dan agnello

South Haven 4 28

Short Report:

Me, Bob Knaak n Dimitri were out. 1-2s down to flat calm from SW

7 for 7, 5 kings n 2 lakers. 2 kings were dinks we threw back. kings were in 6-8 lb range, nice fighters.

fish came in 65 -79 fow straight out  n south of piers. 40' rigger main line took 3 on red/or/gr/sil spoon and similar spoon on 225' copper that took 2. 

lakers came on tin can dodgers bouncing bottom with gr spin n glos in 70-80 fow; lot of lakers in that area.

We did  not go deep to target Cohos.

Saw 3 or 4 nice big bait balls in that area.

found some fresh gobies in boat cooler few minutes ago when I cleaned it out; probably from lakers.

Nothing on 150 copper or 3 & 5 & 8 colors.  

Great day on the lake and met two more great guys.

Thanks Ed n Dimitri.

I know its late but one mate had family emergency and had to cancel.

Text me if u can be at city launch at 8am ? 517-750-7451

thks

Dan

Just found out SoHa city launch fish cleaning ng station will be open by 5/5.

They r waiting for water to be hooked up after sewer construction came through!!!

Yep, believe they're using back lot behind restrooms as lay down area for pipe etc. City guy cleaning the docks said water has been off but I would expect they would turn it on soon.

He uses hose to spray launch area and docks to remove goose poop!

Also, those slips upriver from launch are part of city n they use city water, power and have full time access to rest rooms via a door code!!!

I already sent e-mails to Kate, Harbormaster and Larry, City Eng.

I'll report what they say!

Guess if we don't pay until sewer construction is done we don't get to use cleaning station.

Cleaning station is not is area of construction but maybe the drain is affected.

I'll contact the city engineer and harbormaster about it.

They never answered my previous email about it.  

Thanks

Creekerman: Great job n report! Is SoHa city launch fish cleaning station open yet?

Thks

Nice job, good report!

Nailer: which one is pickled sunshine?

thks

Good job, good report!

Look like killer spoons. 

Hope the king population is much bigger than last year!!!

Forsythias Bloom = Kings

The forsythias r in bloom so get your king gear ready!!!!

We had heard reports in Holland of 90-100 and 190-200.

So Wed, 4/12 in SoHa we set lines in 80' n headed SW, we got a coho in 64' last Sat.

But it was crazy, 150-170 from just little south of the piers to almost Palisades was hot.

I've fished for spring cohos for a long time n never fished deeper than 35'.

80-100, 150-170 n 200-220+ are usually great places to setup for kings. Crazy.

Thks

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Link for great lakes buoys is " greatlakesbuoys.org".
It gives you a summary of all buoys and most recent observations for each buoy. Cooke n SoHa buoys were deployed this week.
Click on the buoy of choice to receive recent wind/wave/air n water temps. The newer Uglos buoys have thermisters on the anchor chains that give you temp at various deaths to bottom.
Nothing like realtime data.

Dan Agnello, Hockey Puck, on the Reel Woman!

Kings 
Coho 18
Steelies 
Lakers 1

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Good jib Bob, they r still in deep water.

Happy Easter!

Nice pics n great job!!!

Detailed report?

I'm jealous u r so close to Lac Mich. 

Yep, in St Joe I have key to fish cleaning station at Pier 1000 where my son slips his boat.

I'll se d rnail to SoHa harbormaster and city eng to see if cleacning station will open Sat.

Meant to ask guy sweeping docks yesterday.

Had to double up on hangers at the sign cause they only have 10. I'll take that problem anytime.

Happy Easter to all!!!!

Yeah Martin, understand!

When I used to go solo a few times a long time ago it was at most 3-4 miles out.

 Important thing is u got out n relaxed on a super day!

Pelican texted me last night so I called him n gave him a report! He may be going today. He didn't want to solo yesterday.

Happy Easter.

Yeah launch is a mess, but it's open n free. But, fish cleaning is still closed. Reg opening time is 4/15, so maybe it will open Sat. City engineer told me sometime this summer they will replace 2 docks with new ones!

St Joe DNR launch, DNR repainted metal on docks and put all new 6x6 frames and decks! Dnr on the ball? Scarry!!!

Bummer; see my report; we got into them good in 150-170'.

SoHA 4/12

Time fished: 830-230
Area fished (GPS lat/lons 0ptional): 2 miles south of piers heads to 6 miles south
Most productive troll direction: E/W
Depth of hits:30', 60'
Rigger lead lengths: 15-20'
Number of fishermen aboard: 4
Best lures & colors: or n red spoons, lemon with red dot spoon, reg n mag gold/bk w/red lip hot n tot.
Surface temp: 38-39
Down temp for hits (if known):
Troll speed: 2.5 - 2.8
Number and kind of fish caught: 13 for 20 coho.

Rest of Story.

Set lines in 80 fow n trolled out to 180; best 150-160; dipseys out 100-110; riggers down 61 n 63, 3 n 5 1/2 colors took fish, high line out 100' w/mag hot n tot above; everything took fish except Reel high jointed rapala and thin fin and nothing on 150 and 225 copper with spoons.  riggers probably took last 6-7 fish; around 12:30 seemed like when we turned outside rigger would go off, aka need to speed up. 

Great day on the water, 0-1s all day.

Happer Easter to all. Besides one of my reg mates had Bob T and Truman S out with us.  great guys; glad were couild share Pure Michigan with you.

PS:  Limnotech was at launch and deployed the SoHA buoy; yesterday they deployed Cooke buoy.

Filled

Could use a 2nd mate; we drive over from Jackson, so u don't have to be at the city launch until 745 or 8am.

If available call or text me at 517-750-7452.

Thanks

Good job Bob; see my SoHa report for today; not as productive as u.

South Haven 4 8

Time fished: 830-130
Area fished (GPS lat/lons 0ptional): mile N to 5 miles S of Piers Heads
Best depth of water to be over: 52, 64
Most productive troll direction: N?A
Depth of hits: 13', 52'
Rigger lead lengths: 15'
Number of fishermen aboard: 3
Best lures & colors: golf/red/bk large hotn tot; pink/green spin n glo
Surface temp: 38-40
Down temp for hits (if known):
Troll speed: 2.2 -2.9
Number and kind of fish caught: 1 Coho, 1 laker

Rest of story:

SW 1-2, 1-3s, beautiful day on lake!!!

Set lines in 40fow n trolling west, inside spoon went off from board as soon as on release; lost coho after minute; red/gr/or spoon; trolling north 100' back off big board 4lb coho on hot n tot listed above in 64 fow just S of piers; trolling south, mile north of pier 52 FOW tin can dodger with spin n glo above bouncing off bottom. Front of pier heads quite a few marks especially in 50fow or so hanging down 35-40' depth but no hits. Might have been kings.  Saw Forsythia bush blooming in Bangor on way home so should be getting kings very soon.

Talked to guy at city launch 9 lakers, 1 coho; lakers on naked spin n glos (no flashers) on 225' copper; back n forth in front of [piers.

 

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Dan Agnello, Hockey Puck, on the Reel Woman!

Kings 
Coho 5
Steelies 
Lakers 1

Two great sites for a 5-7 day prediction of wind on any Great Lakes port are "windfinder.com" and "iwindsurf.com".

Below the wind prediction bar charts they also post weather and precip (inches/3hr).