wild at heart Posted November 2, 2011 Posted November 2, 2011 Winterized the boat yesterday, so I guess that means 2011 is in the bag.2011 total catch was 305 for 403 for 42 trips. 7.25 fish per trip.130 kings78 coho77 lakers17 steelhead3 brownsour % of kings in the total bag continues to fall.this is the most coho for a season.laker and steel #'s are about the same.overall size of the fish was up, esp lakers and steel. We failed to take any real big kings although we lost one that looked 25#. We did break the boat record for steel (14.7#) and coho (9.9#). Our lakers averaged apx 5#.Best stat was fish/per/trip increased by 1 per trip over last 3 years avg.Bait on the screen and in the bellies was up big time.Overall a good year. Hopefully the coho plants (250k) in the Grand river in 2010 have continued. We need more kings planted in my opinion. Disappointed that I never got a finned clipped brown (vent fin) of the 25k planted in Holland (2011) of the new Sturegon River strain or talked to anyone else that did. What was up with that???Brown Blast is only 4+ months away.
Priority1 Posted November 2, 2011 Posted November 2, 2011 Kevin, Every year is different and plays differently on an individual basis. You still logged some impressive #s for the year. Best of luck always.
wild at heart Posted November 3, 2011 Author Posted November 3, 2011 to answer my own question, 170k coho were released in the Grand river this year.
Far Beyond Driven Posted November 3, 2011 Posted November 3, 2011 Good year, not done yet.195/273, not bad considering my 4th trip out in the Four Winns was the the fourth of July weekend. I worked 34 days straight in May / June.28 trips logged to date. We pretty much fished every chance we could and ended up fishing some really fun weather this year (B4K!).12 browns. Only two good browns trips. After 40+ last year this was kind of sad.85 coho. Had a week off in March with great weather, took the 14' out and limited 5 trips in a row. Only three matures around the piers this year, but there were 7.7 - 9.4#.67 kings, including lots of 18-19, a couple 21's, a 23.5 and a 25.9#. We had twice this year quads on mature kings, both times in rough water with 3 people in the boat.27 lakers, which I actually targetted on some trips this year. Andrea took a boat records 13.2# (I catch about 3 a year most years) 160' down on a rigger.29 steelies. Had a couple good trips targeting them in the surf in the spring and even last week.And two walleye we stumbled into salmon fishing, 9.4 and 10.4#.Hoping to push that up to about 225 or so before we get iced in.
jimbobber Posted November 3, 2011 Posted November 3, 2011 great job Kevins! You had a great season. Hope to see more browns next season we only caught 3 all year .
wild at heart Posted November 3, 2011 Author Posted November 3, 2011 hey Kevin, did you notice that our fish per trip and our hook to land ratios are almost identical. I'd to see some others put there numbers up if they have them for comparision.
Far Beyond Driven Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 I was up over 80% until a 6 for 16 on steelies, a 3 for 11 on mature kings, and a 4 for 11 in the WMFL. Think I ended up closer to 70% for the year.I never had the monster king trips you did, other than the harbor trips.
jimbobber Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 I dont think i want to know how many misses i had LOL our fish per trip was 6.25 tho and most of my trips were 4 to 5 hrs long
Boltman Posted November 6, 2011 Posted November 6, 2011 Kevin you had a great Season, Our boat is winterized and here's my Totals.0000000000000000000Yeah I'm a little miffed....and we're still rigging the boat..
jimbobber Posted November 6, 2011 Posted November 6, 2011 hopefully you will tare em up next year Boltman!!!
Boltman Posted November 6, 2011 Posted November 6, 2011 JImbob, I sure as Hell Hope So, I have two Filets to last the whole winter, and I won't buy Deli Salmon...
j1musser Posted November 9, 2011 Posted November 9, 2011 Didnt keep track of percentage but I had a great year as we normally fish only 2 guys. 2 kings over 20# landed on my boat. Didnt get to fish after Sept 1st due to school. 1st trip of the year was a 10 fish limit in March and last trip was 12 fish with 2 release for 2 man limit Sept.1st. Fished 4 ports (SH, St Joe, Lud, Manistee)this year and limited out 3 of 4 the 1st trip! Great year and new boat is a fishing machine for a 17 footer.
steeliebob Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 I really don't believe anyone who got serious about fishing had bad numbers. We are seeing more and bigger fish in all species which is good. The east side is rebounding nicely too. Both North L Huron and N L Michigan gave up some good fish. I caught my first monster Coho in awhile at 14 pounds 2 oz and minutes after landing that one I caugnt a female chinook that went 30 pounds on the nose. Boltman you need to get that boat in the water or throw the skunk out of it.
mattmishler Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 WOW bob thats some nice fish, do you have any pics of them to?
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