

thanks! and let me check with PUG and see what he thinks... a fishing weapon he is

thanks guys

and yes Kevin the cat went to live somewhere else bout 2-3 years ago

Went 7 for 12 out of Holland tonight on Parker – took the PUG as a good luck charm – if you rub his ears it is like a rabbits foot and just overall he serves as a  good luck charm

Got a slow start mistakenly trying to find em in tight based on some info we had gotten out of GH (for the first 2hrs we only had one hit) but eventually come 8pm had em dialed in real good right in that 115-119fow

Starting at 8pm for about the next 90 min we ran a south troll starting at around Tunnel Park and ending up down off Castle Park and in that time period we had 13 hits and managed to capitalize on 7 of them

All Salmon… no Lakers

Had a couple two or three “biggies” in that 10-15# range that got us real excited & were a blast to fight!

Then though after sunset we connected on copper300 with an insane bite that dwarfed these other guys… fought it for a full 50 minutes jumping all over and constantly emptying the reel and eventually netted in the darkness a 27pound 38.75inch king – our biggest in a while at least for this time of year (we usually get our pigs in the fall for whatever reason)

The crazy thing is that well after 10pm once we netted the big monster that we had slowed the boat down and were taking photos and cleaning blood off the deck and all a sudden the rigger slider goes off (makes sense because there was bait everywhere) so that one was a late night bonus fish to add to the hopper I guess…

Here is what worked for us tonight:

#1 - rigger down 50: dancing anchovy/Mongolian beef combo - miss

#2 - high diver back 160: spotted Richard meat rig - 7 lbs king

#3 - rigger down 66: blue flounder/green flounder combo - 9lbs king

#4 - rigger down 66: blue flounder/green flounder combo - 13lbs king

#5 - high diver back 160: spotted Richard meat rig - miss

#6 rigger down 66: blue flounder/green flounder combo - big king hit slider, came off, and did backflip by outboard in a matter of seconds.

#7 high diver back 160: spotted Richard meat rig - 15lbs king 

#8 rigger down 66: blue flounder/green flounder combo - miss

#9 rigger down 66: blue flounder/green flounder combo - miss

#10 low diver back 130: purple fish scale spinny with yellow uv meat rig - 14lbs king

#11 Copper 300: standard moonshine happy meal - 27LBS King 

#12 Cleaning deck in dark at 10:30 after landing big fish when rigger down 66 took a 10 lbs king

yes for sure and wow I cannot imagine running north in that solo - impressive man!

what trolling direction(s) worked this morning?

very nice! may give it a go tonight so what you just shared is super helpful...

we don't use fishhawk but SOG trolling south was best 2.5-2.9

trolling north was 1.9-2.1

got kinda violent rough out of the north late morning and current was coming at us for sure 

6 for 9

one 24pounder and also a 20pounder

all hits between 112-118 fow

south troll was best but north produced too

here's what worked:

Green Jeans meat rig - 4 hits on low diver out 100

Happy Meal Standard size - 3 hits on copper 300. 

Kevin's girlfriend meat rig - 1 hit on low diver out 125

Chrome two-face spinny and fly - 1 hit high diver back 160

Blue flounder / green flounder standard size rigger combo- 1 hit on rigger down 75

trolled in the dense fog while bringing the Parker back around from Port Sheldon to Holland tonight

took us a bit to find the fish but at around 8pm we had em cornered and the action in the 90min that followed was pneunominal 

5 for 7

1# Spotted Richard 8inch spinny meat rig combo on diver back 110/Roughly 55 down. 102 fow

2# Same Spotted Richard Meat rig on diver back 110 92 fow
 
3# Same Spotted Richard meat rig on diver back 110. 92 fow

4# Copper 300 with standard moonshine spotted dolphin. 102 fow (our first salmon to exceed 20# this season)

5# Chrome eight inch paddle with green crinkle fly . Rigger down 72. 95 fow

6# Same Spotted Richard meat rig on other diver back 115. 92 fow

7# Chrome and Crinkle on rigger down 72. Rifled off clip, ran out 450 feet, turned back and ran towards boat before stopping and spinning hook up in leader and coming unhooked. (BEAST - would have loved to have seen how big this one was - see video)

well done man!

wish you were wrong but think you're probably right!

regardless, we will have fun trying and we aint after no 3 year olds... we want the behemoths so we can put em on the wall

got a 41.75 inch male on Oct1 2019 (Saugatuck mud - freezing rain sideways east wind howling)

got a 42.5 inch male 3rd week in Sept last year (Holland Channel - 11 footers banging pier from the North)

uggh... bad sign they weren't even biting down in Saugatuck

stay tuned kids and I may brave the rain and give it a whirl a few more times in Holland Channel in the next 48hrs... if they are gonna run and however many are left this cold front has gotta be last call 

finally some colder water so decided to give the mud and channel a shot

fished a couple hours... was honestly a little disappointed that there were not more fish eating in there

had 3 strikes... all in channel and east of big red... only one stayed hooked up - size3 plug 15 down on rigger

anyone else figure something out with the salmon run here off holland or even saug then sure appreciate info!

GREAT fishing tale Kevin from last night and I know it was all true because i was out there witnessing it! Impressive as heck that is all that traffic and chaos you scored some kings! there is nothing quite like fall fishing... I love it, even when I strikeout 

my son was nice enough to track and type out our setup that worked:

take that back... i see here you shared LOTS of info... think it is about time i dig out the legendary blue bubble spindocter based upon what you weote hey keep me posted if you get out again soon in the next few days especially if you find em in by the piers and I'll do the same... on 68 i go by Parker

haha - yes sir lil fibber - way south and skinny water at the end... but yep that was us setting up by you off tunnel in the beginning... shoot man we were so excited and figuring we'd 3 man limit when we scored on that triple at 6.40am in 78fow east troll but unfortunately we had so many tangles and counter carnage in our gear coming out of that it took a while to recover and we ended up just 4 for 4.  Seen you glowing up baits. Did you get into em some? if so share info please.  Yesterday was a better bite (went 3 for 12) but who knows... tonight my son is out there with my buddy and they aren't getting em too strong either... couple sheep and a small salmon is all so far.

nice work

your fish were up high and later in the morning... think I seen you out there

somone just told me BestChance Charter out of Saugatuck had 18 kings by 845am this morning... would love to know what depth that happened in!

good job out there this morning, ESPECIALLY considering you were solo

thanks

alright 4for4

we got one on deep dipsey 90 out in 61fow while trolling in an hour ago

3for3

triple in 78fow east troll 10min before sunrise

that's all

bait disappeared 

bite slowed...

deep diver 120 cryptonite paddle

10 color jplug scaly firetiger

copp200 moonshine mag