8/5/17, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

[Trophy Specialist]

8/5/17, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

 

After gale force winds forced a cancellation yesterday, we were greeted by very gusty winds this morning that were still pushing the 30 knot velocity.  We had to delay out departure a couple hours this morning and even then, the wind was still breezy, to say the least.  None-the-less, we got into a pretty good bite very close to port, which was good, because there was no other option for safe fishing anyway with the blustery, offshore wind, whipping up huge waves just a few miles off shore.  We managed to pick up seven walleyes on our first short trolling pass, and then another six on the second.  The third and four passes yielded about the same results too.  During that period, the wind started out west, then switched to the northwest, but when it shifted back to the west and died down to perhaps 17 to 18 knots, the bite suddenly died.  For two hours we tried several different spots and could not get any walleyes to bite at all.  It was as if a light switch had been flipped off.  Thankfully, my clients from Perry, MI had caught 26 nice walleyes before the fish  had shut down and they had a very nice box of fish with the largest being 26 inches with many other nice, chunky walleyes in the pile too.  We caught all our fish on spinner/crawler rigs fished mostly up off bottom for suspended fish.  We did take some close to bottom too, but not many.  The bite was pretty light today too with a lot of fish lost in the process.  We trolled at varying speeds from 1.5 to over 2.0 mph depending on the wind gusts which at times were brutal.  At some points I had to deploy two drift socks just to keep the speed productive.  We are predicted to have much lighter winds tomorrow, which will open up a lot more fishing areas to our game plan, so I expect mush better fishing for the next few days indeed. 

Capt. Mike Veine

[Myles]

Love reading your reports. Keep them coming. We will be up in two weekends for a few days fishing. We normally fish out of Linwood but we are debating on moving further north to Au gres. Is that where you guys put in?