Holland 9/8-9/11

[Twill23]

First off I'd like to start out by thanking Terry(Dirty Dog) and Don(Tangled Mess) for the help this week. Both were extremely helpful in putting us on fish.

Early early Thursday morning we left for Holland. We launched about 6am and set lines in the channel. Soon as we hit the pier heads we boated 2 kings. Both on riggers on moonshine plugs. After 3 more passes we decided to pull lines and run down to Saugatuck. Boy was that the right move. We proceded to have 18 bites between 8-930. Our landing percentage was TERRIBLE, with having 2 complete rookies manning the rods. They still had a blast and so did we. I believe we ended up with 7 or 8 that day. Most of our hits came on 50 coppers with chrome plugs, and 30 back on divers with a moutain dew spin dr.

The amount of alewives in the area was absolutely astounding! As we would pass through the dirty water 10-20 of them would be jumping in the prop wash!

Thursday evening was almost the SAME story. TONS of bites, not many fish brought to the boat. Most of it being 3-5 fish at once making the whole rookie thing much more evident. Again 50 coppers and the wire set up was smokin hot.

Friday stuff changed all around for us. Our bites decreased to about 10 a trip infront of saugatuck and they stopped hitting the copper and switched over to 2 and 3 color cores and flat lines. The flat lines were best, pulling much bigger fish than other set ups.

By Sunday the pier bite was just about done. We moved out to deeper water where we marked tons of bait and tons of fish on the bottom. These fish just didnt wanna go. There was a STIFF current, that made finding fish pretty tough.

The pier bite sure produced some large fish over the week, including a 27lb 25, and 3 20-23.

(This, our biggest fish weighing in at 27lbs, came over a half mile north of the Saugatuck pier heads on our death troll pulling lines at 1030 am)

[DIRTY DOG]

Nice job T.J.

[Nailer]

Some nice pigs there TJ.

[KJ pluggin]

Nice TJ!

[Eliminator]

Nice job Guys, those are some nice fish you found!!

[jimbobber]

Nice fish TJ and nice to meet you im sure we will talk again. jimmy

[BenLubbs]

Nice fish TJ.

[Twill23]

Nice fish TJ and nice to meet you im sure we will talk again. jimmy

Nice meeting you too Jim. Theres a slight chance i may try and make it down in october, if not ill for sure make it down next year. I love the area. We'll have to hook up.

[jimbobber]

let me know if you come back in October I plan on fishing until the end of October weather permiting you would be welcome any time!

[Priority1]

TJ some nice fish there.