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Bait and big kings gone, inexplicably (hopefully just temporarily), but still a nice mixed bag in 40-60'. Six lines in 6:30-9 a.m, then after lightning delay (back to marina), 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Four browns (never happened before) two, 10-11 lb chinook, two lakers, one coho. Gold, Starburst pattern DW Slim took 4 fish on slide diver, 30' back and 75 out, Sister Sledge Warrior took both chinook at 30' on downrigger.
All fish had an alewife or three in stomachs (browns also had some gobies) only a fraction of bait marks on graph compared to Tues. - scanned from 20' to 60'.

Sounds like spoons are the ticket right now? I was hoping to catch a couple of kings yesterday but was thinking flasher fly would have been the ticket... Obviously I was wrong! Sounds like we were fishing same depths.

We've only occasionally done well with flasher/flies in these depths in spring (most of the kings have been 20-30' down). Caught one king each of the tournament days on Spin Doctors, but the pros using flashers and meat rigs last weekend at St. Joe (albeit deeper down over deeper water) hammered a lot more and a lot larger chinook.than we did.

Got ya. Good to know. I'm still new to the big lake so I'm trying to figure out what works where and when. Had a few good marks around 20 - 30 down right by the riggers but had no takers. Had an 8" spindoctor with a fly on one rigger and a pro troll style flasher with fly on the other, both in that depth range, and no hits. Might have had a taker if they were spoons!

dogsbestfriend wrote:

Bait and big kings gone, inexplicably .

Simple answer, it's a DNR conspiracy! Word is the black helicopters scared them off up into Michigan waters

On a more serious note, they are still hammering them in St. Joe. Couple charter boats had limits of mostly kings before that storm hit this morning

MC_angler wrote:

Simple answer, it's a DNR conspiracy! Word is the black helicopters scared them off up into Michigan

Sounds like a GLSI Facebook post... they might have used Lake Trout though...