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Nice fish!  5 to 7:30?  I think it takes me that long to set lines.    I'm hoping to be spending some time in Pentwater the next 3 days.

I brought the net this time.    Got the prop fixed but I'm still having speed issues and it won't plane out.  It makes it hard to run anywhere.  I'll check compression tomorrow.  Now, on to fishing:

Time		FOW	Toll	Fish	Bait	Pole
7:42 AM		124	ENE	21# King	Blue Jeans	200 Cu
8:10 AM		132	SW	21# King	Kevin's Girlfriend Spin Doctor & Meat	300 Cu
10:05 AM		163	E	18# King	Stinky White Leroy paddle & Meat	Wire Mag Diver, 1.5 Setting out 170'
11:45 AM		158	SE	10# Laker	Dancing Anchovy Spoon	Braid Slide Diver w/ring, 3 setting out 150'
12:02 PM		143	SE	MISS	Kevin's Girlfriend Spin Doctor & Meat	300 Cu
12:40 PM		140	W	13# Laker	Ghost White paddle & Meat	Rigger down 90'
12:53 PM		163	W	17# King	Green Haze Paddle & Meat	300 Cu
12:55 PM		165	W	17# King	Kevin's Girlfriend Spin Doctor & Meat	300 Cu

 

2	Spoon Hits
6	Meat Hits
0	Flasher Fly Hits

 
The hot bait was the 300 Cu Kevin's Girlfriend Spin Doctor & Meat which went 3 times.  I ran two 300 Cu poles for the last half of the morning and that setup to 4 of the 8 hits.
We started setting lines in 70 FOW and worked as deep as 185 FOW.  I thought this chart did a good show of showing where the hits were and how spaced out they were.  After the two hour-ish lulls we had, we move to more out front of the port and the action improved.  Most of the morning we were a few miles North of the port.

 
We pulled lines at 2 PM.  Enjoy the pics.





 

Good job , great report, also very nice boat , trailerable to stay on the fish port to port, what model, size is it, love it!


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Good job , great report, also very nice boat , trailerable to stay on the fish port to port, what model, size is it, love it!


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Looks like the kids had a great day on the water with Dad. I’m hoping to get my little guy out soon. Awesome report!!!


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Here's some pics:

Heard you on the radio this am. Glad to hear you got a good one. Congrats.
We ended up staying in 100-120 and went 2 for 4. Lost a 20lb behind the boat on a low diver out 185. Mirror spin doctor with green dots and mirage fly. Two Others were taken on rigger down 73 on moonshine psycho. One was a shaker and other was 15lb king. First fish 8lb king was on Mountain Dew spin with mirage fly(light white and slight purple. Looks like glow tape in moonshine spoons). Was first hit at 7:15 am. All others were scattered all morning. Last hit was at 10:45.

Going again tomorrow. Good luck all.




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Fished 110-180 fow best fow was 140 ,,300 weighted steel-board trips with an 11” white and blue uvpaddle and blue glo meatrig by Cmetrolling. Com took the youngster 40 mins to get it in 25 lb KING on certified scale 4 th fish over 20 lbs on that meat rig inlast 4 trips that was 9:45 at 11:45 rigger Down 62 with a silver horde silver j plug goes, steely is instantly up and jumping daughters boyfriend brings him in to boat 8 lb Steelhead! Grey time on lk Michigan!

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Lk mich had 4-5 ft waves , went to P.M. lk to troll , lk is full of Fish screen always has at least 5-10 fish on , they were not easy to get to bite though 9:15 finally got one to go on downrigger Down 20 plus what the Ace hi green splatter back dives , 25 mins later my friend Denny lands a 31.38 lb KING- Salmon - Tyee , an hour later wire diver goes on a big run , fish made 2 more big runs , drag singing then snap , wire line broke , don’t know if there was nick in wire or what drag was working well , but he was gone and diver, paddle and meatrig gone. Took Denny’s fish to capt Chucks got weight pictures , lunch at Ludington Bay Brewery ! Back out at 6 pm troll through the constant marks until 8:15 wire diver fires yellow splatterback Ace Hi plug by Silver Horde is singing drag 15 mins later after many runs we finally get the KING in net 24.60 lbs wed was a bust as wind and waves made boat handling impossible in my 18 ‘ Tyee , great trip and I got a Tyee for my boat and my Great Friend Denny who is in Capt Chucks 30 lber club!

We trolled from 6 to 9:30 am and tried everything between 190 and 130 feet. We ended up 1 for 3 with a 4# coho. All hits were around 140 feet. Here's what took the hits:
 
1-1 300 copper SpongeBob meat rig on a mixed veggies spindoctor
 
0-1 UV crush green dot Dreamweaver paddle with a matching meat rig on a diwnrigger 100 ft down
 
0-1 UV Lorin frog on 150 copper
 
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The black n white kitty is still stinking up the boat.
Fished  70’-140’ no hits, no runs no errors.
Had eight lines out including 1 meat rig (CJ King glo frog) and dragon slayer flasher and bull frog Howie fly, and no hits.
About 25 boats out with us most of the morning n heard of only one steelie caught in 120’ and didn’t see any nets get wet.
Guy at launch had 1 laker and 1 king they caught in 140’.
Beatiful day on kake Michigan!
 

Hmmmm crazy fish; in St Joe mags worked better. Maybe smaller alewives in GR.

Nice catch! Just remember even though the dnr ramps are closed the cleaning station is still open. I cleaned mine there yesterday.

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That Blue whale spoon use to be my favorite.  Thanks for the report. 

Holland port dnr launch was closed due to high water launched out of Kollen Park lk MAC went 10 for 11 got our 2 man limit 80-130 fow 40-65 down on riggers 10 color took 3 blue Dolphin ,flounder pounder Rv took 3 ,the blue white back got blue white back took 2 ,blue crush spin Doctor on slide diver mag 7 oz blue glo fly by chip Eaton took biggest 17 lb King the other 2 spoon also blue , purple took the rest


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Late morning solo trip out of South Haven after I got the kids off to school. Set lines at 1045, fished until 2pm. 300 copper with Mongolian beef RV spoon took 2 kings and lost 2 kings, wire diver with green spindoctor back 120-180 took 3 lakers, rigger down 80 with raptor rv spoon took a king, free slider on the rigger with Jordo took 2 steelhead. Fished 105-120 almost straight out of the pierheads. Direction did not seem to matter. Kings were not huge, biggest was about 15 pounds. Let the trout go, just kept the kings.

Fished Sunday evening from 6:30 to sunset. Went 7 for 9. Largest were 21 & 22 pounds. Consistent action the whole trip. Headed south in 70 to 85 then came back north. All spoons with blue and green was the ticket. Rigger down 55, slide diver back 100, 10 color, 150 cu. surface was 50 degrees, 47-48 down 60. The cooler was full!
 

 
 
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Thanks for Report going to Holland Tuesday!


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Unfortunately I don’t have a scale.

 

 

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It was huge might have been your Tyee 30 lb or more Salmon very accurate scale on e bay klau crane scale 150 lb but it weights a 10 lb test weight at 10 lbs just got mine after using Rapala that underweighted by 1.5 lb I got a 21.4 king on that scale and I can see yours is a lot heavier great fight I’m sure !

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We motored Southwest out to 210 ft of water and spun around set lines and trolled back in. We didn't mark a fish until 130 ft of water. We didn't have a hit until 84 feet of water. It was a 8 pound King on a green flounder pounder. The bait was presented about 35 ft down. I heard someone else on the radio who got a king in 60 feet of water. That was the only hit we got tonight. We went into 60 and back out to 90 before pulling lines.

 
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Started around 6:30am we immediately started marking bait from 10ft-50ft down in 60-75fow the fish were all over the balls of bait but we didn’t get a bite and didn’t see too meany nets going in the water. I decided to run NW setting up in 120fow fished from 120 to 185 hitting fish the hole time we ended up go 13 for 14. Everything took Fish from are riggers “35 to 65 down”lead core 5 5 ,7 and 10 color. Slide divers 50ft lead 100 to 125ft back.
 
 
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Left the city launch at 6:50 am and proceeded to 130 FOW straight out of the harbor. Turned North  with waves to set lines and Immediately got a rigger bite @ 60 down with a mag Flounder Pounder but didn't hook up. Had a small Lake Trout hit a Spin Doctor (Atomik Chrome Killer)/fly (green) on wire diver 135 back but came off near the boat. Boated a nice laker on the Flounder Pounder down 60 before turning to the South. Took another bigger Laker on the spinny/fly wire diver. 300 copper fired with a good King on a Jager Bomb. No sooner then got that in the boat and the other wirediver with a super slim Get er Done spoon got crushed and bent one of the hooks straight. Nabbed and released another nice Laker on the spin/fly combo. Removed rod from lineup. Took a 20lb. King on the Flounder Pounder before the bite shut down. Pulled lines and ran North a couple miles but only managed one more small Laker (dragger) when reeling in one of the riggers. SOG was all over the place but best down speed was 2.9. Returned to dock at 11:40 am.

You are bangin em down there! Send some up to Frankfort please.


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St Joseph 05/11 started in 80 fow want west to 200 as we heard fish were also out deeper Best water 160-170 50 down on riggers meat rig blue 9 lb king , 200 weighted steel blue green Dolphin 18 lb King,also took a small steel head on this,100 copper NBK small Steelhead,7 color Double orange crush small Steelhead , had 2 Walleye guys on board very little salmon fishing experience, lost as many fish as we boated 5-9 Lost mostly screamers ,except 1 nice steel at back of boat ,speed at ball 2.4-2.8 water temp 50 down 42 degrees water temp on top 48 degrees , loved watching these guys with a fish that actually fights to live !


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