I had an interesting trip Saturday morning.  A good friend and teamate joined me along with a new defender of freedom.  Mark Hogewind is a recently "winged" airman for the Navy and will be securing our freedom piloting a helicoptor aboard an aircraft carrier.  Mark worked for me in his prior life and moved on with the Navy.  I was able to get Mark and his lifelong friend out fishing and produced some action. 

Fishing in Muskegon is still red HOT!  Tuesday was the marathon day having two trips scheduled.  After the first trip with 4 anglers resulted in a limit of big kings in a mere hour an a half, a couple phone calls arranged for the second trip to show early and also squeeze in a third trip.  The second trip of two anglers was in the middle of the day but action was still good.  we boxed 5 kings and tossed back two sheepies on about 15 bites.  The evening trip resulted in similar results with 6 big kings in the box out of about 12 or 13 bites. 

Typical hot baits include Atomic Green Glow Horse Fly (taking 10 of 14 bites in the morning), Seamist Horsefly, tiger roughy, and various plugs in Pearl, glow, green glow and yellow.

Get out there while it's HOT HOT HOT.

Openings available this weekend!!!!

Harbor Patrol early version this weekend.  A batch of colder water rolled in and pushed the batifish into the pierheads in Muskegon this weekend.  Action was HOT all day long.  Morning trip on 8/9 resulted in slow action first thing and we got out of the fish.  After pulling lines and getting back in the action we finished up landing 7 of 8 fish.  Fish are big with many fish in the mid to upper teens.  Horseflies in Atomic Green Glow, Sea Mist and Seaweed all took fish when trailing 11" green E chip and also 11" double crush white.  Pearl plugs and Green glow plugs also took fish.

The afternoon trip was more of the same and then some.  Setting lines in the channel, our first pass out the arms had action right away at 2:30 in the afternoon.  Each loop out and in had bites.  After hooking somewhere between 23 and 27 fish we boated 11.  Short lines and BIG KINGS make for exciting action.  Break offs happen and crazy fish strighten hooks and break tackle.  Action came in batches as fresh fish came in to feed.  As the sun went down we headed in to lick our battle wounds.  The fish won some, we won some.  A great day for sure. 

Get out there while the action is HOT!

Saturday morning dawned clear and

Hit the water about 6:30 and sat down in 60 fow to set lines on a westerly troll.  We started hitting fish in 85 fow and in the 120's and 130's things got busy.  After dodging other boats and zig zagging a bit we  covered water out to 160.  Finishing 14 for 19 with 2 undersized lakers keeping 12.  Mixed bag of 3 lakers and the rest kings up to 14#.

Seaweed and SeaMist HorseFlies did the best behind blue and green E chip flashers.  The wire divers back 150-220 were best taking 7 of the bites, with a # ball down the chute taking 2 and the mid diver with Dark Seaweed taking one.  Northport Nailer spoons took the rest of the bites on riggers, copper and core. Blueberry glow (19) took 3 bites and greenberry glow (18), mixed veggies (70), Mashed bannana Glow (12), all taking one.  A couple prototypes took fish as well as the NEW northport Nailer Plug taking a real nice king on a 3 color. 

Get out there while the fishing is good!