6/8/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing ReportAfter two days off the water due t...

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6/8/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

After two days off the water due to crummy weather, my clients from Down-State and Petoskey joined me for some fishing with an iffy weather forecast. I looked at two different forecasts, both from the National Weather Service: The marine forecast called for possible storms from 8:00 am on, but the Au Gres, forecast disagreed and predicted storms, but after 2:00 pm. I checked the radar at 7:00 and what storms were in Michigan were not heading our way so we hit the water, but I decided to stay close to port just in case a storm popped up. We first tried the area were we did good at the end of my last trip on Friday, and caught three quick walleyes, but after that the bite slowed down when the wind switched. We moved to another spot a few miles from there and did the same thing picking up several fish quick, but then the bite slowed down when the wind switched again. It was like that all day: We would catch some fish, then the wind would change and the bite would die. We just stayed at it though and eventually my clients caught their limits of nice walleyes. I ended up settling on a trolling spread with six lures set about 20' down and two, on the outside board, set on bottom. We caught most of our fish on the high lines with a fire/tiger pattern crawler harness being best. A trolling speed of 1.3 to 1.5 mph was also best. The bite was extremely light today with a lot of the fish just latching on and then swimming along. We could barely tell when even the bigger fish were on the line. About half our fish were over 20" with the biggest being a 24 incher. We did loose one at the side of the boat though that was bigger. In the end, all the fish that were lost were insignificant as they were just replaced in time. Eventually some storms did pop up in the area, but we were back at the dock when they soaked Au Gres,and we never did get wet all day.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters

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Coming over there this weekend from across the state for the weekend. I can't wait! I'll be putting a fire tiger blade on tonight and hopefully we can catch some of those tasty walleyes. Thanks again.