mriversinco

2 weeks ago, out of the 15 I got only one had something in it. Looked like it could've been a goby or something, but it was beyond the stage of telling very easily.

Awesome, nice to hear of people finally getting out.

The water was pretty muddy. I couldn't find the river plume at all. Heck, I couldn't even find the temp difference where there should've been one with the river. I know the temp changed right outside the pierheads but I was too busy setting lines to notice exactly where, and then when we went by it again we were a little deeper and there wasn't a temp change at all.

I thought all of you guys had a ton of reels until I actually counted mine. 2 - mono riggers 2 - mono flat lines 4 - braid dipsy 2 - 2 color 1 - 5 color 1 - 7 color 1 - full core Wow, where the heck did all this come from just starting last year???

Do you ever get the feeling that other people might be alot smarter than you??? With all this nasty weather out there, I thought I saw a window in the weather where we might be able to go fish St. Joe yesterday. Well, I was right on the weather. It actually wasn't too bad, and we got out for 3 or 4 hours. The waves were a little big out past 40' of water, but closer they were fine. Now for the bad part. There wasn't a single boat out there, or even trailer in either the St. Joe launch, or the Benton Harbor one. That should've been the first clue..... Basically, it was the old skunk-a-rama. Started about a half mile north of the pierhead and worked our way down south about 4 miles south of the piers. Anywhere from 18' to 45' of water. Tried our usual stuff from body baits to spoons to flasher fly. Fly lines, 2 color, short dipsies, riggers down to 25'. We had 2 bites on planer boards, but didn't even get them near the boat. Other than that, it really wasn't bad with the weather until about the time you go under the first bridge there in St. Joe. The monsoon came and we got soaked in a very short time. Better luck next time, and I gotta remember that it was still better than being at work.....

Very nice fish guys.

Nice work.... gotta love the wave reports

Thanks for the info

Very nice job!

Great day off from work!

Way to go!!!

Very nice job!

I don't remember seeing them there. I usually get them at D and R Sports in Kalamazoo, but if memory serves me correct Franks will have them over by Saginaw.

Very nice pic, thanks.

Way to go.

Wow, that's a nice spread.

Nice job, and thank you very much for the pics of the lures. That helps a bunch!

Nice job, and thanks for the info.

Nice Start.

Finally got to St. Joe to fish on Sunday. We ended the day 16 for about 20 or so. 14 coho and a pretty nice king. Got our three man limit in about 4 hours. As we were reeling in, there was one last one on a rigger but we were able to revive it and send it on it's way. We thought we'd troll the mud just north of the pierheads but actually hit them just inside of that. In about 20' of water or so, about 200 yards inside of the pack of boats. After the first 10 or so fish, we noticed the pack came to us and it became combat fishing in a hurry with some idiots going perpendicular to everyone else. The last few fish took a couple of hours but we limited out by noon or so. I honestly think the fish were a little boat shy. Just about anything caught fish including riggers with orange flasher and green fly. Couldn't get anything on thinfish and spoons so ended with all rapalas. Blue and silver seemed to be the hottest, but firetiger and bleeding olive did ok too. 2 color lead, and riggers at 10-12 did the best. Finished the limit by stretching boards out a ways when the combat pack left us, and put a 1 oz. dive bomb weight on all mono and put it at least 150ft behind the board. Hope this helps.......

Great shakedown.

Nice Job, but OUCH

Very nice job, and thanks for the info.

Any ideas what thunderstorms might do to the coho for tomorrow morning? I'd really like to go out but not too sure about the thunderstorms.

nice job.