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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 

rumor has it you were harvesting Chinook last night???

where's the report!?

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? 

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

thanks for the report 

amazing how the fish are sticking around in numbers down south this time of year

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!

solid trip! man I better dig out some old green jeans - problem is pug and kids make me run almost all meat these days

nice work JDH

nice work JDH!

PUG put us on the fish real good tonight... same depth (105-120fow) and about the same vicinity just north of Holland

meat was fantastic on the divers

at one point we had a quadruple on all 4 divers

copper 300 and 350 and 250 played ball some too

riggers were hot 62 and 77 down with spoons 

direction didn't really matter 

beautiful night and no storms thankfully!

thanks guys! hopefully will see some of you out there tonight - it sounds like PUG is gonna give it another shot - I'll try to have my radio on too

PUG took 9 of us out fishing on the new 2025 Parker 2.0 tonight

went 5 for 10 and would've gotten probably another 5 or 6 fish easily but got run off by some scary looking thunderstorms - the bite was really starting to turn on right after sunset but unfortunately the thunderheads and lightening and high winds arrived right then and there too

what worked was all in that 95-115fow between Holland and PS

deep dipseys out 150-160 with meat rigs went 4 times

high dipseys out around 200 went twice with spindocter flies

copp200 and copp250 with spoons each went 

riggers with spoons went too

nothing on copp300 or copp350 suprisingly

some fun videos are attached - hopefully they play correctly?

despite the fish not eating, it sure looked like a beautiful night to be out there - PUG and I are admittedly a bit jealous 

beautiful fall sky 

nothing like catching the rip when it happens!

awesome report Kevin

good reminder to all of us to keep high lines ready - shocked they were in that tight!

PUG got a good bathing indeed and is ready for more should this wind calm down...