Manistee 8-27 and 28

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Fished with Tom (TLTORRICE) and my son Reilly out of Manistee this weekend. Went out Saturday and set lines about 1pm in 5-7 foot waves in 200fow and trolled with the waves. Finally got a fish when we hit 90fow. A nice 17 lb king on the wire pulling meat behind a NBK spin doctor. Had to wake up my sea sick son to reel it in. great fight, lots of runs but we got it in the box and decided to pull lines after only an hour of fishing. with the last rod in the water we got another fish on a green dolphin off the rigger in 60 fow. a 16lb king we had Reilly reel in to keep his head from swimming. we called it a day and had high hopes for Sunday morning.

We got Reilly up at 5am and he surprised us by agreeing to go out in 2-4 footers. We followed the crowd and fished the shelf with no success. Finally got a hit on a green Ace high plug once we made our way to 60fow but the line broke due to a forgotten snubber. we saw a blank screen all day, fished until noon and went 0 for 1. tough day! Water was 45 degrees at just 30 foot down and we figured the fish were scattered. Probably should have fished in close from the start.