Holland 8/21 Early Evening - 3 for 4

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Set out late afternoon to take my father-in-law fishing for salmon.  The trip required an uber flat lake for him to manage a rod and thankfully Mother Nature delivered.  Advice from fellow fishermen on the site encouraged working the Saugatuck mud in tight.  We dropped down in 35 FOW just north of the harbor setting up 4 riggers and 2 mono dipseys.  Long lines were out of consideration.  Before we could get the 2 dipseys in the water, one of the 4 riggers with and SD/fly presentation got bit producing a nice 7lb king that we let go.  Passed through the mud and flipped around to go back through it trolling north.  South of the harbor mouth we had a good hook-up on SWR tipped with a mag Black Fin Tuna spoon running about 8’ above the bottom.  My father-in-law got the rod.  A good fight ensued with the fish running to the SB side as I kept turning Fin Warrior to port to center the fish.  We had about done a 180 when the fluoro leader knot was finally out of the water.  Then the worst happened, tip up and fish off.  Man, I felt bad.  Likely a good size laker but it never broke the surface so who knows.  We did another run south with two tip ups on a Wonder Bread SD/White fly but no connections.  Next north run we had two hook ups.  SWR Black Fin Tuna delivered another 7lb king.  And finally, a dipsey hit with a bargin bin white/yellow/hot pink spoon down 23’ (I just had to run this thing - it was the right time for a gaudy spoon).  After 6:00pm the bite we had shut down.  To my surprise, Wonder bread and hot pink J-Plugs did not get touched.  I had a SD/green fly ready but it never got wet.  One big bait ball was found in 33FOW north of Saugatuck harbor which produced a tip up but not tasty fish.  We did not stay out to catch the late night bite.  Lot of boats out tonight at numerous depths

 

 

.  Hope the Parker got the bite going at sun set.

#

Time

Fish

Weight

FOW

Latitude

Troll

Wind Dir.

Speed @ Ball

Rod

Bait Depth

Bait Temp

Bait

1

4:30pm

King

7

35

41.1

S

N

2.5

DR 20#

20'@ball

48

Silver/blue/gold SD / No-See-Um Fly

2

5:05pm

Miss

36

40.1

N

N

2

SWR

25'@ball

Mag Silver Streak Black Fin Tuna

3

5:45pm

King

7

36

N

N

2.1

SWR

25'@ball

Wonderbread SD / White Fly

4

6:00pm

King

5

33

N

N

2.1

Dipsey - Mono

20'@ball

49

Mag Spoon, bargin bin white/yellow/pink

 

 

 

 

[2MD]

awesome job & thanks for the detailed report 

cool videos too!

after you left and clued us into where you were getting bites we were finally able to dial in a little ourselves so thanks for the help out on the water too