Holland Am 10-20-26

[littleboat]

 
 
Tough fishing today, 110-150fow 2 for 2. One 5#-10oz steelhead and one year old king (small).  Thermocline went from 50-47°down and pass a 100ft. Had a few chasers but the steelhead really took my braid diver at 11:36 am and banged it (screamed!!!!). It was a great sound. It had a mag RV Dancing Anchovy lure. It was set on 3 with 142ft out in 121fow. Puts it about 50ft down. The smaller king came off a rigger with a bloody nose mag at 9:47 am in 122 fow down 92, ball temp was 49.9°.
No buddy wanted to bite any of the small spoons I ran today, so I switched to mags.

FYI- those long arcs on my vertical graph are my downrigger cables being reflected by the the sonar as I make 'S' turns on my course and not fish or bait. I added a bottom picture of an earlier date to show salmon, laketrout, coho or steelhead chasing the lure through the downriggers for a comparison of the different arches.
 
Lake was flat, 5 mph winds. Saw 4 other boats out from the sliders to tunnel park.
Had a feathered friend watch my line for an hour. I think he was telling me to change the lure.
 

 

[Reel-y-hooked]

Great pics and you had a passenger. The lake looks beautiful.

Thanks for the report.

[Billy Philly]

Way to still get out there! The lake was beautiful and you pulled in some fish, sounds like it was worth it!

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

That bird is cute!  Pulled Fin Warrior on Monday.  Sadly done for the season.

[littleboat]

That bird is cute!  Pulled Fin Warrior on Monday.  Sadly done for the season.

I will miss you detailed reports, always enjoyed them.

[EricMcWay]

Thanks for the detailed report, and nice work on the steelhead and king. Your 49.9-degree ball temperature is a good example of why depth matters: that reading was down at the downrigger ball, below the thermocline you described, so it is not the same as the temperature at the surface.

 

For comparison, the Holland station reading I just checked was 55.9 degrees Fahrenheit, observed October 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM EDT, from NOAA station 9087031. That is a surface/lake station reading, not a depth measurement, so it should not be read as the temperature where your downrigger ball was fishing.

 

— Eric McWay