6/8/2014, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

[Trophy Specialist]

I had a group from the Columbus, Ohio area fish with me today and besides having a great time on a vacation here in the Au Gres area, they also got to experience world class walleye fishing today too. The weather was a little iffy this morning with a rain storm making its way across Michigan, but by tracking the storm on my radar, it became apparent that the storm would miss us to the south. We ran back to the spot where we ended yesterday's charter. When I saw on the sonar that the bottom there was still covered with fish, we set lines and immediately got into some walleyes. From then on we caught fish practically non-stop taking an impressive limit catch of chunky walleyes in very short order. Only a few of the fish were under 20 inches with most of them being in the 20 to 22 inch range which are excellent eating size, but still big enough to put up a good fight for some fun fishing indeed. We caught them on the same spinner/crawler rigs I've been using for about two weeks. These rigs are a variety of colors like fire-tiger, silver, red, pearl and glow and they all got hit today with no color preference shown by the walleyes. We put the harnesses right on the bottom with a long setback for the bottom bouncers. The trolling speed today was about 1.5 mph. When the wind kicked up, I had to put a drift sock in to slow the trolling speed. We are still fishing a massive school of walleyes on the east side of the shipping channel. This school stretches from Buoys 1 and 2 all the way to Sand Point in deep water and I'm sure there are a lot of fish further east in shallower water in that area too, but I haven't fished it yet. This fishing now is some of the best I've seen on the Bay and my customers today are already planning a return trip to experience it once again.

Capt. Mike Veine

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[Priority1]

Mike, GJ again. Bringing Ohio folks past Lake Erie on over to the Saginaw Bay has to speak volumes. We are surely blessed to have this great fishery.

[SeaCatMich]

Mike, how far of a run is it to the buoys from Au Gres? Coming up to Au Gres for Tuesday & Wednesday.

[Trophy Specialist]

Mike, how far of a run is it to the buoys from Au Gres? Coming up to Au Gres for Tuesday & Wednesday.

Buoys 1 and 2 are about 15 miles, but you don't need to go that far for some good fishing. There are a lot of fish between the points now. I fished there for a short time this morning and marked a lot of fish and caught four before the wind/waves blew us off the Bay. The east side of the shipping channel also has a lot of fish too which would be an 7 to 12 miles run depending on where you want to fish.

[JWheeler]

Nice job on the fish Mike! I called it in the morning. Woke early and was looking at the radar and couldn't tell if it was going to be nasty with lightning or if it was going to pass to the south. After a tasty western omelet at H&H i still couldn't figure what the heck it was going to do. About 10am, I realized that I made the wrong decision. I had a buddy with me that fishes with me periodically, and in rough conditions he's not the most comfortable. As I explained, I would rather regret not fishing than regret fishing and being caught in bad weather. Hindsight is always 20/20.....