South Haven May 13

[HitMan]

We relocated the boat Saturday afternoon from St. Joe, in some very rough water, to South Haven for a charter on May 13. We ended up 15 for 26 with 5 Kings, 5 Steelhead and 5 Coho being caught. The best water was 150-180 feet of water. We had 7 bites 50 feet down with a Stingray Green Dolphin and a regular-sized Stinger Green Dolphin on the slider. A Stingray Green Dolphin on 10 colors of Lead Core also had 4 bites. Copper set-ups of 150 feet and 225 feet also took fish along with 3 colors, 5 colors, and 8 colors of Lead Core. Other lures that worked were regular-sized Stinger Lemon Ice, regular-sized Stinger Carmel Dolphin, regular-sized Stinger Bitter Lemon, Stingray Double Edged Kevorkian, Stingray Coyote, Stingray Dolphin, Stingray Freakin' Veggies and Stingray Green Bubble.

We will be fishing out of South Haven for the remainder of the week in preparation for the tournament this coming weekend. Good Luck to everyone!

[Satisfaxion_Gauranteed]

Thanks for the report and good luck next weekend!

[silver one]

So far that is the only report Ive seen of fish out that deep as we were in southaven for about 4hrs sat morning and went 3 for 3 in 110 to 120' of water. I saw two boats out there but bolth were on an east troll the whole time wich led me to belive they were searching. From your report I see you found. Did you find any temp breaks or bait out there as the graph was blank in the 110 to 120 depth.

Good job sounds like a good day of fishing.

[HitMan]

Actually we came to South Haven blind. We hadn't talked to anyone and had no clue where to fish. We went straight out of South Haven and waited until the water warmed up to 48 degrees. We based that temperature off of previous St. Joe fishing conditions. Another boat we later talked with left the Municipal Marina at 10AM and was back to the slip at 2PM with 23 fish; 6 Steelhead, 6 Kings, 10 Cohos and 1 Lake Trout fishing the similar water from 150-210 feet. There were no major temperature breaks, just a gradual increase in water temperatures. Most of the fish were full of bait as well.

[silver one]

Thanks for the info john. We will be putting the boat in on wednesday and fishing thursday and friday and hopefully get a pattern for the tournement on sat and sunday We will se you on the water. Channel 10 is the fishermans channel on the radio out of southaven.