Fishing Report

Boat anglers trolling in shallow waters were taking a few brown trout and steelhead. The coho will not come in until the water temperatures warm up.

Good numbers of steelhead are reported to be up in the East Branch of the river, but fishing down at the Singing Bridge has been very slow.

The docks are now in. Boat anglers are trolling for walleye off the mouth of the river, but the action has been slow. The bite should pick up as the waters warm up. Most are trolling rapalas or husky jerks.

Boats are trolling close to shore for steelhead and brown trout. Pier anglers are taking steelhead on spawn. A few perch were hitting on minnows.

Steelhead are in the river but the bite was slow due to colder weather. Boat anglers will want to fish the deeper holes until it warms back up.

Cold weather slowed the catch rate, but a few walleye have been caught off the end of the pier. Water temperatures have been about 39 degrees.

The current is strong and constantly changing due to the opening of the chutes at the dam. Anglers are targeting steelhead by drift fishing with flies, spawn or wax worms. The lucky ones are taking a few fish, but many are getting snagged because of the currents and debris near the bottom. The suckers have moved in early this year. The fish cleaning station remains closed and the restrooms are locked.

Fishing has been slow, especially for brown trout. As of this report, the docks had not been put in and the restrooms were closed. Anglers will need waders to launch a boat.

Fishing has come to a complete stand still as everything is iced in including the ramps and marinas. There is ice all along the shoreline and on the rocks and breakwall making those areas very dangerous. Before the bad weather hit, brown trout were caught by boat anglers in front of the breakwall and in Swan Bay. Atlantic salmon were taken around the light at Calcite and in the harbor as the fish were concentrating in the warmer waters.

Steelhead can still be found up near the Yates Dam. Spawn usually works best. A few white suckers have also been caught.

Some coho and steelhead have been taken in the southern waters of Lake Huron when trolling planer boards with bodybaits in shallow waters.

The unseasonably cold weather shut down the spring runs all around the Bay. Fishing should pick back up as the weather improves. It does not appear that the perch spawn is underway yet as not even the commercial fishermen are getting many.

Walleye have been caught when vertical jigging with large emerald shiners or plastics. The better fishing has been near the mouth of the Black River. The docks are in at Port Huron.

The water levels were good and the walleye fishing has been very good with some limits taken. Boats are launching along the entire river from Wyandotte down to Elizabeth Park. A good number of males have been caught, some up to 12 pounds. Most are using a jig and minnow or plastics.

Water levels are getting back to normal. Steelhead fishing has been fair with most fish hitting wax worms under a bobber. Look for fish in the slower waters below the dam at Flat Rock.

Walleye have been caught near the Fermi Power Plant, off Stony Point, and in Brest Bay. Try fishing over the mud flats and near the mouth of the rivers with a variety of things such as a jig and minnow, crawler harnesses, spinners or rapalas. A few perch have been caught in the marinas.

There was very little fishing activity on Lake Erie over Easter weekend. Cold temperatures, snow and strong wind limited main lake access. Expect walleye fishing to improve as conditions stabilize. Jigging on the Camp Perry reefs and trolling the open water east of the reefs produced decent catches the week before Easter. As the water warms expect jig fishing to heat up on most of the Camp Perry reefs and in nearshore areas all the way from Maumee Bay to Cedar Point. Larger female walleye can be caught by trolling minnow imitating stickbaits in the open water around the reefs and islands. Surface temperatures currently range from 38 to 40 degrees.

In addition to the Salmon and Oswego rivers, several other Lake Ontario tributaries in our area receive good steelhead runs this time of year. Little Sandy, Grindstone, Sterling and Sterling Valley creeks are good examples. Egg sacks, worms or nymph imitations drifted through the deep pools and runs should produce.

There are a fair number of steelhead in the river but the water is high and fast. Steelhead are holding throughout the river but most anglers are fishing the upper reaches where the flows are least difficult to manage. Try fishing the inside seams and softer water along the edges. Bottom bouncing nymphs or egg sacks and float fishing with egg sacks or pink worms have been the most productive methods of catching steelhead. Suggested patterns include glo-bugs, sucker spawn, estaz eggs, woolly buggers and black or brown stoneflies.

The river is very high with flows in excess of 22,000 cfs. A few brown trout are being caught in the harbor and along the shoreline on stickbaits.If you are trying for browns and steelhead, egg sacks, night crawlers, pink worms and bucktail jigs tipped with a night crawler, grub or minnow have been productive.

Has good numbers of steelhead and suckers in it.

Boat anglers have caught steelhead and brown trout when trolling up towards the State Park and Big Sable Point. Anglers have also taken fish off the north pier.

Is now open to fishing. The steelhead egg take has started and will likely run through the middle of next week. The weir will be pulled just as soon as the quota has been met.

Boats are trolling in shallow waters 7 to 12 feet deep as far south as Gurney Creek and as far north as the water tower. Pier anglers are catching brown trout off both piers when using spawn. A few menominee were taken on a single egg or wax worm.

Boat anglers are trolling in the shallows for brown trout. Pier fishing has been fair for steelhead and brown trout.