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I saw a wonderful sunset this week and it just spoke to me and how lucky we all are that we live in such a beautiful place and have such a wonderful gift to enjoy the great out of doors. I decided to put stuff away tonight. I am sort of bummed like most years but what a great summer of fishing! 
I want to say thank you to all of you that contributed to this forum and shared their successes and fails. You helped make me a better fisherman and more successful each and every time I went out. I hope I helped you as well.
All the best to you all and I can't wait for next season. 
 


I hate the last Fall goodbye to the lake. We are going to give it a couple more tries. We caught a 35 inch king on Friday and three more decent fish. So there are a few hungry fish still out there.
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Great job!


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beautiful morning 
the Harvest moon
the freighter 
the sunrise
unfortunately this run is jinxed with warm water - no bites - started down off Saugatuck and then PUG returned to Holland in 5-6footers and gave that a shot too - even several charters off GH coming up empty - both rivers were 3 degrees colder than the big lake which is not a good sign! heard of 4 matures caught NW of GH in 170fow 140-150down so PUG is still hopefully that there might be a cold front and run yo target
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Great fishing and the picture of your boat is a wall hanger!


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Hey everyone. I want to thank everyone that sent messages and offered suggestion that really helped. The network of fishermen here is strong. Thank you again everyone.
10 for 14 and a ton of fun. 90-140fow. Once you find the troll angle...you are good. Meat, spoons and flasher flies all worked. Tried a whole bunch of new stuff this morning. Big Red next week! It's going to be fun!

[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]][emoji6]" timestamp="[emoji[emoji6]][emoji6][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]" name="Jolly Time" userid="[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]"] Going to fish out of Whitehall this weekend. Anyone been out up there? Any suggestions? 

[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]" timestamp="[emoji[emoji6]][emoji6][emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]][emoji6]" name="jdh" userid="[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]"] Lines in at [emoji6][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]] pm.  Started in [emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]].  Wicked currents out here.  SSE and NNW troll directions seem best.  / so far.
Lots of fish swimming in to the downrigger at [emoji[emoji6]][emoji6] ft but not hitting the flasher fly. Watching them on Livescope.

Was happy to find out the storms had cleared up, so we launched the boat and lines down by 5:30am. Took a pounding from the waves.
1: 6am SE troll 3.0mph, 93FOW, rigger down 55 with a blue SD and a  blue button fly. 
2: 6:10am SE troll 3.0mph, 90 FOW, 10 color (down 35ft) chrome dodger with UV Glow Green Jeans.
3: 6:20am N troll 2.5mph, 85FOW, rigger down 65 with Silver Horde plain glow.
4: 6:45am N troll 2.5mph, 79FOW, rigger down 65 with Silver Horde plain glow.
Went 4/4, pulled lines 7am. Great day!

Wow! Congrats on such a successful trip. Thanks for the detailed report.

[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]" timestamp="[emoji[emoji6]][emoji6][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]" name="numberguy[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]" userid="[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]"] Wow!  Congrats.  I've always wanted to do that as far as going fishing early then getting off the lake and making it to work on time.  Nicely done!
 

Holland 7/3 pm Solo 2-2

Fished 7-9 pm in 95-145 FOW with no hits. Then things changed.
 
9:00 pm: 27 lb king, rigger down 78 ft, 90 FOW, Rasta goose std, was quite a fight and fun netting it solo.
 
9:20 ish: after getting the big one netted I realized it had tangled with my diver. Before I could get the tangle cleared a 9 lb king hit the diver. What fun. Wrapped the diver line around a pole holder and got the tangle fixed before the fish got off the diver line.
9 lb king, diver back 225 on 3 setting, meat rig. Called it a night.
 
2 hour boat ride and 30 minutes of chaos.

Not sure why these stupid emojis are messing with the titles.
 
 
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KINGFISH PUG!

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Hang in there. The fishing should just get better now.
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Great job, great report and great photos. I hope to get out soon.
Captain Clyde


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Nice catch! Thanks for the report. Hopefully the lake settles and we can get some Kings soon.
Captain Clyde


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Glad you stuck it out. I hope the pontoon ended up ok. Lately the hour surrounding the sunset has been good for us also.
Captain Clyde


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Nice. We were in Whitehall from Sun up til noon. We fished 30-90 spending most of our time in 55. Nothing caught and very little was marked. The warm water must be coming up soon.


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Hi Bob
Could you post this again without imogees?
Thanks


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Great catch under unpleasant conditions. Hopefully, it will start to warm quicker, and the wind will settle out sooner


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First trip of the season. When we got out we realized we forgot to put the boards in the boat so we were stuck running two lines . We trolled from 7 to about 10:30 am sticking in 40-60 ft right around port. We ended up 1-1 with a 9# king. Here's what took the fish:
 
Michigan stinger standard size jordo spoon 35 ft down on a downrigger in 50 fow
 
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[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]" timestamp="[emoji[emoji6]][emoji6][emoji6][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji6][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]" name="FBD" userid="[emoji6][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]"] Correct.  It's a bad picture but one first year ~ # and a second year fish at [emoji6].[emoji6]#.  Funny part was the coho all came on small natural colored spoons while I had silver orange back jr t-sticks, yellow rapalas, and the usual Thin Fish out as well.
 
Hoping for some beautiful kings like the OP had soon...

Great job Dan. I can’t wait to get out again.


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Nice job Dan


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Just wondering if the prevailing thought is that all 4yo kings have gone up river?
 
thanks