St. Joseph, 5/12 AM 9 for 18

[Mega Byte]

We found some fish, but lost more than usual.  We also had two unusual equipment failures where we had breakoffs on our 100 Cu and 3 color lines.  I left a couple of Church planer boards floating out there.  

We set up a bit shallower than planned, because we saw some marks on the sonar.  We were about 6 miles NW of St. Joseph.  While we did get some bites under 100 FOW, they were very small fish.  Once we got to 120+ we got into some nicer fish.  We made a NW troll for a while and had a lot of bites, often with two or three on at once.  We circled back and went through the same area with not much to show for it.  We turned back NW to work out deeper, thinking they may have slid out.  They did.  We got into the fish again in 140+ FOW.  We marked fish pretty consistently out to 178 which is where we ended up after all the lines were pulled.  Most of the kings we caught were 10 - 13 pounds.  Nothing huge, but nice fish.

Details are below.  I'll be back out there Tuesday morning for my last St. Joe trip of spring.

 

Oh, the "red" spoon, I can't remember the name of it.  It's got red and some orange on it.

And some pics.

 

[Sea Eagle]

Great report


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[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Hope those boards find their way back to your boat.  Great report.