7-2-24 Alpena area Mixed bag is in full swing here in northeast lower Michigan. Atlantic Salmon, Steelhead, Coho Salmon, King Salmon, Walleye, Pink Salmon, and tons of Lake Trout have been showing up ...Full Report
1-17-22 Cadillac area Hey John this is Heath. Here is a rundown of my first trip to Cadillac of 2022. We concentrated our efforts on Lake Mitchell this time. The tactic I always try to use on these l ...Full Report
2-20-24 Cheboygan area The nights been very cold, and black lake is producing nicely for both pike and Wallye. Roughly 6 inches of good ice on the North end of the lake where I was fishing. The nights ...Full Report
6-4-24 Curtis area Well, the fish are biting very well in the Curtis area here in early June. Our camera boats were up and filming a great bass show and we also caught a bunch of very nice sunfish. So ...Full Report
6-23-24 Drummond Island - This past Saturday kicked off our annual 2 weeks fishing for Atlantics, Kings, Steelhead and Lake Trout. It has been decent fishing when the conditions are good. Most of th ...Full Report
6-25-24 Escanaba area Well to say the crew did a great job catching tons of fish today on little Baddy knock would be an understatement! 25 smallmouth bass came to the boat today all released unharme ...Full Report
1-27-24 Gaylord area Ice Fishing Report I Just caught The Biggest Northern Pike I have ever Caught! This Giant Northern Pike was 42.5 inches long and was released shortly after I caught it! The full ...Full Report
11-13-24 Saginaw Bay report. The fall bite is on! Walleye finally made it back into the inner Bay with the water cooling down. Water temp is now in the upper 40s. 12 to 20 feet of water produced some ...Full Report
6-19-24 Holland area Fishing is picking up out of Holland. Fish are being caught from 100-180ft. Catches are varied consisting of kings, coho, lake trout and steelhead. Traxstech riggers from 60-10 ...Full Report
5-25-24 Houghton Lake Well, I went up and film the show yesterday on Houghton Lake. Fishing was lights out good. The lake flies are just starting to hatch. Fishing should be very good for the holiday ...Full Report
1-31-22 Indian River Guest reporter Cole Hoogerhyde gave us this great report. Burt’s been talking to me this year we’ve been putting good numbers of walleye on the ice off Burt, fishing deep str ...Full Report
6-17-19 Well this year's fishing season started out in fine fashion up at Kesagami wilderness Lodge. The Walleye and big Pike were biting ferociously, and guests were catching fish of a lifetime regul ...Full Report
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5-4-24 Ludington area Hey guys, watch this very cool video report from Ludington and getting on the action. Big fish early this year. www.jbscustomcharters.com jbscustomcharters@gmail.com 586-202-7517 ...Full Report
8-23-21 Mackinaw City Fishing is starting to heat up in the mackinaw city area. The fish are biting in the slot at the south side of Bois blanc island and the mainland. If you're looking for kings t ...Full Report
6-1-24 Manistee area fishing report. Bluegill and brown trout. Bluegill fishing has picked up tremendously in the last week or so with the consistent warmer temps. Majority of Gills have slid up into ...Full Report
5-23-24 Marquette area Fished lake superior 5/20-22. Launched out of brownstone and fished up around laughing fish point, in shelter bay and AuTrain bay. We targetted coho salmon, king salmon and lake ...Full Report
Meta Lake lodge 6-19-19 Well we recovered from the opener and things are rolling along here at Meta lake. The fishing is flat out, nothing short of stupid good. Almost every angler in camp has had an ...Full Report
3-18-24 Monroe area Great Lakes Northern Pike My friend John Wrixon found some hefty northern pike fishing on Lake Erie in Michigan waters. The boys caught some nice fish with rapala f13 and f18s as ...Full Report
11-12-24 Oscoda fishing report. Spite the lack of rain and low river flow and extremely clear water fishing conditions have been improving. Many coho and Atlantic salmon are on the gravel and quite a ...Full Report
6-11-24 Port Clinton Ohio Fishing has spread out a bit this week reports coming in from both ohio and Canada. Last week, it was predominantly Canadian waters that was producing the better bite. We d ...Full Report
5-22-24 St Ignace area Well, the big Atlantics were definitely hitting today out of Saint Ignace. We started fishing quite close to Mackinac Island and worked our way around the East side of Bois Blan ...Full Report
7-26-21 Sault Sainte Marie fishing report. The mayflie hatch is towards the end and the fishing should pick up. The Atlantic's, Rainbows and Whitefish are being caught behind the power plant. Drift ...Full Report
6-5-24 Traverse City area Fishing has been decent on Torch and Elk Lakes over the past couple of weeks. We have been catching a mixed bag of Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout and Lake Trout on a variety o ...Full Report
6-17-24 Western UP Fishing has been good on Lake Gogebic. Slip bobber fishing in the weeds, drifting with live bait has also been effective. Trolling the main part of the lake with crank baits has bee ...Full Report
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