Killin' It

Which spoon Jim?

I give it away to people at work.

I grew up fishing kings with my father and him being a single dad we ate WAY TO MUCH of it. I can eat it.. .does not mean I enjoy it.

I fish for the sport of it.

To trade wild game for veggies ect.....

I know you can not sell it, but can you barter it?

The reason I ask is my wife is unable to eat anything with glutten and we know peoples love for salmon (that we do not have) Trade it for veggies and fruit

Just wanted to make sure it was legal.

I wanted to throw out some props to Aaron at Lakeshore tackle. I had a run of bad luck the past couple weeks and broke off both of my UV SD (Uv blade with UV crush tape) I stopped to see if he had any this weekend and to bad for me he was out. Everyone else seems to be out as well. He put in an order for me and they should be here by MIDWEEK. Can't get any better than that!!!

UV spinnie and teaser rig is putting in work for you Ben, nice Job:)

I need to buy another one of those spinnies. If you see one in Jenison, buy it and I will pay you back.

I needes some chesse and a fiddle:)

You were not the one getting your boards run over:) After that he tried to run over Hollandpipper/Nate VK.

8-13 was the final damage....

So I had the pleasure of fishing with friends of my wife's who had never fished the big lake before. Needless to say it was an experance not to be forgoten.

I think Saturday was the worst boat traffic of the year and it really hurt the fishing. Started at 4:30 in 60 foot of water by 5 am a triple was hooked up and I did not even have the AP set in the water...... I payed for this as I got to drive, net and instruct on how to fight some lake michigan sea donkeys......

Needless to say we only got 1 of those fish in because of some not so good rod work by the noobies... At this point it was the Son 1 and dad 0.

I re set the lines put down the AP and tried to enjoy my breakfast of mt dew and crackers when all of a sudden a diver, 2 copper and a rigger all go off at once..... I almost wet myself, I thought I hooked a log!

2 noobies on the diver and rigger as the coppers just SANG!! 2 fish in the boat and a mess of lines and rods as I hand off both coppers that are both 400 plus feet from the boat. .... needless to say again a couple fish got away.... I hooked myself in the hand (Pulled out with some line) and 2 very happy riders:)

Starting a day 3-7 would have my hopes up as I was not even fishing the pod of fish that I wanted too. 7 am rolls around and every weekend guy from here to Chicago surounded me and well... I could only take so much and decided to fish outside the pack and moved out to 135 to 150. (There are ZERO fish in that water) I now know this and will not be back for a while.

Around PS the pack broke up at 9 am and I worked my way back to the line I had wanted to fish. After talking to Terry I turned back around nad ran the boat at a GPS speed of 3.0 to 3.3 because of currents and started the second "good" troll" of the day. By the time we made it back to Spyglass we had 5 more fish and a loss of a screamer at the end.

North Troll 2.4

South Troll 3.0-3.3

What worked

Diver Back 180 11" White paddle with a BLL Liquid sunshine fly

Diver back 200 11" White paddle with a BLL fly Mirage with glow and blue beads

Rigger on the bottom with a silver spinnie BLL Lemon Berry Fly

300 45 pound copper with a BLL Patriot

270 45 pound copper with a BLL Blue Green Frozen Frog

200 32 pound copper with a BLL Blue Green Frozen Frog

250 32 pound copper with BLL Blue/Green Frozen Frog

Not very exiting, but it worked.......

The best fish of the day was 18.5 pounds... took the 300 copper out another 300 and the young lad on the boat dragged that beast the entire way back to the boat. He was as tired as the fish and was VERY proud... so was is father.

All in all a great day... The June slow down is here though...

Ended up with 4 kings 4 trout 2 throw backs at 19 inches:(

edit to add pictures

sure mike, whats the occastion?

I do not have a down speed so I used what I had in GPS...

I found 2 that worked and stayed with it...

I had the pleasure of fishing with Nate VK and his friend Travis yesterday morning. After some minor motor adjustments the night before I am happy to say the boat ran like a champ. I guess it helps to make sure the ground wire is tight, because the motor will start then;)

Anyway.... back to the important part. The fishing... we ended up 9 for ALOT....

The good.. was the BIG fish were biting.....

the bad they liked some of thier new piercings so much they took them with them.

Lost a board (if anyone finds it my number is on it)

lost a 350 copper

and a couple spoons along the way.

Also when someone claims to know what they are doing..... and forgets to set the clicker and lets a fish run 300 yeards plus the 300 copper.... THEY get to reel it in. It was good to watch nate suffer through all 600 feet of copper with a spinnie a fly and a 15 pound fish. (Nate really does know what he is doing... and is a great guy, but I need to make fun of him anyway)

What worked

BLL patriot 350 copper

BLL Blue green frozen frog 250 copper

Stinger Black silver small spoon

BLL Prototype White Goby Rigger down 60

BLL Wet Dream 5 color

SD Blue/Silver with a BWF mirage fly with blue beads Diver back 180

SD solid chrom with a BWF mirage fly with Yellow beads Diver back 150

SD Blue silver w a BWF Mirage fly with Blue beads (with BW Vibrator head) 300 copper

SD Crushed UV on clear with a BWF Blue meatless teaser 300 45 copper

SD Blue/silver with a BW Mirage/silver fly 300 45

Fished N of holland in 110 to 130 ... with 130 being the best after the sun came up.

North troll speed was 2.4

South troll speed was 2.1

Nice Joe...

Fished Holland with Dan the builder friday AM....

ended up 4-11, with fish just comming unbuttoned.

2 nice kings both 15 plus

2 lakers

Lost a couple screamers and a monster buttom hugger on the SWR..

What worked...

Patriot on the 350 and the rigger down 112

BLL White nose dolphin (BLL Prototype)

silver Meat rig on the bottom

BLL Modified Kevorkian SWR down 100

BLL Irish Car Bomb (Prototype) Patriot but with green 300 45 pound

BLL green Kermit on the 300 32 pound

BLL Mod Blue Veggie 250 32 pound

Needless to say we had our chances .... Best troll was 100 to 110 on the 330 (Same as last trip) North of Holland ...

I will post more about the boat problems later.. and how much of a shlup i am.

Nice report....

found one.. and it now has mitten strings

I am the last person you want to build anything that people are going to use:)

I am wanting to put a new deck on the house for the wife for our aniv. anyone know any local builders/contractors you recomend to do so.

Possibly someone on here...

Dave

Lost my gas cap today...

Where should I start looking to find a new one?

The fishing was steady after the sun came up.. 3 fish right away and then dink one here and there....

50 to 75 feet

that is how far across my yard is.... its just how i measure.... (depends on which direction i am going lol)

6/6 Am report....

I am happy to report that the fishing is still decent (I have not been out much the past few weeks because of college.)

Fished 5:30 to 9:30 am out of Holland and ended up 7-13. with 70 pounds of fish in the box.

Best water was 90-110 on a 330 troll. Once we hit 110 we turned back into 90 and turned back out on the 330 troll. You will notice a bunch of bugs and such on the water along with the cotten. There are some HUGE schools of bait in that area and the steel are hanging out in there as well.

What worked

BLL Patriot 350 copper

BLL Mod Blue Veggie 250 copper

BLL Green Kato 200 Copper

Stinger Mixed veggie UV 2 color

DW SS green yellow dolphin fixed slider down 92

BLL Green/Yellow Dolphin w fish flash on the bottom

Stinger NBK on a fixed slider.

BLL Blue Green glow frog 300 copper

Best speed was 2.4

Most fish came on the N troll between Tunnel and 2 miles N of the stacks.

Fishing 80-100 Fow slow troll 2.0 to 2.3 on the GPS

Friday

Saturday AM

The predicted storms kept me in bed.

Saturday PM

4-7

All fish over 10 pounds with a very nice brown.

Hot set ups (If you can call them that)

MS Blue Flounder on the rigger bouncing bottom (Brown)

UV tape clear SD with a BLL Dolphin teaser rig back 120 on the diver

BLL Green Kermit on the 300 45 copper 2 fish

BLL Blue Kato

Sunday AM

Managed to get out with NVK after the weather man lied slightly.

6-7

Blue Flounder MS Standard (not mag)

BLL Green Kermit

BLL Mag blue/green Dolphin

DW SS Blue Dolphin

DW SS Green Dolphin

BLL Blue Kato

Monday AM...

Fished on Ben Lubbs boat and he can give the report.

If you catch them after may its pure luck

Top spoon is Patriot

Bottom is Mod blue veggie