tgafish

Wisconsin

7-15AM solo Muskegon Lines down in Muskegon at 6 am in 70 fow about 2 miles S. Pick up a Steel right away on J plug on 7 color. Work area for a while and out to 125fow. Pick up run 5 miles N of piers and 180 fow. Work out to 325 with nothing going, troll all the way back into 135-125 and pick up laker and a steel and lose a laker. Lines up at 11:00. Survey guy at snug says he's done 15 surveys. 8 blanks, couple 1 and 2's and the biggest box was 4. 4 total kings recorded 7-16AM Whitehall. Have friends up from Indiana and Kentucky. Run about 2 miles S and drop in 65 fow at 6:45. Set rigger with Blue killer spinnie and mirage fly down 35. Start setting Dipsey and the rigger is bouncing. 10 lb King. Work 65-85 for an hour or 2 with bait marks and a few fish but no bites. Work out to 120-140 pick up another 10lb king on a Mag Screwball out 130 on 5 slide diver. That was it. Saw marks on bottom all day and had a laker rig down there but no bites. Found out why as I brought it up as I was pulling lines and my whirly gig was somehow chafed off. Grumble grumble. Lines up at 11 7-16 PM Holland Fought a 1-3 foot NW chop all the way up to Port Sheldon so we could turn around and ride them back. Set down at 6:30 PM in 155 fow and headed South. Took a 14 lb King on a mag super screw out 185 on 2 mag diver before all lines out. 8PM take a 2 lb king on a 150CU Stingray KC-1. 10 minutes later 7 lb Steel on same rig. Started working in for the sunset. Lost a slider bite down 30 std size inmate UV. Hit and run on a 300CU with std coyote. Finally pulling lines at 9:45PM lost a rigger bite on a mag dreamweaver glow spoon white w/pink dots down 40. Ended up in 110 fow

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Well after an unbelievable May of King and Coho fishing it's time to bring in an update. Let's hope those monster numbers and sizes come back home for July! I have sent out e-mails to the couple of teams that missed the June 1 deadline. We still have 6 spots left so If you know anyone who'd like to join us please let them know. Just to give everybody some perspective we already have 4 more boats than the Amateur section of the Grand Haven Offshore last weekend. Bringing things up to date. Teams in so far: 1)Finsanity- Paid 2)SS Reaper- Paid/Waiver 3)Tadpole-Paid 4)7Mary3- Paid/Waiver 5)Special K- Paid/Waiver 6)Coyote- Paid/Shirts/Waiver 7)BigRBus- Paid/Shirts/Waiver 8)Happy-Pappy Paid/Shirts/Waiver 9)Farfrumwuken- Paid/Waiver 10)Adjusted3-Paid 11)Coralee- Paid/Shirts/Waiver 12)Knot Reel-Paid/Waiver 13)Day Tripper -Paid/Waiver 14)Thumbs Up- Paid 15)On Ice- Paid/Waiver/Tshirts 16)This Blue Wave- Paid/Waiver/Shirts 17)Jadasede II 18)Dutchking-Paid/Waiver 19)Fishbyte- Paid/Waiver/Shirts 20)Wreckless- Paid/Shirts 21)Serendipity- Paid/Waiver/shirt 22)Heyt-Away- Paid 23)Fishermans Landing- Paid 24)Total Chaos- Paid/Waiver 25)Mistress- Paid/Shirts 26)Dirty Moe- Paid/Waiver/shirts 27)Reel Addiction- Paid/Waiver 28)Lox of Luck- Paid/WaiverShirts 29)Kingfisher 11 30)Wild Pursuit- Paid 31)Judy Ann- Paid/Waiver 32)Guppy 33)Reel Millioniare- Paid/Waiver/Shirts 34)Rumtime- Paid/Waiver 35)Persistence- Paid/Waiver 36)BrandonMarie 37)My Serenity- Paid/Waiver 38)Hook Up- Paid/Waiver/Shirts 39)As You Fish-Paid/Waiver/Shirts 40)tgafish-Paid 41)Shelby Lynn-Paid 42)Outkast- Paid/Waiver/Shirts 43)Don Maschino-Paid/waiver/shirts 44)Fish Tales-Paid/Waiver

I have the x4d. I'm not sure the depth is worth the extra cash. There are so many variables when running dipseys, cores, coppers that having the exact depth is really not a benefit in my eyes. Getting the general depth of the temp range you're looking for on your rigger counter is good enough. I run 13lb pancakes and have never seen large variances in counter depth vs x4d until you get way down and at that depth do you really need to know the temp. Guarantee 95% of the time it will be mid to low 40's down past 150. Anyway that's my $.02

Lines down at 6:45 up at 11:30. Went 16 for 19. 1 dropback steel, 6 hos, 9 Kings. Largest king was 18. Ho's were all small 2-3 lb. Took bites from 150 to 215 straight out to a little South. Best water was the 170's. Had 12 by 9am and then it went pretty dry. Temps started at 48 and ended at 51 Speed was 2.8-3.0 SOG. No direction better than another. Took bites on every presentation except for meat. 300,250.150,7 color,10color,slide diver, mag diver, riggers Mag Flounder pounder and Midnight special were good early then moved on to brighter spoons Jordo, lemon ice, mixed veggie. 1 bite on a paddle and 1 bite on a spinny. Everything else was spoons in the top 60. Landed the second ever true double on my boat with 2 ho's Vibrator fly on a slider took 3 ho's and a king.

Fought the waves this morning from 630-930 just N of Saugatuck. Had a buddy and his young son but we only ran 6 lines to keep away from too many tangles. Went 10 for 13 with a throwback shaker. 8 Kings and 2 ho's. Biggest was 17.5 Took bites in 115-140 Temps were cold at 47 Once again spoons ruled for me. Mag black spoons up in the top 40 ruled the day. Rigger down 35 with Mag carbon moonshine took 3 250 copper with Mag Screwball took 3 Rest were on divers and 150 copper with purple spoons

Yeah I lost 5 alone yesterday in Holland. All hooked up solid and lost well into the fight. Last week went 4 for 4. Today we missed 3 slider bites 1 dipsey and one copper and only one was mine?

24 for 29. 6:45 lines down 10:45 lines up. 16 kings, 5 coho, 3 lakers. Released 2 nice kings, shaker, and a laker. 4 largest were 20+ with a lot of teeners mixed in. Surface temp was 49. SOG 2.5-2.7 All bites in top 60 feet. Riggers 40 to 50 down with free sliders. Dipseys out 70-100. 300,250,150, 10 color all went. Green spinny green fly and purple color Mag spoons were our top producers. Filled a 94 quart cooler and 1/2 of a 126

Fishing has actually been pretty good when you can get out. Kings are around. Not a slaughter like St Joe but fishing has been better than I have had in the last 6 years.

13 for 19. 7am-12pm. 4 shakers released. 3 Kings 6 ho's in the box. Biggest king was high teens. Just North of Saugatuck in 115-120 fow. Top 60 feet. All spoons. Ran lots of spinnies and paddles with no joy. Mix of slims, std, mags 2.7-2.9 SOG. Surface temps were 47-49. Lots of fog in the AM but slowly burned off as the morning went on.