Holland 7-26

[Aaron Nusbaum]

We fished from 5:30 to 9 am straight out of Holland, ending up 4 for 7 on the day. As soon as I got the third line down in about 110 ft we hooked into something huge on a downrigger that ran deep into our backing before swimming into our 300 copper and creating a rats nest tangle and getting off. As we were hauling that mess in we hit a 2# king on the other downrigger. In the time it took for me to recover all my gear from the copper tangle the exact same downrigger went off four straight times, landing a 9# king, 10# king, 3# steelhead, and missing something else all in 120 ft. Once I got the other lines back in the bite stopped so we went into about 100 ft and missed another hit before going in. I don't count this as a hit but reeling one of my lines in something followed it up. It definitely feels like that tangle cost us some fish as it completely incapacitated our 300 copper and took about 30 minutes to re rig and set the other downrigger in the middle of a flurry. Shout out to my lead core and 200 copper for contributing nothing. The steelhead we got had a crazy kype for being in the summer. Here's what took the hits:

 

0-1 pro troll 8" custom uv perch flasher with a rapture illusion uv fly on a downrigger 50 ft down

 

0-1 pro troll 8" custom uv perch flasher with a rapture illusion uv fly on a downrigger 85 ft down

 

4-5 moonshine magnum flounder pounder on a downrigger 60 ft down

 

 

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[littleboat]

Your steelhead looked like the one in caught Friday, really skinny. There is no meat on him at all. I wonder what is going on with them. I've never seen them like that before. It's like the kings aren't letting them near the table.

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[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

We got a steelie tonight - same profile.

[Aaron Nusbaum]

This one had three alewife in its belly but was definitely skinny. Every fish we got outside of the 2# king had a belly full

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