Great Lakes Fishing Reports

2-17-25 Alpena County We braved the snowstorm this weekend searching for the $5000 Perch or $5000 Walleye. We didn't get any big enough but we did have an amazing Walleye dinner instead. With only le ...Full Report

Ice Report: Lake Mitchell & Cadillac 1-30-2025 Ice is looking good in most places on both lakes. There are isolated pockets of slush in places that may still have a double layer, so be aware. Anywhe ...Full Report

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2-5-25 Cheboygan area Mullett lake has 9 -12 inch of ice most the slush has frozen up. Morning bite as been good with a bit slower mid afternoon. Tips ups have been working well and when the bite slow ...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

2-11-25 Drummond Island Fishing report for Drummond Island lots of Ciscos being caught in the middle grounds 15-25 ft of water jigging small spoons tipped with wax worms or Berkley gulp grubs 8-10 ft ...Full Report

12-23-24 Escanaba area Hey john, Trystan with yooper gold! Ice conditions are fairly good as of now finding between 3-5 inches of ice throughout the bay. But with the weather conditions over the next ...Full Report

Gaylord area (East) December 7, 2024 Northeast Lower Peninsula. We were able to find safe ice in Montmorency county on a local walleye lake and made the most of it! We used basic early ice tactics tar ...Full Report

4-19-25 Saginaw Bay report. Walleye Fishing is on fire (weather permitting). Mother nature is throwing curve balls every day. The days we get out, we spend a little time first thing searching. Spend ...Full Report

4-12-25 Holland South to Southhaven. Well this warm weekend has the coho moving quickly up the Lake Michigan shoreline. My friend Paul gave me some great information and I filmed the show today, we ca ...Full Report

5-22-25 Houghton Lake Over the last week, I have received several reports that the big Crappie and bluegill are beginning to move to the shallows on Houghton Lake. One of my friends caught these two ...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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4-20-25 Ludington Report. Fished mid day Saturday south of Ludington. Fished 10-15’ of water. Found some warmer water in the mid 40s. Mostly a spoon bits with yeck 55s, DW SS and Capt Chuck custom Mr ...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

4-16-25 Manistee area The lake trout bite has begun in earnest on Lake Michigan around the Manistee area. Good fish are being taken from 100 to 130. Lots of activity with boat limits available. Grant ...Full Report

2-10-25 Marquette area Lake Superior fishing report Perch, whitefish, Splake, Coho and Smelt can be found in 40-70ft of water. Here at MQT Adventures we like to use AquaView cameras to see the bite. W ...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

3-22-25 Oscoda lower AuSable River fishing report. With the recent warm up ,the combined snow melt run off and rain fall has increased the river flow . Water temp is 37.5 degrees. There is a combinat ...Full Report

2-6-25 Port Clinton Ohio From my friend Jason We fished right off rattlesnake island in 33.6 fow. Fishing was hot from 9-4. Swedish pimple-blue crush, chrome/blue do jigger tipped with a minnow. Jig ...Full Report

4-15-25 Bluewater areas The ports of Lexington and Sanilac were both giving up fish this past weekend. Although the wind had it a little slower over here today. My friend Jay Dauer was catching fish a ...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

3-14-25 Traverse City area Water temp is 33° for both east and west GTB prior to the warm up. Fish are still in spawning mode and searching sharp breaks that lead to flats have been giving opportuniti ...Full Report

3-16-25 Western UP What a season it has been for Captain Justin Soffa on Lake Gogebic. There still may be some ice for another trip or two so reach out to him. But one thing is for sure our camera cre ...Full Report