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175 to 220 FOW straight out and we hadn't got all the lines set at 7:00 am, and had a double 1 on free slider on rigger down 85 and 1 on wire dipsey on 1 out 85, both were stinger regular size modified blue dolphin, steady action all morning, til we had a small electric malfunction and pulled lines at 9 am, while we were going in on 1 engine my Son solved the electric issue and we turned around and fired up the other engine ran back out to 160 and started setting lines again, The pattern was top 60 ft and small spoons with speed of 3mph or faster. The thermocline is at about 65 ft and we only got 1 fish in the cold water. Ended the day with 1 laketrout, 2 steelhead, 4 coho and 1 small 2 yr old King. Color didn't matter much just speed up and get put past all the other boats. BTW the flies were ridiculous after the wind went down. Take your bug spray.

Is anyone interested in Starting a Southern Lake Michigan Fishing League out of St Joe? Good chance for guys to get to know each other and share lies. If you are interested join the ST JOE group and lets figure it out for next season.

St Joe is 68 and 67.

Thanks for the information Paul. Going to fish Sunday if u r out give a call on channel 67, new boat is the Silverking.

Nice Job Jim. I have been fishing 150 to 200 for the last month and fishing has been spotty, What water depth did u find the fish? I am going out "Sunday morning and have a full load of family and friends, would like to get some starting info. Pattern and speed sound about right, but the water depth is critical. Were u north of south? My boat is a 31 Foot Chris Commander Sport Fisher, will stand by on Channel 67. Thanks For the Report

Thanks for a great report, good information and sounds like a great day on the pond.

Its usually air bubbles, it can also occur when u r in close proximity to another boat that has their gain turned way up. Check and see if the stacks occurred when u were speeding up or going with the waves and get a big push.

We had 1 steelhead and 5 coho up to about 6 lbs. A couple of other boats had some nice Kings too. A lot of bait and water temp was about 48 degrees 50 ft down.

Fish are there, Morning program 180 FOW, 40 to 80 down, riggers and dipseys out 100 and 120, Blue Dolphin was the ticket ended our day 6 for 12, the caveat is the Sea Fleas are really bad. Free Sliders took most of the hit North troll and speed 2.8 to 3.0.

The surface temp will show break lines, but are useless if there is cloud cover. I check them every day and you can follow trends there. There is at this time of year usually a thermocline set up in the lower lake and it is easy to see on the graph, usually a sharp change in temp. I have Fishawk X4 and look for 42 to 45 degree water at depth. Watch your surface temp as you travel and look for surface breaks for Steelhead on the top, U will usually see a lot of debris on a line and try the edges of the debris.

Right on Matt we don't brag here we help each other catch the silver fishies.

Good job Dave, nice report.

The more baits you have in the water the more water you cover the better the results, We run 4 riggers with free sliders on all 4, up to 4 dipsy divers, and up to 6 long lines depending on how many we have on board. Our boat is a big one and we can fish up to 24 lines if we have 8 on board. However the best spread includes short lead cores 5 and 6 color, 300' of 45# copper along with the close to the boat presentations. I really like this set up, it gets 16 lines out on 12 rods and covers the entire water column. If the lake sets up u need to concentrate on the temp break and get some stuff on the bottom. As for meat rigs, I resisted until last season, now I am a true believer. After the first of May I always have up to 4 of them out on riggers and dipsy's.

There u have it. I run several brands of spoons but have catalogs of their color and description. Recently got some BLL spoons and am lovin them. Tequila Sunrise has been really hot.

See ya Sunday Larry good luck Saturday.

There are a lot of seasoned vets including myself that would like a few like that.

Good talking to you yesterday Larry hope you find em today. We ended 3 for 5. lost a nice king because guy on the rod cranked the drag down and tried to horse the fish. Broke the leader.

My new Humminbird 858 CDI cost me 75 bucks to get installed at Brians Marine in St Joe. We had to get an extension for the transducer cable and that was 40 bucks. They wired it and strung the transducer cable. Better to have it done right than to do it yourself and end up dissatisfied.

Nice job Jarod good to see them get started young. Having fun is what its all about.

We left our slip at 6:00 am, left the piers and headed South to the Stevensville ball, set up in about 70 FOW and started a N troll, 5 color ^ color, Full core and 300 coppers, wire dipseys out 120 and 140, 4 riggers from the bottom up to 27 feet with free sliders on all riggers. Surface temp was about 56, temp at 40 was 46 and at the bottom was 50 degrees. We ended the day 3 for 5, 1 Steelhead on a 2 color SWR that was hit as I hooked it to the rigger release, 2 coho on FB Orang glow spoons and 1 hit on a rigger parked on the bottom with a UV Clear Spin Doc and blue meat rig that came of because of operator error. Lost a big king behind the boat on a wire dipsey out 120 with a BLL Tequila Sunrise, another operator error broke a 30# leader by tightening the drag down hard and trying to horse in the fish. We quit at 11:30 with a lake that was 2 to 3 all day just kinda sloppy. Good day on the water.

That's the way to run them, Lake Trout Killer the Pickled Sunshine with a green glow spinnie or green glow paddle.

That is my favorite too. I run Short cores for shorter presentations. The 300' copper is a real killer this time of the summer. It gets you down to the fish and away from the boat. A definite must. I would run 2 300' 45# coppers and make a couple of rods into dipsey rods for that in between presentation. If you have Lead core use it for the higher stuff, it costs a lot less and is forgiving.

Well done Capt. Rich. Hope your season continues to produce prodigious results.

Thank God July is comin! Great to see you on here keeping up the good reports Matt.

There is an old saying Tarrey, when the cotton wood is fllyin, the fishin is dyin. We are seeing smaller catches in St Joe too, but I am still marking lots of fish and really marking big bait balls outside 150FOW. I won't get out until Tuesday, but am looking forward to checking out the deepwater bite. "Should be some Steel out there.