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South Haven 4/12 midday
Sea Eagle replied to jdh's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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SoHa 4/9
Sea Eagle replied to dan agnello's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Went 19-21 with another 2-3 hits that failed to hook up. Trolled south down to the power plant in 20’ to 25’ of water. 2 mph at the ball and 2.7 mph at the surface. Steady action until we briefly turned back north by the chalets, but quickly turned back south as the bite turned off. Picked right back up on that south troll. Had a mix of thin fins, jointed stick baits, mag lips and spoons. Everything caught fish, but it definitely was a spoon bite for us today. 80% of our fish came on spoons. Wound up pulling two thin fins and one of the mag lips in favor of more spoons. Double orange crush was the hot bait. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman
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St Joe 3-26-25
Sea Eagle replied to DIRTY DOG's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
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Looking for recommendations to take the wife on a salmon charter out of Manistee at the end of July as part of our 50th wedding anniversary celebrations. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman
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Made only our second trip of the season to the big lake today at South Haven. Zero boat trailers in the parking lot at the boat launch when we got there at 6:30 should have told us what to expect. We could only scratch up four fish going 4-4. Two lakers, a nice steelhead and a small king. Two lakers on the downrigger 75 feet down with a tin can dodger doctored up with green prism tape on one side with a chrome and green spin-n-glow. A small king hit the other down rigger down 65 feet with a UV blue dolphin spoon. The steelhead hit 10 colors of leadcore with a warrior whammy spoon. Fished 70 to 120 feet of water. All fish came in narrow band of water 105 to 108 deep. Only 3 fish last trip down in St Joe and four this trip. Hard to get excited about 3-4 fish per trip these days. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman
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Hit St. Joe on Friday for the first trip of the season. 7-8 all coho. Lost fish was more than likely big king. Got lines in around 8:30 and trolled south down about 3-4 miles working 20’ +/- 5’ but only had two fish to show for 4+ hrs of fishing. One we caught and one we pulled in after snagging someone’s broke off line with a fish still on it. We turned around and trolled all the way back to try the mud line, but all we caught up there was a planer board with a deep diving Rapala still attached. Owners name and phone number was on his planer board, so we called him and will try to get his stuff back to him sometime next week. Pulled lines around 1:00 and ran back down south to where we stopped and continued south and caught 5 fish and lost that nice king in the next 1 1/2 hrs. Thin fins, small spoons and 3.5 Mag Lips all caught fish. Nothing on coho dodger and spin n glow combo. The fish are definitely still south of St. Joe, or at least they were for us on Friday. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App
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SoHa 4/7
Sea Eagle replied to dan agnello's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
Nice. Thanks for the report. Got back from down south and started getting the boat ready. Hopefully get out there first nice day sometime next week. -
2005 Trophy 1903 CC Downrigger mounting ideas.
Sea Eagle replied to Team On-Strike's topic in Boat Maintenance and Rigging
I had a trophy 1802 and only ran manual downriggers with light balls, so I mounted them in tracks I decided to forgo tracks when I rigged my 2102 since I got new Big Jon Tournament electrics. I ran 12 lb balls on longer poles, so I through bolted the down riggers on Big Jon swivel plates with 1/4” aluminum backer plate. I still used tracks to mount my rod holders and trees. -
Went 6-9 with possibly a couple missed fish. 130’-150’ on a NW troll slightly north of pier was best. Three kings, coho, steelhead and lake trout. Big king was 24 lbs. Blue dolphin paddle with green fly meat rig on a SWR DR down 85’ and another one on 300 Cu was hottest, homemade pink/blue UV spoon on 200 and 300 Cu was next and blue dolphin spoon on SWR DR down 75’ took a couple. 200 Cu only fired once. Had a heart breaker on a big mature king (already turned) on the 300 Cu. Got into the 200 Cu, pulled that board under and after 25 mins fighting both board and fish he came unbuttoned at the back of the boat as we tried to get the tangled planner board off. Exciting day with a double and triple on with just two guys in the boat.
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South Haven 05/16 AM
Sea Eagle replied to Sea Eagle's topic in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout
2050 Crestliner Commander. That’s exactly why I got the boat. It’s a great multi species boat and very trailerable. Works good on inland lakes and the Great Lakes. Besides our usual Lake Michigan salmon adventures, I usually (in normal times) Make several trips over to Lake Erie to chase walleye. We even took it up to Mullett Lake for a week last year and included one day where we trolled from Cheboygan to Mackinaw Island for kings. Here are a couple more photos if you are interested or thinking about one. It actually has more room for fishing than my old boat (shown) that I also loved, but was a one trick pony for the big lake. -
Went 7-8 including a 10# and 17# king. The balance were lake trout. Turned one undersized laker back. Fished straight out to south towards the power plant in 90’-120’. Both kings and a nice laker came in 95’. Did pick up a couple Lakers trolling on the way in between 85’-65’. Down riggers, 5 color, 10 color and 300 Cu all took fish. 200 Cu never fired. 10 color and 300 Cu were best. All spoons. Started with the usual suspects and a mix of colors, but quickly switched over to a few more of my doctored up spoons after they kept firing. I can’t tell you the spoon names because they are custom. I just look for spoons that have some of that blue/purple UV tape on them and mark them up with my pink paint pen. I started my new love affair with pink and purple spoons for salmon after having great luck with pink and purple small size spoons for Walleye. The spoons shown took all the fish except the bloody nose on the right that took a laker on 1/2 core on the way in.