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| Holland Dock Reporter: Brad Keen, Bud Lawson | |
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| June -10th - 2013 - Bud's Report - Went out of Holland Thursday and went 9 for 13 and 4 for 4 Sat out of Port Sheldon, most fishing was done in 80 to 100 feet of water fishing from top to bottom no special color, green and yellow was probably the best. | Click
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Holland
May -27th 2013 -
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| May -17th - 2013 - Bud's Report - Went 10 for 10 yesterday, 5 coho, 4 kings and a steelhead . Three came on big green paddle 130 feet down, 1 on a green ace high, 1 on a red thin fin black strips on 2 colors lead best depth was 150 to 160 feet of water, most came above 30 feet, good day to be out. | Click
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| Sept-3rd -2012 - Bud's Report - Fished south of the pier in 70' to 85' and went 5 for 6. The fish came on side divers with green J-plugs 150' back and down riggers 45' to 75' down, blue spinny took a nice lake trout and the other hits were on a green spoon. We came in at 10 a.m. it was nice getting out for a while. | Click
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| Aug-25th -2012 - Bud's Report - Fished from 7 to 10 am. in 100' of water 85' to bottom with big white paddle and and flies and went 4 for 7, the fish were biting in the morning. Also heard from a friend at 8 am. At the time he was hooked up to his 7th in 110' off Port Sheldon fishing near bottom with the big white paddle. | Click
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| Aug-15th -2012 - Bud's Report - Not as good as it was a couple of weeks ago, but I am not complaining we went 5 for 8 in 180' to 210' any where from 45' down to 110' 4 nice kings and a laker , Kevorkian D.W. on a full core took 3 and 2 on slide diver back 150' D.W. green and orange the laker was on a blue spinny and no see'em fly we started at 6:45 and quit at 11Am. great day to be out with a friend , the lake has warmed up a lot . | Click
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| Holland Aug -12th - Muck Boy Report - After a strong blow the last few days we seen an opportunity to get out this morning for a few hours to chase down some of those 4 year old kings. We hit the water well before day break, setting lines with glow plugs as soon as we broke the pier head and set course south. We marked plenty of fish but had no takers in the 20 to 30 foot of water range. We trolled south and north of the pier heads and our best depth was 55 feet and we managed to go 1 for 2 losing a 20lb+ fish about 10 foot from the net. The fish we took came on a Dreamweaver Glow Frog mag spoon down 38 feet and the one we lost came on a small Silver Horde #000541 down 41 feet, and that was it. Hope to be back on the water next weekend. | Click
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| Aug-2nd -2012 - Bud's Report - We caught 13 this evening best bait was big white paddle 90' to 100' down on riggers in 125 to 150' of water 4 came on 450' copper and big white paddle, the fish are starting to turn color. | Click
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July-29th -
Muck Boy Report "It's
still an early bite!" and we are stuck on 3, 3 fish
a trip that is. We started setting setting lines before 6am and had
the 2 larger fish in the picture in the boat before 7am and the little
fella came at about 8am. Everything came off white Spin Doctors, blue and double pearl glow were the best tapes with various flies set down any were from 64 to 80 feet, between 100 and 165 fow, straight out from the pier heads. |
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| Holland
July-21st -
Muck
Boy Report "It's
an early bite!" That was the consensus at the cleaning
station today. Everyone basically had the same story, the bite was
fast and furious from the time lines were set until about 7am and
then the bites were few and far between. Luckily our lines were set by 6:30 and we went 3 for 4, 3 kings and a lake trout. We were is 80 fow, the first and largest king came on a Dreamweaver Magnum spoon green glow frog off a rigger set 45 ft down, the second king came on a mono dipsey with a blue fish catcher and a white fly set 140' back and the lake trout came off the same setup as the first king. The one that got away was on a Dreamweaver Magnum spoon glow Firefly. Fished until 10:30 when, fighting the building waves and the lack of a bite seemed to be the best thing to do. There's always next weekend. |
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Holland July-14 & 15th - Muck Boy Report Back after the big ones this weekend. Started out Saturday morning a little north of the pier in 60 fow and found our best bite at 80', set lines down any where from 42 to 46'. Took a real nice king (about 18#) on a wire line dipsey setup with a Dreamweaver Firefly magnum spoon - 150' back. Took another king on the same lure down 44' off one of the center riggers. Took a steelhead on a dipsey set 180' back on a Magnum Bloody Nose. The other steelhead came on a free slider standard brass spoon with orange tape with the main line down 44'. For the day we went 4 for 7 and we had to leave the water by 10am for some family activities. On Sunday we had hoped for the same great weather as there was on Saturday, but this was not to be. When we hit the lake there was a good 2' foot chop and we headed out to 70 FOW. Took our first king on a Firefly magnum spoon down 44' and no sooner had we cleaned the deck after that fight and the other center rigger went off and we took a larger king on a Silver Streak Hot Lobster down 46'. By this time there were 3 foot waves and on to many occasions at least a 4' roller. Time to go! All and all a Good Weekend, wish we could have fished longer. The fish are here and its time to get out and catch a few, when the waves permit. |
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| Jul -10th - 2012 -- Bud's Report - The lake has cooled off and the steelhead are around the piers. The boat fishermen are doing real well in about 100' anywhere from 30' down to the bottom they are hitting spinys, spoons on a variety of colors. I don't remember fishing any better in my life get out if you can. | Click
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| Jul -6th - 2012 -- Bud's Report - Took my grandsons and their dad out this afternoon and went 11 for 20 some came 80' to 120' down in 125' to 155'. Most came on spinnys and flies green - blue - white almost anything you put down, a bloody nose Dreamweaver, was hot on the slider and dipseys set on 3 200' out with spin doctors. A great time was had by all. | Click
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| Jul -5th - 2012 -- Bud's Report - Started fishing around 6am. Fished in 60 to 80 FOW 40 to 50 feet down and went 10 for 15 by 8 am. Moonshine and Dreamweaver spoons bloody nose glo were the hot baits for us today. | Click
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| Jul
-2nd
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Bud's
Report - Fished
this AM. went 9 for 12 in 90 to 135' of water 50' to 65' down purple
Dreamweaver was the best color. |
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| June-30th-2012 - Bud's Report - The summer steelhead run has been going for about 3 weeks. I went 2 times this week, using shrimp off of bobbers. Lots of fun I have broke off 6 or seven times, as steelhead do a lot of jumping. Monday we were 5 for 12 and Friday 6 for 11. I also hear that boats are also doing well | Click
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Holland May-27th-12 - Muck Boy Report - Our plan was to fish both Saturday and Sunday but the early morning rains on Saturday dampened those plans. We did find out that some fished, but from the looks of the radar we decided we would be better yo catch up on some chores that were also on the agenda for the weekend. We did get out Sunday and found the fish to be scattered and tight lipped, at least for us. We started fishing in 80 feet of water straight out and during our search worked out as far as 130 feet, looking for those active fish. The only fish we managed to pick up was a nice 8 lb king in 85 feet of water 38 foot down on a Silver Streak, standard size Blue Chilly Willy spoon, while we were trolling into 50 feet to see if there was some active fish in close. We did mark some good fish but had no takers. Take a look at the picture to the right, of a jumbo perch that a fellow fisherman brought into the Macatawa cleaning station. They had been fishing south down by Saugatuck and took a nice mess including this 14 1/4 inch jumbo. Thanks Guys |
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| May-24th-2012 - Bud's Report - Started in about 80 foot of water and our first fish came on a white paddle 70 feet down in 85 feet of water. We picked up 6 more as we went out to 160 feet of water, 2 were steelhead 1 lake trout and the rest were kings most came on spoons with lemon ice and blue dolphin being the best. | Click
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| May-17th-2012 - Bud's Report - Fishing was very good this morning as we went 9 for 10 in 85 to 95 south of the piers. All the fish but 1 came in the top 50 foot of water, 1 on a blue spiny and fly and 3 on a bloody nose DW and a couple on mixed veggies, it was a really a great day to be out | Click
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| Holland May-5th-12 - Muck Boy Report - Took our Lake Michigan shake down cruise this morning. The weather was questionable when we left the launch with 2 to 4 foot waves predicted but the waves never got over 2 feet, it did rain a bit and a larger front that moved across the lake pushed a lot of boats off the lake at 10:00 am, including us. The boat ran great and there was only a couple of house keeping items we had to fix. Fishing was a litlle slow for us until 9:30 am when we boated 3 fish within 20 minutes. They all came in about 120 feet of water on riggers, the first was an 8 lb king on a standard Blue Dolphin spoon down 72 feet, the 6 lb king came on a magnum Green Chilly Willy down 90 feet and a small coho came on a free slider with the main line down 90 feet on a brass and orange taped standard spoon. The real story is we should have stayed at the pier head, the boats that fished there, trolling back and forth, did real well, one boat had 10 fish and another had 7 and some of the kings were close to 20 lbs and most were taken on spoons. | Click
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| Sept-3rd-2011
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Muck
Boy Report - Fished about 1
1/2 hours this past Saturday before a strong wind line blew across
lake Michigan. It could have been worse - I am sure the boats that
stayed out north of here must of really had a fight with the strong
thunder storms that came along with the wind. |
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| Aug-21st
2011 -
Muck
Boy Report - Made it back out
this morning to try and get into some of these 4 year old King Salmon.
We were setting lines straight out in 80 feet of water in a 1 to 2
foot chop at about 6:15am. Our first set up of glow magnum spoons
set between 55 and 65 feet down didn't do anything so when there was
a little more light we changed the 2 center riggers over to White
Spin
Doctors and Green Flies down 72 and
75 feet. It was bang bang the first a king about 14 lbs. and the other
shook the hook after a short fight. See that happy fella on the right, he wasn't to happy about 7:30 as he had turned a little green in the 2 footers so we had to call it a day. Sure was glad he got to get out to see his first king taken. I am sure it won't be his last. |
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| Aug-6th 2011 - Muck Boy Report - Hit the water early again today (before daylight) and this time it was worth it. We started setting lines in the dark in 70 feet of water, just north of the pier, with glow spoons on the downriggers, setting them between 35 and 45 feet down, the first small king came on a magnum Moonshine Moonshine spoon set 41 feet down, the next hit came on a magnum Firefly Dreamweaver spoon set 38 feet down. but this one broke off. The mono dipseys were going this morning, our best set up was a Mountain Dew Spin Doctor, with a Catch A Bunch Big Winnie fly that we modified by replacing the single blood red hooks with one blood red treble set 130 feet back , this rig accounted for 2 more kings, we had the other set up go with the fish taking out more the 50 feet of line before getting off. Our last fish a nice 9 pound laker took a white Spin Doctor we call Oil Slick with a Last Supper Rapture Fly also modified with a blood red treble, set 55 down on one of the center downriggers. We also lost another laker on this same setup just before it got to the net. For the morning we were 4 for 7, with our most productive depth being 95 feet on a south troll. All and all one nice day on the water, other than having to dodge the rain. | Click
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| Aug 6th-2011 - Brad's Report - The fishing seems to be picking up slightly as we caught six fish Saturday. No four year olds however, four small salmon a steelhead and a lake trout. We had our best luck in 85 FOW between Holland and Saugatuck. Green spoons, both regular and magnum sized were the best. We caught fish on 200 and 300 copper, dispeys back 110 ft and a rigger down 25. | |
| Holland July-30th 2011- Muck Boy Report - Hit the water earlier today, having our lines set a little after 6:00am. Only to find that the fish were still not hitting. Marked quite a few as we trolled. We fished water any where from 70 to 125 feet and setting and adjusting lines up and down from 35 to 75 feet down throughout the morning. Finally at 9:30 we took a nice trout on a Spin Dr and Fly back 180 feet, in front of Saugatuck in 80 feet of water. A few minutes later we spotted a trolling board just floating with no boats any where around it, so with fishing being so slow we turned the boat and managed to net it after a long slow turn. We not only retrieved the board and about 300 yards of copper line - but also a 12 lb king which had a little fight left but not much. If the weather holds we will be back out next weekend searching for those 4 year old kings. Maybe everyone will have better luck next weekend. | Click
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| July-23rd
& 24th -11 -
Muck
Boy Report - Started to fish
for salmon this weekend after a brief absence. Saturday we watched
rain and storms cross the big lake at 4:30am by 5:30 we though they
had cleared enough to give it a try. After a short drive to the launch
some others told us that the waves were breaking over the piers. END
OF DAY ONE. Sunday - there was once again showers on the west shore of the lake but the radar looked as they would swing south and north. We were on the water by 6:30am with friends Chad and Collin. It took no time at all to hook a steelhead who jumped out of the water twice and spit the hook. Trolled all the way to Saugatuck fishing in waters from 70 to 110 feet deep, but no takers. At about 10:00am a report came over the marine radio of a large front pushing across the lake , that's when one of the full cores went and we reeled in a nice 3lb steelie. |
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| Aug 6th-2011 - Brad's Report - The fishing seems to be picking up slightly as we caught six fish Saturday. No four year olds however, four small salmon a steelhead and a lake trout. We had our best luck in 85 FOW between Holland and Saugatuck. Green spoons, both regular and magnum sized were the best. We caught fish on 200 and 300 copper, dispeys back 110 ft and a rigger down 25. | |
| June 2nd-2011 - Good salmon fishing when boats can get out to waters 140 to 240 feet deep. Hot colors were green, blue, Lemon Ice & Lemon Berries | |
| Holland May-21-11 - This was our shake down trip and all systems are go, the boat is running great and we get to put our new Ugly Stick Trolling & Diver Rods to use even though they didn't see any action we really like the feel of these new sticks. Reports from earlier in the week was that most boats had been doing well from this port. But these reports didn't help us as we had another rough start to our Great Lakes fishing season. We didn't even have a bump, we did mark quite a few fish south of the piers about half way to Saugatuck. We fished from 70 to 90 feet of water. Later in the morning, we did pick up some information that the boats fishing deeper (115 to 165 feet of water) were picking up a few fish. But by this time we had to leave the lake for Saturday Soccer Games. We will be back next week to see if we can get into them. | |
