dan agnello

I have had one for a few years, but never hooked it up; it just looked like a pain; so Josh said he had two that he brought. Most of the morning he had a 100’ lead; about 11:30 I asked him to shorten it to about 50’.Shortly threafter we caught a nice king.

Think I’ll hook mine up!

We had no rain yesterday which surprised me from what I saw on the radar at 0500 on TV in Jackson.

Went 10 for 14, 8 kings, coho n a dink coho that went back.
Fished 92-103fow straight out and a few miles north of pier heads.
2-3s all day out of NE, 9 hits north troll, rest east, 2.5-3.0sog.
8 fish on CJohn’s Goc Magnum, 1 coho on rigger slider on Goc regular.
Mag Whammy, ruv blue flounder, uv gr dolphin and uv like a mixed veggie and similar with blue stripe instead of green.
Every pole, except my reg dipsey took fish: 5 1/2 and 10 colors, 200 and 300’ copper; riggers down 47’ and 54’ with 48’ leads: slide diver 147’ out with 50’ lead (about 47’ down).
Great day on Lac Michigan!

Good job Tarrey. Your doctored spoons worked well. I’ll have to get some more stick paint n doctor up some of my NBKs like yours.

When we were fishing next to you we were getting frustrated with no hits but as soon as we passed u in 111 we got one on and  we worked 121’ area as well.

We are doing St Joe again early next week.

Get ‘em Saturday!

Lost a few spoons yesterday, so just replenished  them with an order to Capt John King.

All hits north troll 2.5-3.0sog

Went 5 for 7; all kings 8-18lbs.

1 in 86’, 2 in 111’ and 2 in 121’. 

1st was on rigger 47’ back n 47’ down on CJKing Gold Or Crush.

Dipsey on 3 out 150’ and 10C same spoon.

Rigger down 50’ 50 lead GOC spoon again.

300 copper w/2color swr  with mag nbk gr/spoon took one.

lot of nice fish at fish cleaning station!

I agree with Mega Byte, not sure why you would put a dipsey on a board and not sure a board could handle the force. Dipsey holder should be parralell to the water. I don't have them, but the holders you can ratchet up before you remove remove the dipsey rod are awesome.

Rod trees are the greatest invention  since sliced bread. For up to 300' of copper and full core I use standard Off Shore boards. They track just fine.

My friend even uses the Church walleye board  for up to 300 copper and full core n they surprisingly track well; he did move the weight all the way back though.

Your setup looks real good. Enjoy!!!!!!

Heard of  2 South Haven reports  today:

One guy got 12 kings in 130-160fow.

Another got 2 kings, a steelie n 5 lakers in 180-190 fow.

No other details.

We are still doing St Joe tomorrow and SoHa next week.

Tomorrow we'll get to 75' and set lines with SW heading.

Yep, charter captain last Monday, stopped catching at 19 lakers in 152fow.

Hmmmm. Guess Tuesday we try 80-100 and if no go go deep to 150.

Thks for the report!

Good job!

Good job; we'll be out Tuesday, also.

Last week we got into some nice kings also, 18, 19 & 21lbs. 

Only 1 for 4; lost 2 kings at the boat; Capt Dan needs to practice his netting skills.
Lost a laker who hit the UV Skinny Minney spoon ( one with fish on it) as I was tripping the SB rigger to change the spoon; Capt John Gold Orange Crush took all 3 kings; 
2 on same port rigger down 29' with 65' leads.
SB rigger was originally 55' lead length but went to 65' after first king.
Other king on port black dipsey on 2.5 out 100'.
Started dipseys at 55 & 65' with mo hits; so after first fish went to 100' and 120'.
Speed was 2.4-3.0.
All fish caught in 60fow  running in cleaner water next to very dirty water; the very dirty water
was out to at least 59'; have never seen that before.
Caught fish up hill and downhill. Pretty much straight out from the pierheads. Water temp was 44-45 degrees. 
Waves lazy 2-3s that later build up to choppier 2-3s/2-4s when we pulled lines at 1:45.

Got final design from Kate; 6 stations on each table; each table has a grinder/disposal and two gfci receptacles hanging from the ceiling. And, like St Joe a descaler machine in tbe corner for pan fish.

Yes, didn’t realize the fat belly until I put  it on the cleaning table.

Was in a hurry cleaning the fish and should have slowed down and cut open it’s stomach.

It was a planted fish, aka adipose fin had neen clipped.

Good job, 5/5 last year we got a 20lber in SoHa.

Here’s preliminary design; 4 stations on each table with disposal on each table; back table also has a 5th handicap accessable station.

Basically same as St Joe except twice as many tables.

St Joe was similar to Holland and SoHa is very similar.

At the SoHa lake house again this weekend  and see they just broke ground for the new fish cleaning station that should be done sometime in July;

Again it will be a public cleaning station for paid to launch  or non paid to launch people.

Yep PS is in also. Thks for posting.

South Haven buoy number 45168 has been deployed for this year and is reporting wind, waves, etc and lake temp from surface down almost to it's anchor. It also has a webcsm like most of the GLOS buoys do.
Cooke buoy 45068 has not been deployed yet but I would expect it  to be deployed in a week or so.
You can find a summary of all the Great Lakes buoys at
"glbuoys.glos.us. The spread sheet has a summary of conditions at each buoy and you click on it for full data.
Also, you can get instant wind n gusts, air temlp. water temp (surface only) and wave height by texting 866 -218-9973. Just text the buoy number to the toll-free number and text response will be buoy conditiins.
Wishing you a safe, fun 2019  boating/fishing season.

You too; when u caught that we decided to fish shallow again n soon got the skunk out.

Catch up with ya again maybe next week.

Detroir River tomorrow in Andre’s boat. 

Nice report; good job 

We found out last year in Erie west basin  that walleye wanted a hot speed also. We ran same 2.4 to 2.9;  4 trips 66 ‘eyes’. Unheard of; walleye speed is always like 1.8 to 2.3 or so. Work speed.

If you get a hit on starborad side while turning left (where SB lures will speed up) then you were trolling too slow. Likewise if port side goes  off on that same turn you are trollong too fast, etc.

The slogan for driving, “speed kills” 

works  for fishing too.

I was going to do South Haven because a Sunday report showed 2  man limit in 4  hours, but I was pretty sure the heavy Monday NNW wind would blow a lot of the warm water (that came up from weekend SW 70 degree winds) south. I guessed correctly; also Fishin Hole said they were in.

Better  get them in next few weeks or so before they move out to deeper water. When they school up real tight in shallows they are easier pickings like walleye.

Most fish were caught between the brown house on the hill to the blue house just before the concrete wall.

Don't be afraid to run a little hot like I said, 2.4-3sog.

Capt Dan out

Got 3 man limit in 4 hours: 8:30-12:30.
17 for 20; threw back one foul hooked and one on when we pulled lines.
18-20fow; 45-47 degree water; mile south of water plant to concrete wall; sog 2.4 to 2.8; uphill troll (north) and south caught same amount; threw back one foul hooked and one on when we pulled lines; partly coudy to sunny.
Lazy SW 2-4s, to lazy 2-3s to build up chop 2-4s starting around 11:30.
J-9 Orange jointed rapalla, CJ King regular size SUV Skinny Minnie and glo silver spoon with yellow and black ladder (yellow killer) back all took fish.
Rapala on rigger down 10’ and on board out 60’; 2 2colors and lime green size “0” dipsey on 3 back 30’ took fish.
No hits on CJ GOC or White lighting spoons.
Cloudy to partly cloudy; SW lazy 2-4s to lazy 2-3s to around 11:30 2-4 choopy buildup.

Good job Greek.