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my oldest son got these off the sliders this AM - he didn't have PUG but I do believe everything was 80-130ft down

PUG thanks you for the report

strange setup with all this warm water for sure -- or maybe it is normal for August and we've just been spoiled

1for4

 between 105fow-118fow

direction = insignificant 

white paddle green fly = very good

water warm top to bottom so best bet was to run riggers down 115 and low divers out 190 and high divers at 300

heartbreak because we fought and had 3 huge kings come off behind the boat each after 20min hook pulled 

big white paddle in rigger

white spin dictor on deep diver

glow green splatter jplug on copp300 after dark

great job especially considering all of the variables at play! thanks for the report.

any idea of they are still going to have the Waypoint tourney this weekend in tall seas?

good to the last drop - nothing like ending with a BIG one! congrats on a fantastic morning

intense bite!

wow littleboat what port are you out of!?

Coho spin a lot and at least for us cause the types of problems you other guys have referenced - nice flock of decent size Coho this year too!

good luck! yesterday the morning bite didn't really get going til 830am

PUG left Holland harbor at around 8pm and ran way south to the waters off Saugatuck that were fruitful this morning 

Had a different set of kids onboard 

Everything that could've gone wrong setting lines did and we didn't even get everything in the water til 8.40pm and even at that we lost both full core not to long into the effort 

Ended up 4for4 though with some nice behemoth built ones, the kind PUG really likes!

copp350 sizer green ladder jplug 

10color size4 green ladder jplug

Mag size hulk on dipsey out 90ft

copp300 normal size green hulk spoon

Seas were far rougher than anticipated. All our action came in that 89-93fow

big king was on the 10color and was a male measuring 38 inches so just shy of master angler 

stars were beautiful tonight - feels like fall... probably no trolling til at least Monday!? just pulled up weather and wow the lake is going to get rough and turn over!

nice heading your way! gonna set lines at around 8pm with 3 other kids to try the sunset bite!

just heard u on radio haha

and this is the old school scaley green plug that went 10 times this morning... we were kinda in disbelief that it seemed like all they wanted. At one point we had 4 of them out. Took many fish on 5color, 10color, and cop350. Broke off 2 --> stinking coho spin and tangle harness!

if you have any old school green ladder that oughta bark too PUG says...

thanks guys

when you go tonight my best advice would be to go light on spoons and meat since it never really went but to run spinnies chrome with green fly and dig out some green jplugs

also with the way the lake is flipping I doubt you'll wanna fish deeper than 100fow especially coming into sunset... shoot in a couple days this pack of fish might be right in the piers - hopefully so because I think we are going Friday night

lake finally settled down so at 5.30AM PUG took 3 boys and I south outta Hollland down off sliders and in front of Saugatuck 

60fow at 6.02AM we got a big one on 5color drop weight size5 scaley green jplug

very quiet the next 90min

found em then in that 94-97 fow and just pegged away on them for a couple hours

we were 9 for 9 going for a perfect 10 Olympic style but lost 3 in a row and PUG got grumpy for a bit

combos that worked:

scaley green size5 or size3 or size4 jplug took over half of our bites - if you have one run one

they didn't really want spoons except halfameal on cop300 went a couple times

chrome spindocter and green fly went a bunch too

hit em as deep as copp350 (aka 80down) and as high as 5color (aka 20down) so spread throughout water column for sure but still very much concentrated in that mid-90s depth 

fish turning dark and starting to get ready to run!

my one son turned 14 yesterday and PUG wasn't going to stop til we hit 14

16for20 will try to report later

94-97fow throughout water column 

south off Saugatuck is where PUG prevailed

we didn't make it out tonight  - wind didn't back off in time - will give it a whirl at sunrise though and hopefully have something to report 

good times despite the weather and give you a lot of credit for trying 

PUG wants us to go out tonight... we will see!

impressive!

great job & thanks for all the details 

Tall seas but that made success all the sweeter when it eventually came…

Went 3 for 4

Started straight out of Holland – ended up way south by Saugatuck

Zig-zagged between 140FOW and 110FOW, trying all sorts of different angles in the 4-5ft waves and current until eventually shortly after sunset got our chance

Copper350 with white spindoctor & white fly went – came off

High dipsey out 190 with showtime spindoctor and blue fly went – 21# King

Rigger slider went about 58 down with thriller moonshine glow RV spoon – 8# King

5 Color went with size5 scaley green jplug (not we had a small 4 ounce drop weight on this line too to get it down to approx 30ft) – 20# King

All the bites we got here on Friday night happened between 109FOW and 117FOW for whatever it is worth

No bites on meat tonight

Would’ve probably caught several more but had to deal with some tangles and problems with the gear in that 9.30PM-10.30PM money hour and just couldn’t get all the baits we normally use out there working for us

PUG he was especially satisfied in the end and that is what counts!

thanks for the report  - CONGRATS on your success this morning!

thanks guys

I guess they are slaying em out off GH this morning on Fowl Hooked but much further offshore... not even able to see land (attached is pic of my oldest son's cooler) they have a 28#

PUG may go again Friday night depending on weather... please post reports in interim 

set lines at 8pm directly out of Holland 

bite had slowed some we could tell and was understaffed with grown ups but still PUG managed to go 6for15

missed 1 on rigger 62 down glow spoon while setting in 130fow south troll and soon after missed 2 more on dipseys with spindocter 

copp350 glow spoon got the big one at 9pm in 102fow north troll took 50min to land - 41inch male chinook

while fighting had both riggers go with monster fish 38 down and 52 down but lost both = heartbreak!

got chubby laker on dipsey 

missed one on copp250 glow spoon

5color scalley green size5 jplug with 4ounce drop weight starts screaming - nice big king eventually got it

missed many more on riggers in the darkness 

landed one on dipsey with moonshine glow mag

got last nice king at 1045pm on 10color mag moonshine and headed in

good to hear from you again

insanely good fishing!

excellent trip!

very similar to what we encountered

last 3 nights we have run down from Holland to either off Saugatuck or south of Saugatuck and reading how you walloped em of South Haven only further suggests that these big fish arr holding up nicely down south