Saturday, August 30, 2014

 Mark and I caught an 8 lb Steelhead and a 16 lb king on Thursday night in 100 FOW.  There were all kinds of people out fishing so it was important to stay by the wheel.  The King came on a white mirage fly on dipsy on 1 back 185 and the steelhead on greasy chicken wing spoon on full core.   We were feeling ok about our short outing where we fished from 7 to 9, except that when we got back to the Z-dock, we spoke Jeff who just got back in and he and his wife caught 10 fish.  They said that they were out a bit deeper in 150 or 160.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

 We have our big Shipyard Labor Day party coming up and I needed to get a few more fillets for the grill so I headed out on a solo trip from 5-8 pm last night.  It was a windy bouncy evening on the lake and mostly trolled S and N.  I ended 3-4 with a 10, 12, and 16 lb king and the big fish tested my driving, fishing, and netting all-in-one capabilities.  Disappointingly, the one that got away broke the backing line behind the full core.  It was probably the biggest yet as it was ripping the line off the reel - where the backing line broke probably hadn't seen the light of day in quite some time.  I was mostly in 95-110 feet of water.   The 16 pounder came on a meet rig 70 down.  The other 2 were on a full core with a greasy chicken wing spoon.  They fish provided some great fillets for the grill on Sunday!

Mark and I are going out for trip tonight too...details to come.

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Monday, August 18, 2014

Saturday morning I headed out with Mark (D-23) and we fished from 7 to 10:30.  We ended up 3 of 4 and took 3 nice kings in the 6 to 10 lb range.  The action was good early but we just drove around for the last 2 hours.  We were mostly just South of Holland and in 80-110 FOW.  Back at the dock I talked to few people that did much better than us (8-10 fish) but were fishing further North.  This set the stage for our trip the next day.

I went out again with Mark on Sunday morning and we got up little earlier and fished from 6:30 to 11:00 and ended only 2 of 5.  We headed North and fished mostly half-way between Holland and Port Sheldon from 70 to 130 FOW.  Unfortunately the good advice from the day before didn't turn into more fish.  We did loose 2 fish to broken lines.  One fish came on a meet rig and the other on a blue dolphin spoon.

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Monday, August 11, 2014

I took an afternoon trip on Sunday (I'm a sucker for a calm, sunny day on the water), so I was expecting slow fishing, and unfortunately that is what I got.   I ended up 1 for 2 and caught a 6 lb King on Green dolphin glow on a full core.  But, it was a beautiful day!


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Monday, August 4, 2014

Don from Z-31 was out Sunday Night and reported that he went 3 for 3.  He brought in Two mature female Chinooks and nice steelhead.   40 to 50 foot down in 150 foot of water.  Green Dolphin and that hammered gold and green with the fluorescent tape.

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The Eldean Shipyard Fishing Team (Wade, Mark K, Mark V, Paul, Ken, Shane) helped sponsor and also entered the Big Red Classic this past weekend.  Leading up to the tournament, the Rhino was out of the water for 10 days getting the hull patched from a freak anchor incident.  The boat made it back in the water on Friday afternoon just in time for the tournament.  We had an awful Saturday, with only one small lake trout, just big enough to keep.  It wouldn't have been so bad if we could could have hooked some of the other 8 or 9 hits that got away.  All the misses came in 80 to 180 FOW just North of Holland.

For Day 2, I got a tip from Jeff at the marina (Z-39) that he did pretty well down by Saugatuck so on Sunday we went strait to Saugatuck and set up in about 60 FOW.  We stayed South of Saugatuck all morning and mostly around 100 FOW.  We had action all morning long and ended the day going 9 for 12 with 7 kings, 1 laker, and 1 steelhead.  The kings we got early had some nice weight and we were able to weight in our top 5 fish that totaled 67 lbs.  Meat rigs behind dipsy and paddles took 3 fish.  1 fly took another, and a variety of spoons got the rest.  Sunday was a lot more fun than Saturday and the fishing team is hoping that we can string 2 good days together next year!

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