Rod Boss Sportfishing

The salmon fishing is as good or better than it has been in years. Book a trip now or get your boat and get out there and enjoy this! Fish are coming early in 120-180 fow and sliding out to 230-280 fow find good numbers. Spoons are working well on the higher coopers 150,175,209,225 copper lengths. Meat rigs are firing on divers lows set back 100-150 Lots of spiny and fly and paddle and fly combos on divers and the lower 250,300,325,359 and 400 coppers. There is nothing like summer in michigan!

7/7/22 We fished from 120-145 fow holland to Saugatuck with the best water being south. Finished 8-15 for the trip. Corner riggers were the best for trout with spin and glows. 1 low diver bite for trout is the only additional trout bite we were able to get. With silver bites coming off the 175 and 225 coppers with standard spoons. 7/8/2022 We fished the same waters as 7/7/22 but the fishing was better north by holland. Had a hard time getting the fish in the boat. At one point we were 2-10 but finished strong at 6-17. Corners again were good for trout. Also a high diver towards bottom with a pro troll and green fly worked up a trout. Silver bites came off the 100, 125, 175 coppers. Standard size spoons. No silver fly bites today. Hope you enjoy your weekend. Hope this information helps.

Report from 6/23 – 6/24 Fishing is improving. We are no longer fighting the full moon. We are averaging around 15 bites a trip. Trout are biting corner rods with spin n glows and some divers with 8 inch paddles and flies just off bottom. Silver fish have been biting coppers ranging from 50 copper all the way down to 450 coppers. The best copper rods have been the 50,175,250 and 450 coppers. With standard size spoons and 8 inch paddle with a green fly doing most of the work. Best spoons have been Hot Jordo, Mongolian beef, Santa’s helper, and a mini streak I don’t know the name of. Hope this helps, Enjoy you weekend on the water. Rod boss Sportfishing 616-218-6264

Picking up decent numbers of trout with a few silver fish mixed in. Averaged around 10-15 bites per trip. The full moon played some havoc with the bite this weekend. The early bite was good with a little lull in the middle with a strong late bite. Most of the trout bites came early in the trip and the silver bites came later in the trip. The king bites came in spinny flies and 8 inch paddle and flies on a 225 copper, high divers just off bottom. Meat bites came on 400, 450 coppers and low divers back 220. The spoon bites all came 100,125,200,350 and 450 coppers.  Hot Jordo, natural born killer, starburst, Mongolian beef and helmet.   Most of the trips was spent in the 110-150 fow with 120-130 fow providing most of the bites.

Fishing remains strong. Picking up good fish in good numbers. Fishing from 160-180 fow seems to be the best water currently. Strong spoon bite. Using standard size spoons on copper ranging from 100 to 450 feet have all taken multiple bites per trip. Best spoons have been hot Jordo, bloody nose, Mongolian beef, Starburst, and Helmet. Spinny flies on diver rods have been work with high divers set back 350 and low divers set back 220. Green flies behind Trout candy 10” spin doctors and all chrome spin doctors have been working the best. Downrigger rods set between 45-85 with spoons on main and the sliders have taken multiple bites over the last few weeks.

Good morning of fishing 18-28 returned 1 small shaker king We set at the beginning of the flats in 110 fow and fished to the end of the flats in 180 fow turned south and fished to south of the Portsheldon channel staying in the 150-190 fow on the south troll 5 color with Santa’s helper went 3-4 times 200 cu went 2 times with Blue Chilly 175 cu went 2x with blue veggie 125 cu went 2x with mix veggie Chute at 120 with black jeans and green fly Number of other bites with 100, 125, 150 and 225 copper. We did trout fish with spin an glows on the corners that took fish with spin n glows. Please call or text to book your trip. 616-218-6264

150-180 is water we worked. High divers back 250 took multiple coho and a king bites. Low divers back 300 took a king bite and multiple trout. All spinny flies. 2 colors with coho dodgers and green crinkle mini flies took 5 coho bites. 140,225,300 and 325 coppers all took multiple bites of coho and kings. Downriggers with spoons set at 40 took king on main and multiple coho on main and slides. Chute at 120 took multiple lake trout 8 inch paddle and fly Hot spoons today were watermelon moonshine, electric Anchovie, Mongolian beef , Orange chilly Willy and the rest came off spinny and fly combos. Good luck out there!

5/5/2022 This was our first trip of the season. It took us a bit to figure out what the fish wanted and were they wanted it. We fished from the middle slides to south of point south of Saugatuck. The best fishing was south of Saugatuck piers. We took multiple bites king bites on our 200. Multiple Coho bites came on our 140 copper, High diver and downriggers. We fished from 50 to 70 foot of water with the king bites coming in the deeper water. Yellow Tux, Buffalo Bill, Jaw Breaker, Red pepper, Natural born killer and Moonshine watermelon spoons all took bites. Spinny fly combo that we put on a 250 did not take a bite. We fished for 2 hours with the downriggers down for Lake trout and only took 1 bite.