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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

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