6/16/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report The weather today was beautiful w...

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6/16/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

The weather today was beautiful with sunny skies and moderate winds. My clients from Marysville, MI caught their limits of walleyes despite a tough bite. The winds were from the northwest all morning, but we had waves also from the northeast too, from a wind way out on Lake Huron, and that created "sloppy" fishing conditions with waves coming from two different directions. It makes trolling harder and also tends to make the fish bite less in sloppy waters. We made trolling passes from Northwest to Southeast today covering about two miles on each pass staying close to shore with nets on both sides of us. We just picked away at them tough with a lot of undersized walleyes also taken today for some reason that we had to sort through. Our keepers were a mixture of 16 to 23 inchers, which are awesome eating sized fish. I saw where walleyes were $20 per pound in the store the other day, so we caught a lot of valuable fish today indeed. I ran the same spread of spinner/crawler rigs as the last two days with the lures set on, near and above bottom. The fish came on all rigs about equally. In the early morning, fire/tiger spinners worked best, but at the end of the trip, red/silver seemed to get more hits. I had to troll with a drift sock out today, not so much to slow the boat down, but to steady the trolling speed in the sloppy waters. A speed of about 1.5 was best today. The fish were still in the same area as yesterday, but they just were not biting as well. It was a tougher bite, but my clients still had a lot of fun fishing the Bay today and I'm sure they said they will be back again to take advantage of this fantastic walleye factory called Saginaw Bay.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters