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Fished from 7-9pm. 1-1 80-100 fow
- Rigger down 65 big white paddle N troll
Tons of bait just couldn’t get them to bite.
 
 
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Bummer. Fishing should start to improve soon.


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The lake was 1ftrs and would go to 2ft chop and back to flat calm. The bugs were biting. A few boats out both deep and shallow. I heard radio chatter making with occasional catches out deeper. I fished 90-136 fow. It was getting hot out.
 
I was watching one of my T44 boards with my 300 cu move backwards and I thought it must be sliding on the line. Fishing solo I grabbed the pole and figured I would pull it in an adjust it. That didn't go as planned. The line was hooked on something and I better figure out how I was going to retrieve it. Then IT pulled back, the 25 minute fight was on. Again moving stuff around to get him in. All the time it felt like I was fouled hook or maybe just a very hooked on to someone's old copper line. As I worked it closer I could see it was a large salmon. I could barely get it in the boat. But I was successful. An 18lb-9oz king. I also caught a 3# king a couple hours later. What a day!
 
1/1, King, 18#-9oz,(7:40am), RV mag blue jeans, 300cu, 2.3sog NW trl, in 111fow
 
1 miss on port downrigger with a bloody nose mag down 65ft
 
1/1 small 3# king, (9:48am), monkey puke fly and chrome SD, 2.4 sog, N trl, ball temp 52.4, 77'deep, 126 fow
 
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We trolled north out of port Sheldon and fished from 6:30-4:00 today. We went 4 for 5 kings all near 40 foot of water. 2 on an orange spoon on the 5 color and 2 on a dipsy with a spoon I don’t recall.


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Nice work!


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Got our 3 person limit of 15 in about 3 hrs; piers to 3-4 miles south 12-28fow;  5 on bk/wh j11 rapala; 9 on Nascar and Greasy Chicken Wing mini spoons on 2-2 color and 2 mini dipseys. Got one on mimi dipsey on crab face spoon.

Nice! What a privilege to put a smile on a boy!

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went 4 for 6
deep dipsey out 130 and 120 in 78fow was magic for us tonight 
cryptonite paddle
white paddle
that was basically all we could get em to bite
no... we did have a beast king smoke a hi-dipsey our 220 with frog spindocter but it broke 40 pound mono leader and left with the fly on a big run
trolling direction didn't matter
our biggest fish of the evening was a 27 pound male
gonna give it a try again in the morning 
hope cold water keeps moving up in column and can get action on 5 and 10 colors

Great day on the water!
Hey was that blue jeans a magnum or standard size spoon?
Learning the names of the spoons is quite a challenge too.

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Thanks for the report. Since the water changed I’ve heard it has been harder to find the fish. Glad you got one big fish. Was that king on a flasher or spin dr?
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Great day with the kids. I always love it when you catch as much or more than the charters who go out every day. That big king must have been a riot to net.
I hope to get up to Pentwater yet this year.
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Plan to fish south haven on Sunday for salmon and trout haven't fish haven't been out in a while.  Any thoughts on where to start?  Thanks in advance!
 

Made a trip out of Saugatuck yesterday after noon. Set lines at 5 pm and fished until 8:30 pm.
Started in 140 and worked out to 210 basically straight out and ended up 3 miles north. north west troll was best 2.9 to 3.1 mph
first Hit came on the rigger 81 down on #5 mongoose J plug  8 lb king 154 fow 30 ft behind the ball. 
second hit came on wire dipsey with 10 pro troll white paddle and Canadian Ketchup yogurt fly set at 2 190 out. 5 lb Lake trout. 180 fow, wonder bread dipsey. 
third hid came on the rigger again same set up as the first J plug. big rip had him on for about 30 seconds and came off. guessing big king 188 fow
4th hit came on Half core. bloody nose streak. 195 fow water. Steelhead around 10 lbs. 
got out to 210 and circled back in for another hour and no more hits. hit the dock at 9pm

Do you have all of the fish hawk?
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I run a Lund 1750 rebel with the same sport track. My advice is to look into a track system such as Cisco or traxstech. I ran traxstech tracks and vert tree last year, and just bought berts ratecheting holders this winter for my dipsys. I run my riggers, which are walkers, off my tracks in a traxstech swivel base. The nice part of the track system is I can move things around to suit my needs. Also, adding new holders doesn’t require the purchase of new bases. My first season for salmon was last year and I learned a lot. Mainly, dipsy rods put a ton of strain on the trees. I did a lot of research prior to setting up my rig and what I found was most people prefer to run a track vs mounting directly to the sport track itself. Hope this helps and good luck.  

Great report! A buddy and I are new to using the fish hawk too so I appreciate your comments on it. Hopefully I will hit the water again Friday and Saturday.

Clyde
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Beautiful fish! We are going to have an exciting summer. Thanks for the report. Keep us updated on how the weighted steel line works for you.
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Thanks for the report. We fished Port Sheldon 6/4 from 6am to 11am am and experienced the same conditions including both the surprise 2 footers and the thick boat traffic. We started north in 155 and got our only keeper coho on the starboard rigger on the slider down 60 with a standard wonderbread. We caught 2 shakers on the 5 color and lost 1 nice king on it. It had a standard bloody nose on it.
We went back out from 11:30-2:30. The lake had calmed down to nothing. And we out as far as 220 without another bite.

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Awesome - thank you - I plan to be on the water tomorrow later afternoon to dark - then o'dark thirty to about 11 am Friday - I will reach out - channel 68?

Thanks for the detailed report. Should be a great Saturday out of Holland and Grand Haven.

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My guess is about 6 miles. I hope someone with accurate info responds.
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The water column is still cold. Generally people have been catching cohos in the top 40 from 110 out to around 200 feet of water and kings last weekend were in the top 60 around 230 feet of water.
Good luck and tight lines. I may be out of Port Sheldon Saturday. Give me a shout.
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Great job and report.

Clyde
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Hi Dan
We decided to go out of Port Sheldon yesterday. We went 7 for 8 with 2 nice Kings and 5 cohos. Fish were caught in 30-40 fow on everything but riggers. That included green jeans on a dipsey, netminder spin dr and free hypnotist on a dipsey, 2 on 3 color with Yeagar bomb, one on a red and gold thinfin.
We got pretty wet but had a great morning.


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Got blown off lake; pulled lines 12:30. Noaa, windfinder, iwindsurf, etc all lied. 2-3s were actually 2-4s which would have been fine; instead of dropping down to 1-3s built up to 4-6s. NW wind instead of NE predicted.
1 coho couple miles south of pier in 35’on 2C on bk/wh alewife. 8 lines out, no other hits.

Wow!



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