Whitehall 9-6-26 morning $$$$ to the fish

[Jolly Time]

Had another great outing in Whitehall. Set lines at a little after 6am. All plugs today to start. 130fow. Temp break was at 104' fish were hitting stuff 60-75' down until the sun came over the horizon. Then pushed out to 165-175 and ran stuff 80-100'down.

We got our two man limit by 9:45am. White black ladderback and any green glow plug all went. Broke off 4 big fish with two to bag quality snap swivels. You get what you pay for. Ended up 10 for 15. Northeast or south west troll angles worked well. 275, 300,325,350 coppers all went. High dipseys early 150-160' back early setting 3. 240-280' back later all went. Riggers 65-75 took fish early. Stalling the presentation to 1.8sog and then speeding up to 2.8sog triggered a bunch of bites. 

Fun catching big kings in September and a couple nice steelhead later in 170fow. 

[littleboat]

Two man limit..Great!

[2MD]

congrats man - you guys were dialed in!

[Reel-y-hooked]

Great catch Dave ! I agree, late summer kings are angry and a blast to catch. We switched strictly to dreamweaver snap swivels a couple years ago and never had one break. Pricy but insignificant compared to other expenses. 

So we trailered north and went out of Pentwater on Thursday and motored down south to the dunes and started setting lines at 5:00 a.m. Had our 1st King on a copper before we got the board on and it was FISH ON all the time from that point on. We landed fish number 10 at 7:03 a.m. We had our 2 man limit and had to throw back a nice King on a 10 color when pulling lines. All plugs for us. (2 riggers, 2 divers and 2 boards) We ran every color and they all took fish. salmon slayer and natural glow both took 3 fish. I removed the front hooks due to net tangles the last time out and the single treble’s were much easier to remove from the net. There were so many fish on the sonar I almost thought it was on demo mode but it was the real thing. It is a blast when you set down on a school of angry staging salmon. 

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

What a great bite north of Holland.  My compliments to the both.