7/17/2025 Rod Boss Sportfishing

 Fishing has been good from 70-140 fow.  Most of the effort comes to try and land these fish or keeping away from other fishing boats.  

Spoons have been good early in the riggers or maybe a 150-200 copper.  The rest of the bites have been split and maybe vary from day to day but split between meat and flies.  High divers back 180-200 low divers back 80-120 or deeper back 180-220.  Chute rigger has been real good with meat rigs just off bottom.  The 250-450 coppers have been working with a variety of meat rigs and flies greens and yellows something with dots is best but it isn’t the only thing they are biting.  

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Black Pearl Mid July

 Fishing has been outstanding in Holland and most ports along the Michigan coast.  Fish are being found in a variety of depths from 80 all the way to 180.  Catches consist of mainly king salmon.  We are targeting 40-70 ft depths with a combination of magnum spoons, flasher/flies and meat rigs.  Divers back 90-120 on lows and 150-220 on highs, 200-400 coppers and riggers 50-70 down.  

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7/12/2025 Rod Boss Sportfishing

 Spoons, meat and flies have all been working. It does seem that you do need the variety to keep the bite going. Riggers down 50-60 high divers back 120-150 low divers back 70-110. 200-300 coppers have been best. I would mix up the baits so you have a variety of baits at different depths and then you can adjust depending on what the fish are telling you. Spoons on the riggers early but then switching to flies later seemed to work well for us. Meat rig on the chute has been harvesting salmon from the depths. ​

Get out and enjoy! 

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Black Pearl 4th of July Report

 Fishing has overall been good.  Mornings have been more productive than evenings but that should change with the upcoming full moon.  Catches are pretty been a mix of kings, lake trout, coho and steelhead.  We've been fishing in 70-90ft at low light and getting as far as 190 depending on where we are getting bites. 

We've been running our Traxstech riggers with flashers and flys and paddles and flys 70-100 down.  Blood Run wire divers 200-240 back on highs and 95-150 back on lows have been very productive.  I've had a mix of flasher/flies and Big Weenie meat rigs on these.  Blood Run 225-450 coppers have been most productive with flasher/flys but we have been running a few spoons still on higher boards.  Happy Fourth of July!

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Rod boss Sportfishing 7/2/2025

 Fishing seems to finally be improving.  It’s still early in July, The sea Fleas are showing up and are bringing the Kings with them. Salmon are slowly showing up in better numbers than what we have seen in June.  It is a good time to get out and fish.  100-130 east west trolls with meat, flies and spoons were productive last night.  The night fishing has been best the last hour of daylight.  

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Rod Boss Sportfishing 6/28/2025

 Fishing is still a little tough.  Deep coppers 400, 450 have been productive with spoons.  Divers with meat rigs highs back 180 lows back 220.  Meat rig on the chute just off bottom has also been productive.  It has been hard to get the fish in the boat, the land rate has not been very good lately.  Hopefully with it being the end of June the fishing will pick up very soon.  

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Black Pearl 6/16

 Fishing has been hit and miss out of Holland.  Catches consist of a mix of kings, coho and trout.  We are fishing 75-90 and 120-150 FOW.  Divers back 180-230 on highs and 105-130 on lows have been good with flasher fly combos.  Riggers 50-80 down with flasher flies and 200-400 coppers have been productive.  Cottonwood is still thick on the water.  

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6/12/2025 Rod Boss Sportfishing

 Fishing has been pretty decent the last few weeks leading up to the cotton flying.  Seems like fishing is starting to hit it normal June slump.  Hopefully it will be a short lived slow down.  Fishing has been good in the 180-210 fow going for Salmon.  It has mainly been a spoon bite with a couple fish being taken on flies or meat but the majority of the bites are coming from spoons.  Copper rods from 100 to 400 lengths have been working the best.  With a couple extra bites coming on the downriggers, and even fewer bites coming from the diver rods.  Good luck happy fishing.  

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Black Pearl 6/2

Well we are back in and have been sporadically fishing over the past month.  The May weather has fishing a few weeks behind with water temps mainly in the high 40s.  We are fishing 160-220ft from Saugatuck to Port Sheldon.  Catches are mainly king salmon in the 5-12lb range.  Riggers 80-150 down with flasher flies, divers 180-260 on highs, on lows.  Our 150-400 ft coppers with a mix of spoons have produced.  Cottonwood season is fast approaching so get out and enjoy this week of nice weather. 

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