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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!

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? 20250702_214442.mp4 20250702_214924.mp4 20250702_215335.mp4 20250702_215749.mp4

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...

PUG got the Tracker Grizzly 18footer repowered but sadly had never caught any kings with the new motor so we rocketed down to Saugatuck as the sun came up and see if any late runners were still hanging out front. 4 for 4 Three Chinook and One Coho What a BLAST! Took us a while to find them and what they wanted and at what speed they would hit out of anger but eventually we got em dialed in. Nothing directly out front or in the channel. Sure a ton of em surfacing though – tight lipped they were - was maddening to watch! Today they were north of the pier quite a ways right on the edge of the clean and dirty water in about 30-35fow. They wanted it fast trolling north and slow trolling south. Chrome red head and mongoose and a bright yellow plug were the chosen ones. 20240926_113955.mp4 20240926_113832.mp4 20240926_112057.mp4 20240926_104822.mp4 20240926_104255.mp4

what a trip!

great job finding em & thanks for the report

beautiful night! glad you found some

Water was still freezing cold & lake had flattened so PUG felt inclined to give it a try again. Set lines at around 6.45AM. Beautiful morning out there but unfortunately we couldn’t dial them in the same way we had on Sunday morning. Ended up 2 for 5 on Kings Also, landed around 8 sheephead with two of them being super large, one measuring 29 inches and the other 32.75 inches Basically all of our king bites were on chrome read head. Fish were pressed in super close. For example the big one we got was in 11fow just a football field north of the north pier on a 1color Deepest bite was in 22fow We did run the channel but all that did was produce more sheephead Sorry LittleBoat that the kids had the music so loud I couldn’t hear you when we tried to communicate. Did you end up boating some kings? Passed by a guy trolling Holland channel on way in and he said he had landed 2 salmon so that is good to hear. Anyways, if some of you guys go tonight please report so we can try to figure out if the majority of em are already up river or what exactly is going on 20240910_080033.mp4 20240910_091113.mp4

also, multiple people informed PUG that his videos from the Monday night trip would not play on iPhones so here they are reattached in a different format this morning was similar to Monday night... lots of plants and quite a few males 20240902_202002.mp4 20240902_193114.mp4 20240902_204114.mp4 20240902_205328.mp4 20240902_203823.mp4 20240902_200420.mp4 20240902_185051_(1).mp4

17 for 30 tall seas especially while we were wrapping up and heading back to Holland all jplug and no flasher today - two dozen of the hits came on chrome red head plugs - they wouldn't touch green which was weird so eventually PUG just ran 5 chrome red heads water temp in the 50s yet they didn't come easy and PUG had to figure em out all action in that 14-18fow directly in front of piers or a tad south 20240908_112200_1.mp4 20240908_094644_1.mp4

PUG is now heading to Saugatuck - conditions are now perfect for the Season Opener - will report later today on results...

pug checked Holland Channel late morning today just did 2 passes dipsey popped once but we weren't marking squat in channel or Mac so we pulled and will return later

what a trip!

Congrats on the Master Angler award Kevin!

shoot yes they must have moved - wild PUG may give going tonight second thoughts now

PUG suspected that with fall in the air we had better check in on the Saugatuck mud this evening now that the gang is back from Isle Royale. PUG’s intuition served him well… 14for21 all in that 29-36fow with all bites taken in the actual mud itself (not the clean water) and most action being just south of the piers Large white paddle with green fly on dipsey without a ring out 62 probably got taken 8 times. JPlugs size 4 and up did the rest of the damage on 1color, 3color, and 5color (they wouldn’t touch the size3 plugs tonight for whatever reason). Did get one nice Chinook on a moonshine greenjeans hologram spoon in 35 fow with the rigger out 37 literally scraping the bottom. Several chunky mature Coho, lots of mature kings, one or two immature fish. The most unique part of this trip was that all of the mature Chinook were male and 7 of them were plants which is something we have not seen in several years… I guess this explains why none really tipped the charts in weight (apparently the DNR unfortunately uses scrawny nothing kings at the wier to gather spawn from so the DNA on the plants is innately a smaller fish we have seen in the last decade – almost all of the master angler kings we catch and get mounted are naturals). Regardless, such a great night out on the water though and lots of good action! Hoping some of the big mama mature hens start making the rounds. Could be tricky with water temps warming but PUG is determined to find out… 20240902_205328_1.mp4 20240902_200420_1.mp4 20240902_203823_1.mp4 20240902_204114_1.mp4 20240902_193114_1.mp4 20240902_185051_1.mp4 20240902_202002_1.mp4