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Fished St. Joe 6/7. Wound up 7-8. Kept 6, one little shaker went back. The lake trout is to be smoked for our Canadian fishing trip in August. Also nice steelhead and 4 nice coho. 55’-75’ of water, 58’-64’ was best. Ran small orange colored spoons (some with gold backs) and orange coho dodger/peanut fly combos on a 9 rod set of Downriggers down 40’ and 50’, 3 and 4 colors leadcore, 100’, 150’ and 200’ of copper. Went south out of the pierhead all the way down to Cook. Water temp was 62 at the surface and 58 at the ball. Had something weird that’s never happened before. The one we lost came unbuckled just as we went to net it. It appeared to not be hooked. Fought it all the way in and all we had to show for our efforts was a cross hooked, mangled bait fish ripped out of the fishes mouth. That fish was hanging on for dear life to his dinner then said the hell with this nonsense when he saw the net. Lots of bait balls in the water including this little guy. Not sure what he was thinking. He was legitimately hooked in the mouth so we went 8-9 if you count this one too [emoji1] Cleaned fish were full of bait fish. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

Launched at Sterling State Park and headed straight out. dropped in as soon as soon we broke 20’ and started catching fish. Ran a racetrack out to 26’. 24’ of water was best. Spoon bite with 2.5 mph +/- on the speed. Ran one side of the boat with Tadpole Diving weights and the other side with the two sizes of Big Jon mini disks. Couldn’t see any preference to presentation as both methods caught fish. We covered about 11’ to 22’ of the water column, but 14’ to 18’ seemed best. We also found that the spoons with either a chartreuse or red back were hot in that stained water we had, so more of the same spoons went down. We were one short of our limit by 10:00 and it took another two hours to punch our ticket and head in. Big bonus Sheepshead and 4-5 White Bass that went back. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

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

St Joe 4/24 6 for 8. Two kings and four coho. Lost 2 and had another 4 that took line but were not there when we picked up the rod. Had another 4 that were undersized shakers and went back. Tried out front of the pier for about an hour and a half in 40’ - 50’ without a bite. Picked up and ran south down to the power plant and worked it north and south. 45’ to 47’ was the best water. 100 & 150 copper both with a pink alewife spoon was the hot presentation taking the most fish and the getting the most strikes. The Thin fin and a Mr Chrome Yea Mon on the 3 color took one each. A modified spoon (I call pink dolphin) on the 4 color took one. The dipsey divers did not get bit and the down riggers got a shaker. Not sure what the other shakers, the 4 missed fish and 2 lost fish hit. I was driving most of the time. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

Thanks for the report. Heading that way tomorrow Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

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Went 19-21 with another 2-3 hits that failed to hook up. Trolled south down to the power plant in 20’ to 25’ of water. 2 mph at the ball and 2.7 mph at the surface. Steady action until we briefly turned back north by the chalets, but quickly turned back south as the bite turned off. Picked right back up on that south troll. Had a mix of thin fins, jointed stick baits, mag lips and spoons. Everything caught fish, but it definitely was a spoon bite for us today. 80% of our fish came on spoons. Wound up pulling two thin fins and one of the mag lips in favor of more spoons. Double orange crush was the hot bait. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

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Made only our second trip of the season to the big lake today at South Haven. Zero boat trailers in the parking lot at the boat launch when we got there at 6:30 should have told us what to expect. We could only scratch up four fish going 4-4. Two lakers, a nice steelhead and a small king. Two lakers on the downrigger 75 feet down with a tin can dodger doctored up with green prism tape on one side with a chrome and green spin-n-glow. A small king hit the other down rigger down 65 feet with a UV blue dolphin spoon. The steelhead hit 10 colors of leadcore with a warrior whammy spoon. Fished 70 to 120 feet of water. All fish came in narrow band of water 105 to 108 deep. Only 3 fish last trip down in St Joe and four this trip. Hard to get excited about 3-4 fish per trip these days. Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman

Good job. Boats in the shop for overheat issue. Hope to have it back this week then hit St. Joe. [emoji106] Sent from my iPad using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App