It's tough out there...

[Take Six...]

Went out of St. Joe rigged for perch or salmon. Went north out of St. Joe, scanned the bottom for marks and dropped my aquaview over the side, all alewives... Went south found the same thing, alewives. Went our in front of the pierheads at the edge of the mudline, spied the first perch and droped anchor. We threw all 10 perch caught in the first half hour back because they were so small and pulled lines. Decided to try for salmon and ran out to 70fow and trolled for the remaining two hours we had left and boated one steelie. It came on the only flat line. You guessed it J-11 orange Rapala. It boggles my mind that we would discover these huge balls of alewives but the big boys were nowhere to be found.

[GLF]

Thanks for the report. It wont be long before the action heats up.