Grand Haven 7/30am and pm, 7/31pm

[mrhookup]

Was lucky enough to spend most of the weekend on the water despite the fluctuating weather forecast for Saturday. Fishing was not on fire for us by any means but we picked away at them and finished 8/15 over the three trips. Our landing percentage was the worst we've had all year mostly due to some big kings tearing us up. Time to change everything over to 30lb I think with the size of the fish out there this year. Here's how we did each day...

7/30am - Took two coworkers out that drove over from the East side, got a late start while waiting out the rain so we didn't start setting lines until 8am and pulled at 12:30pm. Finished 3/5 with a 7lb immature king, a nice steelhead, and a smaller lake trout. We lost an absolute monster of a king on a 250cu with a magnum blue/green dolphin that was probably 700+ feet behind the boat when the leader broke. 90-100 FOW was best on a W/NW troll, 2.5-2.8 SOG. 200cu with Blue/Green Dolphin stingray, 250cu with magnum blue/green dolphin, low diver out 180ft with silver 8" protroll and green fly, and 350cu with magnum modified blue dolphin all took hits.

7/30pm - Decided to pull a double and take a couple friends out for the evening bite, fished from 6-10pm. We again finished 3/5 but the quality of fish was a bit better. Boxed a 15lb laker, 16lb king, and 3lb laker, lost a nice king and another laker. 90-100 FOW was good again on a N troll, 2.5-2.8 SOG. White paddle with oceana UV down 85 on rigger, 200cu/250cu with modified magnum blue dolphin, 300cu with magnum Happee Meal, and 450cu with Fat Nancy 8" spindoctor with pickled sunshine fly all took hits.

7/31pm - Started a bit earlier fishing from 4-9pm. Finished 2/5 with a Steelhead and smaller lake trout. Set up down by Port Sheldon and trolled north into the chop in 90-100 FOW again. Lost a nice fish right away on the 450cu with Fatnancy/Pickled Sunshine combo, took a steelhead on 250cu with magnum modified blue dolpin, a laker on 300cu with the same spoon, broke of a king on the big white paddle down 85ft, lost a smaller laker on the 450cu with FatNancy combo.

 

 

[littleboat]

Great pictures! Great pictures!

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