Salmonhead was back in action on Lake Michigan after a 6 week delay. A trip to lake Erie, and some mechanical gremlins had me sidelined for the poor fishing in June. By the sounds of it, I didn't miss much. I took my aunt out this morning for a few hours and boxed 8 from 10 bites. We had 4 nice kings up to 14#, 3 lakers from 5-8# and one steelhead about 4#. Flies dominated the bites. HorseFlies in Midnight and Seamist took 3 bites each. Mirage took one. Pink Ice northport Nailer took one fish and Sunfire took one fish. There was a constant parade of fish about 80 down on the graph. Riggers at 85, 130-180 down took fish. Divers back 180-315 took fish. No copper bites.. We covered water from 80-295' with action scattered throughout. Best troll was a 200 degree troll. |
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The fish that were being caught to the south last week have moved up into Muskegon waters. Fishing with two friends yesterday morning we were 21 to the boat for 24 bites in 4 hours. We had to sort out some undersized lakers and kept our 3 man limit. We had a mixed back of lake trout, king salmon and coho salmon. The hot rod was |
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Fishing just south continues to be a slaughter for the latter part of last week. The Muskegon area had good to decent fishing on Friday and Saturday, but thinned out Sunday and even slower on Monday. I expect the upcoming weekend to be gangbusters. Muskegon anglers are overdue some good numbers so far this season. |
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Beautiful day Wednesday 4/28, |
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Fought the strong offshore winds and managed five nice fish on Saturday. First king of the season about 13# and a decent steelhead hit the cooler and three really nice lake trout (up to 15#) had to swim free since the season is closed until May 1. Northport Nailer spoons took all the fish. Easter Egg glow (48) set 25 down on the rigger took 2 lakers, Mixed veggie (47) set 20 down on the rigger took the King, Mashed Bannana (11) on the 3 color took the steelhead and BOG (black/ orange on Gold) took the last laker on the 5 color. Fish seemed to be in the 40 foot range within a mile of the pier heads. Water temp ranged from 42-46 and change. The wind made boat control a little tricky at times and I had to cut the spread down from 18 rods to 17 rods. |
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After doing some routine maintanece, I had half hour to kill and made one pass in front. Caught a nice little brown on a northport Orange Ice Gold (41G) on the slide diver. He tasted good for dinner tonight. |
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Jumped on board with buddies last night and we hit the pier heads past the beach line looking for walleye. We landed 4 out of 5 hooked. Typical post spawn walleye program. Big body baits, salmon rods, salmon reels and salmon line. They are not real shy this time of year. Strictly a night time affair past the beach line into lake Michigan. After the season opens up, we can get after them in Muskegon lake as well. Still a nighttime affair. |
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