6/19/17, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

[Trophy Specialist]

 

 

 

After blow days the last two days on Sat. and Sun. we hit the water and ran out to the general area where we limited out on Friday. We had some fast paced action for the first few hours of the charter getting to 20 walleyes in the box on the first trolling pass. After that though, some clouds moved in and the bite slowed up considerably. We ended up with 29 walleyes today as we had to curtail the trip when some storms popped up on radar, which showed they were heading in our direction. It was a good call coming in early too as the winds cranked up after we got back to the dock and the storms did come through the area later too. I set a mixed spread of spinner/crawler rigs today fishing some high and some down on bottom. Early on the fish hit everything high or low, but later when the bite slowed down, only the lures close to bottom got bit. Color did not mater much, but the speed was pretty critical. I had to troll no faster than 1.5 mph or they would not bite. We also caught a lot of undersized walleyes today, so the action at times this morning was very fast and furious. Interestingly, we did not catch any other species besides walleyes today, which is unusual for Saginaw Bay this time of year. Even though we had to come in early, it was still a very good day on the Bay.

 

Capt. Mike Veine