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    St. Joe, 4/22

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Fishdog (Dave) had a small tourney on Saturday with the Mid Michigan Steelheaders and had asked me to fish with him and RCH (Larry). It was a best DNR limit weigh-in so we had a plan to hit the beach first thing in the morning and troll for browns hoping to pick up a few of those 10+ lb browns. Well as most know plans never go like you hope they will when fishing. We started at the pumping station and trolled down to the Shoreham estates with out a bump. At that time we just looked at each other and decided to head out to deep waters looking for kings. We just got on the outside of the second sand bar when a fish come flying out of the water and it took a few second to figure out what rod he was on. A nice 4 lb 4 oz. brown came on a Long “A†Bomber back 100’. We continued out to about 70 fow change our set up to a king program with (4) rigger, (2) half cores, (1) full core, (1) wire dip and (1) highline looking for a staggering steely. It was not to long after hitting 70’ and we headed on a northwest troll that a half core goes with a nice 4 lb Coho on a Mag. Purple Alewife. Then we set in for a dry spell, had a rigger go twice with no one home and a full core get hit but could not stick him. I brought the wire dipsy up to 20’ set on 3 and started to inch it back with another coho hit it at 40’ back with a chrome dodger and blue fly. We seen the boats out deep but never made it there.

    Extremely HOT Topic

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

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    One other thing that I have not seen mentioned in any studies that I have read is Mortality do to quick changes in water pressure.

    A fish that is stacked in a 60 ft water column has around 25.98 lbs/in2 of force been applied to that fish. Now you bring that fish up to atmospheric pressure which is 14.7lbs/in2 @ 32 deg F. You are reducing the force applied to that fish by half with in a matter of minutes before that fish has time to adjust to the lesser pressure. This has to put a lot of stress on a fish mixed in with the changing of temps.

    St Joe 4/20

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

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    Hit the lake out of St. Joe last night and had line in around 5:30 about 2 mile north of the piers in 60 fow. Had (1) knock off on Mag. Raider Bloody Puke and after hour and a half we pulled line and ran south to the junk cars and put line down in 55 fow and trolled north had a 13.2 lb king hit the Bloody Puke down 33 ft and had about a 10 lb king hit a ProKing Bumble Bee down 41 ft but got off when it decided to make a run for one of my core lines. We had to call it quits shortly before 8:00 and head back to the launch. It was a nice night to be on the water, the lake was flat like glass. Will be back out Saturday morning.

    Tight lines and See you on the water

    Steve

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