The crew from yesterday decided sleep was more important than fish so it was looking like it would be just Corey and I. Luckily I was able to hook up with Tim and his dad Pat. Tim lives in Ludington and has never been out on Lake Michigan and seemed pretty pumped (so much so …
I had not planned to fish today but had to be in Ludington last night and, as luck would have it, the Hiller family was camping in Manistee and was available. The water was calm and so were the fish. We started out south in Bob’s honey hole and made a couple of passes with …
We had a pretty busy boat over the long holiday weekend. We fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings and ended up with 42 bites and 30 fish (29 lake trout and 1 steelhead). We’re pretty sure we had one king bite ripping out drag on a full core but it didn’t last long and threw …
We had some great trolling weather the Saturday before Father’s Day and welcomed Shauna’s dad Butch to the crew. We set up in 90 FOW straight out with the other 30 boats trying to scrape the bottom for lakers. The final tally was 5 lake trout and 1 long and skinny steelhead.