Port Sheldon 8/18 am

[onlyflyfish4vr]

5 am to 9... in 2-3' waves, and some strong currents. Fished 80' to 120' marking lots of bait and fish in the 100-105 depth, and around 118'. No fish landed out of 1 rip, and one hooked on 300 copper flounder pounder and glow j plug. 3 releases in 102- 105' 30 down while trolling through huge bait balls. Dipseys and leadcore washed lures.

[Just Hook'n]

Bummer dude.

Did you happen to notice the temp on the beach?

[Nailer]

Strong currents and rough seas takes the fun out of fishing. Thanks for the update Erie.

[onlyflyfish4vr]

Temp's at the pier heads were mid 70's surface, never found surface water colder than 72.5. next season going to invest in a probe.

[Just Hook'n]

Thanks for the response. We are going out tonight.

I'll let you know what we find (if any cold water exists).

[MoJoRisin']

Last night in Muskegon the temps were kind of mixed up. Found 68 F surface temp in about 80 FOW and in from there and as it got dark on us we saw slick water and down temp inside of 100 FOW was about 50 at 40 down. But it was very irratic so in one spot down temp was 63 and another it was 49.

I think the fish are as confused at the water - plus keeping consistent speed was a challenge with a strong current.

At sundown we started seeing fish up as high as 20 ft in 80 FOW. Cooler temp was there too. Out in 100+ the marks were 60 down or further and we took a king on SWR 90 down in 115. Then we got the laker in same water on full core mag Blue Dolphin.

I couldn't pull the rigs up fast enough as we got towards sundown. Went from deep spread and no marks to shallow and lots o marks in the 80 FOW 25 to 25 down range quickly.

Managed 2 kings and a laker. 95% of the marks were inside 80 FOW approaching dark but only one fish on dispy/SD/Green glo fly just after dark where we were marking the most.

Hope to find some consistency next time out. 4 different rods got 4 hits with 4 different baits.