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well done SeaFoam! my son and his buddy were just inside you and littleboat tight up along the pier but they had to bail to get to work at 730am

PUG went 6for11 biggest one weighed 22.8 pounds and because it had been bled out we'll round her up to 23 pounds jplugs mainly - chrome red heat and scaley green thee best dipseys right out near bottom and also 3colors in that 32-37fow son has been getting them in Holland mud off metal boat before work each morning too lately... PUG heard GH was incredible bite too!

Thanks for the report. Beautiful fish!

nice work guys - wish I was around this week to partake

stellar trip!

waves were 3ft+ when we setup and unfortunately defied the forecast and never really sat down 1 skam in 85fow on rigger slidder about 35 down - moonshine blue spoon 1 king in 64fow copper150 mixed vegie type spoon don't know name 1 king in 61fow rigger green flounder 45 down 20260719_213930.mp4 20260719_215009.mp4

PUG went 12 for 20 outta of Holland tonight. 3 steelhead 1 laker 8 kings Technically we fished more off of Saugatuck Mainly south troll at least early on and then later north troll Lots of current made PUG have to get creative with ground speed to get it em to chow Night bite was a bit of a disappointment but we did get a triple early on after sunset and lost one on the dipey after 10pm in the pitch black Anyways, got 2 of the steelhead early on in that 115-120fow and later another in 90fow – copper150-jplug, copper250-moonshine orange spoon, 5color-orange spoon. The other fish all came mainly in that 70-80fow High-diver meat out 220 went High-diver mag flounder pounder moonshine went numerous times Copp250 moonshine orange and white went numerous times Copper300 went for laker Rigger went just once and that was about 45 down on a slider Spindocters were quiet

excellent thank you

Man you crushed it! Congrats & thanks for the super detailed report. QUESTION: what depth of water were you getting most of these bites in???

great trip!

well done!

what depth did most of your bites come in JDH? PUG was out too last night and sadly struggled in a way that snapped our five trip 25+ bite on average streak - still was a great night though to be out there watching sunset! we went 6 for 12 trolling that 85-105fow mainly (similar program to prior trips and what you described you encountered) they just didn't bite whatsoever after dark which as a surprise and then a relief to not have to be up til 1am cleaning fish FishNFever updated us at the end of the night and it looked like RodBoss and RealProperty and some of them steelheaders actually did decent so hats off to them and I wonder what kinda water they were fishing in

anyone get out this morning? PUG may give it a shot later tonight...

excellent report

haha yes mystery solved!

what a morning!

oh and also on one of our bigger kings we got a lamprey

awesome trip! hahaha can't stop chuckling as I try to picture your madness in the darkness - what a flurry to have 8 or 9 rods all go off!

great photo and thanks for the report

nice work and good to know they were chewing good north of Holland too! always kinda a suckers bet knowing where to setup.

The trips are all starting to rhyme and blend together - kids & PUG were doing math on the way in last night and Parker is 71 for 136 on our last 5 trips out... The boat needs a good cleaning and the gear needs a refresh that is for sure! Anyways, here is what PUG figured out last night: Fish were all still heavily concentrated in that 75-90fow. Started eating right away on the set where we had a triple. Went on like this pretty much all night although fish did take a 45min break at 8pm which was strange but allowed pug to relax and take a much needed nap. After dark is when it got super wonko and bites were coming in non-stop. For example, we had 15 bites between 9.30PM-10.15PM. PUG's ratio was crap but we went at it “guts and glory” as usual and ran a lot of stuff risking and experiencing tangles but brought the cavalry with us so we could max out rod count. What a hoot! One of these times they are gonna stay hooked and PUG is gonna score his desired 6 man limit! South and Southeast troll was good but we had to have a 3.1-3.4mph ground speed to get them to eat. North troll and Northeast troll also produced magically well but again the groundspeed had to be between 2.9-3.4mph. That was the sole determining factor for us getting hits last night... we had to be running so fast that the dipseys were leaking a little on both sides. Copp150 – green ladder jplug (went 3 or 4 times) Copp200 – moonshine blue spoon (went 6 or 7 times) Copp250 – moonshine blue spoon (went 5 or 6 times) Copp300 – ratchet jaw moonshine spoon (went twice) Copp350 – moonshine spoon (went 2 or 3 times) Deep Diver out 115 – moonshine flounder pounder (went 3 times and one time actually broke the hook on a pitch black screamer) High Diver out 200 – yellow meat rig (went once) High Diver out 200 – white and blue 8” paddle (went 4 times) Riggers with sliders down 42-57 – moonshine spoons (pretty much took all the rest of the bites – “dancing anchovy” was best for sure) Every rod took fish except for the port side Copp150 running mag moonshine jackal which left PUG in disbelief because that thing had been hit a dozen times already in the 4 trips prior. HIGHLIGHT: trolling next to our original Parker year 2011 off the sliders - so cool that Matt was out there and absolutely crushing em on that legendary vessel with his kids! If the guys who manufacturer these boats in the outer banks of Carolina could have been out there with a drone they could have really enhanced their marketing campaign

PUG left Holland at around 6pm when there were 3+ footers come out of the north with the 20knot north wind so had no choice but to run south. Hadn’t fished down by Saugatuck for a while anyway… Fished just in that 70-90FOW pretty much all night. South troll till we passed Saugatuck and then later a north troll back to about the sliders. Currents were tricky. Had to be crawling with ground speed when running south and ripping fast on the north but both worked. PUG helped us score our 3 man limit. Wish we would’ve had another kid onboard because we had easily 30 bites and ended up letting some go because just 3 of us and 9 rods tonight – could’ve gotten a 4 man limit. Had 4 doubles and 3 triples it was chaotic but a lot of fun. Every rod we ran got hits. Copper150, Copper250. Copper300 (all with moonshine spoons). Riggers both the main bait sliders were hot too (moonshine spoons with BLUE being a really good color tonight) Dipsey went off nonstop too all night. Kept changing baits on the dipsey but anything from meat to a big white paddle and then you guessed mag size moonshine spoon went a bunch after sunset. Best rigger depths were 47 down but then later into the evening they were nipping sliders and baits higher up.

tricky currents and the bite slowed at least down by Holland pug fished mainly off Geneva again 5for9 was the final count I think pug aspired for better but it was good enough and a beautiful night out there first 4 bites come in that 83-87fow zig zagging and switching between east and west troll - copp200 went and also rigger down 60 - later dipsey meat went but came off - copp300 went a few times with rachet jaw spoon too after sunset got one on rigger slider again and maybe one on dipsey pug cant remember - lost 2 huge ones that were just screaming... the first was high dipsey out 155 in 65fow mag moonshine flounder pounder original and the second was a copp150 silver horde green glow jplug again in 65fow captain Rilee from GH gave us a helpful tip right coming into sunset and that was to troll north at 3.1 to get them to eat and indeed that worked better