Finally, a Nice Day for Fishing

Fished with Uncle Dan and Joe. Temperature this morning was in the lower 60s and when we quit fishing it was in the middle 70s. The wind was variable less than 10 knots with waves less than a foot. The water temp is 71 degrees. The mayfly hatch is happening and that made the catching tough for us. We had to check the lines a lot for mayfly larva building up on the jet divers. We started fishing at 41 45 240 / 083 14 175, which is off of Stoney Point. We ran jet 30s set at 60 feet back and jet 40s set at 50 feet back. As we were setting lines we got the first fish and we thought we were in for a great day. After an hour of fishing with only the one fish we pulled lines and headed to 41 48 170 / 083 09 350. Again, we just got the lines set and we caught a walleye. Well, we trolled around here for a while picking up a fish or two and that was how our day was. We left the pack of boats and started trolling towards port and that is when we caught the steelhead. Kept 8 walleye and 1 steelhead.

Made the Right Choice Today

Fished with John and Doug E. Temperature this morning was in the lower 60s and when we quit fishing it was in the middle 60s, and it's the end of June. The wind was out of the west 20 to 25 knots and because we fished in close for perch the waves were about a foot. The water temp is 71 degrees. Started fishing where we left off yesterday and it produced no fish. We made some moves further into the swamp and we would catch an occasional keeper perch but the catching was very slow. After 4 or 5 moves in the swamp we went to the W buoy and started to catch some fish. We were fishing about 1000 feet south of the W buoy. Caught most of our fish here and after an hour we pulled lines because Doug had to go home. Kept 24 perch and most of them were pretty nice fish. We made a good call by not going walleye fishing. When the charter boats came in they said the waves were just like yesterday.

Wind, Rain, Waves but a good running Kicker

Fished with Daryl and Mark. Temperature this morning was in the upper 60s and when we quit fishing it was still in the upper 60s. It would rain every once in a while which just made the trip that much worse. The wind was out of the southwest 20 to 26 knots and when we got to the fishing spot the waves were 3 to 5 feet. The water temp is 71 degrees. The wind report this morning was bad so the game plan was to perch fish in close to shore. We bought some shiners and headed out. Well, with the offshore wind the lake was not too bad so we made the decision to go walleye fishing out to 41 51 200 / 083 11 200, an 11 mile boat ride. We stopped a mile short of these way points and tried to set lines with the waves to our backs. After a hard time of setting lines and fighting the waves we decided to call it quits and go perch fishing. We caught 2 walleye using the jet 30s set at 65 feet back off the CJ Special spoon. The walleye are there but it was just too rough too fish in my boat. After a long ride back we started to perch fish in the swamp (41 48 170 / 083 24 630) where the waves were about a foot but the wind was still blowing pretty hard. We kept 22 perch and 2 walleye. I put a new carburetor on the kicker motor and that seemed to solve the engine problems, finally.

The Big Bang

Fished with Captain Daryl and his friend Walt. Temperature this morning was in the lower 60s and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 70s. The wind was less than 10 knots out of the west with waves less than 6 inches. The water temp is 71 degrees. We started fishing at 41 51 250 / 083 11 800. The fishing was kind of slow and as we moved out the catching got better. Caught most of the fish at 41 49 200 / 083 09 100. We ran jet 20s at 70 and 100 feet back. The best spoons were anything with a combination of purple. The weeds were not too much of a problem today but there is still a lot of logs floating around. We actually had the starboard planer board take a dive, luckily it was clam enough to bring it in with no problem. Were not sure, but we think a large log hit the planer board and it started diving into the water. Here we are fishing on a Friday and there must have been at least 300 boats fishing, 11 miles from shore, go figure. We kept 13 walleye and had 1 throw back walleye.

Nothing But Problems

Fished with Uncle Dan. Temperature this morning was in the middle 50s and when we quit fishing it was in the the middle 70s. The wind was out of the northwest 10 to 15 knots with gusts over 20 knots and the  waves were 1 to 2 feet. The water temp is 70 degrees. We were running jets and spoons set at 70 feet back. The best color spoon was CJ Special, which is mostly purple. The game plan was to fish at 41 51 200 / 083 11 500. So I set up a couple of miles north of these way points and started to troll out to them. Well, the kicker motor has been acting up lately and today it was worse. After wasting an hour getting to our way points without any fish and fighting with the kicker motor we finally arrived and found a lot of weeds. We also found some fish. The kicker motor was so bad that we went with the big motor for the rest of the trip. By this time the wind was picking up and it getting hard to fish so we called it a day. Kept 6 walleye. Bought some fuel today and the price is $4.49 a gallon.

Mark's Big Fish

Fished with Captain Daryl and Mark. Temperature this morning was in the lower 60s and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 70s. The wind was out of the east about 10 knots with waves around a foot. The water temp is 71 degrees. Started fishing where we left off yesterday running the same program. We caught most of the fish at 41 52 300 / 083 14 800. Just like yesterday there was small pockets of fish, once you got over them you would catch a walleye. About half way through the trip one of the rods bent over and we knew it was a nice fish. That's the picture of Mark holding a nice musky. Kept 9 walleye and threw back 4 little ones. On the way out to the fishing spot and on the way back to the harbor there was a lot of debris floating around. Some of the logs were half the size of a telephone pole.

Perfect Day for Fishing

Fished with Joe and uncle Dan. Temperature this morning was in the middle 60s and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 70s. The wind was out of the northeast less than 10 knots with waves less than a foot. Just a nice day to be on the water. The water temp is 69 degrees. Started fishing where we left off on the last trip with jets set at 60 feet on one side of the boat and 70 feet on the other. Caught one fish right out of the gate and we thought we were in for a great day but it did not turn out that way. We eventually put the jets at 70 feet on both sides of the boat and that did not help so we went to dipsy's on one side set at 110 feet. That  produced no hits so we went back to all jets. Today we had a couple of problems. One we lost 5 walleye behind the boat and two the boat traffic was horrendous. I'm not sure why we are losing so many fish this year, the hooks are sharp and we are not horsing the fish in, they just shake there head and there off. Today uncle Dan cut his hand on a walleye and then Joe wanted to make sure he left his mark in the boat too so he cut his finger on a walleye. The hot spoons were Hot Rod and CJ Special.  Kept 10 walleye and we had 5 throw backs between 5 and 13 inches, which is always a great sign for the future walleye fishing.

The Dirty Dozen

Fished with Daryl. Temperature this morning was in the lower 50s and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 70s. The wind was out of the northwest less than 10 knots but we had some waves left over from yesterday for the morning fishing. After a couple of hours the lake laid done very nice with waves less than a foot. Started fishing at the northeast corner of the dumping grounds and trolled east. We caught most of the fish at 41 52 000 / 083 15 300, which is straight out from the River Raisin Channel. Setting lines this morning was a choir, with the wind and the waves and the boat not running very good it took all we had to set lines. We ran jet 20s set at 55 feet back on one side of the boat and 70 feet back on the other side of the boat. The 70 feet side started to catch some fish so we set all lines to 70 feet. The best color spoons were metallic with green and orange with an antifreeze backing. Kept 12 walleye.