Lake Trout are being taken straight out and North of the harbor in 80 to 150 foot of water. Try using dodgers with spin and glows close to the bottom and spoons off the downriggers at various depths. The 5,7, and 10 colored lead lines with spoons and body baits off the boards are working also. For Walleye try in the 40 to 90 foot of water areas using small spoons and hot n tots off the 3,5, and 7 colored lead lines. Bass will be in closer to shore. Try casting small spoons and body baits. Keep those lines tight, Captain Ken and Janice Deaton J-LYN Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
08-16-2018 Harbor Beach Fishing Report
Lake Trout are out in the deeper water of 160-200 foot right now. Try dodgers with spin and glows or clean spoons off the downriggers from top to bottom. Walleye and some Atlantic Salmon have been taken North of the harbor in 60 to 80 foot of water using small spoons and body baits. Try some 2, 3, 7, and 10 colored lead lines off the Offshore boards. A few Steelhead have been taken fishing closer to the top around the color lines on bright colored spoons. Bass continue to be taken in close to shore casting small spoons and body baits. Keep those lines tight, Captain Ken and Janice Deaton J-LYN Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
Harbor Beach Fishing Report
Lake Trout are being taken straight out and North of the harbor in 160 foot of water fishing top to bottom. Dodgers with spin and glows and clean spoons have been working. Walleye were taken North of the harbor in 45 to 85 foot of water on the 7 and 9 colored lead lines using small spoons and worm burners. Orange was the best color. Atlantic Salmon were taken North of the harbor in 85 foot of water off the 7 color lead line on small orange spoons. Bass continue to be taken in close to shore casting small spoons and body baits. Keep those lines tight, Captain Ken and Janice Deaton J-LYN Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
Lake Michigan Ludington Fishing Report
Captain Gary from the Rodmaster reports: Thank you Debbie, Dorie, Mike and Doug for an awesome evening of fishing. Started out a little bumpy and slow but finished with a bang at sunset at big point Sable. We were 4 for 6 with a 27, 20, 15 lb king and a small one. Bites were on: 200 copper Yeck Scottie Shine magnum spoon Downrigger 130 with Dreamweaver laketrout candy spindoctor/ blueberry whirligig Downrigger down 52 with moonshine nightcrawler magnum spoon mainline/ Dreamweaver wart frog regular spoon as freeslider. … [Read more...]
Lake Erie Fishing Report
Captain John from Stray Cat Fishing Charters reports that perch fishing has begun with good catches. Check these photos out. … [Read more...]
Harbor Beach Fishing Report – Lake Huron
Some Walleye have been taken North of the harbor in 40 to 60 foot of water areas using hot and tots, small spoons, and crawler harnesses. Lake Trout have been taken straight out and North of the harbor in 60 to 140 foot of water using clean spoons off the downriggers at mixed depths and with dodgers with spin and glows close to the bottom. A few Steelhead were taken in the same areas fishing closer to the top using the 2,4,7, and 10 colored lead lines with bright colored spoons. Bass continue to be taken in close to shore casting body baits and small spoons. Keep those lines tight, Captain Ken and Janice Deaton J-LYN Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
Lake Huron Fishing Report
The fish are a little scattered right now with the winds and storms that have went through. Best place to start for Lake Trout will be in 80' of water straight out and North of the harbor. Try some dodgers with spin and glows close to the bottom and clean spoons working from top to bottom. Work your way out to deeper water until you find where they are setting. Put out some bright colored spoons off the Offshore boards using 3, 5, 7, and 10 colored lead lines for the Steelhead. Try for Walleye in a little closer to shore using small spoons, hot and tots and crawler harnesses working top to bottom. Bass continue to be taken in close to shore casting small spoons and body baits. > Keep those lines tight, > Captain Ken and Janice Deaton > J-LYN Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
Once in a lifetime fish
The fishing for king salmon on Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior has been outstanding this year. Here is a picture of a 30 pounder caught about the Addiction IV from Grand Haven … [Read more...]
07-16-2018 Post Austin Fishing Report
Captain Dan Cruchon of Stormy Chinook Charters reports from Port Austin: The cold water and persistent Northeast winds we had all spring has resulted in only fair Walleye fishing. The best action is well west of Port Austin in 20-40 feet of water. Lake Trout has been good, with some exceptionally large fish this year. Nearly every direction out of Grindstone is holding fish, in 110-150′ of water. Many of these fish are suspended, but the biggest ones are on bottom. we are also seeing a lot more Steelhead this year. I have had as many as 10 Steelhead on per trip, but they are hard to get in the boat. These fish are in the top 30 feet. Good luck fishing. … [Read more...]
07-04-2018 Alpena Michign
Captain Steve reports from Chum Bucket Charters - Alpena, Michigan Doug got a perfect day on the big pond for his group. A giant Lake Trout along with 3 beautiful Atlantic Salmon was part of the catch. Lady luck hauled the beast in and topped it off by reeling in a double of an Atlantic and Laker on one downrigger!!! The weather was perfect and the seas were calm. The trips keep getting better for this group every year. The Flintstone spoons, Morgan's copper, and Gatorbait boards did most of the work once again. The Dreamweaver divers took several fish also but no Salmon. Tight Lines All. CBC … [Read more...]
07-04-2018 Ludington Fishing Report
Captain George Freeman from Free Style Charters, Ludington reports: We heard reports of good catches out deep yesterday so we headed southwest out of Ludington today setting up on the 36 line west and trolling west southwest. It was 45 degrees down 55 ft. on our Fish Hawk. Hit our first fish on a 200 copper with a regular Dreamweaver Green Skinny Jeans. It was a good size 3 year old King. A smaller King hit a high wire diver out 160 with an 8″ Chrome NBK Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/Hot Lobster Big Water Meat Rig. We were in the middle of the 37’s and hit a 4 banger. A Steelhead hit a low wire out 85 with a mag DW Green Glow. A Lake Trout took an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Spin Doctor out 180 on a high wire. A King hit a regular DW Blue Skinny Jeans on a 250 copper & another Laker hit a Super Slim Green Skinny Jeans on a 175 copper. We boated 3 out of 4. A Super Slim Black Dot UV Starburst on a 3 color core took a nice Steelhead. Most of our fish came in the mid 37’s … [Read more...]
05-27-2018 Ludington Fishing Report
We ran a double today. Some boats had nice catches of Kings Saturday south of Pentwater. It’s a long run for us but we decided to give it a try on our morning trip. We only had 4 rods in the water when we hit a double.An out down set at 60 with a pair of magnum glow spoons and the chute rigger down 75 with an 11″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly both fired. We boated both Kings. We had the other out down set at 65 ft. with a pair of Magnum Fuzzy Bear Yellowtail spoons that went 3 times. We missed 2 of them and boated 1. We took a King on a low wire out 90 with an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend/Ocean Mist Action Fly and took another one on the other low wire out 120 with an 8″ White Green Prism Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We only had 1 high wire diver bite and that came on a 10″ Netminder Showtime Spin Doctor/Liven The Dream Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We had bites on 200, 225, & 300 coppers. Our trout came on a Chrome Spin Doctor/Mountain Dew Whirly Gig … [Read more...]
Harbor Beach Fishing Report 08-27-2017
Lake Trout have been taken straight out and North of the harbor in 105 to 130 foot of water. Dodgers with spin and glows and clean spoons off the downriggers close to the bottom have been working. Best colors have been blacks, greens, and purple. Steelhead head have been taken in the same areas using spoons. Try some bright orange, greens, and pink colors. Walleye have been taken straight out and North of the harbor using crawler harnesses, worm burners, small spoons and Hot and Tots. Best colors have been purple, blacks, greens and blues. Bass are still being taken in closer to shore using small body baits. Keep those lines tight, Captains Ken and Janice Deaton J-Lyn Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
08-14-2017 Harbor Beach
The fish continue to be scattered right now. A few Lake Trout have been taken out in 95 to 130 foot of water areas straight out and North of the harbor. Clean spoons and dodgers with spin and glows have been working. Steelhead are slow right now but an occasional one or two have been taken out deep using 3, 5, 7, and 10 color lead lines with bright colored spoons. Walleye are still scattered with a few taken North of the harbor using worm burners, Hot and Tots, and thunder sticks, mix the depth of the lures and water until you see where they are setting. Bass are still being taken in closer to shore casting body baits. Keep those lines tight Captains Ken and Janice Deaton J-Lyn Charters Harbor Beach … [Read more...]
08-16-2017 Ludington Fishing Report
We fished south today setting up in 110 feet of water. First fish came on a 200 copper with a Natural Glow Captains Choice Cut Plug. It was a good size King. That 200 went one more time but we missed that one. A pair of regular size DW Blue Skinny Jeans on an out down set at 50 feet went twice. Our best rod was a high wire diver out 300 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. An 8″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly stacked with a mag Fuzzy Bear Modified Blue Dolphin 110 down on an out down went twice. One hit the flasher/fly and the other the spoon. Our biggest King came on a 300 copper with an 8″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We took a King on a mag glow spoon on a 350 copper and another King on our Trout rig. an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Blue Chrome WhirlyGig with glow wings. The top picture was from yesterdays charter. I attended a funeral out of town and Capt. Russ Soper and 1st mate Corey did a fine job … [Read more...]
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