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bronzeback6
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Joined: 22 Jan 2007
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Location: Bridgman, MI
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 Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:50 am Post subject: River 4/30 |
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| I was on the Joe again this afternoon for four hours of fish catching. It looks like I'll be fishing the Joe more this year than ever because of the price of gas. It's the closest body of water to my house. It started out kind of slow to be honest. The cold nights pushed the fish that were shallow back to the deeper eddies. The water temperature was still 58 degrees though. I fished a couple back water spots to start the day looking for beds. I found a couple largemouths on beds and they were willing to bite. One weighed about 3 pounds. Next, I fished deep current with a tube jig in about 15 ft of water and found the mother load of smallies. I would catch a 3-4 pound smallie on almost every cast. They were throwing up shad as I was bringing them in. I caught 9 fat boys out of the school before they disappeared. My best 5 from the school weighed 21 pounds. |
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skeeterman190
Yellow Perch
Joined: 14 Feb 2008
Posts: 44
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| I fished the Joe this afternoon and had a blast. Well i really would have had a blast if we could put them in the boat. The fish have really moved into some areas and are loaded. I think we might have had 16 on the best 5 we landed!!! 20+ on some thrown baits and missed hook sets. They were biting real funny. The best 2 we had we both bed fish and just kinda nipped it and we didnt get good hooks. Still had a blast even if I was going on 2 hours sleep because of my screwed up work schedule right now! get out and enjoy!-skeeterman- |
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