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It is nice to have a little realtime intel to start out with. Our fish were full of small baitfish too. Thanks for the report.

Ran straight out to 150’ and trolled south. Had 3 bites on the south troll. Turned around and had 3 more bites on the north troll. Turned NE towards the pier and had 2 more bites. One in 100’ and last one in 90’. We boated 6 of the 8 bite’s and released one small king. We had a nice steelhead and a lake trout in the mix. much thanks to jolly time for the detailed report about small bait. We ran super slims and a couple standard size spoons. our best king (10lbs) bit a super slim 1/2 green jeans on a 12’ leader behind an 8” white slick spin doc. It was 100’ down on starboard rigger. Other bites were on both high divers back 260’ and 280’. Port rigger down 125’ and the free slider. 300 copper. Low diver back 180’ went twice. Spoons were ss green jeans, ss 1/2 green jeans, ss A-bomb, ss rosta goose, ss glow frog, and Mongolian beef. Lake was calm and no boat traffic and a spectacular sun set.

Thanks for the updated report after cleaning your fish. Great info.

Set a 6 rod spread at 6:30 pm. Marked fish on the bottom in 90 fow About 4 miles north of the pier. only needed 1 rod. Our 300 copper went 3 for 3 on a south troll in 90 fow. All were 6 to 7 lb kings. Ran one of my dad’s old spoons. (White with a green ladder back) I thinks it’s a doctored up pirate spoon. It’s been a good late season spoon for several years. Had a boat pass us running up on full plane about 200 yards inside the pier head after dark on our way in. That’ll get your attention in a hurry. Other than that idiot it was a beautiful evening out on the big lake.

Wow very nice ! A 40” pike is pretty special ! Your youngest got a trophy.

Nice ! Did you get a length on that northern? And yes you are fortunate to still have that plug. Normally that would be gone. That was a great evening of fishing.

Dandy coho !

Hey you avoided the skunk and it looked like a beautiful evening to be out fishing. Thanks for the report

Pulled the boat up north for the holiday. Fished little sable point south of pentwater. 7 for 10. All kings. Ran a 8 rod spread and every rod had a fish on at least once. Fished 90 fow. 200 copper, 225 copper, 2 high divers, 2 low divers and 2 riggers with free sliders. Different lures on every rod. SD white slick, SD black slick, SD wonderbread. All pulling KRW riverside flies. White glow plug with black ladder back, Spoons were ….MS standard raspberry carbon, MS Mongolian beef rv, MS dancing anchovy rv, DW A-bomb ss, DW standard green jeans. We had to quit a little early to check out of cottage so we left em biting.

Thanks for the report and pics. looks like it was worth the trip.

Lake was flat this morning and lots of boat lights out in front. went north to rosy mound and marked a lot of fish in 100 fow. No bites for a while so changed out some baits and had 8 on and boated 4. Fought a good one on 200 copper with a green jeans spoon for a long time. He eventually won and escaped. A-bomb free slider above a raspberry carbon on main line set at 65 both caught a fish. 225 copper pulling a white glow plug caught 2 fish. Our biggest fish has a clipped fin so we’ll get the head to the dnr for data analysis. It was the last morning of the ultimate salmon derby and even though we didn’t win any prizes our team had a ton of fun. I fish with my daughter and her husband. Thanks for the reports over the summer. The info is invaluable and helps us all catch fish.

Both of those fish had their adipose fin. We landed 3 clipped fish this season and turned the heads in to the dnr. I agree with the importance of the data. We have a fantastic fishery and I hope it continues. We will be on the water this evening hunting for big 4 yr olds.

That should make for good fishing in our neck of the woods. It’s nice to see our part of the lake receiving good numbers of fish stocking. I imagine grand haven will be decent too due to wild fish returning to spawn. On a nice day it’s pretty easy to run up to the south side of GH and tap into that fishery.

It was pretty busy out front when we left the pierhead so we headed north hoping there would be some four-year-olds staging to run the grand river. Every once in a while, our strategy pays off.