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Thanks again for the heads up on the bite yesterday Littleboat Shoot looking at the forecast PUG is going to have to retie ans redo everything for skinny water pierhead trolling come Thursday morning - substantial East wind is upon us!

8 for 9 2 mongo steelhead and the rest 2-3 year olds very fun night and glassy calm goofed by sliding out to 120-130 after setting lines because it turns out the bite was in 95fow on a south troll (at least for us) copp300 moonshine mag green jeans copp250 racket jaw riggers with moonshine regular size down 50-70 all the action came at our following sunset... first 90min we has no activity good eaters! 20250929_180147.mp4 20250929_190802.mp4 20250929_193608.mp4 20250929_192620.mp4

went on metal boat with 15yr old son this Thursday night off Holland. Lots of fish marking on the Garmin. We knew kings were in there because of the lunker he had gotten alone on rowboat in the morning. Lots of sheephead. 3 color had a king on mag moonshine greenjeans but she came off. Then the other 3 color with size3 mongoose starts screaming 20min after sunset. Not a king but instead a monster steelhead! Jumped 10 times. Anyways, didn't have to clean fish tonight because it was master angler and so beautiful that PUG voted we get it mounted 20250925_195303_1.mp4

my 15yr old here on Thursday morning just netted the biggest king we seen all year in 30fow off Holland south pier on his rowboat all alone silver too!?

at 9am here Monday morning my 15yr old fishing alone in his rowboat just picked one up next to south pier - from photo appears to be mag spoon and I wanna say he said 3color ...another homeschooling victory!

great job tonight FBD! the gang and I struggled... lost 1 king south from piers in the 28fow on green jeans mag copp100 and then proceeded to boat 12 sheephead in a row over the next few hours - was fun but anticlimactic after a while - had numerous other hook ups that came undone early on and who knows maybe they were kings?? graph was nuts in there off the south end... son will try again tomorrow off his rowboat!

my 4 sons left PUG and I back at the dock and sure enough are getting into em!

boys just left on a scout mission to Holland channel on ther metal boat - unfortunately for them they left PUG home so that is gonna hurt their odds last night my 15yr old was fishing in front of Holland alone on a rowboat with just 2 rods in and he said matures were surfacing everywhere and he had one on right as the tstorm hit... pretty cool last batch of Holland plants maybe forever!?

Thanks for all your reports and enthusiasm Jolly Time! Twas a season to remember

11for15 on Kings all in that 30-38fow lots of plug bite and 3 or 4 came on white paddles and/chrome flasher WIND was violent east but being in tight it was no problem at all for PUG and the gang! 20250920_071357.mp4 20250920_074654.mp4

breakthrough report - thank you for these specifics! PUG and the boys and I almost left the dock at 10pm tonight it makes us so excited alas cool water

nice work and what a beautiful night it was what port were you out of?

good job guys! you win - pug got skunked gambling inside 60fow all morning - 0for1 - lost a beast on a dipsey out 75 in 58fow at 630am and that was it! graph was just littered with staging fish that simply would not bite - bummer of it all is I don't think we are gonna get a cold front until at least first week of October 20250918_085435.mp4 20250918_092140.mp4 20250918_080502_1.mp4

see attached - a promising report from GH this heat is making it interesting.. not only for PUG but the Salmon too VID_20250425_110727.mp4

thanks for the report man if only we could get the piles of em in that 40-70fow to eat

similar to what PUG and thee gang encountered Monday night... we set in 80 off Holland and then trolled all the way out to 170 and from there all the way to 30 in saug mud 2for2 158fow copp350 green ladder size4 plug 70fow meat rig marks were insane inside 70 on bottom and it appeared to be matures waiting it out but no takers there

what a great night!

PUG is red hot pissed at me because I never made it out tonight (doing safety boat on a 2day regatta event inside Mac this weekend and day1 ran all the way til 630pm). Anyways, good job finding some fish you guys and now that the buoy is up again I can visualize why things may be on the to the positive! As far as folks nailing the south pier I completely agree that the south pier is a disaster for mariners… I noticed it many years ago when I would fish kings all night off Saug and then heading back at around 4am (obviously exhausted) it just appears so confusing. Add a few drinks or if you are a newbie it is a recipe for disaster. IMO and maybe I got it wrong but that weather station on the north side that also shines green is the kiss of death. That effectively creates “two pair” of red and greens and if you mistakenly lock in on the inside pair then you nail the pier pretty much in the same spot where the last 4 boats that have hit it have nailed it. Shoot it feels like Holland has had more crashes than even the channels with breakwalls like Manistee and Muskegon and this should NOT be the case?

phenomenal trip! thanks for all the details - good kings still out there to be caught! even on the northern ports

very impressive report Littleboat! JollyTime let PUG know how you fare tonight because we may partake tomorrow night. In other news someone just hit the south pier https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/dispatch-boat-strikes-holland-south-pier-five-hurt/

thanks for the report

beautiful morning the Harvest moon the freighter the sunrise unfortunately this run is jinxed with warm water - no bites - started down off Saugatuck and then PUG returned to Holland in 5-6footers and gave that a shot too - even several charters off GH coming up empty - both rivers were 3 degrees colder than the big lake which is not a good sign! heard of 4 matures caught NW of GH in 170fow 140-150down so PUG is still hopeful that there might be a cold front and run to target

Returned from 9days on Isle Royale Returned from 9days on Isle Royale and PUG was itching to go fishing tonight on Parker so we went out of Holland and set lines in 185FOW at around 7.15PM. Ended up going 9 for 11 All bites were in that 150-175 fow Fish came as high as copper 150 but most were in the 60-100 down range Moonshine spoons were best on the riggers and took most Dragon Slayer spindoctor took just a monster steelhead on copper 300 (photos ATTACHED) Deep braid dipsey with yellow meat rig went twice out 150 and both were solid fish Other deep braid dipsey with white paddle and green fly went too out 190 South troll but also SE and SW were the directions that worked We ended up at least 4 miles south of Saugatuck pier There was no solid after dark bite unfortunately...ark bite tonight unfortunately 20250901_204640.mp4