Trailered the boat to Ludington for the 3rd annual Educated Angler Salmon Challenge.  The team arrived

After Saturday's slaughter, we continued on Sunday with a late morning start.  Fishing from 930-3pm we boxed  a 4 man 20 fish limit.  Fished from 70-130 fow NW of port.  Tomics, flahsers and horseFlys and Nailers did damage on 3-20 colors of lead, divers and riggers.  As the sun got higher and stronger, anything flashy and blue was hot.  Mirage horseflys on blue flashers took many fish.  Nailers like lemonfire glow, lemon drop glow and orange ice took several as well in the top 50'.  Deep riggers and divers did well in the mid day in the 120-130 fow range.  Finished with 9 kings, 8 coho and 3 steelies.

Monday the slaughter contiued with a hot plug bit on 3-10 colors of lead in 50-70 fow.  Horseflys on flashers and Nailer spoons rounded out the hot bite, going 13 for 20 something in 1 hour and 22 minutes, to fill a 4 man king limit with one bonus steelie.

Had a crew of 4 today from the Toledo area.  The fish cooperated well.  We sat down in 50 fow in front of the piers and the third rod in had a fish on already.  The next 45 minutes or so proved to be malay with at least 15 bites and 4 fish making it to the boat.  Then things tapered a bit and we picked away until about 930 when we found an active school of big fish.  The next 8 or so fish were all over 13# up to just shy of 17#.  Leadcore with Tomic plugs from 3-8 colors, J plugs on the riggers set 30-45 down, Horseflys on the divers and Nailers throughout the spead all produced.  Green plugs seemed best.  The Midnight HOrsefly was best in the early hours and the Mirage Horsefly kept going all day.  Seamist Horsefly finished the day with two hits.  Glow tiger roughy took a couple fish on the high diver, bruiser produced on the low diver and Mashed bannana produced on the 6 color.  We were boxed at 1030 with 152# of fish.  A great morning and to top it all off, NOAA was wrong and it was quite calm out.  I will take that anyday!

Get out there while the fishing is hot!

Had a crew of 4 aboard on Tuesday for some salmon action.  We tried in the muddy water for starters and at the end of the first pass we pulled two nice kings in clear water south of port a bit.  The first came on a  spinnie fly off the diver and the second came off a tomic on the 5 color.  That warranted another pass and we pulled a little guy on the north end of the pass on a green glow J off the rigger.  After fighting with some traffic and making another pass unsuccessfully, we headed to deeper water.  The temperature break in the 120 range was still there although not as pronounced as the weekend.  We found fish on the warm side again and picked our way through some fish to get 9 in the box and had a couple more bites.  We finished out with one nice steelie and one good laker and the rest kings.  Mashed bannana Northport Nailer was the ticket in the deeper water taking 5 bites from the 5 to 8 color leadcore.  Drumfish took one on the 11 color and Orange Ice took one on the 3 color.  10" blue crush flasher with Seamist horse fly took the laker down 100' and big blue and chrome took on 225 back on the inside diver.

More trips scheduled for this weekend