6/4/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report My Manistee group finished up thei...

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6/4/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

My Manistee group finished up their Saginaw Bay fishing vacation taking their limits of walleyes on all three of their charters. We first ran out to the area where we had good success on Tuesday and Wednesday, but after trolling there for an hour without any walleyes on the line, it became apparent that the fish had moved. At first I thought that they had moved because the water temperature had sharply risen, but later I found out that my transducer's water temperature sensor had failed and was giving out false readings. Luckily, I had a spare transducer, so after the charter I changed out the bad one. I keep a lot of spare parts handy for just such reasons. After my Plan-A spot failed to produce, I headed to my Plan-B spot a few miles from there. We caught fish there, and some nice sized ones at that, but the action was pretty slow with the dead calm conditions and intermittent winds, all blowing in different directions. Those kinds of conditions are tough. We worked that second spot for about five hours and decided to check out a Plan-C spot, a few miles from there. We only fished in that spot for about 30 minutes before realizing that the Plan-B spot was better, so we picked up lines and moved back there. We were marking a lot of fish in that area, but the fish were real finicky and biting light. We were loosing more fish than we were catching, but perseverance paid off and my clients eventually had caught their limits, but it took the full 8 hours of the charter to pull it off. Our walleyes today came in all sizes form 6" to 26" and we lost a couple that were likely even bigger. Everything was caught on spinner/crawler pulled behind bottom bouncers. No particular color preference was noticed. Extremely sharp hooks were certainly a factor with their success today with the light bite. I sharpen my hooks every day before the charter and touch up hooks as needed throughout the day. There will be a lot of walleye dinners in the Manistee area when my clients return home today. They stayed at a cabin on Tawas Lake this week and enjoyed a lot of fish dinners this week too and even fished there too for bass and panfish when they were not fishing with me. Serious fishermen indeed.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters