Sheboygan Salmon Still Slammin!

With light winds, partly cloudy skies, and temperatures in the low 80's it seemed like the perfect night to head out on Lake Michigan with a 16' boat! Heading out was picture perfect, with a slight chop from the south, we chose to run south out of Sheboygan and set up in 100 fow just south of the power plant.

By 5:45 we had all of our lines in, and by 6:00 we had our first hit, likely a Rainbow on an orange spoon 300' behind a planer board. Within 10 seconds the fish jumped 3 times and spit the spoon! This would be a common theme over the next 2 hours as we started the trip off going 0 for 3!

Our luck would eventually change as we found an active area of fish and managed 3 fish in 1 pass, with one being a Rainbow, the next a King, and the last a Coho! As the sun crept closer to the horizon our spoon bite faded and the dipsies 90' back with green flasher/flies started to produce! This proved to be the rod of choice, as we caught 3 of our 6 fish on it!

Once the sun set we brought all of our stuff up and glowed in hopes of catching a couple Salmon right before dark. I also replaced one of our orange spoons on the surface with a glow J-Plug.

While all the other rods went quiet, all of a sudden the flat line out the back with the J-Plug started screaming drag! This fish ended up being our biggest of the trip, and surprisingly a Rainbow!

Fishing out of a 16' boat without downriggers is a bit more challenging than fishing off of a 30'er, but it makes me remember how I started out and also that you really don't need all that fancy equipment and large boats to catch a few fish on the Great Lakes!

Kewaunee Salmon Report

Hit the big pond Friday evening, June 17 in search of some Salmon!  Lake Michigan was flat calm, the sun was shining, and we actually had to stand in the shade it was so warm out there!  Fishing started off slow for us, not getting a bump until 7:30.

The first two fish were able to shake off within seconds of the strike.  The third bite was the charm, as a rigger set at 130 over 230 feet of water with a magnum flasher and aqua fly tripped.  The fish then ran 400' of line out before Grant could finally slow it down!  45 minutes later, we had a 22 pound King Salmon in the net!  This fish was all Grant could handle, as his arms were shot by the end of the battle!

Our next hit came at around 8:15 on a dipsey diver and green flasher fly combo set at 190'.  As Kyle was battling this fish, a yellow bird with 3 colors of leadcore and a j-plug got hammered!  I quickly grabbed the rod and it was double trouble!  We crossed lines a few times with our fish, but were able to land both fish within seconds of each other!  Both fish were in the 15-17 pound class!

 By the time we had everything straightened out after the double, it was glow time!  We brought the baits up and glowed them up for the sunset bite.  Soon after glowing up one of the dipsies, we had another fish on!  This fish also had some shoulders to it, since it ran about 100' of line off the spool before it could be turned around!  There is nothing quite like the sound of a screaming drag while watching a Lake Michigan Sunset!

This fish eventually tired and made it to the net, another whopper topping the scales at 20 pounds!  This was the end of the action for the night for us, but we were all able to land a fish and enjoy a beautiful night on the lake!