young gun

Hey charter captains, I am looking for a first mate position from june 21st to August 15th out of Grand haven. I fished with Jim bard on "it I'll do" as a second mate when I was 12-15years old. Last year I couldn't get my first mates license because I was 15, but I still got out 9-12 times with capt Brian Butts on "sea flea" charters out of chinook pier. Please email me on this address [email protected].

Thanks Blake Yant

List your 5 hot spoons, flasher/flies, plugs, meat rigs, etc;

Also tell me what time of the day they are hot and what rods are they hot on.

Mine are

1.) stigner blue UV mix veggies june on a 225 copper.

2.) Pearl paddle and rapture little bride peal and blue bead on a DR at 60-120 all year.

3.) silver horde #4 blue splatter back on a 300 copper late in season.

4.) pearl silver horde #4 late season any where.

5.) show time spinny with oceana blue and green bead. great combo for june in the slow mornings!:thumb:

Now sea cat I don't have a fish hawk so mainly I look for bait and temp. I know salmon prefer 43-46 degree water temp. If I see bait and good temp outside the channel I will fish there a little. My question is how do you know what colors are hot and what locations are hot due to the temp and brightness of the day?

Thanks guys, don't get me wrong I know june fishing is tough, and I never have a predetermined set up I was just wondering if my speed would be alright. If you guys can give me some tips on perch fishing the grand haven/port Sheldon area I would greatly appreciate it? I have never gone for perch on the big lake.

In June when guys are getting 8-10 fish I am only getting 2-5, now I know there are a lot of variables but my spring set up seems good. My spoon program doesn't seem to catch as many fish as my flasher fly, plug, and meat program. Is this due to my speed or just my presentation? My presentation for June usually consist of 6 rods, two downriggers, two braid divers, a 225copper, and a 10 color. On sunny days spoons are yellow and green in the top 50, one paddle on rigger 70-100ft down, and mountain dew hypnotist set up on braid diver down 40-60. What do you guys have to say about that spring set up? OH I don't have a fish hawk but my surface speed is 2.0 to2.7..

On my convector 55 i have a 45lb copper 300ft. i have 25 lb mono backing and can get 240-275 yards of backing on it.

Nice got my first over 30 in aug. nothin better than a fat piggy

i had a day this year that i got skunked. Corey on tammy too charters had 47 hits and we didnt get zip, we were also fishing side by side. The thing he was doing i wasnt was running yellows in the top 45 feet of water. I had paddle and spoons low expecting the usual summer program. That day still drives me nuts.

Black dots one is a dancing anchovy or blue jackall.

I love fish on but they only carry a couple colors of 6mm beads

Please tell me where i can find big glow beads!

Some one please tell me where i can find big glow beads.

Some one tell me where to order big glow beads!

Hawg wild, for shure!

fyi the orange spoon that looked like an NBK was probibly an oange killer, just wanted to let you know.

run all da time

mattmishler whose boat was that? Nick and Dusty referd to me as skipjack down on the docks because i was a trainee this past summer on the EO, and seaflea.

pearl flasher poofster fly. works every summer.

2 riggers, 2 braid divers,and a 10 color and 250 copper

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Spring time brown trout fishing.

I have fished out of grand haven and port sheldon all my life, but i have never broke the ice and taregted some browns and lake trout before in the early spring. if you guys could answer my questions i would greatly appreciate it.

1: how deep do you troll by the shore?

2: what color, size, and kind of floating raplas are you best producers?

3: what lb test mono do you use?

4: what temperature do the browns start fire?

5: what size boards do you use.

6: do you get a mixed bag of steelhead and lakers too?

I know i am a green horn but i would gladly apperciate your feed back.

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Spring time brown trout fishing.

I have fished out of grand haven and port sheldon all my life, but i have never broke the ice and taregted some browns and lake trout before in the early spring. if you guys could answer my questions i would greatly appreciate it.

1: how deep do you troll by the shore?

2: what color, size, and kind of floating raplas are you best producers?

3: what lb test mono do you use?

4: what temperature do the browns start fire?

5: what size boards do you use.

6: do you get a mixed bag of steelhead and lakers too?

I know i am a green horn but i would gladly apperciate your feed back.

i fish out of grand haven and port sheldon. Run 20lb mono on riggers of course with 10 to 15 lb cannon balls. Also i will let you in on a secret, as being a first mate i learned not everyone does good when others do. in late july through spring run silver horde green splatter back plugs #4s, usually on coppers or 10 colors. on the riggers when the fly bite is on trust me, run dreamweaver 11in paddle 28in leader to a poofster or oceana fly, works every summer no matter what. run them 65-95 ft down, when you are fishing in 80 ft of water or more. on cloudy days run blue bubble spinnies with a poofster or a blue bubble fly. hope that helps. oh one moe thing troll 2.0 to 2.7 with flies and plugs later in the summer, early when the spoon bite is on run 2.5 to 3.0.

big weenies are the best flies hands down!

count

kings:54

coho:26

lakers:9

steelies:5

set your divers so the weight is toward the boat on setting 1 if you have walker divers, this will push the divers away from the boat a little bit.