The Trip
Saturday evening we started at the 14 line trolling south. We hooked up a couple of small kings in 190 fow around the 11 line and that was it for the night. One came off a green flasher and green fly and the other one came off the white lightning meat rig. Sunday morning we started at the 12 line trolling south and we were skunked. We caught a laker but we put it back. Sunday evening we started at the 17 line trolling south and we went 1 for 2. Monday morning we started at the 13 line trolling south and we went 3 for 5 with the 10 color lead and a gray ghost plug being our best set up. Monday evening we started at the 20 line trolling south and we went 3 for 4 with the dipsy with the white lightning being the best set up. Tuesday morning we started at the 17.7 line trolling south and we went 1 for 1. Tuesday evening was our first blow trip, it was just too rough. Wednesday morning we started at the 19 line trolling south and we went 1 for 1. Caught a 16 lb. steelhead. Wednesday evening was another blow day. Thursday morning we decided to make the run to Big Sable point and we started fishing at the 4 line. We went 5 for 6 and caught our largest king, 29 lb. The gray ghost J plug caught a couple of fish, white lightning caught a fish and the big fish came off a blue mamba meat rig. Thursday evening we fished the north side of the pier in 35 fow trolling up and down the shore line. We went 1 for 2 and lost a large king right behind the boat. One fish hit the green splatter back and the other fish came off the white lightning. Friday morning we went to the point again and caught our fish at the 3 line. We went 2 for 3 and lost a large king when the braid fishing line broke. When we brought in the line there was a knot in the line. How a knot got into the middle of the line I will never know. The only thing we came up with is it came that way from the factory. We lost our white lightning meat rig and the dipsy.
The Tally For the Week
We hooked 27 fish and we landed 19 of them which gave us a catch rate of .703 percent which is not very good for us. We lost one at the net, one broke the braid line and the rest just came unbuttoned. We fished for 37.5 hours and landed 19 fish which gave us a catch rate of .506 percent, which is not very good. It seems our catch rate keeps going down every year. Of the 12 sessions we could have gone fishing we made it out 10 times which is good for Lake Michigan. We got skunked 2 times and I just hate not catching a fish, it makes for a long boat ride. The 19 fish weighed 323.5 lbs which gave us an average weight of 17.03 lb. per fish. The largest fish weighed 29 lbs. and the smallest was 6.5 lbs. We put 145 miles on the boat. The average temp break (50 degrees) was 30 feet down, which is very shallow.
Below is a list of lures that had a hit
Gray Ghost J Plug ...................................................8
White Lightning Meat Rig.......................................6
Green Splatter Back Ace High.................................3
Green Spin Doctor and Green Fly............................3
Kevin's Girlfriend and Green Meat Rig....................3
White Spin Doctor and Green Fly.............................2
Blue Mamba Meat Rig..............................................1
Bloody Nose Spoon...................................................1
