My daughter and I spent the night moored off of Clark Park on the Southeast end of MI. At about 3:30 I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep so I headed out to look and see if I could locate a school of fish. Around 4:15 Delbert called me as we had agreed and instead of having him go to Coulon I asked him to head over to Newport Shores for a pickup. After picking him up we headed for the southend of MI to start fishing. I had marked a small school earlier in the channel in front of the MI Beach club so we dropped the lines there and worked our way to the drop off just south of the island. We didn't get any action, nor did we see any so we decided to head over to the west side of the lake along the ridge in 100+ feet of water. Delbert dropped his line down and then I put the other line down to 87'. 2 minutes later we had our first hit! I got the fish up to the surface and promply lost it with the dodger and hook flying up in our face. We dropped back down to 85+ feet and stayed there the rest of the day. In all we hooked 15 fish and by 8:00 am we had our limit of 6 fish. Delbert got a nice one that was probably close to 8lbs Jamy and I got 2 that were about 6.5 and 7. And the others were between 3 and 5lbs. All in all a very good day!

All but 2 fish were on 1 rod. They both had the same setup and were fished at similar depths. The only thing really different were the line and how far back from the ball they were. Delbert was only going about 20' behind the ball and Jamy and I would go about 60' behind the ball. We only put 2 lines down as I just didn't feel like hassling with 2 lines on 1 downrigger. The last 3 fish all came within 10 minutes of each other. Jamy got her second fish and I put the line back down. Just after putting the line down we did a turn to head back over the school and it hit again. After putting that fish in the box I commented that since all but 1 fish were on that rod we should bring up Delberts rod and put ours back down. Since Delbert was busy bleeding the fish for me Jamy popped his rod off the clip and started to bring it in. After a couple cranks on the rod she got slammed and set the hook. Delbert popped my fish in the box and grabbed his rod from Jamy. We boated that fish and called it quits for the day with a full cooler.

I would like to thank Delbert for his fish handling and company. We'll have to do it again soon!