Fished straight out from the pier heads from 5:00-8:30pm. Bounced between 100-135fow mainly. Hooked up on a shaker king in 103fow on a 6 color; blue/green flasher-fly. No other hits except we picked up a Herring that thought he was hanging out with a friend. From the flies perspective, the bite was uncanny. Bad night to wear shorts ..read more

Set down solo in 90 FOW at 5:00pm. Ran 200' weighted steel on a board off the port and 10 color LC on a board off the starboard and SWR off the lone downrigger. Ran out to 225 FOW without a bump rotating through an all spoon spread of mixed veggies, copper plated watermelon, UV green dolphin, UV spotted frog and orange crush. Marked one fish. Ripped lines and came back in to 110 FOW. Ran two dipseys and 10 color LC down the shoot. Marked one big bait ball in 101 FOW. At dusk, in 83 FOW, finally got bit. 8lb king hit a purple stinger down 27' on the outside dipsey trolling northwest. I let the ..read more

Made only our second trip of the season to the big lake today at South Haven. Zero boat trailers in the parking lot at the boat launch when we got there at 6:30 should have told us what to expect. We could only scratch up four fish going 4-4. Two lakers, a nice steelhead and a small king. Two lakers on the downrigger 75 feet down with a tin can dodger doctored up with green prism tape on one side with a chrome and green spin-n-glow. A small king hit the other down rigger down 65 feet with a UV blue dolphin spoon. The steelhead hit 10 colors of leadcore with a warrior whammy spoon. Fished 70 to ..read more

2for2 77-81fow was what worked South and Southeast troll both came on copp250 Hawaiian spoon cool morning out there & good thing PUG bundled up ..read more

First time fishing out of Grand Haven (typically out of Holland). Started out great, average sized king at 6:30am in 120FOW trolling West, with the East wind. Nothing after that as East winds picked up quickly by 7am and effective trolling became tough. Ranged from 80-150FOW, did not mark much. King: 120FOW, 225 copper w/ Superbread spoon: 6:30am. West troll (East wind ..read more

first time out this season PUG has been down south nailing Tarpon and Goliath Grouper all winter so now he has to shift gears for Michigan 3for3 first fish was on dipsey at 6am while letting it out in 68fow on a west troll.. literally was the first rod I had set this year and it went off within 8seconds while I was slowly letting her out (60 out) so hopefully that is a good sign on what's to come other 2 fish came in a chaotic double in 78fow at around 745am on a NW troll both the 10 color went with a green jeans spoon and also the rigger went 38 down with a shelly snack spoon seemed quite out ..read more

Anyone have a source for “red pepper” flies/meat rigs? Capt Chucks is out of flies and can’t even locate the meat rig. Thks ..read more

Hard to believe Fin Warrior has been in the water since April 21st and this was the first time I wet lines. Fished the top of the water column with two dipseys tipped with spoons and on downrigger rigged with a SD & green crinkle fly two passes out. Set up just north of Saugatuck in 130 FOW trolling south at about 11:00am. After about 30 min decided to move out to deeper water. As I moved into the second of two slicks in 187FOW, the downrigger went off. Netted a 5lb king and released it. Made a quick adjustment to start turning south to follow the slick. Before I could get the rod back dow ..read more

I thought this Baby Bluey toy looked like a little bluegill, and apparently the fish did too ..read more

Kids and I decided to give full moon fishing extravaganza a try. Fished 10pm - 4am. Started with riggers and hi lo divers to see how we would fare with a sometimes less is more attitude. Shaker King off rigger 33 down 30 back Carbon 14 70fow North Slow going so added 2 boards in made some adjustments to riggers and dipsys and worked 70-130fow. Didn't change up lures mostly tried depths, speed, and direction. Lot's of crazy ivan's. Shaker King off board 2 color #14 Perch DDHJ 70fow East While it was slow fishing, the company and the experience was priceless. We would do it again. No fish pics w ..read more