8/7/17, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

[Trophy Specialist]

8/7/17, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

 

The walleyes remain scattered following the big winds we had late last week.  Our first spot we hit had no fish as the water had changed there big time moving the walleyes out.  Our second spot had some fish there, but the bite was fairly slow, and then it eventually shut down completely, so we picked up and moved once again.  The third spot had lots of fish on the sonar including balls of baitfish and lots of bigger marks, but the action there was slow none-the-less.  What fish did bite were hiting extremely light too as we lost more fish today than we caught.  My clients though from Flint, MI did manage to pick away at them enough today to end up with a good catch consisting of 19 walleyes, two catfish and one nice yellow perch.  Our biggest walleye was 25 inches.  We caught all our fish today on spinner/crawler rigs with some on bottom and some suspended, though I would guess we caught slightly more suspended today.  Lure color did not seem to make much difference.  Our trolling speed was 1.4 to 1.6 mph in the fairly calm seas.  There were a lot of floating weeds in every spot we fished today, which is a result of the pounding winds we had last week, which rips up the weeds and then scatters them all over the Bay.  Then those weeds get caught on our lines and planer boards making it a royal pain to deal with.  Despite the tough fishing today, it was still a great day on the Bay with decent weather, good company and enough nice fish to make it interesting.  

Capt. Mike Veine