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this rocks JDH! so tell us a little more... you started fishing at around midnight and took bites until around 1am? How far down? You attributed it to the fuller moon? Any specifics or theories you got would be appreciated because always wanted to figure this out better.

PUG struggled to get his magic gusto tonight - full boat and fun crowd - very inexperienced but with that super appreciative which made it super fun@ 4for5 in that 68-95fow there was no targetable depth or pattern for us unlike this AM still beautiful moon and thankful to have gone 4 of our 5 bites came on hi dipsey 160 and 180 out with spinnies nothing on long lines rigger with bloody nose took a big one after sunset

I will say that there was a flock of boats inside of us off the sliders in that 50-60 and I wonder if they did any good SeaFoam was that you just outside of us this AM in 75-80?

nice job - I wanted to run north and try the area you describe but we had a limited window of time and fortunately it still worked out

good luck Kevin and stay in touch! i have all newbies tonight too and if PUG can get 3 or 4 he will be satisfied

see you out there JDH - pug has a big group from church he is taking!

hey man he can't get enough water time

PUG found a fresh pod of eaters in that 65-75fow this morning directly out of Holland south & southwest troll was best so we ended closer to Saugatuck riggers down 55-70 with sliders went numerous times with Mag Spoons dipseys out 88 and 90 on deeps and 160 on highs participated with spinnies copp150 went several times with green ladder plug copp150 went with spoon copp200 went with what I forget i guess beautiful morning - pulled lines ontime because son's bday today 20250806_070220.mp4 20250806_074741.mp4 20250806_072207.mp4 20250806_075836.mp4

impressive box thanks for the report

thanks for the report

congrats!

nice job a heck of a variety too, says pug

thanks guys went again this AM and got some more bite wasn't as dynamite as yesterday but still good especially early we hooked 16 here's one of the bigger ones

haha thanks Seafoam - pug and I were wondering if you were up & about as we passed through thee narrows

fished solo this AM with outlaw PUG - first fish was 540am and my biggest this year about 38" and by 730am had gone 6for11 and started letting em go - this was just me and pug and a 3rod spread am not going to share a bunch more specifics just for the sake of avoiding copycats from the masses with the tourney underway and the guys I know in the tourney will ring my neck if I do

MacBaits in Holland has the smaller SilverHorde or at least they did last time I was there...

you run the small plugs like size 3 or the bigger size4 or size5 even? joke on our boat is dad always runs the biggest ones he can find - my boys in particular get mad at me and PUG for this but I swear it works and at heart I am always in fall fishing mode

great job! this southern bite is something else isn't it!?

Got all our work done for the day so last minute PUG decides to declare this evening Ladies Night on the Parker – calm seas made it quite pleasant – flies were murder at first but later a breeze kicked up and that helped What a ferocious bite it proved to be! Went 16 for 25 despite doing a lot of laughing and screwing around - even with a later start while setting lines in 150fow we started getting into them – a little later as the 8 oclock hour rolled around the bite shifted to 120-130fow and ramped up even more HIGHLIGHT of the night was PUG getting checked at sea by the DNR – he was pretty rattled at first having them appear in his sacred tribal southern fishing waters but PUG plays by the rules so he had nothing to worry about – no honestly… the DNR guy was about the nicest I have ever met – he checked my license and smiled at the kids and confirmed our life jackets and then felt obliged to let us photograph him with PUG – also funny was I had slowed the F300 down to 450rpm while they came up alongside and that was just enough to make our copp200 with size4 green ladder plug that had been quiet all night drop down another 10-15 feet into the cold water and it immediately went off – that quickly turned into a quadriple – there were two times we had 4 fish on at once tonight. Here is a run down of what worked: Rigger down 65 with SilverHorde green glow plug – went 6 times Rigger down 72 with Moonshine Mag spoon – went a couple times probably Low Dipseys dialed on 1 out 190 and also 130 and also 150 and also 120 – these went countless times and we had spindoctors on them with the chrome ones being the best High Dipsey dialed on 2.5 out 300 with spindoctor got walloped a few times Copp300 with GreenJeans Mag Moonshine spoon went 5 or 6 times Frozen Toad spoon on Copp250 played ball once Copp200 with size4 green ladder got smoked (thanks to us slowing the boat down for the CO) Copp350 with both the green splatterback plug and also the blue splatterback plug went numerous times 20250729_221724.mp4 20250729_220518.mp4 20250729_220216.mp4 20250729_214057.mp4

well done DEWEY!