Holland 6-17 Evening SH Tournament

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Fished the Steelheaders Tuesday night 6:00-10:00pm outing on a dock mate’s boat.  Weighed in 5 fish, 5 for 6 for the evening.  My data is not as crisp but will summarize the best I can.  The first two fish were boated around 7:30pm; 1.5 set mag diver on a wire dipsey down 130’ on the counter tipped with a reg size RV blue flounder pounder in 148 FOW south troll.  Netted a 9 lb king, our biggest fish of the night.  Put the same rig back down and it got hit again in under 2 minutes netting a 4-5lb king.  Changed out the opposite wire diver to something similar found in the wide assortment of spoons (shocking we couldn’t find a second BFP) and put that down at the same depth.  That got hit soon thereafter but we lost the fish in the fight.  I think we were still heading south, perhaps in 140 FOW when the port corner DR down 100’ (10lb ball?) tipped with mag RV blue jeans got bit netting a small king.  Turn around to a NE troll and had two more bites on an orange crush like spoon on 250 Cu in 115-120 FOW.  Both small kings for a total of 5 for the night and enough to place 2^nd out of I believe 15 boats.  Largest king weighed in at 15lbs caught on a dodger/fly; that boat also had 5 fish.  Our 9lb was the second largest as fish were still small.  What did not get bit: White paddle/green fly or spin-and-glow down low off a DR; blue RV spoons on 450 & 300 Cu SB side; RV wonderbread and standard blue jeans on 450 & 300 Cu Port side.  The auto pilot was out and manual steering was at time erratic which may have contributed to better action on the dipseys.  Flies were still biting but not quite as bad due to the light chop.

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Fished the Steelheaders Tuesday night 6:00-10:00pm outing on a dock mate’s boat.  Weighed in 5 fish, 5 for 6 for the evening.  My data is not as crisp but will summarize the best I can.  The first two fish were boated around 7:30pm; 1.5 set mag diver on a wire dipsey down 130’ on the counter tipped with a reg size RV blue flounder pounder in 148 FOW south troll.  Netted a 9 lb king, our biggest fish of the night.  Put the same rig back down and it got hit again in under 2 minutes netting a 4-5lb king.  Changed out the opposite wire diver to something similar found in the wide assortment of spoons (shocking we couldn’t find a second BFP) and put that down at the same depth.  That got hit soon thereafter but we lost the fish in the fight.  I think we were still heading south, perhaps in 140 FOW when the port corner DR down 100’ (10lb ball?) tipped with mag RV blue jeans got bit netting a small king.  Turn around to a NE troll and had two more bites on an orange crush like spoon on 250 Cu in 115-120 FOW.  Both small kings for a total of 5 for the night and enough to place 2^nd out of I believe 15 boats.  Largest king weighed in at 15lbs caught on a dodger/fly; that boat also had 5 fish.  Our 9lb was the second largest as fish were still small.  What did not get bit: White paddle/green fly or spin-and-glow down low off a DR; blue RV spoons on 450 & 300 Cu SB side; RV wonderbread and standard blue jeans on 450 & 300 Cu Port side.  The auto pilot was out and manual steering was at time erratic which may have contributed to better action on the dipseys.  Flies were still biting but not quite as bad due to the light chop.



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[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Update: we finished 4th.


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[SeaFoam]

Fun stuff!  Good work.