6/16/2014, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

[Trophy Specialist]

It was an absolutely beautiful day on the Bay today with blue skies, warm temperatures and light winds. With near perfect fishing conditions today, I decided to try a spot that I hadn't yet fished this year. I fished this area with the party I had today when they chartered with me last year and they had great fishing then, so they were happy to try that spot again today. We set up in 15 feet of water running a mixture of Hot N' Tots and spinner/crawler rigs trolling at about 1.7 mph. We got into some good action right away and took eight quick walleyes, then the wind died down and switched directions and the bite slowed up considerable and the ones that did bite mostly got off with the bite aggressiveness decreasing. This area also had a lot of floating weeds too, which made trolling difficult at best, so we pulled up and moved to deep water in another nearby area where I had yet to fish this year too. We had no boats around us at all when we set lines in 27 foot of water. We trolled out to 32 feet deep and then turned back shallower trolling in one long troll never turning around so we covered all new water all day. The action there was nothing short of fantastic everywhere we went with consistent walleye action in all depths running the same mixed trolling spread, but at 1.5 to 1.6 mph in that deeper water. I had to increase the weight on the lures to take them near bottom though. We ended up catching 25 keeper walleyes and everyone on board had a blast in the process with sunburn being the only downside to the day.

Capt. Mike Veine

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