4/28 - St. Joe

[Take Six...]

Fished with sixty other boats in 50 FOW for about an hour. Only saw one net hit the water and it wasn't mine. Radio was silent. So I ran out to 100 FOW and dropped lines. No hits for another hour. However, on multiple occasions, I marked huge schools of something right near the bottom. The mark would stretch for nearly 100 yards. I went throught three of these patches and finally dropped the riggers down there. No action. Must have been pearch or smelt or something. Finally, ran back into 60 FOW and trolled into 30 before giving up. Nada. Fished Diamond Lake Sunday and threw five undersized Northerns back.