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Here is the Beach report from about 1hr ago: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN 1032 AM EDT WED AUG 14 2013 LAKE MICHIGAN BEACH REPORTS WATER WAVE FLAG LOCATION TEMP HEIGHT COLOR LUDINGTON STATE PARK 55 F 0 FT GREEN MEARS STATE PARK (PENTWATER) 55 F 0 FT GREEN DUCK LAKE STATE PARK 56 F 1 FT GREEN MUSKEGON STATE PARK 48 F 2 FT GREEN P.J. HOFFMASTER STATE PARK 48 F 1 FT GREEN GRAND HAVEN STATE PARK 53 F 0 FT GREEN HOLLAND STATE PARK 60 F 1 FT GREEN SAUGATUCK OVAL BEACH 65 F 2 FT NONE SOUTH HAVEN FILTRATION PLANT 61 F 2 FT NONE You can see that if you were fishing Grand Haven that the bait and mature fish would be in the piers. Holland is more of a lottery card at this point as to where they are. If the cold pocket from GH slides down to Holland then they may be right out front. Probably won't though because wind died so that leaves them if I had to guess in that 40-90 FOW and probably in the upper part of the water column. Others chime in and share opinions please. I am going to go fishing tonight and tomorrow too out of Holland.

Trolled off Holland Friday night - came with high expectations setting lines at 7pm - trolled from 110 out to 150 FOW and back several times - nothing Eventually the bite showed up. Ended up going 4 for 8. 65-85 feet down on the riggers - moonshine spoons (happy meal & flounder). Even took a king (random bite) on a half-core with drop weight double-orange-crush) Dispeys were firing off too even 30 minutes after dark we got our last bite of the night. 200 feet back fireline dialed to 3 with moonshine magnum spons again was the ticket on the dispeys No biggens for us - all the fish were 5 to 11 pounds which was a bit of a bummer since we wanted another 20+ king. Oh well next time.

awesome job - a couple hogs you got! hey how far out were you trolling this morning?

Thanks for the reply Erik

fished out of Holland last night 2 for 7 - could not keep them on all hits came 40-85 down with our best depth being around 115 FOW large-size dipsey dialed to 2 and back 175 was the most active lost one monster king that pulled the swivel apart other hits came on riggers 55 and 65 feet down full-core 10 color took a fish as well Just a slew of boats out there - can someone tell me what that was last night? Is it a steelheaders club or something? At 6pm about 30 boats left the pierheads going out to troll. Heard one of the guys on the radio say he went 11 for 16.