Fish Report 5/24/2007 Milwaukee Fishing Lake Michigan
By Capt. Jim Hirt
Fished four out of the last five days. Coho fishing is getting better every trip we are averaging 8-12 per trip. A few Coho on crankbaits with the majority on flasher peanut flies or dodger peanut flies. The fly color varies with aqua, kelly green and green/silver the best. The Coho are not all that picky on color most green or blue flies will work. The lake was 1-3 and the wind was out of the east, northeast or southeast. The east wind has brought the temperatures near shore up to 48 degrees on the surface. Look for this 48-degree water and fish the top 15 feet for the best action. Our best presentations are Yellow Bird planer boards with 25 foot leads behind the boards and downriggers 25 to 35 feet down. Slide Divers are also producing set to #1 with 20 feet of line out. We had some fish on downriggers but the majority of fish came in the top 15 feet on Slide Divers and Yellow Birds. The way I set up a planer board is with 20 lb. mono to a 3/8-ounce bead chain sinker. Use 8 feet of 18 lb. Seaguar Fluoro Premier fluorocarbon leader from the sinker to a size #1 Cross Lock snap and lure. We had action on orange flashers with peanut flies tied at 11 inches long and double o dodgers required longer fly length of 21 inches. We are also producing 2 or 3 Chinook per trip on the downriggers. The Chinooks liked the Reaper Magnum spoons in silver blue, green and glow colors sold at http://www.badgertackle.com The Kings were 8-19 pounds. Some Lakers 5-7 pounds are coming on silver spoons with blue or green accent stripes. Our best speed was 2.1 mph. Have a great fishing season. Let's go fishing!! Jim charters out of Milwaukee, WI. with Blue Max Charters. He can be reached at 414-828-1094 or visit his web site at http://www.bluemaxcharters.com
