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Headed to Manistee on Tuesday in preperation for a charter on Wednesday. Got things set for a slip and headed out fishing. Sat down in the upper 12's and headed south on a zig zag pattern. Only boat on the water! we fished from 65-150 feet of water and picked away at the fish. We caught fish from 107 on inward to 80'. After getting down to the 8's, we turned it back north. We only needed one more fish and hooked up a quad!. Keep in mind, only 6 rods in the water with just myself and my mate. We managed all 4 fish to the boat, but had to kick back 3 of them. Northport nailer spoons ruled. Not a bite on a fly or plug. We had several variations of blue/green dolphin both prototype and market lures all work as well as my facvorite blueberry glow #19. Dolphin glow #61 and sour apple #29 took fish as well. Pretty much anything with blue and green on it worked deep on the sunny day. Fish were down 65-90' in 80-110 fow. Riggerrs near the bottom, divers near the bottom and 13 and 15 colors of lead brought us to land 9 of 12 bites. The 6 fish we weighed tipped the scales at 71# to make for a full cooler. |
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Had an early morning trip today with Pastors Jim and Cheryl Yerke from Jamestown Babtist Church. Boy what a fun trip! Lots of laughs and good times. Fishing time was shortened a bit due to wave activity, but we still caught 5 fish and had on 7. Northport nailer spoons accounted for 6 of the 7 bites and the 7th was on a Midnight Horse Fly. Bruiser (31) was indead a bruiser today taking 4 hits. Three of them were set as a stacked rod off the port rigger about 60 down and one hit on an 11 color leadcore. Blueberry glow took 2 hits on the 8 color leadcore and a tuxcedo spinnie with a Midnight horse fly trailing took the remaining bite. Due to waves, we started fishing a bit inside the desired target depth, but once we got there, we lit up 4 quick bites and got 2 to the boat. Then the next three bites all made it to the boat. We finished with a nice 11# king and 7# steelie and 3 more nice eater kings. We worked a north troll, again dictated by the waves and speed was about 2.4 mph cog. 63-70 fow seemed to be best, but after 7:15 we had no more bites. Had the waves been a little kinder, I would have jogged west to deeper water, but the beam troll was killing me and crew. As we shallowed up and went an hour without a bite, we decided to call it for a better day. But even under adverse conditions, there were still fish biting. After this front moves through and things settle down, fishing should be a little easier. 
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Headed back to Muskegon early in the morning with two buddies and hammered away at them again. All spoons again with the exception of one hit on a flasher/ fly that we missed. We fished straight out and slightly to the north. Fish were caught in 65-90 fow anywhwere from 22-65 down. No real pattern. Early on the sun was poking through and lemonfire glow had several hits. Glow tiger roughy had a couple hits in the dark including taking a nice steelie. The hot bait was the blue/green dolphin prototype taking at least 6 hits on the inside diver. Speaking of divers, they had by far the most hits. I had a nine rod spread with 4 core, two rigger rods with sliders and 3 divers. 6,9,11 colors of lead all produced, but not as well as Thursday. Diver setbacks were 55 for the starboard high diver and 66,77, 95 and 105 for the low starboard diver. As the day got brighter, I just kept working it back. The port diver was dead except for one hit 104 back on 3 setting. We finished the day landing 11 fish being 8 kings from 2-12#, 2 lakers at 3 and 8# and one steelie about 7#. We had about 20 bites and hooks straighten a couple and a swivel broke by a 15# brute right on the back of the boat. Lots of Action until about 7 am when things slow considerably, but when boat traffic cleared we made another shallow pass at 65 fow and took another 5-6 hits in about half hour until it was time to head in for prior commitments. Fishing is hot to say the least. |
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Had a trip out of Muskegon today. Fog wasnt as bad as predicted, but we kept an eye on the radar as we navigated Muskegon lake and into the waters of Lake Michigan. Setting lines about 545 we had fish on at 549. Fish continued strong throughout the morning with two lulls of all of 20 minutes. We had at least 21 bites and put 11 fish on ice. All fish were in the top 50' of water. Northport nailers ruled the day again. All standard 300 size and in a variety of colors. The following took fish or bites today: Tiger roughy 1 lemon drop 3 Attomic green glow fly 2 Blue Mahi glow 3 plum crazy 3 blue/ green dolphin proto 3 blue berry glow 1 Lemon Fire glow 3 sunfire 1 water melon frost glow 1 belding bait 3 
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Last minute trip to South Haven today. I was wondering how the day would go when we got all the lines in the water without a bite. Put out a 15 rod spread and hit the same water I have been catching them in. Within the first hour or so we took 4 kings from 4-7# and then nothing. Changed around some baits to match the conditions and picked away a bit and finished 5 for 7. First fish was on a 13 color leadcore with a Mixed Veggie glow Norhtport, then the middle port diver popped moments later. That was running a puprple passion (91) Northport on a mag diver set to 2 back 140. Shortly thereafter, the rigger went at 58 down with Blueberry glow (19), then not too long later the outside starboard diver went. That diver was pulling a Northport glow tiger roughy (65) set on 2 back 90. All those fish were kings. Some time elapsed then the 8 color pulling Belding Bait (92) fired to bring in a nice steelie. As the morning wore on, we had two fish hooked up on the 15 color but both proved worthy opponents and freed themselves. The spoon was a sour apple (29) Northport. I pulled several different flasher fly combos at different places in the spread with no luck as well as a Chrome J for quite some time. The pods of bait and hooks all over were gone today. Rumor has it the boys northward did pretty well today. Seems as though the fish migrated since yesterday. Time will tell with reports coming in after the weekend. Looks like the northbound fishery is finally going to heat up. |
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 Had a half day to fish with friends and family today and had the boat in South Haven. Set lines around 5:30 or so and started catching fish right away. We fished the same water as Friday and the fish were still there. Caught fish from 4 colors of lead down to bouncing bottom again. Brighter colored spoons early on as the sun was peaking through, then it clouded up and started to rain and darker lures took over. Finished 19 for 25 on the morning with a mixed bag dominated by kings from 4-17#, steelies from 4-10# and two lakers. Northport Nailer spoons accounted for all fish except 3 bites on a blue/ chrome spin doctor with Purple Taco glow blue fly. Best troll directions were cutting the current and trolling 2.4 or there about. Speed and direction changes accounted for most of the bites. Fishing remains HOT none the less.
Lures that caught fish were all Northport Nailers in the 300 size in the following colors: | Glow tiger dolphin (64) 1 | Mixed veggies (NEW) 3 | | Lemonfire glow (76) 1 | Octoberfeast (NEW) 2 | | Glow tiger roughy (65) 4 | Blue green dolphin (proto) 1 | | Blueberry glow (19) 2 | Big Blue spin docotor with Blue
glow Purple Taco fly 4 | | Evil Amil glow (proto) 3 | Cantaloupe glow (55) 1 | Lemon drop glow double
(proto) 1 | | | Easter egg glow (48) 2 |
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Ran to South Haven this afternoon with my father in Law and a buddy. Sat down in 50 fow straight out and did a few circles after loosing a nice steelie while setting rods. We picked here and there and after a few hours we only had a couple in the box. We headed for deeper water and found some bait with hooks in 100-105 fow. We made a couple circles and started popping fish. We stayed there all afternoon and finished 14 for 21 with 9 steelies up to 10#, 4 kings all about 5# and one 14# laker. Northport Nailer #65 Orange Tiger Roughy RULED the day taking 11 hits. Core from 4-11 color was strong, magnum divers 85-115 on 1.5 settingg and high diver 80 back on 3 setting. One rigger with magnum flahser with Atomic Green Glow Horse Fly ticking bottom took two. High rigger from 50-80 took 3 fish today on blue/ Green dolphin prototypes (3-4). Other spoons to take fish were #48 Glow easter Egg (2), Octoberfeast NEW (1), double lemon drop (2). There was tons of bait with hooks in it. We tried 3 different J plugs around the spread and 3 different flahser flies before settling on the one that caught two fish. Tried lots of other lures, but they wanted orange, especially from 730-845 when we had a flurry to finish up the day. |
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 Last minute trip to South Haven today with two buddies on a tip from a friend that they were biting. Well, we didnt hammer them like in May, but we did finish well. We had 9 fish during the short morning run and landed 8. 5 nice steelhead from 6-9# and 3 decent kings from 3-9#. The one we lost was a nice steelie as well. 
Northport Nailers ruled the roost today with lemon drop glow 89 taking 2 on the 6 color lead, lemon fire glow 76 taking two on the deep diver ticking bottom, prototype orange glow butt took two on the 4 color, blueberry glow 19 took 1 ticking bottom on the rigger, sunfire 69 took one on a high diver, and we finished the day on a trashcan Opti dodger with an atomic green glow Horse Fly ticking bottom to scrape up a nice steelie. The kings were all on the bottom and one steelie down there and the rest were 6 colors and higher. Low diver was 130 back on 1.5 mag diver in 77-79 fow, rigger out 83' in 77 fow for the kings, and the high diver was out 40 and rigger ticking bottom for the steelies. bright sunny clear beautiful day out there. We fished for 5 hours. Great trip! |
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