Billy V Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 It started out a little slow for us but ended up being a great day. We had a 3" Perch attack one of our KA-BOOM Goby baits and swallow the entire back hook right after we got set up. How that entire hook fit in his mouth is beyond me! Then we went for a long boat ride working the inside water East of the chute and didn't hit our first real fish until 8:30am or so. We boated a beautiful brown that took our Northern King Glow Frog off a rigger down 7' in 15 FOW. We worked that inside (10-20FOW) water for a bit more with nothing else to show for our efforts before finally deciding to head out deeper. We switched our program over to a steelhead & king program and once we hit 100FOW the fireworks started. We spent the next few hours doubled and tripled up on Kings and Chrome in 100-120FOW. It was crazy-fun in the back of the boat! Our best set up was a 6 color core fished off of the boards pulling a Northern King NBK. That got bit 4 or 5 times today. We also took multiple fish on an NK Orange Crush off the 20' rigger, a KA-BOOM Flo. red/Black Squiggles off the boards, a DW NBK on a 4 color core off the boards, a DW Steelie Cane off the 40' rigger, and a DW Orange Slurpee fished off of the 30' rigger. We released all of the steelhead that we caught today. The big fish of the trip was a nice King that took an NBK off the 6 color core. Here's a quick video: Best speed for us today was 2.4mph on our Depth Raider. No derby fish for us today, but what a blast! Tomorrow should be even better with the NW wind that was lightly blowing all afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priority1 Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 WTG Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWheeler Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Nice Brownie indeed... I have taken coho on lake michigan, and lakers out of huron with that same color spoon you were using, only a different brand spoon. I think I will continue using that pattern until it doesn't catch fish.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy V Posted May 12, 2008 Author Share Posted May 12, 2008 It's been a terrific producer for us for years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justenough Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 That green glow frog was been a good one in Manistee for a few years.By the way nice Brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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