Pentwater 8/3 pm

[jdh]

Took of work early and took my dad fishing.  Launched at 5 pm and got some bait on sabiki rigs before running to Little Point.  Saw a charter? working 80 fow or so, so ran a mile past them and spot locked in 70 fow. Dropped two bait rods and started jigging. About 15-20 minutes later charter shows up honking at me and complaining that I set up in front of them.  And aggressively pulling boards to make space.  They had half a mile inside of us or 80 miles outside.  Not sure on etiquette here but in my opinion a 5 degree course correction a little early would have solved their issue.  Also I can't move very fast with my motor off running spot lock...  Anyway their boat noise pushed some fish our way and we had our first fish pretty fast.  And the rest of the night was pretty successful. 

Ended up 2/6 jigging with 1 coho 1 king.

At 8:45 started trolling back to port and had a spectacular hour of fishing going 5/7.  Still in 70-100 fow.  3 color went, 100 copper went, down riggers went with spoons.  Then my meat rig on a diver took 4 hits and go two nice kings to the boat including an 18 lb fish.  Diver back 55 ticking back to 80.  Never made it to 80 - each time got hit on the way down

Meat rig was on a 10" chrome spin doctor dragon slayer.  Was running a whole salted and alewife that I salted after a Ludington trip a few weeks ago.  That one alewife survived all 4 strikes and was still good to send back but we decided a 7 fish box was good enough and opted to run back to port before it got really dark out.  

Waves were, well there were no waves.  It was glass out there and the water temp was from 50-60 degrees.

 

[jdh]

[phishtix]

5 hours ago, jdh said:

Took of work early and took my dad fishing.  Launched at 5 pm and got some bait on sabiki rigs before running to Little Point.  Saw a charter? working 80 fow or so, so ran a mile past them and spot locked in 70 fow. Dropped two bait rods and started jigging. About 15-20 minutes later charter shows up honking at me and complaining that I set up in front of them.  And aggressively pulling boards to make space.  They had half a mile inside of us or 80 miles outside.  Not sure on etiquette here but in my opinion a 5 degree course correction a little early would have solved their issue.  Also I can't move very fast with my motor off running spot lock...  Anyway their boat noise pushed some fish our way and we had our first fish pretty fast.  And the rest of the night was pretty successful. 

Ended up 2/6 jigging with 1 coho 1 king.

At 8:45 started trolling back to port and had a spectacular hour of fishing going 5/7.  Still in 70-100 fow.  3 color went, 100 copper went, down riggers went with spoons.  Then my meat rig on a diver took 4 hits and go two nice kings to the boat including an 18 lb fish.  Diver back 55 ticking back to 80.  Never made it to 80 - each time got hit on the way down

Meat rig was on a 10" chrome spin doctor dragon slayer.  Was running a whole salted and alewife that I salted after a Ludington trip a few weeks ago.  That one alewife survived all 4 strikes and was still good to send back but we decided a 7 fish box was good enough and opted to run back to port before it got really dark out.  

Waves were, well there were no waves.  It was glass out there and the water temp was from 50-60 degrees.

 

Whats your set up for jigging with bait? If you dont mind me asking. Are you like tipping a jig or rigging like a mooching rig? 

Congrats on your fish!

[Reel-y-hooked]

that was an event filled evening of fishing. nice work and thanks for the report. 

[jdh]

4 hours ago, phishtix said:

Whats your set up for jigging with bait? If you dont mind me asking. Are you like tipping a jig or rigging like a mooching rig? 

Congrats on your fish!

The successful lured have been 2 oz EJ jigs.  Jigging the lure straight, no bait.  The for bait, I've just been putting an alewife on a slip bobber set at 30 feet or so.  And then on the other one I run a basic slip rig for the pier with a 1 oz weight and a 6 foot leader.  But so far, no bites on bait.  Maybe helps bring the fish in?  Its been hard to keep the bait from tangling up.