Thank you Jennifer, Mike, Jon and Alex for joining us. The fish were not cooperative with us today. We started in PM Lake and immediately had a rip on 3 colors leadcore with Wonderbread plug. Shortly after we took a nice king on a 4 color leadcore with mixed veggie Captain choice plug, several rounds later we toiled with a nice one on a high diver out 65 with uv white slick 10 inch spindoctor / green moo moo meatrig. The bite shut down do we ran to the 00s and set up in 100 fow. After trolling for a couple hours with no bites we pulled and ran south to 200 fow. We hit a nice steelhead on a three color leadcore / green jeans moonshine spoon and he spit the hook after a run and 3 jumps, circling back we hit another fish on 350 copper with 8 inch Dreamweaver Spindoctor dragon slayer / green mile meatrig. .. that one twisted off also. Rodmaster Fishing Charters Ludington, Michigan >Boat Location: 846 South Lakeshore Drive, Ludington, Michigan, MI 49431 … [Read more...]
Fishing report for Saturday July 22
Thank you Hal, Tim, Kirk, and Russell for fishing with us! Awesome trip with 31 bites and boating 23 fish. We fished little north and south of Pentwater in 80 to 120 fow. Fish bites came on Reg DW gold starburst spoon / 3 color leadcore, Moonshine Green shorts on 150 copper, Moondhine Reg Sarge on 250 copper, dreamweaver 8 in Mountain Dew salmon slayer spin doctor /green ice meat rig on high diver out 110,10 in Mountain Dew nbk spin doctor / uv ice on low diver out 80 moonshine spoon Fishtastic as main on rigger. Reg DW wonderbread spoon as free slider, 8 in Nbk spin doctor with a Mountain ghost whirligig on the rigger, Green shorts spoon on 200 copoer, 8 in Blue bubble spin doctor / blue fairways fly high diver 8 in nbk spin doctor with a yellow meat rig moonshine regular jeans spoon on 5 color, Moonshine magnum Founder pounder on 8 color, Blue jeans as main on rigger. Fuzzy bear Modified caramel dolphin as free slider Captain Gary Rodmaster Charters Ludington … [Read more...]
July 18th fishing report Ludington, Michigan
Thanks to the Wickens team for joining us today! We fished back up north of port this am but the bite was a lot tougher than yesterday. We had 8 fish on and boated 5. The water was 20 degrees warmer with very little bait. We lost a monster king on a 3 color lead core / green jeans spoon very first light. The remainder bites were 8 in netminder spindoctor / blue fairways meat rig on a low diver out 100 ft, rigger at 25 with Blue Jean spoon, 4 color leadcore / naked jordo spoon, and 5 color leadcore / orange green proking spoon. Rodmaster Charters Ludington, Michigan … [Read more...]
SAGINAW BAY Fishing Report—July 15, 2017
The Saginaw Bay walleye bite right now is as good as it gets! Today we fished the 8-11 foot depths off the islands on the eastern side of the bay. Pulling crawler harnesses behind one ounce weights 23-27 feet back at 1.5-1.6 mph, we averaged an easy 10 fish and hour on fish that averaged 16-22 inches. A half dozen fish pushed the scales to four pounds. The action was non-stop from the time we sat down until we limited out. It has been that way since the end of June! Too much cold water has slowed the fishing in much of the deeper waters of the bay, so the key is to find water as close to 70 degrees as possible. We found 71-72 degree water and a very strong bite essentially all along the islands once inside the 15-foot contour. Deeper than that the water dropped to 69 degrees and the fish disappeared. There are countless reefs around the islands where the unsuspecting angler can suddenly find himself in three to five feet of water, so it’s critical to map out a trolling route on … [Read more...]
Ludington Michigan on the Rodmaster
We fished the same area and had 11 fish on... 10 which were big fish. . Karma was not in the catching and only 3 made it into the box. Bites came on high diver out 100 ft with blue bubble spin doctor / blue bubble fly, Downrigger at 47 with moonshine flounder pounder spoon, 200 copper naked jordo spoon, low wire out 120 with frog glow spindoctor / green meatrig, low wire bouncing bottom with green tin can / green spin n glo, and low wire diver bouncing bottom with Dreamweaver 8 inch chrome spindoctor / uv lime green Whirligig. Captain Gary Smith Rodmaster Charters … [Read more...]
SAGINAW BAY FISHING REPORT—July 5, 2017
SAGINAW BAY WALLEYE fishing remains exceptional. The reason? All the west and west-southwest winds have concentrated the fish all along the eastern side of the bay. The water out of Augres all last week was 51 degrees all the way across the bay to 13-14 feet of water near the islands on the eastern side where it suddenly turned to 68-70 degrees. Anglers essentially have the majority of the bay’s walleye population concentrated in 13 feet of water or less, and it’s providing incredible fishing from south of Big Charity Island all the way down south of Essexville. The action is non-stop! What’s working? Just about everything. Hot ‘N Tots, Flicker Shads and Flicker Minnows, Husky Jerks, and Little Rippers are some of the more common crank baits. Crawler’s harnesses are deadly as well pulled behind one-ounce in-line weights or bottom bouncers. A few boats were drifting using one-ounce jigs tipped with Mister Twisters or Berkley “Gulp” Worms. It just didn’t seem to matter what an angler … [Read more...]
Lake Erie Fishing Report for 06-27-2017
Fishing for walleye has been excellent this June. Plenty of shorts and legal size walleye to be caught. We have been trolling crankbaits and crawler harnesses with success on both. Fish are everywhere in Michigan waters. The bite should last well into July. The late summer perch bite should be good because all the captains I know are catching plenty of perch while fishing for the walleyes and good size too. Captain Dan Woodward Blueline Charters www.thebluelinecharters.com Blueline Charters specializes in walleye and perch fishing in the Detroit River and on Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay. … [Read more...]
Saginaw Bay Walleye Fishing Report —June 25, 2017
The wind blows relentlessly. The thunder rolls. It rains almost daily. Some of the worst flooding since 1986 took place last week. Incredibly, it has had little effect on the Saginaw Bay walleye bite. Fishing continues to be excellent from south of Pt. Augres all the way around the bay to the “Slot” south of Sand Point. Limit catches are common whether one chooses to fish the shallow waters or the deeper walleye haunts. The bay is literally loaded with huge concentrations of walleye. Crank baits, especially Flicker Shads, spoons and crawler harness are all highly productive. Color hasn’t seemed to matter on the harnesses, but it has with the crank baits and spoons, so experimentation will be necessary with them. Last week the fish were suspending more in the deeper water, as the best bites seemed to come 10-15 feet off bottom. For us, that meant running crawler harnesses behind three-ounce weights 37-47 feet behind in-line boards while trolling at 1.3-1.5 mph (GPS … [Read more...]
06-22-2017 South Haven, Michigan
Captain Matt Strong reported hot steelhead action out of South Haven. … [Read more...]
Lake Superior – Marquette 06-20-2017
Nicolet Shores Fishing Charters reported nice catches of Lake trout and salmon being taken on Lake Superior from the port of Marquette, Michigan … [Read more...]
06-21-2017 Alpena Michigan Fishing Report
Captain Steve from Chum Bucket Charters - Alpena reports:"Chris scheduled a trip that won't be forgotten anytime soon. 24 fish morning had the reels working overtime!!! The trip started with a double that proved dad's fish was a tad smaller and she reminded him of that frequently. Then within the hour they had landed thier limit and then some. Fish after fish with doubles, triples, and even a quadruple made for nonstop action in the Laker spot. We then wandered out for a chance at the fish she had her heart set on, a Salmon. It didn't take long to hook one up but shook the hook loose with a wierd jump near the boat and the lure flew one way and the fish went the other. She said that she is coming back to settle the score soon." Chum Bucket Charters steve@chumbucketcharters.net … [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...]
Salmon in the Classroom Program Helps Keep Michigan Fishing Strong
Reprinted from Dave Mull blog post 252 Shares The Lake Michigan fish were biting Tuesday out of Saugatuck as approximately 65 middle-schoolers on 19 boats landed more than 80 salmon and trout in about three hours of trolling. If giggles and smiles were any indication, some 65 sixth graders from Saugatuck Middle School had a great time catching salmon and trout last Tuesday, a kind of perk for helping raise king salmon in their science classroom. “Just think, that fish might have been one we raised in our school and released two years ago,” said Katie Hankins, sixth-grade science teacher at the school, as a six-pound king salmon flopped on the deck of the big Sea Ray boat. Smiling student Ebony Lafountain had just reeled it in, her third fish of the morning. The middle school is one of close to 200 schools throughout Michigan that participate in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Salmon in the Classroom program. Each October, … [Read more...]
8-10-2015 Southern Lake Michigan:
Capt. Ron Westrate, Director SLM, reports from First Call ll . A week of either limit catches or catches of all the fish a person needs or wants. Many of the charters only lasted 3 to 4 hours to get all the weight of fish a person or group needs. Creel numbers ranged for low to mid teens to the low 20’s. The creels consisted of a mixture of about 2/3rd lake trout and 1/3rd salmon and steelhead. The size of the fish was also very good with lake trout up to 15 pounds and salmon pushing 20 pounds. The lake trout again were taken primarily on Gold Star metal flashers and white/glow and green/chartreuse spin n glos on the bottom with downriggers. Salmon were caught on the high and low divers, 200, 300 and 350 foot copper with Pro Troll flashers (blue bubble, mixed veggie, white and blue and UV and white and UV. Behind the flashers we pulled Rapture flies and the best fly was the Oceana UV and Oceana Tuli, however there were days when the Green No See Um and the Green … [Read more...]
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