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Got out after work today with a couple friends. Heard it was hot in 200 feet so ran out there. Amazing to have the lake flat and the weather so nice. Marked bait in 120, was a lot there, as it showed up decent on the screen going 30 MPH on our way out, and also on the way in. Set lines in 200 feet around 5:15, pulled at 8:30 or so.

Went 13-18, with 2 steelhead, 1 laker, and 10 coho. Left the fish biting as one of the crew had to get up at 530 AM tomorrow for work.

Hot rod was a mini dipsy diver run on mono, out 60 with a 00 dodger and purple/black peanut fly. Took 6 fish. Everything else more or less took a fish. 3 color took a lake trout on a double orange crush, a steelhead and a coho on a 5 color with a buffalo bill, one real nice steelhead on an 8 color glow froggy spoon, one chunky coho on a rigger down 50 with a green dolphin spoon, couple on a wire diver out 50 on a 3 setting with a size 0 chartreuse/fire dot dodger with a blue mini fly. Any trolling direction but north seemed to work. Highlight of the trip was ripping in a 5 color to change the spoon and getting crushed by a 12ish pound steelhead while reeling at Mach 10. Jumped a few times and then got off.

No hits on small spoons or magnums - they only wanted standard sized. Which was about the size of the alewife in every single fish.

Great Job! Thanks for the report.

Thanks for the report.

The Offshore bite is my favorite- different world out there

Thanks for the detail Ben!

Oh - forgot to mention - the St Joe fish cleaning station is still "closed due to sewer issues" which was a bummer

Nice Ben thanks for the report!