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Big Man and the Joe are the only 2 rivers that get a stock, all west side rivers get a run though.

I will be out in the morning also, guessing temp break should be 80-90 down, they will feed out of temp though to, get what ya can down deep and spread the rest out. Meat and Flys tend be be the best when they are down that deep.

They hang out where they hang out, not as big of a drive to return the river they were planted in as other salmon or steelhead, they follow bait and water temps more than anything. Female steelhead both skams and little man(spring runs) often have whiter meat and with skams they have a tendancy to run into warmer water alot making them darker and meat lighter. The egss are so small beacause as they do run in the summer but they do not spawn until jan-feb. There natural reproduction according to the dnr is very very low. They are awsome fighters and very nomadic, you can find them in 30 or 300 ft. In any port.

not saying you didnt catch them, just that you were wernt the only boat up there north of the stacks in that water, just the only boat to catch fish, i fish tournys to. Won the Michigan Sportsman tourny last weekend actually. I have a freezer full of eggs and fillets to, congrats on a great night. Doesnt matter now this wind pushed them all over hell im sure and pushed the warm water back in. Ill be out tommorow and to see what we can find. Good Luck

Bath water untill we get a wind switch, its that time of year s the odd school might be coming in but if they are then they are blowing up the river and not slowing at the pier heads.

Thats very odd considering we were north of the stack set up in 70 and ended in 70, both the guys i knew that were out also set up in the same water, didnt mark almost anything, or catch they were 1-2 and 1-1, you must have found the only hungry school out there and you were not the only boat up there. We never saw a fish caught out the of the 10 plus boats around us. Other than the 4 we had. Again good job.

Agree almost zero 4 year olds anymore. Good Job last night your the only one that did anygood that i know, and i fished the same water, so did 2 other guys i know, so good job i guess. How many did you end up with with 3 rods?

Fished tonight in the little boat, short trip finished setting lines around 7:15 and started pulling 830, ended up 4-4, 2 kings, 2 cohos, one big coho around 8-9 lbs another 5ish, both kings around 10-12lb, 130ish was best depth, 2 kings on low diver with live wire 10in. spinni w/meat, 1 hoho on 300 copper with a blue moonshine spoon with a ladder back cant remember the name, one hoho on ann 8 color with a small glo blue shad plug.

You dont need to fish up high if the water is warm, we catch most of them down deep, small spinnies and peanut flys, minni stingers, small plugs, all work well, we took like 9 or 10 in the last 4 trips, and all came deep, a few over 100 ft down on rigger.

8-24 sun morning heard 2 boats on radio that got into more unmarked nets, 1 lost everything they had down, this is gettin ridiculous, DNR, coast guard someone needs to get out there and get them before someone is killed.

Fished fri morning in the 14fter, perfect morning on the water flatt calm. Best water was 155- 160 ended up 7-10, 3 steelhead 2 on a 7.5color with a custum spoon blue and orange, 1 on a full core with NPN spoon, 4 coho couple on meat on low divers, 1 on 300 copper with pink alewife, one on12 color with green splatter back plug. 2 kings both on low diver with meat.

Sat mornign was the MS toury, ended up 8-12 I think, weighed 52.8 for best 5 good enough for 1st place, 150-155 was best water, but first decent king was in 105 first thing on white paddle white fly down 85 on rigger. biggest kings was in 170 on green spinnie with meat. Everything else was on a mix no hot setup, RV happy meal took a few on rigger down deep. Great food and good time at weigh in, plus made enough to be able to slide back out Sun. morning

Sun, very choppy out there set up in 85 and had first one on as i was setting the first rigger, rod in hand still dropping when it hit, green meat rig and spinnie 12ish lbs. Next 15 min. took 4 more RV happy meal took 2, 200 copper 1, 250 copper 1. Worked back out to good water from fri-sat, and decided to pull it 2-4s were pounding us around, So short morning, and great end to a weekend.

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The amount of unmarked gear out there is unreal, the barges that pulled all of the nets earlier this year were full and there is still some left, they should revoke the rights of the tribe issuing if they cant use better judgment on who to issue to, its a saftey hazard and just a waste of our lakes. Sorry just had to vent that.

What did the DNR say out of curiosity, you would think coast guard would have took the coordinates and contacted them for you.

Sat went out of South Haven set up in 85 straight out, on a NNW, picked away at them all morning, ended up 10-13, all kings, One on a small green paddle with a green fly, everything else on meat, hot setup was a 8in showtime spinny with mirrage teasers clear meat head took 6 on a core and a half, white slick 10 in spinny same meat rig took 3, chrome frog 10n. spinny took a few, best water was 110-120.

Mon night me and the GF took the little boat out, set up around 85 ft. on a nw troll, washed lures for an hour or so, then took 3 pretty quick at last light in about 110ft, 2 6-8 lb kings an d a 6ish hoho, 2 on green splatter plug on an 8 color with 4 oz. drop weight and one on RV flounder pounder on full core. That was it , dipseys and copper never took a bump, 3 for 3, sounded like deeper was better some guys had good night out past 150. VERY FOGGY but very flat nice night.

I fish Sout haven and Port Sheldon out of my 14ft. and have averaged around 5 fish a trip, browns were awsome everything else has been steady, and starting to see some good kings took our first true 20lber of the year last week, havent been skunked yet and average a few trips a week.

I run a 14fter as well and have braid and mono, and run wire with alot of friends on there boats, I have not noticed ANY difference in my braid and mono dipseys this year, and have outfished guys running wire multiple trips this year, if anything my hottest dipsey rod has been a mono dipsey, wire is nice for depth and feeling everything but i do not think it is necessary personally. Plus its nice to have the mono dipsey rods in the spring, i turn them into my flatlines for browns. I would add a 300 copper before changing your dipseys. What port to you fish mostly?

I use 20lb floro on all of my copper and lead leaders, 17lb mono on riggers, and braid on my divers with 8-15 ft. floro leads. Floro makes a big differance in my opinion for leads and the lighter the better for riggers. I know a few guys that run 10lb on there riggers and do way better than the rest, i just dont have 500bucks to spend on reels with drags smooth enough to run that lite.

We were out there to, little bumbier than i planned in the 14fter, but laid down a bit as the morning went on, we were 3-5 120-140 was out best, 300 half moon bad toad 2-3, steelie and king and lost a big king, 7 color, rv flounder pounder, 1-2 took asteelie and lost another crazy acrobat. Lost a board out there attached to a 240ish copper, of course no name on it but it had a mag glo blue dolphin on it, If anyone finds it keep the copper and spoon but id love my board:thumb:

Took a a short trip with the gf tonight in the 14fter. Went North out of the piers, set up around 80ft on a nw, took a nice steelie on a full core in around 100 on a Moonshine half moon bad toad, after that all meat all divers, high diver 190back took a 8ish lb king 8in. spinni and meat, low diver 150 back was 1-3 10in spinnie chrome with a green edge cant remember name took a 18-20lb king and lost a screammmer had me back to 480 at one point, and life is good 10in. spinnie and meat took a 12ish lb king. All came in around 100ft.

Nice report and way to stick it out, how many fish did ya end up with?

Nice Job Gene, thanks for a good report, and good luck this weekend

Fished again this morning. Just 3 of us 6-10, 5 12-15lb kings 1, 8ish lb steelie, all fish lost were big kings. Everything was on meat, low diver 95 and 115 back, and 15 colors with spinnies and meat were hot. Took fish from 90-110 south troll was best. 2.2-2.4 down speed. Good Luck

Fished SH this morning, ended up 5-6 all kings, box was 42 lbs, so not bad, took fish from 60 out to 130 so scattered, all were on a west troll, 3-4 on meat, low diver 85 back 2-2, 0-1 on high diver 115, and 1-1 on low diver back 80. Took 1 on blue dolphin mag on a 300 copper, and one on a mag pro-king....white spoon cant rember double white crush kinda.

Awesome report, i saw a picture and know nothing else.

Nice pictures and fish but i agree give some details at least like once a week or post it on your website.