Muskegon Saturday/Sunday May 22/23

[fishmkg]

Saturday morning was definitely an adventure to say the least. The fog was as thick as I have seen it in a long time. We could barely see a boat length in front of us the whole morning. Make sure you sound your horn or blow a whistle every few minutes while in restricted visibility, it really helps.

Headed south very slowly which cost us some prime fishing time but the conditions demanded it. Set up in 120 fow and trolled on an east/west troll to 150. The fish started hitting immediately. We could not keep the riggers in the water. Had 2 ten pounders on the same rod. It was good thing they cooperated and did not zig while the other zagged. The rigger bite slowed a little allowing us to get the other rods down but it wasn’t long before we were back to having only one rod down after another flurry.

SOG 2.8 to 3 depending on troll

At the bait 2.2

Early rigger bite was 120-130 down (several 4 year olds in the cold deep water) that slowed moved them up to 40-60 down

Blue Machine Stinger

Happy Meal Moonshine

Fruit Salad Stinger

Green Glow Alewife Stinger

Bloody Nose Stinger

Blue Mixed Veggies Stinger

3 color Steelie Stomper Stinger

5 color Steelie Stomper Stinger was extremely hot

7 color Carmel Dolphin Singer

10 color Watermelon Stinger

All the Stingers were Stingray size

150 back on mag dipsey on 2 with small white blade w/ Oceana Rapture Fly

175 back with a mag dipsey on 2 with black flasher/white cracked ice tape w/ Duck Head fly

All caught fish.

On Sunday I realized I did not have any fish in the freezer so we decided to try to get some for dinner. Went out at 1:45 p.m. with the family. It was beautiful out there and much cooler. Set up in 150 and decided to do a south troll. Same set up as Saturday but only ran the riggers, the 3 and 5 color and one dipsey. We had 5 kings in a little over 30 minutes with a throw back. The Steelie Stomper took 3 of the fish. The other two were on the riggers 60 and 65 down and were on the Happy Meal Moonshine and the other on the Blue Machine. We had more than we needed for dinner so we pulled lines and took a leisurely ride back to the heat at the dock.

Good Luck,

Capt. Drew

[Just Hook'n]

Nice weekend Capt. Great work.

[Nailer]

Nice job Capt. Drew. Very impressive.

[BIGTREBLE]

Nice job Drew