St Joe 5/11 & 5/12

[glnmiller]

Fished the Okuma Summer Challenge out of St. Joe the past two days. Most boats had their limits on Friday, and their 3 trout for bonus points. Lake was glass smooth at the start on Friday, got a little choppy by 1:00 but not bad. Fish are in deeper water, was hearing mostly 80-120 foot of water, a few guys out deeper at 170-220. Saturday was a whole different story, the wind picked up and waves were rolling at 3-5', made it tough for the smaller boats. The fishing was a lot tougher too, not as many full boxes. Fish seemed to still be in the same areas, just scattered more.

The SW Mich Steelheaders did a nice job on running the tourny, 99 entrants between pro and am.

On Friday we had 9 coho, 3 steelhead a laker and a king. of the 12 we weighed we had 44#'s. Saturday only caught 7 fish, 4 coho and 3 steelhead, all small for 18#, we finished in the middle of the pack.

[Priority1]

A good blow can change things for sure. I'm glad you caught fish both days. It would have been nice if there were lots of Kings in the area. Sometimes that rough water just turns those Kings on.