Port Sheldon 7/13 and 7/15

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Fished Friday the 13th out of Port Sheldon.

We finished the night 7 for 9, 5kings and 2 steelhead. It took us a while to find the fish since we don't make it this far north very often. Once we found the fish, things started happening right away. We had lines in the water from about 6pm until about 10:30pm. We handled back to back doubles and boated all 4. Two of them were smallish, 7-9lbs and both the other two were over 14lbs. Typical setup was 4 riggers, 2 dipseys, 3 leadcores.

All of the hits came on glow green and glow blue 3 fly meat rigs behind white pro-chip flashers as well as green and blue moonshine lures. The fish were deep with riggers set to 65 and 75' down as well as 30#spider wire dipseys set to 1.5 with 200-240' of line out producing well. We took one rip on a full core and lost that fish, but other than that, the lead was dead. NW/SE circle pattern trolls in 110-120fow produced best. It was a good, fun, relaxing night after a tough week at work!

After being blown out for the WMFL Northern King Challenge on Saturday, we came back on Sunday despit a bolt falling out of my truck brake caliper on the way up Sunday am. After arranging an emergency tow vehicle to get us up to Port Sheldon, we made just in time to fish the event.

We finished 3 for 8, which was a little discouraging:(, but still fun. All of our hits came prior to about 9am and flies with glow tape blue prochip flasher and blue spin doctor produced 5 of the hits while the Northern King spoons produced the rest. The green dolphin spoon boated our largest king, right around 10.5lbs, while the blue bubble spoon and blue blue spinny took the other two fish. All of our hits came on lines running deep and the dipsey and rigger bite was best. We did not notice any one troll direction being better than the other. 100-120fow was best, but at about 9am, we lost the marks on our sonars, so ventured out to 140fow where the marks came back, but no takers.

Typical setup was 4 riggers and 2 dipseys with the intermittent leadcore being traded for a rigger from time to time.

I think our speed combined with the current was the main culprit in our poor hookup percentage. The currents were brisk, so the lures would have had a wierd angle and weird flutter in the water, which could throw off the fish attacking the lure. We did not experiment with troll speed very much, but probably should have.

Overall, a very good time and fun weekend. Off to Muskegon next weekend for the Dreamweaver Challenge!