South Haven 4-23

[Katrina Seath]

Called in sick this morning because I heard the weather for the weekend was not going to be good and decided to go fishing instead. We set the lines just past the pierheads at 60 fow and trolled south. No fish marked and started to head east and as soon as we hit 35 fow, we landed a fat 9# laker on a rigger 12 ft down, 35 back with a ss kevorkian. Headed south at that depth and landed a 17# king on a double orange crush 3 color. At first, we thought it was a steelhead because it jumped out of the water and started ripping out line...but nope, it was just a king. We released both fish. We kept trolling at that depth and no hits. We noticed a lot of boats deeper, so we thought they must be catching something because they were out there all morning.

We pulled lines and went deeper to 85 fow. We trolled a few hours, marked a few fish, but no hits. We then decided to call it a day. Should have stayed shallow.

Edited April 23, 2010 by Katrina Seath
added pictures

[plumkrazy]

nice job on the fishin :thumb:

[SUPERTRAMP]

Nice job Katrina

[diesel]

nice job i should of followed you in shallow deep didnt work for me either

[Paulywood]

Good job.

[DIRTY DOG]

Nice job.

[joelsanders]

your killin it ,great job! nice fish!

[Priority1]

Fantastic. What do you mean just a King, and a 17# one to boot. Keep hammering them. Playing hooky and going fishing is way cool.

[GLF]

Nice job Katrina and Mark. Cough...cough.....I hope you get feeling better soon.

[Just Hook'n]

You both are doing awesome. Putting many of us to shame. Don't always follow the boats. Just because we think we know what will work, it may not. I've had many days where I was 50-75 different (inside or out) of the "pack' and done very well. Other days. . . well . . . it doesn't work all the time.

[Hoosier_Steelheader]

Sweet... way to get after them!

Ditto on what Mark said. We often find ourselves breaking from the herd and catching fish.

[Nailer]

Nice job out there Katrina and Mark.

[anthonyyost]

I can't believe you threw them back.

[Katrina Seath]

I can't believe you threw them back.

I can't either. But we like eating the smaller ones, and we do keep some bigger ones. We thought we would let the 17# king spawn this year. After we released the king, we kept asking ourselves "why did we do that?"

[Nailer]

Are you using the plastic rod holders for your divers?

I have seen the plastic ones break when an angry king hits.

[Katrina Seath]

Are you using the plastic rod holders for your divers?

I have seen the plastic ones break when an angry king hits.

yes, what you are looking at is our redneck salmon fishing setup. Our plastic rod holders and down riggers with no cranks. The plastic rod holders worked all last year but made Mark nervous using divers on them because they pulled so hard. So, you think that's a bad idea?

[Adam Bomb]

Great post and pics....Nice job

[Nailer]

yes, what you are looking at is our redneck salmon fishing setup. Our plastic rod holders and down riggers with no cranks. The plastic rod holders worked all last year but made Mark nervous using divers on them because they pulled so hard. So, you think that's a bad idea?

loosing a $150 rod, reel, line, diver, flasher, fly combo, on a plastic holder is not a good thing.

A few years back I was fishing on a friends boat, who had plastic diver holders. We where using my diver rods, and yes a King hit and SNAP!. luckily I was standing next to it and made a quick grab. you can get Big Jon holders for around $50 each. I got mine at MC Sports here in GR. for that.

Big Jon IMO makes the best of the lesser expensive holders. Easy to use and strong enough for the average weekend warrior. I started with Tight Locks, but had them strip out when big Kings hit.

This is the one I'm talking about.