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Fished in the Mi steelheaders challenge today,started in 45 fow ,lost two steelhead or coho rite off the bat ,both were on an area 51 jpslammer 5 colors of lead,caught a king on 7 color of lead with a modified mi. sunset slammer, then picked up another king on a mod.mi sunset jp slammer on dipsey back 115 on 3 ,then the fish shut off in close so we tried to catch trout in 125 fow picked up one lake trout on 5 color on area 51 jp slammer, caught a king on white e chip with pickle sunshine flie on fire line dipsey back 162 on 3,trolled out to 135 fow with nothing so turned it around and went back to 125 fow picked up one more king on the same dodger and flie combo and then lost a veeeeeery nice king on that same combo:(. so finished the day 5 for 8 and ended up 7th out of 40 boats in the tourney. the winning boat had 9 fish sounds like we should have run out to 180 to 200 fow after the mornong bite(oh well.) .Had a great time thanks to Aaron (line dancin) and nick corrnel for coming along today, the holland steelheaders did a great job with the tourney.

good job mark great shake down ! it was tuff out there again today.

ya what phil said and good job nick!

great job Mark !

fished out of holland tonight 6:00 til 9:00 went 1 for 3 . fished in 55 fow,to 80 fow found the fish in 55 fow caught 1 3lb king on 5 color of lead with a proto type jp slammer( area 51 pattern) one came on dipsey back 125 with a mi sunset jp slammer,and the other was on a dipsey back 110 with a white e chip and pickle sunshine flie,both lost fish were nice kings that came unbuttoned:( it was nice out there tho no rain until we got back to shore.

awsome captain Westrate! , I hope we can do this in Holland some time.

nice job Terry your taring em up this year again!

Tried to fish tonight but the lake was pretty ruff steady 3 to4 footers with an ocatinal 6 thrown in for fun .trolled from holland to saugy in 80 fow wit out a bump! Yup i got the big old black and white kitty tonight:eek:! Oh well it was still nice to get out:thumb:.

nice job guys!

nice job guys!

Im going to try one of those greese traps!

cool video thanks!!!!!

nice fish brandon I hope to get out this weekend.

sorry for the late post but here it is we fished from 7am till11,we went out to 150 fow and found a 2 deg temp brake. we wernt marking much for fish so turned it east and hit an 8 lb steelhead on a 5 color with a blue dolphin jp slammer then nothing til we went to 85 fow ( we didnt mark anything to speak of til then) We set out our laketrout program and picked up two in that last half hour of fishin one was bouncing bottom with a white green dodger with a spin-n-glow and the other was on a 150 copper with a orange crush jp slammer we let all of the fish go.

Dave , we went out last night and only had 2 hits got one 10 lb king thats it, it needs to warm up to get those fish more active.

May 21st The Holland Steelheaders are hosting the Michigan Steelheaders Challenge out of the port of Holland. This is a one day tourney,the cost is $50+$10 for big fish at least one person on the boat needs to be a Michigan Steelheader for more info go to www.hollandsteelheaders.org and look under the news link to get the info and sign up sheet.We are expecting around 50 boats this year and already have 10 boats signed up with most of them coming from the flint area ! So come on lets get some more local boats involved. jimmy

Thanks for the great report Terry and nice box of fish man!!!!!!! Cant wait to get back out there!!

jon i will be put in the morning in holland to. jimmy

awsome dave those are some nice kings for sure!!!!!

Don, glad to hear the shakedown went good.

nice job on the brown. Just run a chartruese or yellow with orange spoon near bottom slow 1.5 at the ball if you want lakers this time of year.

we went out of holland and ran to the point south of saugatuck set lines in 20 fow worked 20 to 30 fow and ended up up 7 for 10 ,5 coho and 2 laketrout. we lost one steelhead that came 3 ft out of the water and parted ways. we took fish on high lines , and 2 color. hot baits were a sinking gold and orange rapala on high line took 3,a proto type JP Slammer that is kinda an area 51 type pattern took 4 hits on a 2 color,a red and black ladder back thin fin on high line took 2 fish,a silver and red ladder back wiggle wart on a high line took 1 , the lake was beutiful. Had a small issue of the boat heating up when under power so I am going to change the water pump this week.I also installed new auto stops on my big jons and found out I cant use my cable keepers any more is there a different kind that the bead will pass thru? Any ideas would be great thanks jimmy

awsome Scott!

my 14 two weeks ago were empty to.??

Thanks for the info Mark we will see what the weather brings us this weekend or maybe next week. jimmy