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  1. Trying to sort out some issues with the boat.  Trolled out front for half an hour before it died, again.  Pulled lines got it fired back up and got back into Mac.  Swapped out a few things trolled in there for an hour and a half (motor purred like a kitten) with constant marks with the downriggers bumping fish but never a hook up.  Was a perfect night but just like every other year forces conspire against me to catch kings in the spring.  It's kinda funny to a point...

  2. We were 4/7 south of Saugatuck bite got better as the day went on.  Fished 10am to 1:30.  Had to find pockets of the cleanest water available in one case we had our outer board 50’ from the beach boat sitting on the first sand bar in 2.5’ of water.

    Two of our fish were as small of not smaller than the one you got.

    We ran 2.5-3.1 as the motor ran better north bound in the tail wind with a little extra throttle after sitting idle for six months.

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  3. Should be some steelhead trickling into the river by then.  Little early for lakers or whitefish around the piers as the lake will likely be a little too warm yet.  Little too late for kings in close and St. Joe doesn't get too many of those any more.  But casting any bright spoons around the piers or in the river channel should stand a decent chance of finding a silver bullet.

  4. Not sure how to prevent it, but to remove it cut the lure / swivel off, trail the line out behind the boat and let it drag for a while.  It will un-twist itself.

     

    Is it with the same lure every time?  Could be something is out of tune...

  5. Cool.  Have yet to see them down here but one was taken in Muskegon this summer.

     

    Michigan DNR forever "there is no natural salmon reproduction" then they were like "there may be a little salmon reproduction" and now it's like "about 75% of the kings are naturally reproduced".

    In the mean time this little plant of pinks slowly expands across the great lakes...

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  6. Yep, planers and cranks.   Just when you think you know what kind and color they want, another one becomes the hot bait, so I shotgun each trip based on conditions and then try to dial in color / type / depth if I get enough hits to make a pattern.  Try to play chicken with the drop offs as the fish like to hold against them.

    My biggest walleyes have come on J-plugs looking for kings though.  Which is weird as if they are targeting big lures, I also run a lot of deep thundersticks for kings and have never had a walleye hit one of those.  

     

     

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  7. "My dad and I see tons of guys slow trolling the drop offs in the summer and they few guys I hear from say you'll pick some up but you'll also be dealing with catfish and sheephead left and right"

     

    And sailboat races, and ignorant power boaters, and territorial so called walleye charters that will run you over when you're the only other boat fishing.  I swear though it's about 10 sheep per walleye, and one cat fish per walleye.  At least the sheep are easy to tell as they hit and fight hard and tend to head up to the top.  The cats stay down and head shake and every one makes you think it's a 30" walleye until it isn't.

  8. Fished Holland Harbor Friday night and did my part to help strain the weeds out of the channel and lake.  Cycling through rods non-stop to keep them clean.  No marks at all out front in the 54 degree water so didn't waste time in there.  In two passes down the channel didn't see much to stay in there either, so went into Mac.  Had one big rip in there, missed one hit, and caught three (3) small sheep.  Pulling lines in the near dark looked over and one rod tapped a couple times like a perch hitting a minnow, but the board didn't move.  Looked suspicious so we pulled that one next and found a 21" walleye hanging out.

    Mac has walleye but it's a tough nut to crack.  I fished it six times this year and caught walleye twice.   Granted, when I do catch them, they are very nice, healthy fish.  I crack up when I clean the walleye we catch on the bay - a 20" walleye in the bay barely cracks 3# but the same fish from Mac is usually 4#+.

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