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    Saugatuck 9/11 attempt

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    nope... all we've caught are hens so far... last year we caught em out front all the way through September.  Last king caught was an anorexic 29.5pound male on a high line jplug in 15fow out front on September 30.  Got it mounted  - the thing was 41.75 inches and had probably weighed 37-38 pounds pre spawn out is our best guess... kids and i have this theory that a group of em never run to the dam but actually spawn out on the boulder walls midway down the channel  - who knows if we are right - here is a pic of this 2019 finale fish 

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    season opener - Holland/Saugatuck

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Made the September ritual run down from Holland and setup fishing Saugatuck at around 4.30pm today

    Thankfully water had finally finished turning over and was icy cold outside of the mud

     

    1st King smoked the mini-dipsey with chrome red head in 22fow south troll right in front – MISSED EM!

     

    2nd King drilled the rigger 15 down blue spackle jplug in 23fow same spot same direction – GOT EM!

     

    3rd King just ripped our small dipsey with jplug that was out only 19 feet (not a typo… just two poles length) on the inside of a turn in 16fow right out front same spot – GOT EM even though the jplug harness had buried itself in him halfway down!

     

    4th King came on the rigger down 14 bright green jplug in 20fow same spot same southern troll direction as before – GOT EM! This one was our biggest of the night

     

    5th King just drilled a 2 color moonshine super glow plug as we trolled into and through the channel after the sun went down – MISSED EM but it was very exiting as he just crushed it but eventually got off

     

    6th King we had go was on the rigger at 8.45pm on a glow jplug 12down as we were trolling west back out of the channel – MISSED EM as he came off for whatever reason in the darkness after 5min

     

    So we ended 3 for 6

    Tried flashers and got no takers

    It was all jplugs and no particular pattern of plug obviously

    Water is very weedy so requires lots of checking and resetting lines but still had a blast!

    This is the very best time of year and our favorite way to catch em.

     

    Everyone has been saying how bad fishing is and how hardly any of the fish that run are 4 year olds even anymore but hey guess what it was sure good tonight and resembled success we have had the last few years.  Hope they stick around for a bit!

     

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    Holland SALMON 8/1/2020

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Wilson and I were rewarded for getting up early and out before sunrise off of Holland Saturday morning.

    Ended up 4 for 6

     

    Had a double setting lines in 80fow at around 6am

    (full core Yellow Dolphin while being set… the board had just been clipped on and we were letting it out when it went – managed to land our biggest chinook of the morning and year thus far)

    (high dipsey blue spindoctor & fly while still letting line out with only 60 feet out – landed a 2 year old chinook)

     

    From here we took a 3yr old chinook next in 90fow at sunrise 6.30am

    (high dipsey blue/green spindoctor with 140foot of line out)

     

    Then we missed a couple big hits on the downrigger

    (55 down moonshine mag flounder pounder got smoked twice but just didn’t stay hooked)

     

    Last we got another big chinook in 98fow at around 8am

    (deep dipsey with 100ft out green frog spindoctor and white fly)

     

    The east wind was howling and most guys left the shallower water so quickly… for us sticking around and little more in tight really worked out.  This north wind brought the temp break up higher which was great to see. Was going to keep the boat on anchor overnight here in west olive like we have commonly done so we could fish again Sunday morning but the weather changed and the north wind started whipping so we changed our plans…

     

     

     

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    season opener - Holland/Saugatuck

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    decided to run out of Mac and down to Saugatuck to run the mud one last time... while setting lines in the sideways pouring rain hard east wind had a high line orange board get buried in 26fow off saug north pier... big ole male my daughter hauled in... last one of the year for us... actually probably our biggest too, for sure our longest... will weigh it back at the dock in Holland 
     
     

     

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    season opener - Holland/Saugatuck

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Ha - nice Kevin... hands down you are the founding father of fall fishing --- my kids still talk about the guy in the blue 4winns who completely crushed em every time and was actually nice to us and gave us advice :) (remember back then it was the kids and I trying to learn out on the duck boat in Holland channel?) - Anyways, yes fall fishing completely stinks compared to what it used to be and we now have to fish long hard hours often times to even get a couple but it is still kinda fun.  Someone has to try to catch the 200-300 total salmon that run in Ottawa county these days... can't leave em to run up the streams and die and be feasted on by the coons! :) Good reminder and trip down memory lane on those 2018 videos... here are a couple from the treasure chest- the dipsey double off Saug where I dropped my phone and the 23.5er that my son caught in front of Tiara deep inside Mac (this was in that one 18hr period where there was actually fish to be caught) - what isn't in the video is that we fished for 14.5hrs without a bite in sub-55 degree pier water leading up to these...

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