Holland 10-9 am

[jdh]

Fished with Jon & Kelly out of Holland today.  We fished 130-155.  Lots of bait below 100 ft.  My guess is they were schools of shad.  We ended up 4-8 with 6 kings on and 2 steelies.  Spoons & flasher flies on riggers/divers/coppers/lead.  Kings came 60-110 ft down.  Steelies on 3 color lead.  2.5-3.0 mph.  Only west/south/southwest directions took fish.

 

[mrhookup]

Awesome job, wish we would have made it out today


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[tgafish]

I thought Kings only ate alewives.  How did you sneak those shad into it's belly???

[jmohunts]

Then I really wonder what they eat in Lake Superior since there arent any Alewives. One of the stupidest thing I heard DNR say.

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[FBD]

Smelt are pelagic.  We used to cast count down rapalas just outside the smelt dippers and catch kings and browns.

 

Nice looking fish.

[jdh]

The bigger on weighed in just shy of 11 pounds. Very healthy looking.  I'm hoping the weather lets me get out to deeper water a few more times this year.  Or maybe lets me put a hurting on the lake trout before November.

[EdB]

Nice catch!

[gmfishon]

Are those shade or ales that were in stomach ? Look similar to me.

[ReelNauti]

Those are small alewifes

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[jdh]

All the kings were full of shad.  They look like ales, but their not the same.  I've been netting  baitfish off the piers for years and know the difference.

 

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[tbutcher]

Agreed been doing the same on the pier definitely shad... I hope that's not a sign of alewives declining.

[kid coulson]

Good times with my brothers aboard King Possible. Hope to get out again soon. Bundle up fellas,..its cold out there that early!

[phishtix]

Nice!