South Haven 4/20/08

[Satisfaxion_Gauranteed]

Two of us fished South Haven Sunday morning for a shake down trip. We hit the lake at about 7:30 am and headed south looking for temperature breaks. We finished 3-6 on the morning; 1 king, 1 coho, 1 steelhead.

All hits came about 2 miles south of the piers in about 30fow. Speed was 2.6 at the ball. All hits came on 2 color and 5 color cores.

A king hit first on the smaller size Stinger NBK, ended up being a nice first fish of the season at 9lbs. Two hits came on a Dreamweaver green Easter egg; one landed, which was the griller sized coho. The Fishlander Chipmunk lure took two hits, one of which was the steely. We had one fish on the rigger; 100' behind the ball down 20', but lost it due to a bad swivel.

Overall, it was a good shake down trip with the only negative being that the brand new marine radio I installed quit working when I went to transmit a signal on the ride back into port. It just plain died. The inline fuse is still good, but I have not yet had the chance to check my boat fuse where the radio gets power. It worked when I checked on Saturday, but Sunday, she died and never came back to life.

[silver one]

Thanks for the report Jason

Anyone out fishing deep yet.

[Satisfaxion_Gauranteed]

We ventured out to 80fow just to check I had my new lure speed indicator installed and working correctly. I noticed a couple of boats out there; probably in the 100fow range. The graphs were dead in 60+fow, but we did notice several bait clusters 45-55fow.

I did not hear one way or another if anyone caught fish out there.

We did get checked by an DNR officer at the ramp. He said that most people were coming back with 0-3 fish and most were being caught shallow.

[Priority1]

GJ SG. It's always nice to get that first trip behind you. I hope the radio is just something minor.

[Satisfaxion_Gauranteed]

GJ SG. It's always nice to get that first trip behind you. I hope the radio is just something minor.

Fortunately, it was just minor. I had it plugged into the a spare accessory that had an existing 5 amp fuse. The inline fuse to the radio is 10amp. The previous radio I had recommended 5, so that is why the 5 was in there.

I switched the fuses tonight and she's ready to go again, hopefully for good this time!