Trophy Specialist Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 8/22/2014, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report This may be my last fishing report of the season. My wife is taking a vacation starting tomorrow for a week and we have all sorts of plans for much of the remainder of my charter season, so I don't expect that I'll have much free time to post fishing reports after my charters. Today, my customers were from Pennsylvania and New Jersey and they are vacationing and enjoying the Tawas area for a nice stint. Despite the prediction for storms this morning, we had a very nice day on the water with no weather issues at all and my customers caught their limits of walleyes without any problems. The wind was from the east all morning with a nice one to two foot chop on the water and the bite was steady all morning with no lulls in the action. We caught walleyes from 15 to 24 inches and also caught two channel catfish too as a bonus. For the first time in a couple years, we also caught two flathead catfish too, one of which weighed in excess of 20 pounds. The smaller one weighed about 15 pounds. Channel catfish are fairly common on the Bay, but flatheads are somewhat rare, so it was especially odd that we caught two in one day. We ran all red/silver harnesses fishing about 12 feet under the surface. Trolling speeds of 1.7 to 1.8 mph were best. This has been an especially awesome charter season for me this year with limit catches of walleyes taken on the vast majority of trips. I normally charter for salmon during this time of the year, but the spotty salmon fishing this year combined with the incredibly great walleye action on the Bay certainly convinced me that I made the right decision not to offer salmon charters this year and instead to focus on the ever world class walleye fishery out of Au Gres. At one time I ran far more salmon charters that walleye trips, but this year I ran all walleye charters and had the most successful year of consistent limit catches that I've had since I started running charters many years ago. I also had a lot of very happy customers this year too who enjoyed the super walleye fishing with me. Capt. Mike Veine www.trophyspecialists.com Michigan Fishing Charters Saginaw Bay Walleye Lake Erie Walleye Lake Michigan King Salmon... www.trophyspecialists.com Michigan fishing charters for walleye and perch at Au Gres (AuGres) and Tawas City (or East Tawas) on Saginaw Bay along with king salmon (Chinook Salmon) at Manistee on Lake Michigan and walleye at Monroe or Detroit on Lake Erie. Our sportfishing charter boat targets the biggest, trophy sized, Greaâ?¦ Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters on 08-22-2014 03:24 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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