TheKingfisher

Hey guys thanks for the information. We had a great time in Onekema, we primarily fished the barrell. The fish were hanging on the shallow shelf there. Saturday we took a 4 man limit of nice kings, Sunday was a little slower with 5 fish coming in just a couple hours in the morning before it was time to head home. The most productive rig was white attarctors with silver and little boy blue flies or blue bubble spoons. We used Spin Dr.s, Opti's, Hoochie's, Big Al's fish flash, didn't matter as long as the colors were correct. Presentation didn't matter either, we were running these combos on riggers, dipseys, full cores, half cores. We also did take some fish on Green Glow Silver hordes on the fill core and several on a Pink Panties on a 2 color. It was a lot of fun, we had a lot of fish strike and get off, and many of the fish we did land had a big hook and hard mouths, so I'm gussing that was part of why we dropped a fair amount of fish. Had 3 fish that were unstoppable; one ran a dipsey out to over 1000 feet, as we started battening the drag down he broke the leader on the fly. Second one unspooled a full core and straightened the hooks when we tried to turn him, and we had another one break the line and lost the Flasher Spoon on that one. Overall it was a great weekend on the water! Great weather, beautiful lake and shoreline.

We're fishing up north in Onekema, I'm trailering up Friday evening. I know I have posts all over the place... Just trying to catch anyone who knows anything about fishing Onekema... We've never been. :-)

Hello, fish primarily from Port Sheldon and Holland. The Kingfisher is a 23ft. Starcraft Islander. Been fishing from her for 3 years now. Work in IT in Grand Rapids and live in Zeeland. Often try to make a fall trip up north someplace. This year we're headed to Onekema on Friday (tomorrow) so if you have any information to share about Onekema please share! Looking forward to meeting some new people and talking about fishing even more!

Hi guys - I'm heading up to Onekema this weekend, we've got a slip at Portage Lake Marine and I'm looking for information on fishing from there. I'm reading the posts for Frankfort, Manistee and Ludington, are these close to what I should excpect in Onekema? We've fished Manistee before but we've never fished this far north. Anyone with any information? What channel is the fishing fleet on up there? Anyone going to be out in thoes ports I can communicate with on the water?