St. Joseph, 5/10 AM 11 for 11

[Mega Byte]

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.

 

[SeaFoam]

Nice work! Great to see the next generation enjoying fishing and success!


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[lil' fibber]

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