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19lbs is a great fish this season Bob.

Nice job Shane, you had a great season. That lemon ice plug you gave me took some fish for us Monday too, thanks!

That was a nice box to finish the season Tom!

Got to love that, nice catch!

Look forward to the blog Dave. I work in book, magazine and journal printing. The industry, magazines and newspapers especially, have really taken a hit in advertising dollars in competition with internet, Amazon, ebooks and other electronic media. The publishing/printing business is changing, I'm not sure for the best.

Thanks for the report Chris.

Nice catch Colin, good talking with you.

Nice job with the kids Mark!

Talked to some guys who fished the pier today and it was slow at Ludington. There is still a lot of warm water out front. There is a NE wind today and supposed to stay east tomorrow so maybe that will cool things off around the piers.

Had a nice trip today with one of my fishing mentors onboard, Terry from the Mermaid. Back in my greenhorn days, Terry helped me out many a times with tips on lures and locations. It was his last trip for this season and he is packing up his boat this afternoon and headed home tomorrow. It was a great way to finish for a great season. We started in the 00's and trolled north working 80 to 110 ft of water. Took it to the 06's and then back to the 05's and got our limit by 9AM. Caught the 11th fish pulling lines. We lost quite a few early or we would have been done real early. It was a steady bite all morning. Riggers down 75 to 95 ft with a moonshine razerburn, and green splatter back j plugs. Had a 150 copper with a blue bubble spin doctor and fly. A low diver out 180 with a glowblade/mt dew spin doctor and blue fairways fly and a hi diver out 200 with a moonshine green jeans. Later we put out a 300 copper with a chrome and green j plug and that took our 10th fish. We got cold water back to the north of Ludington with the break down 75 ft. Good seas for tomorrrow and I'm looking forward to getting back out. Time to get ready for our annual turkey fry. I'm deep frying 6 turkeys today for all my fishing buddies. They all bring a lot of food for a great potluck. Good Luck!

That's cool!

Sport fishing is not supposed to be about conflict and stress. It's a bummer when you're minding your own business, not breaking rules or causing problems and you get pulled into another guys bad day.

Welcome to GLF Dave!

Nice job Jason!

Great pics, looking forward to hunting too.

http://www.ludingtondailynews.com/news/66800-boat-hits-manistee-south-pier-several-injured Saturday morning around 6am, the Manistee City Police and Fire Department responded to a 911 call reference a boat hitting the 1st St. Pier (South Pier). The original call came in with information that there were possibly two subjects seriously injured. A preliminary investigation shows that the 1997 Bahacruise 27ft Fiberglass Boat, owned and operated by a subject from Custer, MI was leaving the port of Manistee sometime close to 6:00am. It appears at this time, the operator failed to navigate the vessel outside the pier heads and crashed into the South Pier. Two of the passengers on this vessel were transported to West Shore Medical Center, where they in turn were transported to Munson Medical Center. At this time one is listed in Critical Condition and one in Serious Condition. A total of 7 passengers were on board this vessel. Alcohol does not appear to be a factor in this boating accident. The Manistee City Police and Fire Department was assisted by the West Shore Medical Center Ambulance and the United States Coast Guard Manistee Station. The vessel was to be removed sometime Sunday morning.

Nice adjustment to put some in the box!

Thanks for the report.

Nice catch Mike!

Thanks for the report!

Nice catch Ken, it was not easy out there like it has been this weekend.

Nice job Mike!

Fishing was tougher this weekend, warm water everywhere inside but fish are there, just hard to get to bite. A lot of fish are in PM Lake and some are moving upstream. Still a lot of fish in the big lake. On 8-25, we started in 120 water SW in the 53's and worked west. Hit 2 fish and lost one by sunrise, one 175 down on a rigger with a Moonshine Razerburn. Another on a low mag diver out 200 ft with a green glow spin doctor and seaweed fly. We pulled lines and ran out to the 38 line west and trolled west from there. Hit a double and went for a while and hit another. Got to the 42's and hit two more doubles there and few others, ended up 10 for 17. 2 kings, 2 coho and 6 steelhead. Fish were not big out deep, lost mostly steelhead offshore. Hoping to find next years kings out there but we did not. Today, it was blowing good when we got to the docks. It was fishable but was going to be rough out where we ended up Saturday. We decided to take it easy and fish PM lake. We went 3 for 4 in there with nice kings hitting plugs. Our best was a low mag wire diver out 40 ft with a ace hi lucky charm. That got bit twice, a ms mongolian beef plug and a green glow plug got bit on riggers down 22 and 18. More fish in the lake than I expected. Here's a PM Lake King Good luck!

That is a nice one!

If you are fishing Ludington this weekend, there is a benefit Fishing Tournament @ $25 per boat for Ray "Finney" Finholm, who was lost at sea last week. This is on Saturday Aug 25th 5:00am to 11:00am 90% goes to Ray's widow and 10% goes to the biggest fish. 3:00pm a benefit Fish fry/Boil $10 Donation per plate and goes until ???. All proceeds go to Ray's widow, all are welcome. Fish donations would be greatly appreciated Perch, Bluegill, Salmon and Trout---please help out if you can. Ray's Auto and Marine is right before the Washington St Bridge on Washington St. Turn south off US 10 to get there.