Killin' It

I have no shame in running in someones prop wash to save me some abuse on the way out.

Ben,

We didn't need any more people, I couldnt keep the rods in the water. lol.

I will share my .02 on this subject.

Gobies have become a staple of the laker diet. I belive the lakers and browns (walleye as well) Will flurish because of the gobies on the bottom.

EVERY brown and laker we caugh this year was PACKED full of shiners alwife, perch and Gobys some as big as 9 inches.

I know the question everyone askes is how far out do the gobies go..... I know without a doubt they go out to 60 FOW in some places as we have caught them perch fishing on structure. This is a statement based on fishing out of Holland and I am unsure about other ports.

Should you run something that looks like a Goby, I did all spring and it works. Does it work any better or any worse than anything else... sometimes...

DW SS goby spoon on the bottom for lakers was good last year and so was Styrker by flinstone. Each had their days.

As I am sure we all know we give them what they want ( or at least try)

It is not going to hurt aything to put it down and see what happens.

One of my best 6 rod set ups last year for lakers went something like this.

80- 100 FOW Everything withing 15 feet of the bottom

Rigger Silver Streak Mag Lemon Ice

Fixed slider 10' up DW SS Lemon Ice cicle

Rigger Silver Streak Mag Lemon Ice

Fixed slider 10' up with the DW SS Goby

Diver

Silver tin can with a Blue water fly teaser rig mtdew or green and white

White tin can with glow tape on the back and a green and yellow spin glow.

I would run the 300 and 250 copper to just have 2 extra lines out with BLL Patirot and Green/yellow frozen frog.

Maybe yellow looks brown to a fish that far down I don't know.

Some pictures from the night

What you do not see in the first picture is 2 other guys fighting fish. I was going to try and get a kick but triple header picture, but the rigger started pounding and Ben DOVE across the dog house to get it. Quads BABY!! at this point I put the camera away to help direct traffic and net fish.

Great night on the water!!! I really enjoy watching people catch fish!!! I think Ben and I only reeled in 1 fish each as we tried to clear lines and happend to have a coho on them.

I did not want to reel in fish last night so I played net boy. I could not keep the rods in the water. I tried to put Patriot down 5 times before and ever time another rod would go off. Nature of the good beast!

I will post pictures of the set ups from this weekend after easter dinner.

I had my own water to fish Jimmy, I just used your boat to break waves!!

Nice Job this morning.... I ran the back of Bens boat tonight and we went 20-30 something, with some nice kings. He can post that when he has time.

Fished out in the boonies again today:(

We managed to finish our limit and be 17 for 24. We threw the last 2 back as we took a quazy triple at the end.

175-205 was the best.

We started the day with a blast, set down and had 5 fish in the box in 7 minutes. We stayed with that SW troll until it dried up and had 10. After that we hit a HUGE dry spell. We managed to dink one here and there till 11 and made a minor change in our trolling direction and picked up the last few fish.

What worked

Rigger at 150 W/ prisim Fish Flash with and BLL Mag Blue Green Dolphin (5 hits)

Rigger at 100 W/ a disco FishFlash and a BLL green Kato (5 hits)

250 Copper W/ a prisim Fish Flash and BLL Mag blue green dolphin (4 hits)

Diver back 167 W/ a prisim Fish Flash and BLL Bloody Nose ( 4 hits)

Diver back 120 W/ BLL bloody nose(3 hits)

Rigger at 100 W/ prisim Fish Flash Silver Streak Frozen Fruit standard (1 hit)

2 color Super slim Green Dolphin (1 hit)

1 color Lemon Berry Silver streak mini (1 hit)

All in All a great day!!

Aarrons in Saugy does not have any more, I bought them all.

Disco tape or Silver prizem run spoons.... 10-14 feet in back of flasher.

Started late this morning as it was WAY to cold!!

Hit the water with Luremaker and ran the boat west to 135 and set down on a west troll. We trolled from there out to 200 and back on a SW troll and then back on a NE.

15 or 17-22 kept 10 and released small shakers.

What worked

Big Al's flasher with a BLL Green Kato down 100 (8 times)

Big Al's flasher with a SS mag Blue/Green dolphin down 150 (6 times)

Lemon berry SS 250 copper (4 hits)

Pink Panties BLL 350 copper (1 hit)

Bloody Nose BLL 120 back on 2 on a diver (1 hit)

Double Trouble BLL on a 200 copper (1 hit)

Lemon Berry SS mini on a 5 color (1 hit)

SW troll seemed to work best

2.5-2.7 SOG

Water temp was 39

Trolled all the way to Douglas point!!

A buddy fished inside and ended up 8-11 with 4 biger lakers and 4 smaller fish.

His bests were Blue/Green Dolphin and Lemon ice Mag All his fish came no more than 10 feet off the Bottom.

All in all a great day!

Ended up with 4 kings in the box around 5 pounds and the rest were smaller coho. All the bigger fish came from the rigger down 150.

Dave

So, I tried to run out deep and didnt feel like going past 150 with the east wind. I was unsure how the run home was going to be) So I turned the boat back twards shore and went with what I knew. Trolled from Holland to Saugy on the bars without a hit. Trolled back from Saugy to Holland and picked up a brown a king and a nice laker.

3 for 4 or 5,

What worked:

BLL Moldy green dolphin (Green dolphin with white nose) 3 hits

Big Al's fish flash with a DW Lemon ice SS 1 hit

BLL Funky Chicken 1 hit

SS screwball, may have taken a hit the board went under,and the rod learched back, but no sale.

Could have caught more if I went out to the boonies, but just was not feeling it. There are plenty of fish in close, you just have to work for them. They seem to be schooled up and you will hit 2 or 3 and then go for a while and then hit 2-3 more.

As for the tbIG Al's flashers, They are enjoyable to run, fighting a laker on them, you are truley fighting the laker not the spinnie or the tin can. Going to try and run 2 fo them in the morning.

Dave

I am going to stay in close friday and shoot for that big brown I want for my wall. Chances are slim, but what the heck.

Saturday, it is whatever capt. Ben Lubbs wants to do, I am just net boy!

I could hear Jimmy, but not you.

I will have to mess with it next time I am out.

I think I am having some radio issues, Could you hear me out deep Jimmy?

Fished Holland this morning with Ben Lubbs.

Ended up 3-8

1 brown

2 kings

This morning was full of heartbreak and bad luck.

Started the morning, in the dark and setting rods we had our first fish on. Board burried and the fish popped off. Not a bad way to start the morning as a fish on is better than a fish off.

Get the rest of the rods set and go to sit down and the 2 color jumps back and we land a 12" inch king. (released) Re set the rod and it fires again. Same size fish also released. From here on out it was time for the bad luck to kick in.

A double and 2 lost fish

Outside board took off and went under and the fish managed pry the hooks loose.

Manged to get one fish in the boat!! (See below)

Best lure of the day!! BLL Prototype 4 hits

X rap Blue green olive took 2 hits

Alphonse 2 hits

Water temp 47-51

Best speed 2.2

Best troll S

I plan on fishing in the morning if I can use Ben Lubbs truck. Brakes went out on mine.

Yes the water temp was in the 61' on shore.

I think we are going to head out to 60 and troll SW till we are sick of it as long as the wind does not pick up.

What does everyone have going on?

We are planning to fish Holland, the question is what FOW.

The surface temp is 61, and I heard rumors of some colder water in 25 fow on the bottom. Trying to decide if its worth fishing in close or to start heading out.

inside 30 feet

Well, Figued I would give it a go this morning and skip chruch. In the end, I should have went to church.

1-3

1 king

What worked

BLL Funky Chicken (2 hits 1 fish)

X rap 10 olive color (1 hit broke off)

Ran North of Holland out in front of Kirk park, and trolled south past the piers to Half way. Only having 2 hits, figued we could go exploring as we saw a boat out deeper yesterday. They took off out of port again, but the fog kept them pretty hidden.

We ran out to 90 and trolled back to the pier heads. Loosing a laker on the rigger as we ran through the dirty water break at 40 fow.

Tried all sorts of trolls and all sorts of colors/lures.

Water temps

Inside 46-48

Dirty/Clear break 43 (Marked some fish around there)

90 fow 36 degrees

All the bigger boat guys if you try to fish close to the sandbars north of Holland, Just north of Tunnel park the sandbars go from 10 up to 2-3 feet in the matter of 10 yards. Be carfull.

Dave

Glad the first trip went well.

Only took a picture of the brown. Kept the steelhead as well, but packed up soon after. Kings were released.

Fished Holland this morning with the Scooby Snacks crew and Ben Lubbs.

Ended 5 for 6

3 kings

1 steel

1 brown

stuff that worked

BLL Funky Chicken (2)

Stinger Mixed veggie UV (1)

Xrap green silver (1 fish lost 1)

Brown trout J-9 Rapala (1)

The early morning program was a big fat nothing. First fish came with the sun over the sliders. Fished from 5-25 foot of water from Holland to Saugy and back to the sliders. Fished with the new Auto Pilot, and it worked great.

Ben Lost a nice fish on the outside board back 125 feet and 300 out to the side.

Great day on the lake, Rigger bite with the balls tapping bottom was the best.

Water temps 42-53 in front of saugy.

Less then 10 feet down

I love this color...

Always seems to catch fish no matter the water color.

I normally run it in the Mud, but I have ben running it more and more on the blue water and catching fish.

The question is why??

Does not look like a goober (Gobie)

Does not look like fish

Just wondering if anyone has any opinions on this