Holland evening of 7/12 - 15for33

[2MD]

The trips are all starting to rhyme and blend together - kids & PUG were doing math on the way in last night and Parker is 71 for 136 on our last 5 trips out...  The boat needs a good cleaning and the gear needs a refresh that is for sure! Anyways, here is what PUG figured out last night:

Fish were all still heavily concentrated in that 75-90fow.  Started eating right away on the set where we had a triple.  Went on like this pretty much all night although fish did take a 45min break at 8pm which was strange but allowed pug to relax and take a much needed nap.  After dark is when it got super wonko and bites were coming in non-stop.  For example, we had 15 bites between 9.30PM-10.15PM.  PUG's ratio was crap but we went at it “guts and glory” as usual and ran a lot of stuff risking and experiencing tangles but brought the cavalry with us so we could max out rod count.  What a hoot! One of these times they are gonna stay hooked and PUG is gonna score his desired 6 man limit!

South and Southeast troll was good but we had to have a 3.1-3.4mph ground speed to get them to eat.  North troll and Northeast troll also produced magically well but again the groundspeed had to be between 2.9-3.4mph.  That was the sole determining factor for us getting hits last night... we had to be running so fast that the dipseys were leaking a little on both sides.

Copp150 – green ladder jplug (went 3 or 4 times)

Copp200 – moonshine blue spoon (went 6 or 7 times)

Copp250 – moonshine blue spoon (went 5 or 6 times)

Copp300 – ratchet jaw moonshine spoon (went twice)

Copp350 – moonshine spoon (went 2 or 3 times)

Deep Diver out 115 – moonshine flounder pounder (went 3 times and one time actually broke the hook on a pitch black screamer)

High Diver out 200 – yellow meat rig (went once)

High Diver out 200 – white and blue 8” paddle (went 4 times)

Riggers with sliders down 42-57 – moonshine spoons (pretty much took all the rest of the bites – “dancing anchovy” was best for sure)

Every rod took fish except for the port side Copp150 running mag moonshine jackal which left PUG in disbelief because that thing had been hit a dozen times already in the 4 trips prior.

HIGHLIGHT: trolling next to our original Parker year 2011 off the sliders - so cool that Matt was out there and absolutely crushing em on that legendary vessel with his kids!  If the guys who manufacturer these boats in the outer banks of Carolina could have been out there with a drone they could have really enhanced their marketing campaign

[2MD]

oh and also on one of our bigger kings we got a lamprey

[SeaFoam]

What an epic run you have been on! Love your reports. 

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Well that explains why I thought a passed the Parker in one direction only to pass another Parker in front of me.  I though the seas were messing with my head.  I followed one of them in.  We did not fish the dark and pulled after the second triple strike cos we had most the rods out of the water and Brian had to work in the am so we probably followed  Parker 2011 in.

Would have loved to stay out a bit more after finally dialing in the spread for the night bite cos it got really active after the sun went down.

Impressive number of fish Pug has boated this year.

[2MD]

haha yes mystery solved!