St Joe 8/31

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Had John Crouse and his brother on board for the day, It was a little lumpy first thing, South rollers and currents were really bad. We set up in 75 FOW, and like my fishing buddies had said, the fish had moved. We found cold water at 65ft, so I set a deep rigger with a paddle green big weenie paddle and home tied UV blue bubble fly, we tried plugs and large spoons, and nothing going for the fires 2 hours 1 hit on a 6 color with a stinger glow Christmas spoon. switched to smaller baits and finally got another hit, 300 copper with Silver Streak UV Panty ho. Nice Steelhead. Next hit was a King on the same set up, other side of the boat. Had 2 releases on riggers, nothing doing. Next hit was dipsy on 2 out 85, took a really nice Skamania that had its tail all chewed up. Trolled for another hour and had an under sized Lake Trout take the flasher and blue bubble down on the bottom, released that fish and the DNR came by and asked for us to flash our licenses, and they were satisfied. Slow out of the Joe. Ended the day 4 for 8, Not as good as last week but we got a couple.