After moving to California last October, I’ve been spending all my weekends figuring out how to catch stripers, Kokanee, Rainbow’s, Florida Strain LMB, etc, but it was nice to get back to WI last week for our annual trip to Lake Michigan.
We fished from Wed Morning through Saturday morning and boated 40+ fish with a nice mix of Kings and Bows. The biggest King was 25 lbs and the biggest bow was 9 lbs, but we had 5 or 6 Kings over 20, so big fish are around this year and make for some really fun battles.
What worked? Everything! downriggers from 30 to 50 down, Dipsies 65 to 100 ft back, 3, 5, 7 color lead, etc. We had equal success on spoons and flasher/fly’s. Moonshine RV series spoons did well in the low light periods and during full sun the Kings and bows seemed to like gold and deep red spoons.
Saturday morning was especially fun with the most acrobatic Bow’s I’ve ever seen. We probably hooked about 15 of these buggers and only managed to get 7 into the boat. They were airing it out easily 5 ft out of the water, even at the end of the fight right behind the boat when we were trying to net them. Super fun time! If you get a chance, this seems like a good time to head over for some action!
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