Port Sheldon 8/31 pm

[mrhookup]

Took my fishing buddy Alex and his girlfriend Madison out last for what ended up being a beautiful night on the water. This was her first time on the lake let alone fishing it so we were hoping to get her on a fish or two. Started setting lines at 6pm in 100FOW straight out and put it on a North troll through the majority of this year's waypoints. No hits for us while heading North for the first 1.5hrs so we made an outside turn and spun it back south. Now in 115FOW we took our first hit on a rigger and Madison landed her first lake Michigan king, about a 6lber. Continued on that South troll at 2.2-2.5 SOG the rest of the night and finished up 5 for 5 with a double at sunset. It was an all spoon bite for us, couldn't get flies, meat, or plugs to fire. Here's what worked:

DW Carmel Icicle - fixed slider 50ft down on Rigger set at 60ft - 6lb king

Stingray UV Mixed Veggies - 4oz torpedo 40ft down off board - 6lb coho

Stinger Steelie Stomper - 2oz torpedo 25ft down off board - 14lb skamania

Stingray Nitro Twister - 4oz torpedo 40ft down off board - 8lb king

Mag Flounder Pounder - rigger at 50ft - 15lb king

Madison's 2nd big lake fish ever, a nice skam that gave us an aerial show

Alex's coho on the always consistent UV mixed veggies