Holland 07/05 Evening - 4 for 6

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

After making a supply run to Maple Hill Golf (can't fish all the time !), called up my dock mate Tom and he agreed to go fishing.  We set lines about 6:30pm in 120FOW straight out of the harbor and headed south.  Surface push was enough that I had to deploy trolling valves.  Ran two riggers (SWR+spoon and White SD/Proctologist fly), two 1.5set dipseys (super slims looking to SH, by line counter out about 185', I set the depths with my Smart Troll probes so it is hard to say how much line is out) and 300 Cu down the shoot with KGF+Brads cut plug.  We waited to add the 6th line but never did cos things were busy through the first hour of the run.  The Brads cut plug got BIT OFF while deploying the line.  First line in the water and a SH it it.  Leader or knot failed.  Got all the lines in the water and before adjusting the dipseys, one got bit and we released a small king.  At 7:10pm we landed an 'eater king' in 117 FOW on a dipsey tipped with a DW Super Slim Blue Frog or Blue Leopard spoon.  SWR with the mag DW Mag Blue Green Spotted Dolphin I have been running got bit down 66' but nobody was home.  The previous dipsey got smacked again at 7:55pm producing a 10lb SH which we of course kept.  Five fish in 90 min was a great start then the N/NW 20knot blow kicked in plus we had to make the decision to turn north from Saugy in case it got bad and I would have to run the shoreline on a plane all the way back to Holland.  Everything shut down from that point on.  We stayed in the 120-114 FOW for the most part, keeping speed as best we could around 2.4 and Fin Warrior managed that as well as she could but it was not the same as the south troll and before things kicked up.  The wind backed down a bit and we managed to land a 10lb king on a dipsey up at 47' down with a Purple Stinger reg spoon (no suprise my running that presentation).  We pulled lines soon thereafter. 

Notes: Soon as we turned north the damn biting flies came in.  Marked one huge bait ball in 116FOW again but no where else.  The water fleas were minimal.  Great to connect with Parker and Pug o 68.

#	Time	Fish	Weight	FOW	Troll	Wind Dir.	Speed @ Ball	Rod	Bait Depth	Bait Temp	Bait
	6:30pm	Miss		122	S	N	2.2	Copper 300			Brads Cut Plug - Watermelon Pattern
	6:40pm	King	<5lb	122	S	N	2.2	Dipsey - Mono	47	64	DW Super Slim Spotted Magic Man
	7:10pm	King	7lb	117	S	N	2.4	Dipsey - Mono	61	53	DW Super Slim Blue Frog or Blue Leopard
	7:20pm	Miss		115	S	N	2.4	SWR	66	48	DW Mag Blue Green Spotted Dolphin
	7:55pm	Steelhead	10lb	118	S	NE	2.2	Dipsey - Mono	63	51	DW Super Slim Blue Frog or Blue Leopard
	9:05pm	King	10lb	111	N	NE	2.3	Dipsey - Mono	47	47	Purple Stinger (Kevorkian)

 

 

Sorry for the boring fish on the deck.  It was the best I could do.

 

[2MD]

great report and good golly them were some less than ideal conditions to troll in! very impressive you stuck it out and wish the sunset bite would've shown up to reward you for your resilience (PUG made us bail and head in at around 730pm)