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Decided with the wind forecast for later today and tonight/saturday, to give it a shot this morning at pastrick. We managed to get our 10 coho this morning. Wasn't hot and heavy, but a slow steady pick, we lost 5 others and had several drive bys. Flatlines with crankbaits by far did the most damage, with the old standby red/black squiggle thin fish probably accounting for the most action. Got a couple off riggers, and one on a dipsy. Lost a bigger fish off a rigger with super slim stinger NBK, maybe a brown? We picked up all our fish from just outside the marina and trolling east to the buffington lighthouse, back and forth. Deployed one of the new homemade big planer boards I made in the off season, it worked fine, took 3 fish off of it, just need to change our layout a bit, and we'll have both in action next time. The .75 cent brother nature releases work just fine also.
It was great to get the boat wet, even better to actually catch fish. We were going to stay over and fish mich city tomorrow, but with the wind/wave forecast, decided that wasn't going to be too attractive until in the afternoon. Thought about staying and fishing pastrick again tomorrow, but decided this will be the only place fishable in the morning on the south end, and I'm just betting the wall will get pretty crowded, coupled with they have the parking lots all tore up, it could be a nightmare. The cleaning station was open, another bonus. Heard rainmaker on the radio, sounded like they were getting them somewhere over out of the ditch, unfortunately, that might be impossible in the morning.
Brother Nature was there, I said hi in the morning when he walked by, I got a courtesy wave. My brother said hi while in the boat when passing you to go to the ramp, didn't get any response? Maybe you need to lay off the gruff juice in the morning Mike?

haha maybe he didnt have his coffee yet

Thanks for the report - and nice work getting your ten!

Good job reelfun. Glad you made it out, and thanks for the report.

hatchling:
That wasn't my first trip to the little boy's room that morning. Feeling better now and maybe wil have more time to visit in the future. Besides, I know as many people by their on-line name as by face or or their boat.

Capt. Mike

Yeah Mike...I saw and replied over on southender. Boat is "reel fun", and I'm a Mike too!
Good luck tomorrow, looks better now than they were saying this morning. Looks like that wind is gonna slow down overnight and be SW by daybreak to lay things down.

Reel Fun, I read you popped a few fish using your downrigger. If you don't mind, what were you using for your lure and at what depth range? Did any other type crank bait get used and took some hits? I know these things can change quickly but I think this kind of info is worth remembering as it might be a good place to start your search if the conditions have not changed much.

Hey Don,
For coho, I use the smaller size spoons (3.5" and super slims), in various colors. The ones that took bites yesterday were red/gold back (unsure of manufacturer), and the NBK chartreuse pattern super slim stinger. I had two riggers yesterday and got hits running 8' and 12' down, and relatively short leads..20'-30'. I think coho like short leads, they love noise for some reason, but every day is different.
As far as body baits, we took several fish on the orange J-11, one of my favorites. One fish came on firetiger J-11, several fish on gold/orange thin fish, and majority on the red/black squiggle thin fish. I see lots of mention of J-9 size rapalas also, may be good now, the water is cold and the fish are small. We had zero hits on dodger/flies, but my confidence in those things is much lower than others. I know they produce, and produce well.

Sounds like you had a most enjoyable day reelfun! Got the Rant out of ya? ha, ha, Always feels better to get the boat in with no problems and able to catch fish. Good job Mike!!!!!

I have got all that plus the custom f and j- 11's I had painted. I will start out using an assortment of thinfins and rapalas behind my boards and try my coho spoons first when I come up next Friday afternoon. I'll be listening on 68 for you guys. Give me a shout Saturday. Did any one nail any browns yesterday?