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Nice job Mike and crew!

WOW.....the fishing has been RED HOT out of Muskegon lately. I made it up to the boat last night and prepped the boat for an early departure. I spent 20 minutes sharpening hooks to "improve" my hook up to landing ratio. Unfortunately, some of the fish did not want to come to the boat. Do you think they new they were destined for the dinner table? We left the dock at 5 am with a full Stinger NITRO spread. We shut down in 50FOW and headed West. While I was still in the process of setting the rods, a wire diver on #3 with 90' of line out, with a Protroll prochip8 blue bubble flasher, with a Siggs Rigs Aqua Blue Glow pulse fly starts hammering in the rod holder. Eric grabbed this rod and the fight was on. After peeling off many yards of line and fighting it back to 90' it came unbuttoned. Our riggers started to fire after this. We caught several fish on riggers set at 40' and 55' with Stinger NITRO's, Green Fireball, Nitro Citrus, Snowsnake, Twister, Area 51, Napalm, and Electric Blueberry. We picked up a couple of fish on full and half cores with the a couple of the above mentioned Nitros. We landed a couple of fish on a Protroll prochip8 Purple Bubble flasher with a Siggs Rigs Purple Hypnotist fly. We also caught and lost a couple more fish on the Blue Bubble/Aqua Blue Glow pulse fly combo. Things got cold for us after 8:30am. Our last fish came at 10:30am on a Stingray size Freakin Blue Veggies. We worked 60-90FOW. The down temp was 50 degrees at 50' down. We caught fish in every direction we trolled. The speed and temp probe takes a lot of guess work out it. Here is our catch. There sure was a LOT of boats out there this morning. This is the most boats I have seen at one time all year. I bet there was 150+ boats out.

I had an error in my report, which I corrected. I typed purple taped flasher and purple bubble Siggs Rigs Trophy fly by mistake. It was a Purple Bubble flasher and a Siggs Rigs Purple Hypnotist trophy fly.

Nice job Terry.

Nice job Andrew! I have not been hearing alot of good reports from South Haven lately.

Nice job on the catching, and welcome aboard!

Wooot! I got a smile from ear to ear after reading that. Great job on the fishing. Next time your rooks will boat more fish.

Cawabunga! Nice job! What did you have your diver set on?

Nice job of catching Witt!

I wish someone would run a derby here.

I try to sharpen all of my hooks before I go out. My last trip I did not get a chance to sharpen them and it showed. Jim, I am heading up to the boat tonight and should be there by 7pm. The boat is at Bluffton Bay Marina. I may have an extra gold mirage fly on the boat. I will check when I get up there. Give me a call if you are interested in it. Mike 269-207-8024 p.s. I will be out in the morning.

Hey....That looks like an Amberjack!

I threaten my crews with a set of side cutters. If anyone thumbs a spool or tightens a drag, they are going to loose a finger or thumb. Nice job Ken and crew!

The boys and are on on our way up to the boat this afternoon. We will be out in the morning.

Nice job Dick. Looks like you need a bigger cooler.

Nice job Don. I will be out Sunday Morning.

Way to put the smack down on them! Nice job!

I was wondering if you were derby fishing. What have your fishing times been? How many fish have you been catching per trip?

How many FOW were you fishing? Did you catch the water temp?

Nice job of catching Mike and crew.

Nice job Nick. I was out that night also.

After I posted that, I realized its the beginning of August already. Sheesh....where has this year gone??????

Nice job Aaron!

Nice job JoeMan!

I know its not uncommon to catch them out of temp when they are staged to run. It just seems a little early for them to be staged. This is why I asked about targeting them out of temp now.