Nailer

It's great to have Kids on board. Keep up the good work Terry.

Sounds like the Kids had fun. Nice job on getting the out there.

Nice job on the fish Mark. Welcome to the site.

I threaten my crews with a set of side cutters. If anyone thumbs a spool or tightens a drag, they are going to loose a finger or thumb.

I think this may need to be implemented on Team Nailer. Thanks for the advice Mike.

Great report Jim. The one charter I went on, the captain sharpened the hooks after every fish. Even brand new hooks can use a little filling. A few years back we where having issues with loosing fish from the riggers. A charter captain told me to switch to the Blacks Releases. It has helped our hook up ratio a bunch.

Nice job wit, We had that same issue with the fish just coming unbuttoned.

Looks like a happy bunch of guys there! Great catch Captain.

My cousin from out of town, my son, and I hit the water about 6 pm. Set up in 100'. Ended the night 5 for 10. Wire diver 200 back with the Mountain dew spinner/ fly accounted for 4. Copper with a Moonshine Brook Trout took the biggest @ 15 pounds. Monkey Puke down 80' off the rigger had 3 and Moonshine (the spoon) got 1. We fish pretty much straight out and, stayed in the 100-110 range.

We had a very big one on the wire diver with the 12" coyote flasher and a Sigs Rig Mountain Dew fly, She took out 100+ feet of line. My cousin tightened the drag a bit, the fish did a big dive and broke the wire good by Flasher/fly/mag dipsey/fish.

There was a storm 20 miles off shore that kind of fell apart. before it fell apart my sons hair was standing straight up, and the antenna was sizzling.

Nice job Don.

Nice job Jim.

If all goes well and I get my work finished Team nailer will try it out of Holland Friday (I don't feel like fighting the Grand Haven Festival crowd that launches at Port Sheldon).

when running spinnies ie: Spin Doctors, what hole do most of you use? In the past I have always left it in the hole it came hooked to (the fin side). As August approaches and the fish get more aggressive would it be wise the use the faster action hole? Or is this just some thing you change around according to the bite pattern?

Ken.

Now that just plane too cool!

I have a camp site reserved for Friday and Saturday night. How many more are staying at the campground?

I have a Black 4 door Chevy Duramax with a truck camper on it. If any one will be around and would like to say hi, feel free to stop by. We'll have a few frosty ones one ice and am glad to share our vast (or lack there of) fishing expertise;).

Ken.

Great story Adam. I did that one time with a salmon. It broke the line, dove down, and a rigger rod snagged him in the side.

Very nice Adam,

Nice Job on the 4th place finish Jim.

Last night it was back to search mode. I ran the probe at 50' down and the temp was all over the place, ranging from 42 to 50 deg. We had a Monkey Puke set at 40 down go and come unbuttoned early, then the wire dippsey set at 1 back 100, spinney/fly took a rip and got off. we finely landed this one and only on the Sigs fig Mountain Dew fly set at 80 back on 1.

fished well into the night with the glow program without any takers.

Here's one from last week of a very happy rookie.

WOW 7 kts winds whipping up 28' waves, and I wanted to fish this week:p:p

Overnight: West northwest wind around 7 kts. Patchy fog after 2am. Waves over 28 feet.

Monday: Northwest wind between 6 and 8 kts. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Waves 18 to 23 feet building to over 28 feet.

Monday Night: North northwest wind between 5 and 9 kts. Mostly cloudy. Waves 8 to 12 feet subsiding to 4 to 7 feet.

Tuesday: Northeast wind between 5 and 8 kts. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Waves 6 to 10 feet subsiding to 4 to 7 feet.

Tuesday Night: Northeast wind between 6 and 9 kts. Partly cloudy. Waves 8 to 12 feet.

Wednesday: East southeast wind between 4 and 6 kts. Sunny. Waves 4 to 7 feet.

Wednesday Night: East wind around 7 kts. Mostly clear. Waves 5 to 8 feet.

Thursday: Southeast wind around 7 kts. Mostly sunny. Waves 5 to 8 feet.

Thursday Night: Southeast wind around 8 kts. Mostly cloudy. Waves 6 to 10 feet.

Nice job on the 3 rd place finish team GLF.

My boy was nice enough to go to the wrong site and pick up a nasty spyware bug on my wifes pc. I run spybot on it but, its havening a hard time getting rid of it. I may have to go to a paid spyware protector. Does any one have any recommendations?

Ken.

Thanks for all the replys guys! The last two times out we had no tangles using the above methods.

Welcome to the site fish byte

Nice job on the big Kings Terry.

We broke our streak of one fish trips with a nice showing of 6 for 10 last night.

The best depth was the 120 to 130 range. Just about all set ups worked. 300 copper with Flasher/fly, wire diver with Flasher/fly back 220, riggers down 100 while the sun was high, then moon shine down 60 as dark approached. Full core with Moon shine lure took a nice 15 + pound king (the biggest of the night). With two rookies on board and two riggers that kept crossing, and a bunch of tangles, I lost tract of what we got the fish on. I does appear the lake has set up to a typical summer pattern.

Thanks for the report Dan, Nice job on the kings.