farfrumwurken

Went out of St. Joe Sunday morning to fight the wind. 3-4 foot waves with occasional 5's. Beat our way down to the nuclear plant, turned, and trolled back north. Got our first fish in 40FOW setting the first line. Trolled north about 3/4 of the way back to St Joe working the 25-40FOW. Had 7 fish in the box so we pulled gear, beat our way back south, and did the run again. Ended up boxing out a 3 man limit on medium sized coho by 1pm. Wind and waves calmed as the morning went on and other boats started showing up by 10:30. We ran small dodgers with peanut flies, along with reef runners/rapalas with various amounts of pink, purple, white, and orange. Everything took at least one fish. Lost a total of 6 coho on the way to the net. No other species caught by us.

Amazing detail. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. Of the five I cleaned. there were two male kings and two female kings that looked ready for a fall spawn. I don't know about the 5 my buddy took home.

Went out of Muskegon Sunday morning. Water up to 50FOW was around 62* but we did not mark any fish so we kept motoring west. Water surface quickly climbed back to 68* but temp down at 50 feet was 54*. We kept checking for marks but nothing on the screen until we got out to around 180 FOW. Decided to sit down and troll NW with the wind. Ended up finding fish at the 230 FOW mark between 40-60 down. Stayed fishing the 230-320 range for most of the time. Fished from 6am to noon and it was pretty lumpy out there with 3-4 footers. Dark colored spoons and green/blue flasher fly combos took fish. We took fish on 10 colors, dipseys set to run 60' down, riggers with low spoons and sliders. The two of us ended up with 3 coho, one steelhead, and 6 kings. another 4 fish never made it to the net. Good luck out there and stay safe.