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Your welcome i will. Good i hope you get out. Im probably going monday again if the lake is calm enough. Otherwise whatever day is calmest.

Called holland state park today to see how long they are going to leave at least one ramp in. They said until first ice so we have a few more weeks before we have to pull out they said. But im going to check back periodically so we don't get caught with our pants down.

We were fortunate the waves only 1' when we started at 7am and stayed that way till about 10am. by 11 it was too choppy and auto pilot quit working going into waves and had long ride to port. fish hawk up to the buoy showed mid 40's at surface and low 40's near bottom. once we found the low to mid 50's past the buoy at the surface that's where we had some success.

4for7 fished from 7-11am two cohos and two steelhead. 150' copper went 3for5 on a moonshine green jeens spoon. 100' copper took one on moonshine bloody nose spoon. One solid release on rigger with no hookup. Dropped lines in 100' first fish in 180' with a double. southwest troll took 3 fish between 160-200' fow speed at ball was 2.5-2.9. sog was higher around 4 with the strong currents. last fish on northeast troll heading back toward port and it got real choppy fast. Coast guard flew over us when we got to port looking for the missing boat. no sign of life out there but we kept our eyes open the whole time watching and hoping to find something.

1for2 lakers or 2for3 if you count whiskers Started out in 140'fow at daylight waves were ok. east wind blowing us to 200'fow not marking and waves were too much came back into 140'fow got a laker down 110 on rigger bloody nose moonshine spoon. kept going to 125'fow same thing but lost laker it at the boat. trolled into port and huge cat in 70' fow he made a huge mess and called it a day.

We just had a boat act like that and it was fuel related. Port engine would cut out at 3500rpm. We rebuilt the carb and it helped the problem. We also routed a second vent so both tanks are vented properly also helped but not solved yet. Finally ended up being the check valve coming out of the tank was getting plugged with debri. We took the check valve out and now it runs great and holds 4000rmps.

Fished 6:30-11:30am ended up 3for3. Pair of 10lb. kings and a small coho. Coho was on a MS rv happed meal spoon rigger down only 10'. brought it up to reset the the upper line and he nailed it. Kings hit on the riggers about 60' down in 95fow. one on big weenie meat rig with kevins girlfriend SD. Other was on a big white paddle with oceana fly. No takers on the dipseys, 225 copper, or 10 color today.

Fished from 7am-1030am late start with the dense fog but ended up a nice morning with 2 kings. First trip taking the kids and now they are hooked. First was moonshine rv happee meal on the rigger down about 60' in about 95fow a 10lb king. Scond came on white paddle with aqua blue fly on 10 color leadcore in about 105 fow a 15lb king. Southwest troll took both fish and about 2.2-2.6 sog

not bad helmet! Gian went 3for3 today in the white whale. i might go tomorrow since the lake looks flat.

2 for 2 kings 6:30-9:30 am First one hog 17lb. king on moonshine flounder pounder 5" spoon in 130'fow south troll off dr upper stack while dropping lines from 60' to 80'. Second small king came when pulling lines on 225 copper not sure how long we dragged that fish same spoon in 4" size that fish was the door prize. Hard to believe with all the flies, spoons, and meat we put out only that pattern spoon got hit.

Do you prefer any certain file or stone? Thanks!

3 for 4 all steelhead in 110'-130fow First steely was huge and bit a homemade aquamarine fly off rigger 60' down we could not keep it from jumping and finally spit hook. Second on a homemade dark blue fly on 10 color leadcore very active fish about 8 lbs. Third on a homemade crankbait lure off dipsey got hit another very acrobatic 5lb steely. Fourth one on dolphin green glow spoon about 8lb. Homemade lures 3for3 hits. All other lures 1for7. Who needs meat anyways!