6/21/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report

My clients from the Brighton, MI area enjoyed a beautiful day on the Bay today taking their limits of nice walleyes in the process. As we were motoring up the river today on our way to the Bay, they expressed to me that they were concerned about limiting out too fast, so I changed my plans and decided to fish a different area from yesterday where we caught quick limits of walleyes. We fished straight out from Au Gres in 36 to 50 feet of water, but even there the super abundant walleyes hit everything I trolled, at every depth and we still limited out taking 20 keeper walleyes by about 10:00 in the morning. The bite is on fire right now all over the Bay and I actually think it would be hard to find a place to fish where the bite would be tough on a nice day like today. I ran the same spinner/crawler program as yesterday with the outside boards on the bottom, the middle boards near bottom and the inside boards about 20' down. I also ran two flat lines on the bottom too. I ran a variety of florescent rigs and natural colored rigs and everything got hit about equally so color did not mater much. My speeds were slow at first (1.3 mph), but then I sped up to 1.5 to 1.7 and still got a lot of hits. Those higher speeds pulled the lures up off bottom in that deep water, but even so, the fish kept hitting and I think the faster trolling speeds actually got us more action at the end too since we finished up with six fish on. We caught all walleyes today with no other fish species hooking up. We marked a lot of fish there and I believe that they were mostly all walleyes since that's all we caught. Most of the marks were on or near bottom, but we did see the occasional fish up high too. Our fish today were mostly 17 to 20 inchers with a few bigger ones and a few smaller ones too. After I cleaned the fish my clients and I enjoyed a tailgate lunch at the park under the shade of some trees. The sun was still shining and there was a gentle breeze tempering the temperature in the mid-70s. It doesn't get much better than that and in the end, my clients expressed that they were very happy with their fishing trip on the Bay despite the somewhat quick limits.

Capt. Mike Veine

6/21/15, Saginaw Bay, Au Gres, Fishing Report