EdB

Great catch!

Skip the plugs and go with all spoons this time of year. Don't hesitate to throw out a high line, maybe a 1-4 oz weight and an orange spoon. 90-100 ft of water was good last weekend but shallower could be good the later it gets.

That is a nice coho, the biggest I've seen this year.

Jason, the pics weren't the best, lot's of glare and that one on the left sure looks coho like in that pic but it was a nice steelie. It had more girth than most steelies.

Here's a couple pics of some steelies we got. Best part of this trip was having my oldest daughter with me. She caught a lot of the fish and got her biggest steelhead. She caught both of these. Jim got this steelie:

Got out one last time on Saturday on my friends boat in Onekama. Fishing was great. We hit 16 fish and boat 12. We didn't fish long, left the dock at 7:00 and were back at 10:00. It was slow for the first hour and then it lit up with doubles and triples. Wind started blowing hard when we left. Got some nice steelies, one mature coho and some 2 and 3 yr old kings. We fished straight out in 90-100 ft of water. Riggers down 40 to 70 feet. low mag divers out 130, highs out 170. 1/2 core with a super slim fireball, 9 color with mag DW leapord frog and a 200 ft copper with a regular leopard frog. A stinger NBK was good on the 70 ft rigger. A DW double orange crush and a stinger steelie stomper were good as free sliders on the corner riggers down 60 and 70 ft. A dancing anchovy moonshine was good on a low diver and streak metalic yellow tail was good on a high diver. My Ludington neighbors really whacked them down there too. Once boat fished the bank in the same water depth and got 15 and another went south in the 38's and out and got 23. Fishing is red hot up there now, good luck!

Nice ride Mike!

Here's a link to state website. I don't see any chapters in the UP. If you've got some like minded buddies, you might be able to start a chapter. http://www.michigansteelheaders.org/ Edit, not sure what happened, thought I was replying to a question on a St Ignace Chapt and it's gone now.

I know hunting season will go by fast, hope winter goes by even faster till we get back on the water.

Nice job on the fish! Hope to get out one more time this weekend at Ludington and then I'm done. Hunting season is getting into full swing.

Get a marine survey done on it to make sure you don't have rot in the transom or stringers.

Yeap, that sounds like a good day!

Yeah, they were wild by us too. We had kings jumping like steelies. Most of the kings hit down deep and rocketed to the top. They do that in the spring when the water is cold but the water was very warm from 90 ft up where we were. Maybe has to do with immature fish vs spawners???

Keith Kloat on Lie A Lot is my neighbor and I'll 2nd him as a good charter but he is taking off antelope hunting till month end. He had a real nice box last weekend. Dave Ellis on Salmon Slayer is another good captain, he's still running trips and you'll have a great time with him too. Grant recommended some good captains too. Here's a link to reach all of them, definately use someone in the LACA vs. a fly by night boat: http://www.ludingtoncharterboats.org/captains.shtml

Good job Adam, looks like those kids had a blast!

Nice catch, a lot of people knock lake trout but they are good eating. I've done a few blind taste tests with friends with lakers and salmon or steelies all prepared the same way. Everytime I've done it, my guests liked lake trout the best.

Nice job Terry, that is a very nice lake trout!

Nice catch Grant!

We fished from about 320 ft of water out to 450ft of water. It was best over the deeper water.

Here's one of the kings, he would have been a real good one next year:

Another sad death on the Ludington Pier. http://www.ludingtondailynews.com/news/52029-man-dies-after-falling-off-breakwater?newsgroup_id= Man dies after falling off breakwater LDN Staff - Saturday, September 18, 2010 A 49-year-old Indiana man has died after falling off the north breakwater this morning, police say. Timothy Spillers, of Columbia City, Indiana, was fishing with his wife and father on the light house platform when he lost his footing and fell into Lake Michigan around 6:30 Saturday morning. Those on the breakwater attempted to rescue him. A boat passing nearby heard yelling and was able to locate Spillers in the water and secure him in the water. The Coast Guard recovered Spillers from them and Spillers was taken to Memorial Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased. The Ludington Police Department, Ludinton Fire Department, Mason County Sheriff's Office Marine Division, Life EMS and Mason County Victims Assistance Unit assisted at the scene.

My buddy and I fished yesterday and we went offshore to the south. Had some slow spells and a few flurries and ended up 8 for 15. We hit a lot of steelhead and lost a lot of them. I was bringing in a high diver to change the spoon, a C5 double orange crush and it was 40 ft behind the boat on the surface when a steelie slammed it, went airborn 5 times and got off. We landed a couple nice 3 year old kings bright as a dime. All the fish were not mature. 2 fish came on a moonshine sarge (thanks Matt) down 110 on a rigger. We had a silver backed wart frog, with a mag on the bottom and a regular stacked above it and both went, they took 3 fish. Got one on a blk paddle and green fly on a mag low diver out 200. A stingray carmel dolphin went on a 200 ft copper and DW super slim fireball on a half core went a couple times. Our best was the 42 line in the 52's to 54's. Good Luck!

Send a PM to Eyeful, he can set you up.

Nice job Mike, where they mature fish still out there or 2&3 yr olds?

Anybody run Z boards this season? Heard good things about them.