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Hope those boards find their way back to your boat. Great report.

11/4/11, that’s outstanding and congrats to the young lady on the big king!

Nice work! Great to see the next generation enjoying fishing and success! Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman

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We found some fish, but lost more than usual. We also had two unusual equipment failures where we had breakoffs on our 100 Cu and 3 color lines. I left a couple of Church planer boards floating out there. We set up a bit shallower than planned, because we saw some marks on the sonar. We were about 6 miles NW of St. Joseph. While we did get some bites under 100 FOW, they were very small fish. Once we got to 120+ we got into some nicer fish. We made a NW troll for a while and had a lot of bites, often with two or three on at once. We circled back and went through the same area with not much to show for it. We turned back NW to work out deeper, thinking they may have slid out. They did. We got into the fish again in 140+ FOW. We marked fish pretty consistently out to 178 which is where we ended up after all the lines were pulled. Most of the kings we caught were 10 - 13 pounds. Nothing huge, but nice fish. Details are below. I'll be back out there Tuesday morning for my last St. Joe trip of spring. Oh, the "red" spoon, I can't remember the name of it. It's got red and some orange on it. And some pics.

Shout out to @dan agnello for the nice report out of South Haven last week. On Friday, we headed North out of St. Joseph almost to the Palisades Power Plant looking for some nice sized kings. My 9-year-old granddaughter caught this king that weighed 20.35 pounds on the official scale at the Tournament Trail event in St. Joseph. It happened to be the largest king caught during the 333 Tournament and she won $333. On Saturday, we headed back up to the same area and went 11 for 11. While the hit to catch ratio was perfect, the fish were on the smaller size. Since we're a bit away from Saturday, I'll spare the details, but it was generally 105 - 120 FOW, with baits down 40 to 60 feet. Long lines, divers and riggers all took fish. All hits were on spoons. If you've been around this site long enough, you know I don't typically trout fish. it's too much work to keeps adjusting things, especially when you have kids and the waves usually drive the troll direction and it can be difficult to maintain the FOW you want to stay in. If we could have boated a few trout, we would have had a nice 333 box. But, we didn't because I'm horrible at catching trout. We weighed our 7 fish for the Amateur event. I'm not sure where we finished, but the kids had fun which is all we cared about.

Fished 8am-12:45pm. Only got a small coho. LOTS of marks 124-135 fow. Couldn't get any other bites. Bite came on rigger with std 5 eyes RV, down 38ft, water temp was 43.1 at ball, 2.4 sog. No hits on boards with 6C thru 230 cu. Lots of marks down deep, ran riggers up thru various bands of depths. The lake was flat. The water surface temp was 45-47. The kings were evidently eating out of town this morning. Sent from my SM-A156U1 using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

We used to drop in at 70-80 cut an angle west-ish depending on waves and currents and troll out until we found them…

The warmer temps will be very welcomed. Getter wet! Sent from my SM-A156U1 using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

Glad the equipment ran without a hitch Little Boat and Sea Foam. I wet the bottom of Fin Warrior over two weeks ago but have not gotten the shake down cruise in yet due to many things. With luck it can happen near the end of the coming week.

Nice. Good job. We will be heading over there on the 22nd for five days. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

Got some nice hooks this season.

First troll this year on Erie, the hot jig bite is winding down. Got a few nice ones on bandits and flicker minnows but spoons on diver disc's back 60ft was best. We worked 18 to 22 fow. The metallic pink backs were very good, put 3 out. Good luck!

There's usually a good batch of fish this time of year between 120-240 (not the whole range but some groups of fish between there). Just need to find them. But there could also be good numbers in close to Saugatuck. The fish move a lot day to day.