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| Welcome to our fishing report page, on this page we will report on our latest fishing trips. We will let you know in some detail what worked and of course what did not work. | |
| More reports 5/29/06, 6/4/06 , 7/03/06 , 7/14/06, 7/30/06, 8/22/06, 6/24/07, 7/15/07 7/18/07 7/21/07 7/29/07 |
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Holland
Sept-03-07 - We
had a change of plans -with the weather so great this weekend we decide
to try one last time. Can it ever be the last time for fishing. Hit
the water early and again the weather people had trouble predicting
the wave hight, because we were in 2 to 4 footers for most of the
morning. We stuck it out and by noon it was laying down. Boated 2
nice fish, a 5 LB coho and 10 LB brown. The coho came on a mountain
dew spin doctor and mirage fly 38 feet down 40 feet back. The brown
came on a silver screw ball, on a set slider 10 foot above a mountain
dew spin doctor and mirage fly. |
 
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| Holland Aug-23-07 - Made our last trip for the year this morning for the season, early goose season starts in a little over a week. We knew that the weather would be an issue, but when this is it, you have to at least give it a try. After waiting for the rain and small thunderstorms to move thru the area we managed to hit the water a little late for salmon fishing 8:00am. Then when we made the end of the piers we were greeted with 2 to 3 foot waves and swells up to 6 feet and that was not the worse it then started to rain again. We made the decision to stay and try, well we were all ready there, so we put the plugs out. Lets just say it was a little slow, but we did manage to boat a nice 14 pounder, but that was it until next year. | Click image for larger view
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| Holland Jul-29-07 - The crew was on the water at 6:00am and the fishing was great again. The first line down was taken by an angry 17 pounder while on the way down, and to our surprise, after getting it in the boat it had bent the magnum spoon. I tried to get a picture but it really doesn't show it well. This lure is now hanging on the overhead in the cabin of the boat, to remind us just how hard these fish can hit our equipment. By 8:00am we had 5 in the box and worked on our last one for 45 minutes longer. After we had got the last one fish in and had started to clear lines another one hit. We farmed one and the total for the day was 7 for 8 kings, one king farmed, 3 other releases and 2 lampreys which we disposed of correctly. One great day! The hot setup was again a mountain dew color fish catcher and a sparkle fly, behind a chrome green dipsey ran 80 feet back. The original moonshine spoon also took a couple, fished 48 feet down. We were fishing just a little south of the pier heads in 90 to 140 feet of water. | Click
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| Holland Jul-21 & 22-07 - The Muck Boy crew fished both Saturday and Sunday for the first time this year and it turned out to be a picture perfect weekend on the water. The weather was fantastic and the fishing was fair on Saturday and great on Sunday for us. On Saturday we took a couple of friends from the Grand Rapids area out and went 2 for 3. Fish were in very close to shore, with some of marine radio chatter putting them in as close as 27 feet of water. We started in about 70 feet of water and worked are way in, but it was a little to late. Finally picked up our fish in 96 feet of water. On Sunday we started in close and could get nothing going so about 9:00am we started to move back out to the 96 foot depth where we had found warmer water the day before. At about 9:30 we picked up our first fish and by 10:30 we were headed back to the launch, boxed out. All our fish came on spin doctors and files. The hot set up was a mountain dew color fish catcher and a sparkle fly, behind a chrome green dipsey ran 120 feet back. The other good set up was a pearl dipsey, blue bubble spin doctor and fly also ran 120 feet back. | Click
image for larger view  Scott & Mark with a couple of nice fish 
The kids get into the act |
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Spring Lake Jul-18-07 - One
of the Muck Boy crew was lucky enough to go out on a charter aboard
Real
Action, with Captain Mark and his daughter Ally. We left the harbor
at 6:00 AM and took off out of the river on a North West direction.
We stopped in about 85 foot of water and continued on a north west troll.
The first 90 minutes were pretty phenomenal with us putting 8 fish in
the box and having about double that many on. The first down-rigger
in the water had a 16 pound king hit on the way down and down-riggers
continued to be hot for the first 60 minutes that we were out. The fish
were coming on Spin Doctors and Action Fly's of almost any color. After
the first 60 minutes the fish quickly transitioned to dipsies with Spin
Doctors and Fly's. After the first 2 hours the fish then started to
hit on lead core with 14 color being the most productive. When the fishing
transitioned to lead core the hot lure was the modified green dolphin.
We also caught a fish on copper wire line running straight out of the
back of the boat. We finished the day going 12 for 23 with 6 of the
fish at 15 pounds or larger. If you get a chance to go out on a Charter
I would definitely recommend that you choose Real
Action Charters. |
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| Holland Jul-15-07 - The crew made it back out on the water today after a couple of weekends off for some family activities. The crew went 2 for 9 today with both fish weighing in at about 13 lbs, The best bite was between 6:30 and 8:30 am, finding us at one time with with only one rod in the water. Both fish came on a north west troll on downriggers set at between 30 and 40 feet, the hot lure was a glow firefly magnum spoon. The fish were hard to keep hooked up today, with others also reporting on the radio such things as 5 for 12 and 0 for 4. Hope to be back out next weekend if the weather holds. |  
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| Holland
Jun-24-07 - The
June slow down that everyone talks about is all over our boat and we
are now firm believers of this theory. On our last 2 trips, we have
been happy just to get a release now and then. There was plenty of bait
fish around today from 50 to 100 feet of water. We also marked quite
a few fish in about 144 feet. Lost one last Sunday on a green fly and fish catcher combo. Today we lost a nice steelie when picking up, when we released one of the lures from a downrigger it slammed it on its run up, don't know why but it broke the line before we could get to it, but it put on a great show at the back of the boat breaking the water at least 4 times. We have our fingers crossed for a great July. |
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| Holland Jun-10-07 - One week later and the same results - one small king about 5 lb's, early on a magnum green bubble 43 feet down over 140 feet of water and then no more hits for 3 hours. We worked hard trying to get a program dialed in but not much luck. We will be back next week end to give it another try. Also there was one boat reporting 6 fish taken all on riggers about 55 feet down in 180 feet of water on bloody nose and wonder bread and another boat reporting 4 fish taken on full core. |  Click image for larger view |
| Holland Jun-03-07 - Well the crew finally made it out today. Did not get out until after 8:00am due to the numerous thunderstorms in the area. Dropped the first lines at 8:10 and immediately took a 4 lb king 40 foot down on an outside down rigger. Fished till 11:00am with no further action. The few boats that were out were scattered, fishing water from 30 to 180 feet deep, From the radio traffic it sounded like they had no better luck than we had. | Not much, but what a great lunch!
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| Saugatuck 8/22/06 -One of the Muck Boy Staff memebers had the opportunity to fish with Best Chance Charters aboard the Marya. Captain Mike has been fishing out of this port for 7 years and knew right where the fish would be for our evening excursion. The Marya is a 36 foot Trojan that is equipped with Auto Pilot and enough gear to make the most seasoned Great Lakes fisherman jealous. We started out south west of the harbor in 100 feet of water although as we left the mouth of the Kalamazoo river fish could be seen jumping. It took captain Mike about an hour to set the 15 rods that we ran that day. He was running 8 different lead core set ups most with a variety of flashers and flies and a couple of spoons mixed in. He ran 2 mono dippsy divers and 2 wire diver set ups all with flashers and flies. Last but not least he ran 3 downrigger set ups 2 with flashers and flies and one with a flasher and cut bait. For the day we caught 6 fish 3 lake trout and 3 kings. The biggest king was around 12 pounds and one of the lake trout was nearly 10 pounds. All of the fish came on either a blue or green flasher teamed with the same color fly. The first king came on the mono diver 225 feet back. The next four fish came on the riggers set 80 to 100 feet down and the last and biggest king came on a core and half with a green spin doctor and green fly. I would definitely recommend the trip to anyone looking for a good charter. | |
| Holland 7/30/06 - Well if you fish long enough and spend time on the water - you most likley will have a motor isssue - that was our story this morning - about half way to the big lake the engine over heated - we managed to get it back to the launch - found the water pump impeller had no vanes left - new one on order and should be back on the water next weekend weather permitting. | |
| Ludington
- July 14 2006 -
The youngest member of the Muck Boy team fished with Charter Captain
Keith of Lie-Alot-Charters this
afternoon they put 13 kings and 3 steelhead in the boat fishing mainly
42 to 52 feet down no more than a mile from shore south of the harbour. The fish were hitting mostly during the east troll at about 2.3 mph. Green lures seemed to be the ticket with Magnum Dreamweaver Green Isicle being the hottest. |
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| Holland 7/08/06 - Very very slow for most boats, including Muck Boy - no releases at all - on the water at 5:30am - Thank goodness for the poker run it was really cool seeing all those boats and choppers. The lead boat must of been doing at least 75MPH when he went by us. Good luck next week, we sure will need it. | |
Holland 7/03/06 - Fishing was good this morning, we went 4 for 5 just north of the peir. We started fishing in 70 feet of water and picked up a 9 lb king before we had all the lines set. Trolled for another hour before our next action and action it was, within a span of about 20 minutes we put two 8 lb. steelhead and a 6 lb brown in the ice chest and lost another. As with most boats we got off the water when a rain shower and wind blew up at about 11:30am. By far our best lure of the day was a magnum Silver Streak piranha set 51 feet down and 14 pulls back off the riggers. As you can see by the picture on the left the regular size piranha has been abused before. Reports at the dock also placed fish to the south in 100 to 125 feet of water. NOTE: Silver Streak Piranha has been our most consistant lure, so far this season. We are also getting the littles ones involved - Zack seems to like these fish. |
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| Holland 6/04/06 - It turned out to be a slow weekend for fishing. Thunder storms and fronts moving through the area. Sat was very slow out of this port and most boats were off the water by 11:00am. Sunday found the lake flat - we ran northwest out from the pier heads, and set up in 130 ft of water, by 7:30am we had a 12 lb king in the box and a small 3 lb king as well. We fished all the way to 10:30am before we got another, it was a clone of the first 3 lb king. All 3 fish came on different lures, the large one came on a Blue Whale - Standard Silver Streak 43 ft down 16 pulls back over 130 ft of water. Fish 2 came on a Bat Man Standard Silver Streak behind a blue metallic dipsey set 115 ft back. Fish 3 came on a Mag Northern King silver with blue tape, see lure pictures below. This was on a down rigger set 43 ft down and 16 pulls back. | Click image for larger view
Nice King |
| Holland
5/29/06 - Well we finally made
it out this past weekend . The weather was warm too hot with blue
sky's. Lake Michigan could not have better, Saturday the lake was
flat very little wind and Sunday south winds gave us waves 1 to 2
feet.
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