Holland 5-17

[jdh]

Thank you Kid Coulson for going fishing with me today. We fished near the sliders in 100-140 fow and ended up 6-6 with 3 kings from about 8 to 14 lbs, 2 lakers and a small steelie. Divers with Flasher/Fly took 3 fish. 300 copper with a blue dolphin took another 2, and the steelie came a 2 color with an orange superslim.

No troll direction was best - took hits going SW, W, NW, SE, NE. There was a strong current pushing my lines around. No troll speed was best - took hits from 2.0 to 3.8 mph.

Marked a decent number of fish. Seems like the water temps / weather pattern has the kings spread out and not interested in biting. Had a good number of follows on the graph on my riggers, but couldn't get them to go. I tried all sorts of lead lengths and different sized/colored spoons.

Found some alewives in one of the kings, and several alewives in one of the lakers.

[somethin' fishy]

Good job out there JD! It was a pleasure meeting you at the fish cleaning station.

[kid coulson]

Thanks for taking me brother. You worked hard but hey we got some nice silver! Way better day than weather people predicted and not a lot of traffic. Met a couple site members at the cleaning station that I knew were good guys because one of them had a muskie shirt on Good times!!

[jdh]

Nice meeting you John. Always nice to put faces with the usernames on the site.

About the boat traffic on Sunday - it's always nice to catch a few fish and only have to adjust my heading once all day to avoid another boats trolling path.

[KICK'R]

Great job!