Great Lakes Fishing Reports

5-16-25 Alpena region has been on fire. Mixed bag and Huron Grand Slams have begun folks. Short coppers, high divers, and shallow riggers are all talking silvers. Dreamweaver superslim spoons pulled a ...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

5-16-25 Fishing report for Drummond Island. We'll the walleye opener was awesome!! Lots of big fish in 3-7 ft of water, most anglers were dragging crawlers or crankbaits at 1.5 mph or less . Also cast ...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

5-13-25 Saginaw Bay fishing report. It's on! Great post spawn fishing right now. Limit catches on many boats. Water temperature is in the mid 50's. Shallow bite from 6 to 14 foot in many areas of the ...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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5-2-25 West Side Trout Rivers and streams on the west coast are fishing well. From Ludington north, the streams were in great shape for the type 1 trout opener. From Baldwin to Muskegon, the rivers an ...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

5-3-25 Port Huron area The St Clair River has been on fire! Water temps are nearing 50 and we are catching walleyes, salmon and trout still! Mostly vertical jigging in that 28-35fow for the walleyes. ...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

5-6-25 Traverse City area Well, there's a good bite going on right now in the Traverse City area. My friend Captain Brian Seferlien has been catching a good number of Lake trout and Cisco's mixed whil ...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