This week has seen Saginaw Bay’s best walleye fishing all summer. Reports of excellent fishing and limit catches came in from all around the bay by mid-week. Friday, our crew boxed a four-party limit of 32 in just three hours while fishing south of Pt. Augres in 31-33 feet of water. There were a lot of little fish in the fishery, and we released a good 20 or more! (Speaks well for the future!) The keepers were all 16-18 inches with a half dozen hitting the three-four pound mark. This could be a repeat of the summer of 2014, which saw record catches of Saginaw Bay walleye! Speed and color of harness blades were not critical all week. We ran three-ounce in-line weights ahead of the harness on the starboard side and three-ounce bottom bouncers off the port side. Both were set to run at 20-25 feet. As usual, the bottom bouncers easily out fished the in-line pulled crawlers. I also use size three blades on all my harnesses behind the bottom bouncers, while my first mate was running … [Read more...]
Harbor Beach Fishing Report 06-09-2017
being taken Straight out and North of the harbor using Dodgers with Spin and Glows and clean spoons close to the bottom. Green or blue colors have been working well. Start out in 80 foot of water and work your way out until you find where they are setting. Try for some Steelhead close to the color lines using 5, 7, and 10 colored lead lines with bright colored spoons on the Offshore boards. A few Atlantic’s were taken in 90 to 120 foot of water with spoons off the downriggers fishing top to bottom. Some nice Bass have been taken casting in close to shore with body baits. Keep those lines tight, Captains Ken and Janice Deaton J-Lyn Charters Harbor Beach MI … [Read more...]
Walleye Fishing Great out of Linwood
Captain Mark Pieniozek of Reel Fish'n LLC reports good catches of spring walleye on the Detroit river. … [Read more...]
Coho Fishing is Hot in Southern Ports
Bending Limits Sportfishing Charters of Saugatuck Michigan reports excellent catches of Coho on body baits-on flat lines, 1,2,3,4,5 colors of lead core with copper back mini streaks have been very good. We’re also catching fishing down deep. anywhere from 55 to 280 feet down on the downriggers!!! These fish seem to like spin doctors and Big Weenie flies. Our best fly as always is the Proctologist. These fish really seem to change the baits they’re biting on, on a daily basis. One day they really want the flies, the next they seem to love the spoons. The key right now is it run as many rods as possible, with as many different baits to start out with, and let the fish tell you what they want!<a … [Read more...]
8-1-2016 Saugatuck / Holland fishing Report Lake Michigan
What a great week of fishing off of Holland and Saugatuck. The creels ranged from 10 to 20 fish per trip with lake trout exceeding 20 pounds and Chinook reaching the mid 20 pound range. In addition to the Chinook salmon and lake trout there were steelhead up to 12 pounds and coho pushing 10 pounds. Every day we had kings hit our lures run from 30 foot down to the bottom, however we did not catch the kings every day. A 20+ pound king will take off 600 foot (or more) of line with the initial hit and were it goes is anybodies guess, however you can bet that it will be into other lines producing tangles and often lost fish and gear. The salmon, as I said will hit 150 foot copper to 350 foot of copper with spoons and flashers and flies and they also hit on the flashers and flies that we ran on the bottom for lake trout. So basically you fish from 30 foot to 110 foot and what hits is often a surprise—often lake trout but some time steelhead, king salmon or coho salmon. Silver and UV … [Read more...]
Lake Michigan Fishing Report from Saugatuck Michigan
What an interesting week this has been. Though out the week, when we left the dock we never knew what the day would produce. We started the week like we ended last week with 90% of the creel consisting of lake trout and the remaining 10% being steelhead and kings. By Wednesday the creels consisted of 50% lake trout and 50% kings and steelhead. Thursday and Friday produced creels consisting of 90% kings and 10% lake trout and steelhead. By Saturday we were back to primarily lake trout with an occasional silver fish. Fishing between fronts on Sunday we caught some coho along with some steelhead, lake trout and kings. Even though the fishing was unpredictable, the size of the fish was very good with catches having an average of 11 or 12 pounds per fish. The kings that we caught this week ranged from 16 to 22 pounds. We got to a point in the middle of the week were we decided that “less was more”. We had to reduce the number of copper lines and divers we ran because the kings would hit and … [Read more...]
07-27-2016 Lake Huron -Harbor Beach Fishing Report
Some nice Lake Trout are being taken in 80 to 100 foot of water working the bottom with dodgers and spin and glows, and clean spoons off the downriggers covering the 50 to 100 foot down areas. Try glow, green alewives, orange crush, black and white, and purple with pink spoons for your best colors. There are still some Pink and Coho Salmon being taken out in 90 to 130 foot of water areas on clean spoons run down 20 to 55 feet. Try running some clean spoons on the Offshore Boards as well, 2,3,5,7, and 10 colored leads should work. Some nice Steelhead are being taken near the color lines out in 85 to 100 foot of water areas as well, on bright colored spoons off the boards. A few Walleye were taken on small spoons, thunder sticks, and crawler harnesses in close to shore working the 20 to 60 foot areas. Some nice Bass were being taken in close to shore casting small body baits. Keep those lines tight, Captains Ken and Janice Deaton J-Lyn Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
07-17-2016 Harbor Beach Lake Huron Fishing Report
There are still some Pink Salmon being taken out in 90 to 120 foot of water areas on clean spoons run down 20 to 50 feet. Try running some clean spoons on the Offshore Boards as well, 2,3,5,7, and 10 colored leads should work. Lake Trout are being taken in 65 to 120 foot of water working the bottom with dodgers and spin and glows, and clean spoons off the downriggers covering the 50 to 80 foot down areas. Try orange crush, green alewives, and purple with pink spoons for your best colors. A few Steelhead have been taken near the color lines out in 80 to 120 foot of water areas as well, on bright colored spoons off the boards. A few Walleye were taken on small spoons, thunder sticks, and crawler harnesses in close to shore working the 20 to 60 foot areas. Some nice Bass were being taken in close to shore casting small body baits. Please use care when fishing, and keep an eye on the weather and wind. It can pick up quickly and the waves can grow fast. Keep those … [Read more...]
07-16-2016 Lake Erie Producing some nice Walleye
Captain Rich Hasselt says Lake Erie Walleye fishing is still on, with good size eaters being caught. Talon Charters Luna Pier … [Read more...]
07-16-2016 Northern Lake Michigan Manistique
Captain Bill Meyers of Delta Dawn Charters report that Northern U.P. Lake Michigan port of Manistique ON FIRE The salmon showed up 3 weeks early, the Alewife have been in the river since the first of June, and the walleye have been hard to catch! There are balls of bait everywhere. The lake trout, steelhead, Kings, and walleye are just stuffed full! We are getting good numbers of kings, in the 20 lb. range, with the biggest so far being 34.55 lbs. l'm sure there are some bigger ones around! Most boats are getting their limits with half of them being Kings. Fisherman are also getting a mixed bag of fish- lakers, steelhead, and the grand prize King. The fish are in 40 to 90 feet of water with the best bite being on spoons pulled on copper or lead. Good luck and have some fun fishing. Captain Bill Meyers of Delta Dawn Charters … [Read more...]
07-18-2016 Holland Saugatuck Fishing Report
The kings started to show up in the creels more frequently this past week. We caught kings that weighed 18 to 21 pounds and in addition some of the lake trout exceeded this (there was a trout that pushed 30 pounds). The creels are still predominated by the lake trout however there are some steelhead and some kings mixed in. The best fishing continues to be in the 100 foot depth from Holland to 4 miles south of Saugatuck. The lake trout are still being caught on the bottom with spin n glos and mirage flies pulled behind silver flashers and dodgers on the downriggers and wire dipsy divers. The best set ups for the salmon are 350 and 250 foot of copper with bloody nose and coyote ugly spoons. We did take some salmon off the bottom with silver flashers and mirage flies behind the wire dipsies. The steelhead are in the upper 50 foot of the water column and are being taken on orange crush spoons. Still no good reports on the perch out of Saugatuck and Holland. The only good report I … [Read more...]
7-11-2016 Southern Lake Michigan Fishing Report
This past week produced some very good fishing between fronts that came in mid week and on the weekend. The creel consisted of mainly lake trout with a couple of steelhead and/or salmon thrown in each day with creel numbers of 10 to 20 fish per trip. On one of our multi boat charters, a boat boated a lake trout that pushed 30 pounds and there were also chinook salmon taken that pushed 25 pounds. Not a lot of salmon being caught, however there are some very good sized salmon out there. The lake trout are also very nice size, with the catches averaging about 10 pounds each. We are fishing from 85 foot of water to 110 foot of water. The steelhead are hitting any spoons that are orange and silver and orange and red that are pulled on 5 color lead core and/or 100 foot of copper. There are also some steelhead taken on 3 color lead core with orange and red thin fins. The best rigs for the salmon continue to be the super slim coyote ugly and the bloody nose pulled on 200 and … [Read more...]
07-09-2016 Lake Huron Fishing Report – Harbor Beach
The wind has the lake all mixed up again, you will want to start fishing in 60 foot of water and work your way out until you find where the fish are setting again. Try fishing top to bottom with clean spoons, try some dodgers with spin and glows off the bottom for Lake Trout. There are still some Pink Salmon being taken out in 100 to 180 foot of water areas on clean spoons run down 20 to 50 feet. Try running some clean spoons on the Offshore Boards as well, 2,3,5,7, and 10 colored leads should work. A few Steelhead have been taken near the color lines out in 90 to 180 foot of water areas as well, on bright colored spoons off the boards. A few Walleye were taken on small spoons, thunder sticks, and crawler harnesses in close to shore working the 25 to 40 foot areas. Some nice Bass were being taken in close to shore casting small body baits. Please use care when fishing, and keep an eye on the weather and wind. It can pick up quickly and the waves can grow fast. Keep … [Read more...]
07-04-16 Saugatuck Fishing Report
This past week we saw all types of weather conditions with 90 + degree conditions with no wind to a 55 degree day with 30 knot winds and 8 foot seas. We saw the water temperature go from the high 40's to the mid 60's and then to the mid 40's over night and now slowly increasing into the high 50's. During the week we began fishing in front the piers, then moved out to 90 foot of water, then back in front the piers and today we were back out in 80 foot of water. Needless to say, there was no consistency to the week, however, the fishing was good with creel limits ranging from 2 to 10 fish per trip. The 2 fish catch does not sound very good however we had more than 10 steelhead on and fighting during the trip. If you fish steelhead you know that often you need three fish on to land one. Around the piers the best lure for the steelhead continues to be Thin Fins (Silver, Gold/Red, Red/Black, Orange/Red) run on flat lines, 2 and 3 color lead core and on the downriggers. When we moved … [Read more...]
June 27, 2016 Fishing Report Saugatuck
June 27, Fishing Report Lake water temperature is beginning to warm and most of the fish have left the shallow waters around the piers. However we had another week of good fishing out of Holland and Saugatuck producing creel numbers of 9 – 12 consisting of lake trout and steelhead. The best fishing was in 70 to 110 foot of water with lake trout caught bouncing the bottom and the steelhead hitting at 20 to 50 foot down. The best combination for the lake trout, continues to be metal Gold Star dodgers and silver spin doctors with spin n glos (yellow/silver, green/yellow and double trouble glow). These are run on the bottom on the downriggers and on the low wire divers. The steelhead were caught on the high divers (125 to 150 ft. out) with blue bubble flasher and flies and silver UV flashers and Oceana flies. We also caught steelhead on 100 copper and 250 copper with orange and green spotted super slim spoons. I have not had any good reports on the perch fishing and the steelhead … [Read more...]
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