St. Joe, 8-14-2012

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Had a chance to get out late morning today, getting on the water at around 10:30 AM. Had one boat coming in when we launched and he said he went out to the 160's and never marked any fish. Encouraging.

We went west to the 160's and took some temperature readings using one of the Vexilar thermometers. Water was still 61 at 100 feet down. Looked all around and found lots of marks in the 140's. Went as far out as 190. Completely baron of any fish out there. We finally started working the 140's trying to find a good direction and finally picked up a 10.2 pound King on a east troll. She came 100 down on a sliver/red J-plug. Have no idea why we could not get anything going tried lots of different spoon combos, flasher/flies some different plugs, dipsy's, copper, the works. Clueless. The one King we got was a female full of alewives.

The lake was gorgeous! The fisherman, not very good.

Paul C.

Mattawan, MI

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Paul Thanks for the report, the MC2 will be fishing this Sunday then will be at the boat from Wednesday afternoon thru Sunday of next week give us a call or call me on my cell if you get out. 929 4221. We keep the VHF on channel 68.