August 13th Report LBDN

What an awesome morning of fishing today with long time clients Denny, Jim and Jimmy all from the Chicago area. We left the Gladstone Yacht Harbor around 6:30 a.m., had the lines in by 6:45 and had our 15 fish limit by 9 a.m. It was a fast and furious morning trolling Walleyes Choice (http://www.walleyeschoice.com) harnesses behind both in-line weights and bottom bouncers. I-62, I-76, and I-42 did the most damage. Most of the fish were nice chunky 17 to 19 inchers, but we did catch a 23 incher that coughed up a 6 inch alewife and a 3 inch alewife in the livewell. There must have been a decent mayfly hatch again last night, there were many, many spent carcasses on the surface. Nice to have some summer like weather and south winds to keep the warm water in the bay. We caught fish from 15 feet down all the way to the bottom, but it seemed that our bigger fish were coming on the bottom bouncer poles over the side of the boat working the bottom 3 feet. Here's a picture of today's catch, good luck from all of us in the Bay de Noc area. Better get out there and enjoy this weather...who knows how long it will last!

Captain Ken Lee

www.baydenoccharters.net

906-553-4850