littleboat

Your right about the tennis racket shape. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Not much happening with this very cold water everywhere. Fish are really scattered. Tuesday : I took my "Littleboat" and hugged the shoreline and piersheads out to about 50 fow Tuesday. I ran thru bait ball after bait ball trying to trick anything to bite but no luck. Finally I headed back and picked up a 19" walleye on my way in. Wednesday : Fished 80-120 fow, picked up 4.18# laketrout in 108fow on a screwball spoon used as a slider down 50ft. Water was very cold still no matter where you went. Fish must be on the other side of the lake. Marked only laketrout very close to bottom, but very few. More bait balls were close to shore, but no bite action. Others got just one fish or none. Difficult to find the hungry ones. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

It was a beautiful day out there for sure. The bugs started to show up late morning. Nice fish! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

2 for 3, both laketrout, 4# and 6#. Lost another fish (?) 65 ft down in 125fow. Fished 115-140 with a few marks. Lake was flat. Both fish came on a 8" flasher "Hawg wild" with a home made fly "Irish shallow". Lost fish was on a 250 cu with blue holo dolphin mag. Both laketrout came on north troll 2.3-2.5 sog with rigger just off bottom in a 120-122 fow at 7:56am and 8:52 am. Village joined me today. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Good to know about other unusual catches. When I filleted the fish all of the meat looked very good. Thanks Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

I was extremely happy getting that rod and lure setup back. I was already calculating what the loss cost me $$$ and had resigned myself to the fact sh*t happens. When it came time to pull up my rigger I was in disbelief (jumped about 3 ft in the air) when I saw the green fly treble hanging on to the rigger cable just above the release. The rod had not released its line during this whole episode. I carefully inched the cable up and grabbed the connection at the SD and rod tip, doing a hand over hand vertical lift until I got the rod out of the water. It was probably a good thing that no fish took the bait during that whole time. I did send the pictures to the dnr office listed on their fishery division with my cell number. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

I'm going send a picture to the dnr, once I figure out which area should get it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

1 for 2 with a 9.5# steelhead (very unusual looking). Caught on a 6C with a lemonberry mag spoon, in 144fow at 10:48am, west troll, 2.3 sog. loss other in 155fow. I had a rod with SD and fly fall out of my rod holder while I was double handling everything. I thought it was lost for sure. 2 hrs later when I pulled up my DR there it was hanging by the fly hook on the cable. I pulled it all in and saved everything. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

2 for 2, one alewife which we turned into a meat rig with no results. One 2.19# laketrout. Fish from 38-170 north and south of harbor. Beautiful day just not productive. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

2 for 3, a 8.2# king and 6.14# steelhead. 1/1 on 240 cu with hammer time SD and last date fly (homemade). A west troll in 142 fow. 1/2 on slider, blue jeans slim spoon, DR dwn 74 ft in 147fow, 2.5 sog, sse troll, ball temp 49.2 FishOak joined me today and we had great time. Surface temp was 74.3, lake picked up a little as we ended the day. Enjoyed his company. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

I hate those flies. Nice catch! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

1 for 3, 1 spit the hook out 50 ft from boat, other just as I was slipping the net under him. Need to sharpen my hooks now, lost to many lately. 1/2 11.13# king, on DR with UV blue dolphin std, 45ft lead, 2.5 sog, west direction, 49.3 temp@ball, ball depth 105 in 133 fow. Surface temp was 68.9, 0-1' waves picked up a little later. 0/1 on DR with black pearl V-neck mag MS Counted 8 alewifes from this one 135-140 was hitting today. Tough loss day for my 3 lures. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

150fow was the ticket today. 5 for 7, three hits above 75' and two at 125-127', all kings were caught one at 4-1/2# the rest just over 6#. Trolls were mostly east at 2-6 to 2.8 sog, surface temp was 65.1. Ball temp was 51.8 - 52.7 @ 73' and 47 at 120' in 150 fow. 1st three came between 6:42am and 7:31. Others were 9:42am and 10:47am (deeper ones). All hits came on riggers, with one on a slider, other came on a slide diver back 110. Riggers were back with 25-45' leads Lures were mag MS honeypot (2 fish), std blue jeans (1), std mixed veggie (1) and std uv blue dolphin (1). Village joined me today. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Turned at 130fow, didn't mark much of anything until we went back under 50fow, then a lot of bait balls. Thought about really heading out. But the water was so cold I hated to waste the gas and come up empty handed. Maybe next time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

2 for 3, one small 2# coho and one 11.19# steelhead. Coho came in 129fow on DR slider jp slammer dark blue with ladderback, west of harbor on west troll. Big steel head came on Craigs flounder on 8color, in 46 fow nw of harbor on north troll. It's covering the coho in picture. Quite a troll 50-130 fow. Water was very cold, 1 ft waves. Surface temp 50.4. Speeds were 2.4-2.5 sog. Village joined me today. Sunny beautiful day. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

All of them Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Great catch! What was the range of depth you were fishing? You must have missed the rain and storm. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Nice catch! Just remember even though the dnr ramps are closed the cleaning station is still open. I cleaned mine there yesterday. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Great report. We're your nbk all mags? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Great catch! You did well. When I was at the cleaning ststion, lots of kings were being brought in from the Holland area. It looks like they maybe finally moving up. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App