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set lines at 8pm directly out of Holland bite had slowed some we could tell and was understaffed with grown ups but still PUG managed to go 6for15 missed 1 on rigger 62 down glow spoon while setting in 130fow south troll and soon after missed 2 more on dipseys with spindocter copp350 glow spoon got the big one at 9pm in 102fow north troll took 50min to land - 41inch male chinook while fighting had both riggers go with monster fish 38 down and 52 down but lost both = heartbreak! got chubby laker on dipsey missed one on copp250 glow spoon 5color scalley green size5 jplug with 4ounce drop weight starts screaming - nice big king eventually got it missed many more on riggers in the darkness landed one on dipsey with moonshine glow mag got last nice king at 1045pm on 10color mag moonshine and headed in 20240730_223749.mp4

excellent trip! very similar to what we encountered last 3 nights we have run down from Holland to either off Saugatuck or south of Saugatuck and reading how you walloped em of South Haven only further suggests that these big fish arr holding up nicely down south

LEGENDARY NIGHT BITE! took 90 min to clean all the fish - probably close to 200 pounds of salmon - definitely one of the better trips we've had on Parker! Best this year at least. set lines at around 8pm got a couple bites before sunset but most of it after... used the same trick PUG (who is tired by the way) had showed us on the last 3 trips but this time had oldest son along too in hopes of really whaling on em and that we did! at one point at around 10pm had 6 on at once. Lots of big fish tonight too. Five of em were easily 20# plus. what worked: riggers 50-60 down glow spoons dipseys set deep about 100 back meat rig (went 7 times) full core glow spoon half core glow jplug copp300/copp350 glow spoons south troll in 140fow was the ticket til it got real dark and then angled east and cleaned up all the way into 100fow last bite was 10.50pm on rigger and it got off but that was fine because we already had limit and were going to release it anyway - we were way south off Oval Beach at this point 20240727_214505.mp4 20240727_214736.mp4 20240727_215629.mp4 20240727_223317.mp4

monster!

15 for 27 just had another one go off 5min ago will report later

cya out there

good grief both you and JDH got into em good! thanks fot all the details PUG swears if you guys would've stayed trolling til 11pm at the rate u were going both of you would've limited out! we had most of our bites after 10pm and for example when pulling in the 10color at a rapid clip in 88fow at 10.55pm a king scarfed it up

great job JDH! thanks for all the specifics as they should be handy if pug and I try again tonight Dennis how was it out there this AM?

nice job! what an awesome port Whitehall is was at a youth regatta there all day yesterday

PUG headed out later tonight, setting lines closer to 8.15PM. Just like the last few trips by the time the night was over south of Saugatuck off Oval and it was 10.45PM and we were still fighting fish… Thankfully Randy from Wave Dancer was already out there and had found the fish in 130FOW biting on a South troll at 2.5MPH speed is what he shared and sure enough he was right! Ended up going 8 for 15 with a 24# and 22# king in the mix. Had a few heartbreak losses on screamers that we fought for a while and eventually the hook just pulled. One tried to empty all our 10 color backing and the other just smoked a copp300 so hard it nearly buried the board. Still for only 2.5hrs of fishing PUG felt quite content with our results. What worked was that 130FOW mainly south troll at 2.5MPH Highest bite was 10 color which went 3 times so 40 down Otherwise riggers went about a half a dozen times in that 40-62 feet down range Copp300 went 3 times All of the above were on spoons that glow (mainly moonshine) High dipseys went 2 times with spindoctors and flies out 180-190 Fishing seems REALLY GOOD off of Holland/Saugatuck right now – not just is there a solid bite but the size of the fish suddenly seems to have improved – for example Wave Dancer who helped us out over the radio went 10 for 16 and they had a legit 30# king and a 24# king and a 22# king and then qty2 18# kings! CONGRATS TO THEM 20240726_215625.mp4 20240726_204921.mp4 20240726_204716.mp4

got a late start outta Holland but it didn't much matter... the bite for us didn't happen much until after 8pm anyway and we found em way south directly off Saugatuck in that 100-130fow copp350 raspberry carbon early on later it was riggers and 10colors with moonshine glow spoons repeatedly and also high diver meet rig out 150 caught fish up until 10.30pm trolling direction didn't much matter initially tried to mark em and catch them in much closer and was kicking around doing Saugatuck mud but they didn't seem to be in there so PUG made the decision to gamble deeper 20240725_215505.mp4 20240725_211008.mp4 20240725_221651.mp4

pug got a late start but ended 6for12 ...still heading back to dutch harbor - will try to report later

PUG may check em tonight even and if he does he will be sure to share info

bravo!

cool good luck man heading to see musical fountain - no trolling tonight for PUG and yes littleboat the fog was super thick off PS at sunrise for us too

what port this time?

1 for 2 was all lost a behemoth on a high dipsey flasher combo out 130 in 79fow at sunrise which was a bit of a heartbreak Beautiful morning though... Our stats always take dent when PUG doesn't come along so we kinda expected such

6for9 PUG got a couple to go in 110fow at around 8pm 7 more in that 69-72fow coming into and after sunset moonshine glow spoons meat rig silver spin doctor greenfly

Thanks guys didn't make it out this morning but my son who was with us last night ran a charter out of GH and they apparently filled two coolers in that 60-140fow - haven't talked to him yet so don't know much more - he may take Parker tonight out of Holland with his buddies so we will see how that goes...

based on some reports coming out of GH with cold water & bait, PUG convinced the 3 boys and I to try the Saugatuck mud tonight went 18 for 30 all in that 36-42fow kzoo river wash out spoons on riggers 24 down with the slider spoon 10 up worked best - sliders took 60% of the bite... it was almost comical dipseys with braid out 77 and 80 were big hitters too with spoons YELLOW spoons worked best Boards only went twice which was unusual - both times size3 chrome red head jplug 20240719_212011.mp4