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13 for 20 similar to Friday night - a little slow starting out but at around 8.15pm things kicked into gear PUG brought the whole calvary this time though and we even had a spectator boat (my aunt & uncle) along side taking pics for a while 60-100 down in that 112-125 fow was best mainly mag spoons again but also some on the jplug and chrome 8" flasher and also frog spindocter for us it was difficult to say one thing worked better than another copp200 copp250 copp300 copp350 high dipsey out 270 low dipseys out 120ish riggers down 70-80 with sliders What a beautiful evening on the water! 20250727_210746.mp4 20250727_214509.mp4

bravo Kevin! nice job & welcome back

yes sir I believe that was us

ran south and setup just north of Saugatuck to get out of the pack in 125fow some of the best bite I've seen in recent years fish were down in that 80-110 like I suspected (thanks SeaFoam) so ran just 8 rods 16for20 all action was mainly in that 129-134fow doing a SSW troll with ground speed of 2.3 well after dark as we faded in we added more in as shallow as 95fow though last bite was at 10.40pm every rod and lure took a fish and some were picked on more than others - biggest challenge was keeping just 3 or 4 rods in because so many triples etc here is what worked in a crude quick summary: copp350 mag moonshine flounder pounder copp300 mag moonshine greenjeans both riggers with sliders mag moonshine 82 down and 100 down both deep dipseys braid out 150 and 190 copp250 with blue ladder size 4 plug joined party a couple times after dark copp200 chrome red head pluh size4 went in pitch blacl at 10.20pm PUG has has encountered more silver fin though he hardly can remember when... 20250725_220611.mp4 IMG_7876.mp4 IMG_7887.mp4

very impressive!

3-4 footers out of the north kept it interesting - figured we had to go because we didn't wanna be out done again by WaveDancer setup in 130 and trolled NW out to 145 and eventually swung it around into a south troll which was more comfortable all bites for us came in that 138-144 but I guess that was probably just because that is where we hung out all night zig zagging went 6 for 13 with the bites almost all being matures moonshine mag spoons and other glow spoons performed well tonight (riggers down 45-65, copp200, copp250, copp300) meat participated 3 or 4 times too on deep diver out 120 and also copp350 honestly everything that could have gone wrong did and we broke more lines and suffered more tangles than usual... it felt humbling for sure! at one point had a copp150 break above the board and lost the whole stinking package including a lucky jplug still a fun night to be out there... fishing in taller seas makes it all the sweeter when it works out and for pug it did work out because while he lost just a pig of a king on a rigger slider when the reel jammed he did still manage to score on this 22#er on copp250 even after it tangled into 2 dipseys coming in IMG_7453_1.mp4

haha ok so buoy says 3.3 but PUG is fired up and we are heading out

nice work guys and Seafoam either you got a small profile cooler or that one is a Beast

thanks for the report! pug and I love your lure selection and may give it a whirl tonight

thanks guys and yes Zgrinder the boys insist on meat and are proficient at it like they have proven over and over again BUT last night I got to run many of our "old luckies" and honestly I had just screenshot and used your chart from the night before as a guide what you say and show with currents does make a lot sense I will add that last night after dusk all the marks went deeper (verses higher up in the column) on the graph which shocked us too and was probably why we couldn't get the glow program to keep going. In hindsight we were fishing above em at that point...

PUG took my daughter and I out trolling... ran south beyond Saugatuck and setup in 120fow to avoid the storm arriving weird night out there... strong current & weather went from bad to perfect and then back to bad after 10pm 5for7 with bites from 99fow out to 130fow and 120fow probably being the best: copp350 green jeans mag moonshine holo dipsey back 110 with silver and blue spindocter copp200 mag half a meal moonshine copp250 flounder pounder mag moonshine rigger down 62 happee meal mag moonshine rigger down 54 green jeans mag moonshine copp150 scaley green size 4 jplug a couple of them were real BIG hens tonight! at least bigger than the matures we had been getting

8for14 solo three rod spread - LEGENDARY Pug and the gang are impressed!

congrats you are on em!

5 for 12 92fow was all of our action SE and SW troll is what they'd bite with surface speed or around 2.4mph high dipsey out 220 with meat went numerous times low dipseys out 105 and also 112 with meat were hopping spoon on rigger down 65 but actually this was the steelhead that came on slider so 55down copp350 with meat went three times as well on starboard side almost every other boat was 110-140fow and curious if that was better? we had not a single bite after 9pm which was a little anticlimactic -- we figured it was because PUG stayed back? 20250715_194000.mp4

what a morning! thanks for all these details... am gonna give it a whirl tonight

impressive you guys! seems like the bite is still strong there inside 100fow

lots of cross current especially starting out, which made getting everything in and keeping it all from tangling an ongoing challenge tonight 6 for 11 78-90 fow 50-70 down mainly meat but some fly and spoon and even a glow jplug brought in the last one at around 10.20pm beautiful night on the water!

rocking report love to see the jplugs come out & score in July!

nice work BLP we must have been right by you there off the sliders sounds like spoons worked real good too and maybe it wasn't just a meat gig like my kids were telling me

12for21 all matures & all males except for one big hen highest rod to go was copp150 with green spoon (went twice) most of the other bites were concentrated in that 55-70 down though so copp200, copp250, copp300, rigger down 69, dipsey out 109 15 of the bites were on meat rigs all hits where in 75-81fow with the best depth being 77fow seemed like all the other boats were trolling deeper than us in that 80-120fow initially, trolled south at first with current with us so to get em going we were 3mph or even a little more later swung it north and had the inverse going into current where 2mph was about right had 5 on at once at one point and managed to land 4 of em lots of tangles and mishaps in the chaos of course cleaned fish til after midnight - thankfully PUG sat this one out or I'd still be out there cleaning fish - yikes! IMG_2291.mp4 IMG_2292.mp4