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Set lines at 8a pulled lines at noon. 5-9. 3 steelhead, 1 coho, 1 lake trout.

Went straight out from river mouth to 80ft set lines first fish in around 90ft big steelhead on mag dipsy 70 out #1 setting 8in spindoctor blue fishnet / naughty leprechaun poseidon fly kind of surprised a steelhead hit that setup? Coho came on 6in orange spindoctor with blue green peanut fly. The rest were on a mag hey babe warrior spoon. 10 color lead was most active with 1 nice fish that was lost on 5 color lead blue/green spoon.

Cloudy day on the lake 2-3 foot waves when we got there but settled down to ones by the time we left.

Forgot to add ... lots of bait in the 80-100ft range also marked several schools of what appeared to be perch at 100ft

Thanks for the report! Funny how different spoons run well on different boats. I can never get that hey babe to go very often, even though people have great luck with it.

I am 80% certain that those schools of fish on the bottom in the 80-100 foot range are whitefish. They are there almost all year round, and that is the depth range that produces the most by-catch of whitefish during lake trout sampling.

One of these days I have been meaning to try to target them when the lake is pretty flat and you could stay on top of them long enough to catch one

Nice work! Thanks for the report.

I have trips where hey babe, or bloody babe are rock stars, and other trips where they are absolutely dead to the world. I guess that can be said for any bait really. I think it all comes down to confidence really, the more you run something and believe in it, the better it does for you. On my boat the "babes" get a dunk every time out, even if for just a short time.

Yeah, definitely the more you run things, the more they will get hit. My friend and I have "favorite terrible spoons" that we always seem to run but never get bit much.

Hey/Bloody Babe, UV Helmut, Lemon Ice, Caramel Dolphin are almost always run every trip for a decent period but never seem to do well for us for whatever reason. I know they are productive spoons but just never seem to do it for us.

Caramel dolphin doesn't do didly for me in st joe also but I know a lot of guys down south run them with success. Weird how that works.

Btw my dad and brother took the boat out yesterday went 3 for 3 in 220 fow mid day trip they went. All coho top 40.

Thanks for the info on the whitefish I dont know much about them. Whatever it is, it was right on the bottom like perch. They did look a little big for perch on the down imaging i was hoping they were super jumbos lol.

I forgot I took a few screenshots off the Helix. Bait and maybe whitefish?