Fishing at Pentwater

Fished with Joe and Daryl out of the Port of Pentwater. We headed up Sunday morning and came home on Wednesday. We docked the boat at the Municipal Marina and we stayed at the Pine Motel (not recommended ).Tuesday was the only bad day we had for fishing. We quit fishing at 7:30 in the morning and we did not make it out for the evening fish because of the small craft warnings. We fished one evening in front of the harbor because of the wind and waves. The rest of the trip we were fishing south of the harbor in front of the Silver Lake Sand Dunes, about a 10 mile boat ride. The majority of the fishing was in waters 90 to 150 feet deep, fishing anywhere from 40 to 90 feet down with the bait. Cut bait rigs caught most of the fish and one fish came off the Scar Pace lure. We had a couple of nice fish on that we lost. One straightened the split ring that is on the snap swivel and the other one straightened the clip on the snap swivel. We kept 6 king salmon and 5 steelhead and put back two lake trout. The largest king was about 14 pounds and the largest steelhead was just over 13 pounds. It was nice fishing out of Pentwater but it's always hard fishing a new port for the first time.