The only probably was I didn't catch any there. It was a sheephead fest! On the backside of the island (north side) I was able to locate some. I guess the bottom line is there's a ton of places for those fish to go.
The fish will be off the end of that point early, way off, over very little structure, look for bait fish, then figure out if those big marks are walleye or bass.image They work their way up as the season goes on. The problem is, as they get shallower, they get easier to catch and everybody pounds them. If you were on sheephead, you were using the wrong lure, by which I mean, when that happens to me, I usually go to a tube or drop shot, the smallie bite is usually slow when that's happening anyway. It's best to do what you did and just move around. But when you can't, say like at Huron, it seems like when the sheephead are on there, it's hard to get away from them , so I switch if I have to stay in the waves.image

I will say this, I never went deep as 40 foot. I will be checking some of those depths this year.
Do you read Charlie Hartley's blog?
He has good deep water blade read on there.
I agree with most of it, except I've caught smallies in 40 degree water hoppin the blade 3 to 4 ft. off the bottom.
It's the "rhythm thing" like he says in his story.
http://sports.espn.go.com...?page=b_blog_Hartley_2009