Vander Logt Outdoors: Outdoor News

Fishing pressure continued to be high during the week of June 4th. Many boaters interviewed reported great success with Coho Salmon. Anglers were also reporting Rainbow Trout and King Salmon. Surface water temperatures along the lake shore have been around 60°F.
On Sunday, June 11th, fishing pressure was very low. High winds and stormy weather farther north appeared to be a concern for boaters who did not want to be on the lake. Anglers in the early afternoon on the piers in Two Rivers by the Seagull Marina were targeting salmon and had no success.

Salmon fishing in both Kewaunee and Algoma has been up and down over the past week, due largely in part to bad weather. Before the wind and rain, catches remained consistent with reports of cohos and rainbows primarily, with a few chinooks and an occasional lake trout mixed in. After the bad weather, anglers struggled to find the same consistency as earlier in the week, and catches diminished, with just a few cohos and rainbows coming in. When weather was consistent, anglers fished anywhere from 50 feet deep out to 300 plus, and most preferred to stay between about 80-160 feet, which has been the most productive reported depth so far. Rainbows are still coming on high lines, with 3-5 color lead cores, and other set-ups that achieve similar depths, producing fish on flashy, orange (or other brightly-colored) spoons, but they have also been caught farther down on flies. The size of rainbows coming in is still impressive, with many fish over 10 pounds coming in almost daily. Cohos continue to come in the top 50 feet of the water column, with flies behind small red/orange dodgers taking the most fish. Anglers were starting to find kings more consistently fishing downriggers at 50-100 feet down, and more fish have been reported on spoons, particularly blue, than on flasher/flies like past weeks. The kings coming in are sizeable, with fish up to 25 pounds caught over the weekend!

Smallmouth anglers around Sturgeon Bay have been able to find fish with more consistency now that they are reportedly following the typical spawning pattern and are currently around bedding areas. Reported catches haven’t been spectacular in size or number, but more anglers are able to catch fish compared to the previous weeks. Some shore anglers have been able to land on some smallmouth as well, particularly at stone quarry landing. The best lure was a green pumpkin tube fished extremely slow on bottom, but some crankbaits have been hit as well. Not many walleye anglers were interviewed, but two boats did brave the gale to put in some hours, unfortunately with no success besides a single sheepshead. Some anglers have also headed out in search of perch, but no boats have reported any catch of them yet.
Some shore anglers at the stone quarry landing were also able to land some rock bass and small perch fishing with worms.

Anglers took advantage of the nice calm weather this weekend out on the lake and mainly trolling close to shore for Brown Trout. Late in the week anglers were doing well close to shore with limits for Browns being reported. As of Tuesday, May 23, a boat fishing off Algoma reported a mixed bag of steelhead and chinooks with good action early in the morning. Not many anglers were seen accessinrg the Ahnapee River or Stoney Creek this weekend and most anglers reported seeing very few Steelhead in the Rivers most likely due to very low water conditions.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017