Fairhaven 5/2

[Reel Doc]

First time visit to Fairhaven state park but certainly not the last.  Launch is nice and the rest of the park looks great.  Had to budget an hour after fishing to explore the park with my four legged first mate!

Another first today was fishing with the heavy mudline.  It extended out to 20 fow in many places.  Went to work before 7 in 10 fow and worked out to the edge of the color many different ways but it was after 8 before the first fish on.  Had a steady run of Browns (all good solid fish) for over an hour then a lake trout joined the party.  All hitting spoons off riggers or short cores, UV Naked Jordo did the most damage.  Last fish of the day was the first to hit a stickbait.  Headed in before 11.  Water temps running 47-48 and best speed was 2.4.  I was thinking the thick water color may have hurt lure visibility early on as couldn't buy a hit yet the sonar showed fish were there.  Once the sun was up higher they started and never stopped until I did.  Just trying to get in the brains of fish.....probably not wise of me to try.

[cheeseyrider]

Nice looking first mate, got to luv them goldens

[ilv2bfishing2]

We did well also. But almost all fish came off sticks. Who makes the naked Jordon don't remember ever seeing one. Fishing right now slower then yesterday.

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[Reel Doc]

Are you fishing out of Fairhaven too?  Go figure what works for one boat does nothing for another in the same area...UV Naked Jordo is a Michigan Stinger spoon that I had new in the package in my spoon box.  I only know the name as it was on the outer package...not sure if still available.   Broke it out recently as bright yellow/red spoons have worked for me lately.  Can't imagine what makes it look edible to a fish as it spins in the water.

[ilv2bfishing2]

Yes to FH. Greens for us and a couple of chartreuse sticks and firetiger. Better color then yesterday. Fish are running smaller though.

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[Reel Doc]

When you say better color do you mean not so much brown mud?  I really wondered if the mud was hampering lure visibility but mudline fishing is new to me.

[ilv2bfishing2]

Yes less mud water is stained to.green. our biggest fish came out of the muddy water. Couldn't see the fish to net them till they were 2 ft behind the boat. We had one board in the muddy water and one in the stained water on the other side

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