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LEGENDARY NIGHT BITE! took 90 min to clean all the fish - probably close to 200 pounds of salmon - definitely one of the better trips we've had on Parker!  Best this year at least.

set lines at around 8pm

got a couple bites before sunset but most of it after... used the same trick PUG (who is tired by the way) had showed us on the last 3 trips but this time had oldest son along too in hopes of really whaling on em and that we did! at one point at around 10pm had 6 on at once. Lots of big fish tonight too. Five of em were easily 20# plus.

what worked:

riggers 50-60 down glow spoons

dipseys set deep about 100 back meat rig (went 7 times)

full core glow spoon

half core glow jplug

copp300/copp350 glow spoons

south troll in 140fow was the ticket til it got real dark and then angled east and cleaned up all the way into 100fow

last bite was 10.50pm on rigger and it got off but that was fine because we already had limit and were going to release it anyway - we were way south off Oval Beach at this point 

monster!

15 for 27

just had another one go off 5min ago

will report later

cya out there

good grief both you and JDH got into em good! thanks fot all the details 

PUG swears if you guys would've stayed trolling til 11pm at the rate u were going both of you would've limited out!

we had most of our bites after 10pm and for example when pulling in the 10color at a rapid clip in 88fow at 10.55pm a king scarfed it up

great job JDH! thanks for all the specifics as they should be handy if pug and I try again tonight 

Dennis how was it out there this AM?

nice job!

what an awesome port Whitehall is 

was at a youth regatta there all day yesterday 

PUG headed out later tonight, setting lines closer to 8.15PM.  Just like the last few trips by the time the night was over south of Saugatuck off Oval and it was 10.45PM and we were still fighting fish…

Thankfully Randy from Wave Dancer was already out there and had found the fish in 130FOW biting on a South troll at 2.5MPH speed is what he shared and sure enough he was right!

Ended up going 8 for 15 with a 24# and 22# king in the mix.  Had a few heartbreak losses on screamers that we fought for a while and eventually the hook just pulled.  One tried to empty all our 10 color backing and the other just smoked a copp300 so hard it nearly buried the board.  Still for only 2.5hrs of fishing PUG felt quite content with our results.

What worked was that 130FOW mainly south troll at 2.5MPH

Highest bite was 10 color which went 3 times so 40 down

Otherwise riggers went about a half a dozen times in that 40-62 feet down range

Copp300 went 3 times

All of the above were on spoons that glow (mainly moonshine)

High dipseys went 2 times with spindoctors and flies out 180-190

Fishing seems REALLY GOOD off of Holland/Saugatuck right now – not just is there a solid bite but the size of the fish suddenly seems to have improved – for example Wave Dancer who helped us out over the radio went 10 for 16 and they had a legit 30# king and a 24# king and a 22# king and then qty2 18# kings!  CONGRATS TO THEM

nice work finding them in close!

got a late start outta Holland but it didn't much matter... the bite for us didn't happen much until after 8pm anyway and we found em way south directly off Saugatuck in that 100-130fow

copp350 raspberry carbon early on

later it was riggers and 10colors with moonshine glow spoons repeatedly and also high diver meet rig out 150

caught fish up until 10.30pm

trolling direction didn't much matter

initially tried to mark em and catch them in much closer and was kicking around doing Saugatuck mud but they didn't seem to be in there so PUG made the decision to gamble deeper

pug got a late start but ended 6for12

...still heading back to dutch harbor -  will try to report later

PUG may check em tonight even and if he does he will be sure to share info

bravo!

cool

good luck man

heading to see musical fountain  - no trolling tonight for PUG

and yes littleboat the fog was super thick off PS at sunrise for us too

what port this time?

1 for 2 was all

lost a behemoth on a high dipsey flasher combo out 130 in 79fow at sunrise which was a bit of a heartbreak 

Beautiful morning though...

Our stats always take dent when PUG doesn't come along so we kinda expected such

6for9

PUG got a couple to go in 110fow at around 8pm

7 more in that 69-72fow coming into and after sunset

moonshine glow spoons

meat rig

silver spin doctor greenfly

NICE!

you fishes 3 ports in 3 days

JDH were your bites up high super.early or did theu chow up there even after the sun had been up awhile? thanks for the report. heard that it was super slow off GH this morning so that makes your report all the more impressive...

might give it a shot tonight - buoy has temp break still 30-35 down so who know

Thanks guys

didn't make it out this morning but my son who was with us last night ran a charter out of GH and they apparently filled two coolers in that 60-140fow - haven't talked to him yet so don't know much more - he may take Parker tonight out of Holland with his buddies so we will see how that goes...

based on some reports coming out of GH with cold water & bait, PUG convinced the 3 boys and I to try the Saugatuck mud tonight 

went 18 for 30 all in that 36-42fow kzoo river wash out

spoons on riggers 24 down with the slider spoon 10 up worked best - sliders took 60% of the bite... it was almost comical

dipseys with braid out 77 and 80 were big hitters too with spoons

YELLOW spoons worked best

Boards only went twice which was unusual  - both times size3 chrome red head jplug

legends

great trip!

the super early or super late bite seems to be the thing, off Holland at least 

2 years ago about this time of year we left the pierheads 3days in a row at 4am and by sunrise we had at least a half a dozen fish... may have to try that again

impressive trip

thanks for the report