Holland 7/19 PM

[2MD]

PUG took my daughter and I out trolling...

ran south beyond Saugatuck and setup in 120fow to avoid the storm arriving

weird night out there... strong current & weather went from bad to perfect and then back to bad after 10pm

5for7 with bites from 99fow out to 130fow and 120fow probably being the best:

copp350 green jeans mag moonshine holo

dipsey back 110 with silver and blue spindocter 

copp200 mag half a meal moonshine

copp250 flounder pounder mag moonshine

rigger down 62 happee meal mag moonshine

rigger down 54 green jeans mag moonshine

copp150 scaley green size 4 jplug

 

a couple of them were real BIG hens tonight! at least bigger than the matures we had been getting 

 

[littleboat]

BIG KINGS! Congratulations!

Currents have been crazy lately.

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[DipsyDew]

Nice work 2MD! 

[SeaFoam]

Wow!!  Nice fish.  Looks like the spoons were hot. 

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

 

My compliments on finding and boating a couple of big ones!  I take it the boys like to run meat and your daughter is a clean spoon woman!  Moonshine mags have been good out there.  She and PUG made good choices.  I expected the fish to move out a bit as warmer water had pushed inside but the current thing is weird as the blow was light and the lake didn't appear that bumpy per the PS buoy.  I took a look at the PS buoy temp data at the Freeboard site which shows (red 49' & dark blue 75') cold water moving in after 1:00pm and then back out after 8:00pm with no change at the surface.  That may explain the currents you were encountering last night.  The plot also shows when I was out on Friday night, cold water at 49' moving back in after 8:30pm, shifting the thermocline up in the water column about 15ft from earlier in the evening.  I did note the Smart Troll probes on the dipseys at the same depth were reporting colder water before sunset.  Perhaps the night bite was not off but higher in the water column than where I moved up my presentations for the evening?  Who knows.  I am a bit of a data geek and have fun over thinking all this stuff :).

 

[2MD]

thanks guys

and yes Zgrinder the boys insist on meat and are proficient at it like they have proven over and over again BUT last night I got to run many of our "old luckies" and honestly I had just screenshot and used your chart from the night before as a guide

what you say and show with currents does make a lot sense

I will add that last night after dusk all the marks went deeper (verses higher up in the column) on the graph which shocked us too and was probably why we couldn't get the glow program to keep going. In hindsight we were fishing above em at that point...