Holland 7/12 evening - 13 for 23+?

[jdh]

Fished this evening out of Holland and maintained SSE/SSW trolls down past Saugatuck.  Set lines at 7 pm, and had 6 fish by 9:30.  Then craziness happened and over about 10 minutes 8 of 9 rods hooked up.  We landed 6 of those 8.  But ended up with no lines in the water .  Reset, and turn north and had several more hits in the dark, and got one of those to the boat.  Overall ended up with 13 fish in the box - majority from 4-12 lbs, and 4 fish in the 15-18 lb range.  Of course several ones that got away felt like they were in that size range. 12 kings, 1 coho.

Thanks to @2MD for the previous nights report.  Used that to generally help us figure out where to set up.

So what was our program? 75-90 fow with SSW/SSE trolls - SSW had more bites, but both trolls picked up fish.  SOG around 2.8 when I checked.  Speed at the ball was 2.3-2.6 most of the night.  All depths and almost all of our lures got fish.

Rods were:

• 150 copper - standard size moonshine RV Happee Meal (3 hits)
• 250 copper - mag moonshine rv raspberry carbon (3 hits)
• standard diver back 85 to 115 - pro king 8" paddle chrome UV and yellow ladder back and fly (3 hits)
• rigger @ 40 - mag moonshine slider / standard moonshine main - both RV Flounder pounder (NO HITS ALL NIGHT)
• rigger @ 60 - pro king 8" paddle white dragon slayer with fly (4 hits)
• mag diver back 85 to 115 - 10" spin doctor doctor chrome dragon slayer and meat rig (ballyhoo strips) (4 hits)
• 300 copper - mag moonshine rv double trouble (2 hits)
• 200 copper - mag moonshine rv jackal (2 hits)
• 100 copper - stingray size orange tuxedo gold (2 hits)

I'll post  picture of the lineup below.

[jdh]

[littleboat]

Great catch sounded like a good evening.
Must have landed on pod in your major hookup.

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Thanks for the pic of your line up.  I see you got the RV stuff to work.  I could not.

[2MD]

awesome trip! hahaha can't stop chuckling as I try to picture your madness in the darkness - what a flurry to have 8 or 9 rods all go off!

[SeaFoam]

Wow 8 or 9 hook ups! Crazytown.  Thanks for the reports.