Marquette Area Fishing Report

December 30th, 2024

12-30-24 Marquette County Fishing Report
Ice conditions on Inland lakes have enough ice to run Sleds or Small Machines. Ice conditions do vary greatly once you get closer to the superior shoreline. We have observed many areas with spring holes or honeycomb ice. Best bet is to book with MQT Adventures to find fish and safe fishing conditions.

Fishing report-
On shallow eutrophic lakes, pan fish have been caught in 9-13 feet of water using small tungsten tear drops.
Watermelon, purple fire tiger, glow, wonder bread and chartreuse have all worked well tipped with a wax worm or twitching fly plastic. Look for shallow weed beds along drops and fish the edge of the weeds, mid morning and late afternoon have provided the best bite windows.

Olgiotrophic lakes or big basins, have been fishing tremendously well, glare ice has allowed for easy travel, low snow levels have opened access to many areas not commonly plowed. Targeting crappie in 22-30 feet of water using large presentations, chartreuse and hot pink double jointed pinhead minnows or size one swedish pimples. Tipping these with plastic solder flies or large swim baits have attracted and caught many large crappies that are roaming deep water. Keep a smaller presentation on hand to appeal to the occasional stubborn gill or walleye.

Pro tip- I recently have been using the new flx-30bb which has allowed me to adjust frequency and cone angles to cut through tall weeds and also reach out and see fish that traditional fish finders wouldn’t be able to see by adjusting the transducer degrees from 15* - 7.5 * Using this new system while hole hoping has cut down time between catches and optimized my harvest in the most critical hours when the bite is the best.
-Catch ya on the water-

Captain Mike Koziara
MQT Adventures
906-362-7926