Fishing Report

We started out fishing the beach for Browns this morning in 12 feet of water (fow) south of the project. The water was chalky in color and the surface temp was 49 degrees. Ideal conditions we thought. The further south we trolled the cloudier the water got. We fished past Summit Park without a bite. We wanted to hang in there and see if we could get some action by Bass Lake outlet. Just south of Summit the water turned gin clear and still no bites. It was time to leave the skinny water and move out to deeper water. I talked to another charter that was having some luck outside us between 40 & 60 fow so we headed out there. We changed all  14 rods we had out added 3 more to our spread. In 56 fow we hit the double pictured above. The first fish took a Super Slim Starburst on a 7.5 color core.  The second hit a magnum Fuzzy Bear Modified Carmel Dolphin on a 10 color core. We hit another fish, a steelhead on a SS Double Orange Pearl on a 1 color core, but it didn’t stay hooked. We turned back north near Pentwater and took 3 more keepers and threw back 3 small Salmon. 1 of the Kings took a Yeck Afro Glow on a 10 color. The other King hit Gold Mixed Veggie Super Slim out 100 ft. on a Slide Diver. We put another Mag Fuzzy Bear Carmel Dolphin on an out down set at 38 feet and we took a Steelhead on it. We missed a couple other hits. Once we got off the beach to a little deeper water the action wasn’t too bad.

It didn’t look very promising this morning when we left the dock. It was pouring rain and boats that fished yesterday didn’t have much good to report. Some of our crew drove up from  Florida and they wanted to fish, so out we went. We fished south of Ludington  setting up by Buttersville Park in 14 feet of water (fow). We only had 3 rods set when the King pictured above right took an F11 Rapala  Brown Trout on our outside bird. We trolled south to the Project. Our plan was to go around the net and take it all the way to the Bass Lake Outlet. We changed our minds after we hit 6 fish on our out troll. We ended up turning around and working between the Project and Buttersville Park between 6 and 16 fow. We had steady action all morning. Our best baits were  F 11 Brown Trout and a F 11 Yellow Perch Rapalas and  Carmel Icicle Dreamweaver Super Slims. We were running the Rapalas on clean birds and  Carmel Icicles on 1 color cores. The Brown pictured left has a Carmel Icicle hanging on his jaw. We are using Dreamweaver Side Sweeper boards with good results. They track well.