6/5/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing ReportWe had a major Mayfly hatch today...

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6/5/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

We had a major Mayfly hatch today on much of Saginaw Bay: Bigger than any hatch I have ever seen there before. We ran out to my plan-A spot and the bugs were so heavy there that we kept on going to my plan-B spot and the bugs were also thick there to the point where trolling would have been made difficult due to a blanket of bugs on the surface of the water. We then ran to my plan-C spot where the bottom composition makes bug hatches minimal. We set lines there and caught some walleyes right away, but then the winds kicked up from the north/east at over 20 knots. The weatherman had only predicted winds at half that velocity, but none-the-less, we were way out in the Bay and those heavy winds and the possibility of the ensuing big waves made me take the action to pull lines there and head back closer to port, which we did. We then set up for a trolling pass, with the wind, out in front of Au Gres and much to my pleasure, we caught some fish right away. After a couple hours of trolling spread adjustments, we got into some good action on suspended walleyes and my clients from various cities down/state caught their four man limits of perfect eating sized walleyes, which was just what they were looking for. We caught all our fish on spinner/crawler rigs fished about 20-25' down over 30-35 feet of water at 1.3 to 1.4 mph. Red/silver harnesses were best. The bite was extremely light as we lost about as many fish as we caught. In fact, many of the walleyes, even the bigger ones, were barely detectable when they hooked up, which is especially odd for a suspended walleye bite. My clients today were experienced fishermen looking for knowledge on how to catch walleyes on the Bay and today they saw a lot of different areas of the Bay with depth of 8 to 35 foot of water, all containing walleyes and they learned different ways to fish the same rigs in those varying depths.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters

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Good report.:thumb:If it lays down like it's supposed to I'll be out Sun AM.