6/3/05, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing ReportMy clients today from the Manistee...

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6/3/05, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

My clients today from the Manistee/Minneapolis area had another great day on the Bay and they have one more day to go, which is predicted to be good weather and likely good fishing too tomorrow. The action this morning started out fast and furious with the first 15 walleyes coming in just a couple hours of fishing. Then the wind switched to the east and the bite slowed down considerably, but they were still able to pull another five man limit of fine walleyes. Most of our fish today were over 20" with the largest being a dandy 28 incher that is heading to the taxidermist. That fish was caught by a MCC graduate, and current MSU student who will be joining the Air Force next year as an officer. I started off with the same mixed Hot N' Tot - spinner/crawler rig program that worked great yesterday, but today they never touched the Hot N' Tots, so I pulled them and replaced them with spinners after a good, fruitless, soaking of the Tots. The color today leaned towards bright colors (fire/tiger) early, then after the first hour, they started hitting everything about equally. The water temps are still in the low 60s, so a slow (for this time of year) trolling speed of 1.4 to 1.6 mph was best. We caught all keeper walleyes today accept for one catfish, which was nice. I'm not sure why the fish ran bigger today compared to yesterday, in the same area, but regardless of the reason, nobody was complaining on my boat. We are just getting into some of the best fishing of the year now with June, July and early August being top times for world class walleye fishing out of Au Gres. My clients this week are enjoying some awesome walleye fishing and are already planning their return trip for next year.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters

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Mike it was good to see you again. GJ on the fish.