jimbobber

fished out of holland this pm ,started in 90 fow found the water had warmed up to 61 deg. all the way to the bottom:(, so pointed it west, got to 145 fow and found 53 deg down 100 foot went to 150 and turned se ,and took a very nice 15 lb king on wire diver back 250 with green crincle jp slammer proto type dodger, then hit 145 fow and picked up a 4 lb steelie on 250 copper with a mixed veggies slammer, went to 120 and turned it around and picked up another 8 lb king on wire diver back 300 with a uv paddle with chartruse dots and mirage flie , that was it for the night ende 3 for 3 when we got to 105 the graph lit up we should heve been there an hour erlier i guess oh well had a great time with a couple of good buddys:thumb:

oh ya lost a board to but a guy just tried to call me to let me know he just found it woohoo!

left the dock around 6 am went to 90 fow and set lines worked out to 120 turned it south and trolled to saugy picking up 4 small kings best water was 105 fow all came on spoons mixed veggies ,orange fuzzy glow frog,glow fire dog slammers turned the boat on a nw and picked up 3 nice kings on high divers back 145 set on 3 with green echip with pickle sunshine flie,and dream catcher spinnie with mirage flie , in the 10 to 12 lb class and missed several other hits ended the morning at 11 going 7 for 13 all kings. the water was 54 deg down 80 foot with 105 being the best.

out of 10 a 10 !!!!! i would rather fish without my graph!!!

nice job Aaron!

Fished out of Holland Sat am and Sunday eve. Sat am we set lines in 200 fow and fished out to 250 fow it was a slow pick but we finished 6 for 9.

What worked :

orange fuzzy glow frog spoon on 300 copper

white slick 8 inch spinie with pickle sunshine flie on 300 copper

killer green glow on rigger down 80 feet

modified mixed veggies on rigger down 75

fat nancy spinnie with mirage flie on high diver back 150 set on 3

on Sunday eve we went to 135 fow set lines and trolled out to 185 fow ,we started around 5:30 and finished with 10 fish at 7:45 then hooked up to a double as we were trying to pull lines let one go and lost the last one . it was a blast!

what worked:

rigger down 153 with a big uv paddle

rigger down 160 with an 8 inch white slick with fish scale pattern paddle

wire diver back 275 with an 8 inch uv spinie with a mirage flie

wire diver back 265 with an 11 inch uv paddle with a frost flie

300 copper with an 8 inch uv paddle

300 copper with a white sl;ick 8 inch spinie with pickle sunshine flie

we had 3 doubles with just the two of us on board "thank God for auto pilot:thumb:"

here are a couple of pictures , even i had to fight fish lol how do ya do this again:p

2 fish at a time in the net!

the final count

set the drags just tight enough that they dont creep out, when you hook up the first thing i do is loosen the drag before pulling the rod out of the holder ,this alows a smoother removal from the rod holder, that is when you can loose most of your fish ,getting the rod out. if you are getting bit and the fish are coming off before you get to the rod they are short striking or grabing the flasher ot the front of the flie and not hooking up good. to solve this issue you can speed up just a tick or change your angle of troll, that makes the fish hit from a different direction and thus getting hooked better. just myu 2 cents worth good luck.

John, Dave is rite when you are letting the copper out and the board keep tension on it ,let it out slow this will keep the copper "up" and not sinking down . make sure you keep the boat straight also when deploying copper.

the holand bouy is rite.it would be best to go deep 180 plus thats were the fish have been taken this week.

thats funny!!!

Don is rite 150 if your not in the main tourney and you can sign up at the captains meeting friday you still need to follow tourney rules so you need to be there for the meeting.

cant wait !!!!!!!

do you have a link Kevin?

good job mark!

i leave the dock @ 5:00 or 5:30 cus i need to be done by 10:30 as i cant fish all day.

run em back 20 foot behind the ball , troll 2.5 at the ball. should work the way they are sold but you can flip them, but you need to troll faster around 3 mph. pretty much all i run as far as spoons go .

fished strait out 90 to 120 fow it was ruff 2 ta 3 foot chop the best troll was into them north east, went 11 for 17 in 3 hrs 4 steelies 7 kings .

what worked :

wire dipsey back 120 with green and white proto type jp slammer dodger with pickle sunshine flie

250 copper with mt.dew 8 inch paddle green mirage flie

rigger down 50 with glow fire dog jp slammer and the free slider with orange fuzzy glow frog jp slammer

300 copper with halo dolphin jp slammer

7 colors of lead with green black ladder back jp plug.

rigger down 55 with a moonshine spoon

now off from fishing til next week gona go away with the wife for our 19th wedding anniversary then get back and do a couple back to back tourneys.

Thanks ed for your hard work on this project the down temp info is great! I see today its already getting colder inside again .

agread eric let it go !!!! it will probly change next year just fish and have fun!!

I was refering to me i did that thursday crazy dennis taught me well lol!!!!

doesnt help when his helper uses a pipe wrench to tighten the drags lol!!!

wtg roger!

that is don alofs, tangled mess charters board, i lost one thursday and he lost one yesterday his number is 616-889-6603 thanks roger give him a call.

in michigan sliders are free bees dont count as lines in the water we catch lots of fish on free sliders.

I love my wire dipseys for deep divers and run braid for the highs.

the first thing i do is find bait and figure out where the current is coming from, turn into it or quarter it this ussuallv works , I have caught lots of fish when not marking them they are fast little buggers and you dont always mark em especialy kings , i think a lot of times they streak in from the sides.after you get a "good" troll direction mess with your speed to get to your boats optimal fishing speed ( not all boats fish good at the same speed )let the fish tell ya when its right then try to keep that speed at all cost if you slow down to land a fish be sure to get back to your good speed, speed is important. Fishing is all about repeatability ,find out what works and repeat it! I try to never follow other boats think about it ,your buddie is in front of you and says we are smacking em pull up behind us ..... if he is catching fish he is getting the aggresive ones out of the school before you get to it hmmm. I try to stay in "clean water" away from other boats and try to be that first boat thru a school of fish. this is just my 2 cents . jimmy