4/26/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing ReportDespite the tough weather conditi...

[Trophy Specialist]

4/26/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

Despite the tough weather conditions over the past week, we have still maintained my streak of limit catches for my customers on every completed trip on Saginaw Bay. Yesterday and today were certainly challenging conditions with switching winds, primarily easterly, that brings cold temperatures off Lake Huron onto the Bay. Today I had clients originating from the Mio area that were experienced fishermen that fish the Bay with their own boat and they chartered with me primarily to learn some fishing techniques to polish their own skills. On these types of trips, a tough bite is actually better for them because this will show them how to scrounge up fish when the fish are not active, which is exactly what we did today. Yesterday we started out pulling stick baits, which had been working great, but that presentation is only good when the fish are actively feeding, which was not the case at all over the weekend. We switched over to spinner/crawler rigs half way through yesterday's trip and pulled a good catch as a result. We started off today with the same spinner/crawler rigs trolling though the same shallow water area where we finished up yesterday. The stiff, overnight winds disbursed the stained water from that area though and the fish had relocated deeper and a scattered. We then started a search type trolling program and picked away at the fish all day today ending up with a good catch of nice sized walleyes. We only caught one fish today that was under 20 inches and tied into some that were real lunkers. I didn't see any real preference in spinner pattern, but they did certainly want it slow with speeds of 1.0 to 1.3 mph being best. I put those crawlers right on the lake bed with bottom bouncers and special care had to be taken with fish fighting techniques as the bite was light to say the least. My guys today actually did phenomenally well with minimal lost fish and as a result they took home a bountiful catch of thick walleyes, which will provide a bunch of fine meals featuring some of the best eating fish on the planet.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters