vielfras Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Fished between Saugatuck and Holland Friday night with my friend Bryan. We went 10 for 18ish with 8 kings, 1 coho, and 1 glutton of a Laker. It was a pretty wild last hour and I sort of lost track of the hits. We had 2 doubles and a triple on this trip. Started at 5:30 and fished until 9:30 in 120 to 140 fow. The first 5 hits (and about 10 total) came on a braid dipsey set at 2 180ft back with a large mtn dew spin doctor and big weenie fly. The kings were just crushing the dipseys and the 200 copper when they hit, but the 2 fish that caused the most trouble were a coho and the fat laker. The coho hit a coyote slider at 75 and got wrapped around a board then when we were about to net him, got wrapped around the other rigger. While I was trying to undo the mess, that rigger just takes off with 2 lines still wrapped around it. After determining what line to cut, we landed another king after netting the coho. While I was fighting about a 17lb king, Bryan sees the rigger rod lift a bit and goes to release it. He yanks on it 4 or 5 times and can't get it to release, I hand the rod to him and try and can't get it to go. So I raise the canon ball and the line never came up a bit, it was already released??? So now we are thinking what did we snag, a snapping turtle? a tire? Jimmy Hoffa? Nope it was a fat laker that somehow dropped anchor and wasn't going to budge and here we were just slamming away at his jaw trying to pull the line from a release that was already out. After about 10 minutes we finally got the slob to surface from the depths, barely hooked in the mouth. What worked: Dipsey at 180 mt dw spin dr took 4 Rigger down 90 with mag Flounder pounder took 2 Et down 70 took 1, slider with Coyote took 1 on same setup Green ladderback moonshine on 200 copper took 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGTREBLE Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Very Nice Guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethin' fishy Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Good job guys! Sounds like you had a blast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N II Deep Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Great Job, that is one ugly Laker - I think I dated a girl that looked like that once... :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooked Up Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 That is one big Laker! :thumb:How much did it weigh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Salmon 1 Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Great job guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vielfras Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 That is one big Laker! :thumb:How much did it weigh?Scott, it was about 17 lbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTRAMP Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Nice job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mriversinco Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Great report. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nailer Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Great job on the June fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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