Holland 4-30 am

[jdh]

My dad and our friend Rick joined me on the King Possible today for a decent day of fishing.  We ended up 11-12 fishing from about 7:30 am until 2 pm.  We fished in 180 fow from Holland to Saugatuck with 5 coho & 2 kings to show for it.  Then just before the wind whipped up we ran back into 60 fow and dug up 3 lakers and a nice brown.

What worked:  180 fow sse/ssw troll 2.5-3.0 mph at the ball.

1-2 white uv paddle poofster fly on a rigger down 60 & 90 - coho

2-2 kevorkian spinny & poofster fly high diver on 3 back 225 - coho, king

1-1 pro king uv with mirage fly slide diver on 3 back 225 - king

1-1 bll green kato rigger down 40 - coho

2-2 bll patriot rigger down 50 fixed slider at 40 ft - coho, coho

In 60 fow nw/n troll 1.5-1.8 mph

2-2 tin can dodger green spin n glo mag diver on 1 back 115 ticking bottom - laker, laker

1-1 chartreuce green dodger gold spin n glo high diver on 2.5 back 150 ticking bottom - laker

1-1 tin can dodged chrome/orange spin n glo rigger down 65 ft ticking bottom - brown

Some silver:

 

 

[Dr Hook]

Good Job.  We participated in coho fest as well, but only had a 2 man crew.  Would have boxed our limit if we kept the 12 inch-er but finished 9 for 12 all coho.  Pretty much every rod went as well but blue mag spoons off riggers were best.  Of course they were best, downriggers puked out after we got lines set.  Spent all morning raising and lowering them by hand.  Finally started working again back at the dock. Ran riggers down 50 and 60, ran braid dipseys 135 and 150 back, ran 150 copper and 7 color off boards.  We had first hit in 175, got one hit at 210, but 190 -200 was best.  Took hits every direction but north.  Speed at the ball didn't seem to matter much as we ran anywhere from 2.4 - 3.1.  Hate to see the rain and east wind but with fishing like today, it can stick around a while

[jdh]

Running the riggers as manuals really makes you work hard for your fish! Nice job!  I wish I had keyed in on the spoon bite of the riggers quicker, but I'll take what we got any day!  I started out running 5 flasher-fly combo's. I did have 4 spoons out on a 200, 250, 300 copper and a 6-color but they never got touched.

I'm going back out in the morning.  I'm going see what I find in 60-100 fow.  A couple kings maybe...

[littleboat]

I hope you had some sort handle that attached to the rigger shaft?

Great catch on the fish! Did you figure out what was the rigger problem?

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[Dr Hook]

Nope, no handle, pulled cable up hand over hand with crew spinning the wheel to wind on the cable.

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