Muskegon 8-3-morning, Whitehall 8-3 eve

[melsell]

We needed a trip for some kings . Pulled into Muskegon Friday night and out by daybreak at Muskegon on Saturday. Not knowing net locations and all the boat traffic had us a little screwy in the morning. We worked from 85 FOW straight out to the hills, back to a little south in 100 fow .Then back to the North nets. We had some hits early, only landing two peanut kings, and missed 3 or 4. Marked a lot around the nets at the end of our trip. Downriggers 39 and 49 down were best ( for what it's worth) . We decided to go check out Whitehall for an afternoon troll. We have never been there so we went out about 4pm. Made a slow cruise to the Northwest to 205 FOW. We were the only boat out but were marking right away.All reports were saying 50 to 60 down ,so we set most stuff there. We picked up two peanuts on our first pass. Went back upwind for another pass. This time I couldn't take all the big marks down deeper and set up 75 and 85 with a fixed slider on the deep and free on the shallow rigger. We started getting some decent action. Caught a 20lber on dipsey,2 setting,green fishcatcher greenish fly at 170. A laker was landed on a 5 color, a peanut king on a fullcore. Most action was on the riggers. The Hot glow Warriors were working best for us ( especially green froggy). 2.3 MPH trolling south and 2.7 trolling North.Ended up 7 for 12 ,only 3 were nice sized fish.

[Nailer]

Nice report Matt.

[fishsniffer]

thanks for the report matt

[Just Hook'n]

Thanks Matt...great job...nice to have some more size, but I'd take a 7 for 12 fish trip any day of the week.