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Big kings are tough to get in the boat. That’s why we fish for them When the hook breaks you know you played the big boy correctly. we lost a good one down deep under the stern also. It escaped when when the point broke off the hook.

Sounds like you had a great boat ride on Lake Michigan on the last day of September. We are all blessed with that opportunity over here on the west side of the state.

Great pic of sunset !

very interesting. I wonder if it's out of convenience or if large alewives are not around at feeding time.

Nice work boys !

That’s a really nice steelhead on the top of your box of fish.

Swimming and steelhead fishing in September! Who has it better than us? No one ! thanks again for sharing your knowledge. The steely’s put on a great show. We plan on fishing those acrobats as weather permits

Thanks for all the coho info. I like the fact that they are increasing the planting down in our part of the state. The fish are fun to catch and they are tasty. I did measure the coho and she was 26 inches so we came up short on a master angler. wow a 29 lb coho is huge. That’s why we fish, even if reports are bad. You just never know. Based on conversations back at the boat launch yesterday, there are a lot of steelhead in the area. Everyone seemed to be using different color spoons from mags all the way down to super slims. They steelhead were hungry and feeding. I’m assuming the amount of steelhead in the area is partially because of the large schools of bait fish ? Sonar was lit up with bait balls between 90 and 120 fow. The bait was mid depth to the bottom.

Very interesting. You have done your research. Thank you for that info. So what river will an adult coho run that is spending time in the holland/port Sheldon area ? I was under the impression that most coho migrate to the Platte River.

After a better look at that 4 yr old fish it was a coho.

Thank you jolly time for yesterday’s report. We worked your intel into our spread. Set lines in 90 fow and trolled out to 150 fow and then back in to 90 fow being chased by rain on the radar. Starboard high diver back 200’ went 2 times. Port high diver back 140’ went 2 times. Port low diver back 130’ went once. Starboard down rigger at 90’ went once and that fish escaped. Port down rigger at 100’ went 2 times. Once on the slider and once on main line. Pulled lines at 9:00 so we wouldn’t get wet. Boated 4 steelhead and 3 kings. 1 king was a dark 4 yr old female. all spoons this morning. Mongolian beef, A-bomb, dancing anchovy, glow frog and green jeans. All spoons were SS and standard size. Boats at the launch had success with mag spoons too. Fish were hungry and swallowed the hooks this morning.

Nice work on keeping those steely’s hooked up ! Great pic of 4 steely’s. That’s a tough pic to get most days. Thank you for the detailed report.

Thanks for info.

Nice work ! Any depth of water in particular or best presentations ? Slim spoons have been pretty good down here in the holland region.

And no moon light

Nice work and thanks for the detailed info. My daughter and I went straight out of port Sheldon and had lines set at 6:30 pm. We stopped and fished 125 fow. Marked tons of bait and had several good hooks around the bait at 40’ down and all the way to the bottom. Had two steelhead porpoise in front of the boat. port down rigger went once at 90 down with a ss glow frog and starboard rigger went once down 80 with a std Mongolian beef. Port low diver back 165 went once with a ss glow frog. 2 escaped and we landed 1. Pulled lines at 8:00 (school night) What a beautiful night ! water was flat and sunset was fantastic.

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.