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great job!

sounds good - I'll radio you... 

thanks cool yes we blast by your place all the time (well not really anymore with the no wake haha) I'll watch for you here as fall fishing is just beginning... good times

thanks for the info on the slide diver too JDH... that makes sense 40-50 down because even in PS buoy cold water is creeping higher in the column by the hour now... gonna go out with my sons in the AM so this info you provided tonight really helps... debating even running 5colors in the AM... we shall see

sliders aka Saugatuck Dunes

so about half way down between Holland and Saugatuck 

about how far down is a slide diver at 125 if you had to guess? I've never run those...

beautiful  -  nice work

sounds like them have moved up in the water column 

things must be cooling down!

the were right hugging the bottom in that water this morning for whatever that's worth... as in like 5ft off bottom in 78-92

mainly south 

off the sliders

good luck man - post a report please!

3 for 12

same water as last night (75-90fow)

fish were 70-80 down on deep dipsey and riggers with the exception of a 10 color beast that we fought and lost right at sunrise 

all bites on paddles and spindocters with the exception of that 10 color which was chrome red head jplug

trolling direction didn't matter

other guys I know did better keeping em on today

went 4 for 6

deep dipsey out 130 and 120 in 78fow was magic for us tonight 

cryptonite paddle

white paddle

that was basically all we could get em to bite

no... we did have a beast king smoke a hi-dipsey our 220 with frog spindocter but it broke 40 pound mono leader and left with the fly on a big run

trolling direction didn't matter

our biggest fish of the evening was a 27 pound male

gonna give it a try again in the morning 

hope cold water keeps moving up in column and can get action on 5 and 10 colors

fished sunrise off Holland this morning 

went 6 for 12

best depth was 82 fow

shallest bite was 76 fow

furthest out bite was 112fow

seemed like the kings and coho were stacked in real nice down deep in close this AM - wish we could've landed more but we were just screwing around and having fun

rigger down 90 and 95 was good

copper 250, copper 300, copper 350 all went

high dipsey out 225 went three times with spoon on it

all spoons except on one deep rigger they liked a white paddle

fantastic job! what a fun night

congratulations on the biggie!

thanks 

we caught fish running west and east

didn't dare troll south because was low on fuel and didn't wanna end up in south haven

was so relieved to see the waves died during the night (attached image) because boy it was rough and wind had been howling and that makes fishing in the dark even more difficult 

thanks for the report

they seem to have scattered some...

hopefully the wind pattern the next few days brings em back in!

nice work man!

question: so you set lines in 120fow or did you start in closer at first? considering going tomorrow morning and debating if they will be in closer starting out...

Great solo trip!

And hail to the king "Happee Meal" is the best spoon for us too

thanks guys!

went again this Friday morning too

will post report soon hopefully 

fished this evening for a couple hours running back from West Olive to Holland with a bunch of my kids... went 7 for 7

Not gonna get way into it because basically the same exact moonshine spooon 85-105fow gig 20-55down we have done the last two mornings is what produced 

Highlight was my 12 year old reeling in a 23pounder on 10 color  -  it smoked it when i was reeling board in full rip and pulling lines - that kept us out there another 40min

how'd you do JDH? we smoked em! report coming...

alright - cya out there - radio Parker on 68 and we can compare

Left the dock at 4.45am in Lake Mac

Setting lines in 80fow trolling north at 5.10am and the half-core immediately goes off (moonshine happy meal) – 10# king

Over the next hour we could not get lines in hardly

Half-core went again and that time a 22# hen

Copper 200 with moonshine magnum spoon went 3 times – got em all – approx. 10# kings

High dipsey got smoked at with blue & chrome spindoctor and blue fly a 20.5# hen

At 6.40am which was still 15min before sunrise we were 6 for 6 and pretty happy about things.

The is the best early fishing in the dark bite I have encountered (usually they don’t turn on until about 15min before sunrise?)

We fished through sunrise and then a little more.

Copper 200 went off two more times – got one and missed one

Rigger took one 54 down with dancing anchovy spoon

15color went off moonshine mag spoon – about a 14# coho

Ended up 9 for 10

…with a bite like this may have to try again tomorrow morning but this time I will leave the dock at 4.15am :)

buddy of mine caught a nice big chinook in 15fow off Saugatuck this AM

heard rumblings about them slaughtering them in the mud off GH

hard to know what to do exactly with these colder water temps but we are thankful for how it went today

nevermind... I see you were in 103... sorry reRead it a second time and now I get it. Thanks