jimbobber

it doesn't make any friends in Holland either it sucks our channel is not wide enough for that !!!

the reports on this site are almost always good , takes one guy playing a joke to ruin things oh well. I always post the real deal and so do most of the guys here. jimmy

welcome aboard Keith lots of nice folks on this site, are you a Holland steelheader? if not you check them out at, hollandsteelheaders.org lots of nice guys there to willing to help out . jimmy

still a nice fish

yup that's what I heard lol

I heard a 41 lb king was caught in grandhaven on saturday have any of you heard it to, i have a pic that was forwearded to me but im not sure about it,can any one supply more info ??

sweet ride i hear its a reel fish killer to !

wtg Tuesday buddy !

If it were me I would start in 60 troll sw til I hit fish but probly not past 120 flow and concentrate on the top 45 foot of water I have been doing well down 25 when the water is this cold just my two cents

almost every night after dark the fish seem to come off the bottom and the gragh will light up thats when the jig is up and it seems like they are done biting, i have tried numerous times after dark but just cant seem to get em to bite so not sure they are all salmon .Pobly whitefish,perch,walleye ect. just my 2 cents

our best speed was 2.4 sat am we took 14 fish .

the king in the pic was 23 lbs. what worked for us was : 375 45 lb blood run copper with net minder meat rig 400 45 lb blood run copper with white slick meat rig 300 45 lb blood run copper with double trouble spoon low wire diver back 160 with a white slick meat rig low wire diver back 150 with a mt dew meat rig see a pattern here ? high diver with a white slick paddle with a pickle sunshine flie high diver with a green e chip with a pickle sunshine flie rigger down 60 with a double trouble moonshine spoon.

Well were do I start... Saturday am we left the pier heads at 6:30 with the shot gun start from the Holland piers , we ran just south of port Sheldon and set lines in 110 fow or tried to any way , we got to rod number 8 when all of a sudden 4 rods go at the same time all with big angry kings ! we only had 3 of us on the boat so had to let one pull drags while we work on the others just as the first one gets close to the boat another rod takes off now we have 5 on all said and done we got 3 of the five because we had the 375 copper a high diver and a low diver get together , had to hand line the 375 copper with an 18 lb king on it . while all this is happening another one goes off ..... by the time we got done we had kings all over the floor and only 2 rods left in the water, after 20 minute of untangling things we started to set lines again before number nine went in we hit another fish got him in and finaly got all nine rods in we then picked away at em til around 12:30 ,pulled lines then this story gets crazy ........ we headed for the Holland pier heads got 50 foot from the end of the pier and the boat quits seemed to have over heated tourney control said we needed to get between the pier heads before we be towed sooooooo we grabed a canoe paddle and one of the nets and rowed into the channel , then got pulled into lake mac by a friend, then heres a shout out for fellow Holland stealheaders pier addiction who pulled me back to the marina were another steelheader shock therapy pulled me to my dock thanks guys :thumb:got to the weigh in on time weighed in our fish was in 2nd place on day one. was told we could not change boats for day two so headed to the boat got to checking things out and discovered I had run out of GAS OMG I was beside my self, this did not explain the over heating so we pulled the boat and put an impeller in took it for a test drive and bingo back in it. Day two ran to the same spot set lines only had 3 early bites got one 23 lb king and a 3 lb king then lost two large kings , trolled the rest of the fishing period and picked up only two more trout .boat ran great by the way funny how fuel fixes that problem lol anyway went to the weigh in and finished 5 th place and got 14 th big fish, the biggest was 30.3 lbs all in all had a great weekend.

WTG Roger

fishing out of holland is reel good rite now , if you want lake trout theres tons of them in 85 to 100 fow with a few good kings mixed in ,slide out to 130 to 160 to find bigger kings, meat rigs have been producing some very nice kings. saturday we needed a steelhead for the big red so we went west hit 205 fow and hit 3 steelies in a half hour. last night we fished the holland steelheaders summer leauge and stayed in 85 to 90 fow ,caught 15 fish in therre only 4 kings the rest were lake trout , tin can with spin-n glow on bottome for the lakers and glow spoons for the trout.

You got that rite Awsome tourney !!!!!

sail flow shows 9 mph hour out of the north til 2 pm saturday i think we will be fine, noa SUCKS!

my kings have only been in the 12 lb range , ive been getting pre cut hearing strips at mac baits next to vanwieren hardware in Holland .

Took a short trip last night due to rain only fished 2 1/2 hrs ended up 6 for 6 with 4 kings ,1, 9 lb coho,and 1 laker all fish came in 120 fow 4 came on meat rigs on divers both were custom green 10" spinnies back 220 on wire deep divers ,also a big white paddle with green flie on rigger down 70, glow fire dog on rigger down 62 and 150 copper with a lemon berry took a fish. Looks like the kings are starting to show up and biting again so get out there and get em!

wtg Jeff also like your avatar man!

Fished out of Holland Tuesday eve after the rain cleared out ,fished 90 to 120fow , the top 45 had cohos and steelhead and down deeper there was a few kings we went 10 for 13 with only one sublegal laker the rest was coho, steel,and kings . we used orange spoons up top and a coho dodger on a diver back 75 foot , riggers down 70 with a free slider with a orange high ball jp slammer on the slider was hot for the cohos. 150 foot of 45 lb blood run copper and 250 foot of 45 lb bloodrun copper with orange spoons took the steelhead . low diver back 165 with a white spinnie with pickle sunshine spoon took a king , the fishing had been pretty slow but the water is finaly warming up and the fish are biting again more and more kings are starting to show up so get out there and get em !!

the stalling may be caused by the shift cable not being adjusted properly. I would take the carb to advantage marine and have dave rebuild it it will be worth the money.

bob did you bleed the line for the new cylinder? if you didn't you probly have air in the lines , call me I had similar problems once I bled the lines the problem went away ,are you putting trim oil or transmission oil in it ?

this is a good set up bounce bottom with your rigger. jimbobber if you are coming to holland give me a shout JImbobber 616-240-7017

ive been told its sea fleas we always start seeing lots of that when they are thick.