Muskgeon - 8/18

[Reel-Deal]

Fished straight out of Muskegon harbor Tues. 4:30 - 9:30 PM with some friends - set up in 110 FOW heading due west. Hit about 135 FOW and had a king hit a rigger - 80' down with a NBK spoon - but got tangled in the dipsy after hitting, so had a big mess to untangle - a few minutes into the birds nest puzzle - and the 8 color went with lemon ice - nice steelie - about 10#. Got everything cleaned up - back in the water - and kept trolling out since the screen didn't look all that impressive.

Hit about 170 FOW without any hits - turned around and started back through where we had the earlier action - couldn't buy a hit for nothing - zigged, zagged, bags in - bags out - you know the drill - and then back in that 100-110 FOW about 8 PM and the screen was FULL - so many fish from top to bottom that you couldn't tell them apart - fished that area for quite some time and right after the sky was turning that orange glow from the sun - the wire dipsey ripped - 150' out - set on 2.5 with a blue mamba fish catcher and cut bait rig - about a 9 pound king.

That was it - couldn't get anything else going - had riggers down to the bottom - over 110' down - all the way to the top with 3 colors of lead and that was it - tons of boats - but the radio was very quiet - any body else do much - am I missing something??

Reel Deal

Jim

[Nailer]

Jim, welcome to the site. The temp break on Saturday was 65' down in 110 fow.

There's a good chance you where below them?

I keep raising my stuff up into warmer water as it gets dark.

Did you run any Moonshine spoons as the sun was setting?

We got 2 fish on our high diver (back 150' set on 2.5) , and another on a full core (I doubt ether one was deeper than 50') Saturday as the sun was setting

[Adam Bomb]

Welcome to the site.

[GLF]

Welcome to the site Jim. I struggled to get 3 fish Saturday night. The radio was quiet also.

[j1musser]

Welcome to the site Jim. Thanks for the report. We had a tough fish on saturday in South Haven too.

[Priority1]

A warm welcome to the site Jim. You will like it here.

[Just Hook'n]

Welcome to the site Jim.

We did pretty good Saturday night in PS, but we were not marking a lot of fish until late. Just after dark our screen lit up as well. Temp break was down 65-70 ft in 120fow. We had schools of fish from 50-25fow. Brought the riggers up but the water was 67 degrees 35 down. Did not get any more takers, but we had already had a decent night so we called it quits.

Not sure what to tell you. Sometimes they just don't bite out of temp.

[Reel-Deal]

Thanks to all - great being here - I did keep one bait within 5' of the bottom as we trolled back to harbor - and the other rigger was up in the fish - and of course, the dipseys were somewhat high - and set back 135-175 set on 2.5. When we got back to harbortowne marina - there were some guys who had 4 nice kings - all 18-20# and they had them in about 20 minutes in 100 FOW and all of them came on the bottom (they said). So, I guess that's why they call it fishing! Thanks all - will be back out next week, Mon-Tues time frame -

Jim - aka - Reel Deal

[Justtrollin]

Welcome,