St. Joe August 17th-19th

[neworiginal]

Heres my weekend fishing report from rainy St. Joe:

Fishing has been very good in 45 to 60ft. of water and you will notice most of the charters working this area, but it got pretty packed so I went headed deep. I did very well a bit north of the pier heads in 80 to 100ft. of water with 85 to 90 being the best. Bounced around on Friday night for a bit and went 5 for 10, pretty rough. I went 15 for 25 Saturday evening (an absolute blast) in the deeper water and 8 for 12 Sunday mid afternoon after the storms. Russ in the Fin Nailer was the only other boat I saw with everyone else working tight. Thanks again to Russ for the pointers, its amazing how the little things are so important. Most of the fish were Kings to 17lbs. with Lakers and Steel mixed in. Here is what worked:

Dipsy (All 4 were standard walker deeper divers black)

left side

high: wire out 150 set 2 1/2

low: braid out 90 set 1 1/2

right side

high: braid out 150 set 2

low: wire out 90 set 1

crush glow blue bubble spinny with blue bubble fly (one on each side)

crush glow mountain dew spinny with pickled sunshine fly (one on each side)

Riggers (44 degrees at center rigger on the probe):

left

pearl white hoochie and mirage fly back 25ft. down 45 ft.

Middle:

clean mag modified blue dolphin back 30ft. down 60 to 70.

(this spoon was hot)

Right:

small green ladder back j-plug back 20ft. down 50 to 55ft.

Full Core with white hoochie and little boy blue

1/2 core with d orange crush.

Others:

frosted mixed veggies

pearl white dodger and mirage

Tin Cans and green crinkle horse fly

Lemon Lime stingers

Hope this helps.

Juggernaut

27ft. Sportcraft Offshore

Pier 33

St. Joesph, MI

[Live2fishdjs]

Great report.

[Fishbitch]

Modified blue dolphin has been the ticket all year in the ol' Fishbitch outta St. Joe.