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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

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!