Holland 06-22-24 / 4 for 6

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Hit the big pond tonight with Seafoam and Little Boat on board.  It was great to run 9 lines on Fin Warrior for the first time this year.  Set up prior to 6:00pm just north of Holland Harbor and gave the Steelheaders lots of room that planed out in front of us.  Program:  300Cu with at green paddle and teaser meat rig to SB, 300 weighted stee with a green paddle and a water melon like Brads Cut Plug loaded with Tuna to port.  High and low dipseys on port/starboard with spoons and SD/flies.  Two downriggers, one light blue SD/fly and one spoon.  Pushed one of the non used riggers to center and ran a blue-silver J-plug down the shoot.  

The 300Cu with meat in 132FOW on a North troll got hit immediately and we boated a 18lb king.  There was much rejoicing as we optimistically thought there was more to come (Monty Python fans will appreciate that comment).  Over an hour went by before a high diver, 42' down on a return SE troll with a mixed veggie got hit.  It was a good fight but came off.   Got the business end to the boat and the hook was gone on the Mixed Veggies spoon and the blank was bent 45 degrees inward.  Don't recall seeing a spoon get destroyed like that before.  Bent it back into shape, put a fresh hook on and put it back down (I actually like the spoon action better).  

Kept the southernly troll going and boated a 6lb coho in 119FOW on a down rigger down 75 @ the ball tipped with a blue SD and powder blue fly.  That set up came alive again an hour later in 137FOW, same basic trolling direction, producing a 4.5lb coho.  In between those two fish, we boated a 8.5lb SH on inside dipsey, down 50' tipped with a bloody nose spoon.

Evil Alewife on a down rigger down 75' in 133FOW on a SE troll got pounded right at sunset.  Unfortunately, we lost that due to a break off at the terminal tackle knot (I can't believe my double uni knot failed).  

There was one other 6 for 6 catch on the dock but no big kings.  Radio chatter seemed like a lot of boats were searching a lot till dusk.  

Had a great time with new friends.  They have some pics of the catch that might follow this post.l

[SeaFoam]

We had a good time getting together


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