ruder Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Second Season, First trip out in 2011, First Spring Coho and first time ever to St Joe. Two of us set up just south of the pier and started a south troll. Ended 10/13 on red and black thin fish, red and orange thunderstick and blue flies pulled behind small orange spin docters. Big Thanks to Captain Willis and Fish on Bait & Tackle for supplying the right tackle for the trip! We kept a pretty steady troll at 2.7 on the fishhawk and put the first 5 fish in the box in about 2 hours (Between 8 and 10AM). I think we were by the A-frames most of the time. Later I accidentally hit the throttle and slowed us down to around 2.0-2.2 on the fish hawk. Almost immediatly the poles went off. We filled the box in the next 15 minutes. We were fishing 2 boards (Brads red and black thinfish about 60 back from the boards), 2 dipseys (thinderstick 25 back and SD/blue fly 30 back) and 2 riggers (SD/Blue Fly 15 down and blue and gold thinfish 8 down). Within a 5 minute period EVERY pole went off. Lost 2 at the back of the boat because of a fish tangled in the net. I even caught one as I was reattaching a board. I'll tell you it was a$$holes over elbows in an 18.5' boat. But boy was it fun Next time I just need to remember pliers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayvillemark Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Great Job Guys , yeah pliers area must them coho are just to slippery and thy spaz out good way to get a hook in your hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nailer Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Sounds like a blast Jim. Nice way to start the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGTREBLE Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Nice work, And always have back ups pliers. I have lost more than more pair overboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLF Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Nice job Jim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrenalin Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Nice work, looks like you are picking up on the important things already. Speed is everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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