South Haven 5-19-18 pm

[FBD]

Dropped my daughter off at an overnight open house with a senior (grrr) in Glenn so it lined up well to hit South Haven.  Took a kid from church that is cursed to catch big kings.  Every other boat at the cleaning station will have a mature king or three and we have a bunch of 2#.

We set up in 65' thinking we'd box a laker or two on the way out and I would not be worried if we didn't get a king until 120'.  200' copper takes off at 105' with a nice king (SS mag blue dolphin).  Rigger pumps and pops no one home (SS mag green dolphin 65' down).  Then the half core (glow edge mixed veggie nailer) digs in hard.  After a tough fight I drop a fish on the floor and we just stare at it.  The girth was insane.  Scaled out at 23.12#.

Copper goes again with a 9# king then the wire diver back 180' with a green glow spinny and green glow fly digs in, 14# king.  It went again, 20# king, diver didn't trip.  That was fun.  Rigger misses again, so I tighten the release way down, and the next time it fires and takes off screaming.  But a high teens king - it wasn't his day yet - and he ran into the diver and got loose.  Decided to troll in at 8 and in 100' hit an 11# laker on the wire diver.

Could not plane out with 100# of fish, water, and ice in the cooler on the bow.

[EdB]

Nice catch, looks like the kid broke his curse!

[littleboat]

Great king catch!

[reel business]

Nice job!


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