The Mission: The marina's mission is to provide affordable boating, camping, swimming, and fishing opportunities in a friendly and family oriented atmosphere. Experiment with super copper, divers and boards to get offerings at different depths. Caseville and the area around Big Charity Island were slow. Sediment covers much of the bay’s bottom, a legacy of the area’s logging and agricultural industries. Fielder said he was happy to go into classrooms of young people in the area and show them how even the big Great Lakes that have been here long before them and will be here long after, still need them. Buoys 1 and 2. BAY CITY, MI - Barges and a crane are being used this August to dump about 22,800 tons of rock in Saginaw Bay. The distance you set disks behind the boat depends on how deep you want them to go, let out 50 foot of line and the spoon dives to 15 feet. Sometimes you are trolling in a long line, other times a circle or triangle, but the idea is to remain in a walleye rich location. Saginaw Bay is home to about 5.5 million walleye age two or older, the DNR estimates. Facebook; Twitter; Tumblr; LinkedIn; MySpace; Email; Go to. The Bay has a long history of serving up impressive catches of walleyes on spoons and cranks. I prefer large blades when trolling for Bay ‘eyes. Saginaw Bay Area Walleye fishing has been outstanding on Lake Huron’Äôs Saginaw Bay. 48444. Sometimes you need to forget the pro trolling speed of 1.5-mph with blades and get spoons flashing to the max at much faster speeds. Saginaw Bay: A couple boats caught walleye off the mouth of the Saginaw River. Fishing reports from Saginaw Bay. You troll, troll, troll. 62+ Campsites/Docks, variety of hook-ups, seasonal, transient, all … No Photo galleries for this venue: sort by : In order to educate and inspire stewardship with local residents, members of the project went to classrooms to talk with students about the reef. Mike loves to troll glow lures like the Blue Melon, Purple Nose, Shell Bell and more to excite walleyes into striking. My favorite crank on Saginaw Bay in June is a Clown color Rattle Tot. Larger boats go for Jet Divers with five-foot fluorocarbon leads trolled 1.7-2.2 mph. I use the Streak Jr. spoons for walleyes and productive colors include Green Huckleberry, Blueberry Muffin, Frankenberry, Chicken Pox and Perch. test and cuts through the water to get to the strike zone. Limit catches were common from the Slot from Oakhurst north to Sunset Bay Marina, from the Callahan Reef area, and from deeper water between the Bar and the Spark Plug (buoys 11 and 12). When walleye only spawn in rivers, a whole generation can be wiped out by river flooding or other environmental factors, Fielder said. Rattle Tots have a large chrome bill and favorite Rattle Tot colors include Silver Red, Purple Fire UV, Rainbow Smelt, Chrome Yellow Perch, Chartreuse Purple Shad and Chrome Clown. Saginaw Bay continues to produce limit catches of walleye. DEALER INQUIRES WELCOME. Imlay City, MI. Most fish were taken on a crawler harness but a few were also taken on spoons and crank baits. 594 North Almont Ave. I expect the Foil Blade to catch on statewide and smaller sizes like #3 is ideal for inland lakes like Houghton Lake, Macatawa, Portage, Muskegon Lake, White Lake and many more. When they are close to the surface you need to get your boards extra far from the boat. Nearly 23,000 tons of rocks are being used to create the offshore reef in waters northeast of Bay City. This was the third walleye in 20 minutes and I was busy setting lines and keeping my boat trolling downwind 1.7 mph. The $1 million project aims to revitalize walleye and other fish populations in Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay. Built as a Marina first, Campgrounds and RV Park more recent, creating a very short channel access to the Saginaw Bay. That’s when I go to meat and slow my trolling speed. One tactic is to soak them in ice water and they will stay lively and puff up with liquid like an Oscar Meyer wiener on the grill. With bottom hugging fish I also frequently use a three-ounce weight with crawler harness set five- feet behind the weight. Quote. Author prefers a large #5 size spinner blade tipped with a monster nightcrawler to excite big walleyes into striking. Channel cat fishing was good off Sebewaing in 5 feet. 2 were here. I usually rig reels with 75-100 ft. of copper. The idea is to have several GPS spots saved on your graph and you troll from one known hot spot to another. The idea is to sample several different locations and identify where fish are congregated. I hunt saginaw bay and shoot a lot of divers, Never go out to actually hunt divers but they always seem to come into the spread so we take them, Lots of blue bills and red heads along with an ocassional Can. My second blade choice would be Northland Tackle Mr. Walleye Willow Crawler Hauler #5 size colored Perch or White Alewife. Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from our team. The reef will be about 5 feet tall in waters that are 18 to 21 feet deep. good luck... Hot-tots and Spoons.. Top. Saginaw Bay. YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR HAND CRAFTED FISHING TACKLE. Fish and Wildlife Service showed that areas in the inner bay area suited for reef restoration and construction. Last summer Michigan had plenty of east and northeast wind which pushed fish toward Linwood and they congregated in the shipping channel too. The unique metallic shine, deep cup Colorado, unusual orange rim is a ‘hawg-eye’ drawing magnet and recently has out fished the rest in major tournaments. YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR HAND CRAFTED FISHING TACKLE. I’m certain you have heard about the splendid walleye fishing Saginaw Bay offers. My favorite surface setup is a Northland Crawler Hauler #5 colored Emerald Shiner set 50 feet behind a ½-ounce snapweight placed 20 feet from the board. My first fishing trip on Saginaw Bay this year. Crawler harnesses were best. Waters) Click … Most of the fish averaged 18 to 22 inches. Most trollers use a ½-ounce weight set 25 feet back for surface eyes. Today, we principally just have the river spawners left,” Fielder said. Last summer northeast winds helped to keep walleyes in the inner Bay and fishing was red hot. It is 20 lb. The key to unlocking the secrets to this massive bay located on Lake Huron is to find the right pod of actively feeding fish and offer them a tasty morsel, like a Wally Minnow or a spinner tipped with a leech or crawler. Sure fish are scattered throughout the Bay but wind, waves and current can stack fish in certain areas where the fishing is off the hook fantastic. BAY CITY, MI - “Don’t get hit” reads one of the rocks getting dumped into Saginaw Bay to create a new underwater reef. Rock reefs have been installed in Lake Michigan for cisco, in the Detroit River for sturgeon and already in Lake Huron for lake trout. I rigged rods with 100-foot of copper and began a downwind troll at 1.7 mph. Super Copper can be used with spoons, plugs and crawler harness rigs. He said a rock reef today in the bay has a fair shot at lasting. Plus with super copper you can fish crawlers up top or on the bottom by simply letting out line before you attach to the board. Spoons can be used behind downriggers, snap weights, Jet Divers and Big Jon Mini Disks. The Church board tipped back slightly as a huge walleye slammed the crawler presentation and headed for Tawas. Tångavägen 5, 447 34 Vårgårda info@futureliving.se 0770 - 17 18 91 Locating walleyes on Saginaw Bay can be difficult. Great bear bait! Tap to Download actual size chart Chart #: 14863_1: Scale: 1:120000: Edition #: 31: Edition Date: 10/01/2005: NTM Notice/Date: 09/03/2011: Regions: Lake Superior and Lake Huron (U.S. It’s going to be quite amazing,” Jury said. Man-made rock reefs are nothing new, especially in the Great Lakes. Lake Huron Coordinator for Michigan’s Office of the Great Lakes Bretton Joldersma has been on the reef restoration project for around four years and helped coordinate the financing for the project. If you mark a big school, ideal conditions or catch more fish you mark another GPS icon. When it’s finished, the reef will cover about 3 acres and provide a rocky habitat to promote fish reproduction. Share Thread. Sure there is often a feeding frenzy at daylight but Great Lakes walleyes generally feed throughout the day. Members of the project are eager to see what fish will use the reef. In fact, DNR census data reveals that limit catches are the norm in June and more big fish are showing up in coolers. If you plan on using crawlers make certain you stop at Northland Wholesale Outlet in Pinconning and take advantage of their super crawler deal; $1 per dozen up to 10 dozen. However when walleyes are hugging bottom I usually free spool until the 2-3 ounce weight touches bottom and snap the line onto an inline board. The deeper areas of Wildfowl Bay were producing some walleye. Saginaw Bay: Had good walleye action for those using crawler harnesses in 15 to 18 feet of water off Linwood and around Spoils Island and the Callahan Reef. . I was pleased with the trophy fish and before we could get hero shots the starboard board marched backward from a sold strike from another walleye. The site in Saginaw Bay chosen for reef restoration, the Coreyon reef, was picked after a 2016 study funded by the U.S. Bass anglers also report an outstanding bite in Wild Fowl Bay when fishing in the shallows. When you purchase our Nautical Charts App, you … In this case I simply watch the rod tip for strikes. Saginaw Bay: Walleye were caught in 7 feet off Pinconning, 14 to 17 feet around the G Buoy, 20 feet off Linwood and 8 to 10 feet on the Callahan Reef. A prevailing west wind can move Saginaw Bay current toward Sebewaing and Bay Port and walleyes tend to congregate along the eastern shore from Callahan Reef all the way to Caseville. Originally, two rock reefs were planned for the bay, but the project went forward with only the Coreyon reef. According to DNR Fisheries Specialist David Fielder, the walleye population was also decimated by pollution in the 1940′s. Just free spool until it crashes bottom, engage the reel and set the rod in a holder that places the rod to the side of the boat. Walleye limit reports from some of my fishing buddy's...8 to 13 FOW..East of Linwood. Workers are placing 10 barges of limestone and two barges of glacial rock at the site to replicate a reef and are using GPS to track location and rock height. 2 har været her. “I think that part of the experiment that we’re hoping to learn from.” Joldersma said. Big blades like Bugsy’s deep cup Colorado displace more water and give off a loud vibration that also attracts predator fish. The reef is on the east side of the shipping channel and a few miles out from the mouth of the Saginaw River … If walleyes are down 15-18 ft., the 75 ft. of copper will put crawlers in their face. This strategy is deadly on massive schools of walleyes that suspend in the Bay, but often you need to do some recon work to find walleye hotspots. Planning and studying to determine if a rock reef would work in Saginaw Bay dates back to the 1990′s, Fielder said. Flipping, flashing lures get the attention of walleyes and key their strike instinct and produces savage bites. Some captains like to hit the water at dawn and troll until noon. Sunsets on the Sunrise side! Credit: Michigan DNR. About four years ago, a pre-assessment was carried out looking at Coreyon Reef and several other sites in the bay to see which fish were still using them and in what numbers, as well as any indications of how sediments might be moving around on them. Fielder said better land-use practices, environmental laws that cut pollution and years of stocking fish have helped to restore the fishery. The trick is to set divers at a variety of depths until you hit on the hot pattern where you catch walleyes. Apr 19, 2015 7:04:03 GMT -5 . My second choice is a #4 size blade for Great Lakes walleyes. Franks Great Outdoors, (989) 697-5341. Callahan Reef is a shallow sandbar that holds walleye in late spring and summer. Fast trolling speeds allow you to cover more water, pull your lures in front of more fish and produce more strikes. It’s going to be their community and they’re a part of helping to restore some of the native habitat,” VanDriessche said. One big advantage of super copper is you can get your presentation far from the noise and shadow of the boat. This is a big advantage because at times walleyes can be very boat shy. Once you start catching fish, you mark the spot on your GPS and you continue trolling, looking for new faces in different places. Bay trolling for walleyes can be fast paced and when fish are suspended and active, cranks and spoons fire them up. The immediate areas in the Bay consists of Wildfowl Bay, Callahan Reef, Thomas Reef, and the heavily fish populated section known as The Slot. By days end I was trolling 2.2 mph and the surging waves made harness blades spin like crazy and the fish slammed them. I grabbed the bent double rod and eventually worked the ‘hawg-eye’ to net. Beach, showers, store, launch ramp, hoist. Each trolling situation is different and you need to experiment with a variety of lures and fishing tactics. Saginaw Bay: A few boats caught walleye out just beyond the Spoils Island. Here the water is deeper than the Bay, sometimes cooler and cluttered with fantastic structure and fish attracting drop offs. Keep in mind Great Lakes walleyes are vagabonds of the deep and are constantly moving. Though most boats should be able to navigate safely and there are far shallower areas in the bay, Fielder said the Coast Guard will have alerts out to warn mariners of the change. The lake was calm and we began catching fish. Honestly the real trick with crawlers is to put the first hook of the harness through their nose and second hook through the body so the crawler stays straight on the harness and does not spin. How fast can you troll for walleyes? The 21-foot freezer at our marina in AuGres was FULL of frozen walleye remains waiting for Monday's pickup. Early mornings are best if you want to avoid the wind. Construction is operating 24 hours a day. It’s going to be their Saginaw Bay. “There have been some improvements and we verified that through a modeling that indicated based off circulation patterns, the location of the reef that we’re restoring is in a place where we don’t see high sedimentation.”. Box 278 DEALER INQUIRES WELCOME. I was fishing just outside the sparkplug found five miles from the DNR boat launch at the mouth of the Saginaw River when the brute gulped my Bugsy’s Foil spinner trailed by a huge crawler. Guess I’ve experimented with just about every blade style on the market and my top choices are Bugsy’s Baits Foil Blade #5 size deep cup Colorado. The note painted on the rock is from a student who learned about the project in school. Most spoons have much better action at 2-mph and if you experiment with speed you will hit maximum spoon action around 2.3-3 mph. The last few years many tournaments have been won with bigger fish caught off the tip of the thumb near Caseville and Grindstone City. Off Caseville, most boats are either fishing north of Big Charity or off Oak Point. On the east side, the Slot was producing a good number of fish in 16 feet. My recommendation is to use the new Blood Run Tackle Walleye Super Copper. Then run to shore for lunch, enjoy a cold beverage, take a nap and return to the water for an afternoon trip. The Coreyon Reef is located at 43° 44’ 3.704” by -83° 41’ 5.173”, approximately 8.5 miles west of Fish Point or about 10 miles north of Quanicassee. “They’re going to take over for us someday so they need to understand these things.”. “It gave them the opportunity for stewardship. All rights reserved (About Us). When that habitat grew scarce, walleye eggs were left vulnerable and populations decreased rapidly. Posts: 1,173. “Most of the walleyes in Saginaw Bay spawn in rivers. June/July water temperatures are ideal for trolling Saginaw Bay and savvy trollers have learned you can up your speed to 2.0 mph and pull cranks and spoons for fast limits. P.O. The rock reef restoration project is the culmination of years of work to restore historical fish spawning habitat within inner Saginaw Bay. Walleyes love crawlers and the hottest trick going is to use large, juicy nightcrawlers. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/21). “It’s been a real labor of love and here we are finally, as I’ve told people, we’re close to getting out the champagne, we’re pretty darn close.”. Keep in mind that when your boat makes a turn it pulls hard on outside boards and inside boards relax which means presentations move up and down in the water column. Hopefully your run-n-gun strategy will result in full coolers at lightning speed. Construction is underway and is expected to take 20 days to a month to complete. Best spinner colors were purple, pink, chartreuse and brass. In June following cold fronts try spinner rigs, but if the weather heats up and fish become more active switch to cranks and spoons. Sometimes you mark no fish because they are far from shore hugging the surface. My recommendation is to check water clarity when fishing and if the water is gin clear and cold you need to move to slightly discolored water that is often a few degrees warmer. The site in Saginaw Bay chosen for reef restoration, the Coreyon reef, was picked after a 2016 study funded by the U.S. The state of Michigan was granted $980,000 by the EPA for reef restoration in 2018 and a $25,000 grant from the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network. The reef is located toward the Quanicassee and Sebewaing area on the east side of the bay. More importantly I’ve learned after countless hours of watching walleyes feed that big fish prefer big baits. Sometimes you need them a couple hundred feet away. They are still taking walleye off the Callahan Reef, Finn Road, along the Slot and off the Bar when using crawler harnesses, crank baits and spoons. Our Mission: The Marina and RV Park's mission is to provide affordable boating, camping, swimming, and fishing opportunities in a friendly and family oriented atmosphere. My presentation is simple; I use super copper line from Blood Run Tackle to get spinners rigged with crawlers into the strike zone. Walleye that lay their eggs in Saginaw Bay seek out rocky structure left by glacial deposits. Stewardship and monitoring will be the name of the game, Jury said. Saginaw Bay: Had fair to good walleye fishing along the Coryeon Reef, Callahan Reef, the Slot, Wildfowl Bay and North Island. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. But now you know the best time to go, in June, and tactics that work. The construction crew uses GPS and mapping to ensure they drop the rocks in the precise spot. The last two buoys you’ll see on the way out of the shipping channel, Buoys 1 and 2 are deeper spots for later-season fishing. For some reason ‘hawg-eyes’ love to gulp big nightcrawlers slowly wiggling through the water column behind a flashy spinner. Saginaw Bay: Walleye fishing slowed. With fond memories I recall an outing to the Bay when huge marks on my Lowrance indicated walleyes were stacked on bottom near buoy #1 where the depth is 30 feet. The water temperature has warmed into the mid to upper 70s and the fish have really turned on! Walleye are still hitting in 16 feet off Linwood, two miles northwest of the Spark Plug (Buoys 11 &12), 8 to 9 feet off the end of Jones Road, 10 feet on the Callahan Reef, both sides of the Bar and especially in the Slot from Sunset Bay Marina all the way along the outside of the islands and into the narrows off the tip of Sand Point. 15 posts 1; 2; Next; buzzdog113 Posts: 3 Joined: Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:24 pm. Some students drew on rocks that are going into the bay and some made signs for construction. Mother Nature can be unfair to fishermen and once in a while turns the switch off for walleye feeding behavior. The immediate areas in the Bay consist of Wildfowl Bay, Callahan Reef, Thomas Reef, and the heavily fish populated section known as The Slot, which provides great fishing! The calmer the water and the brighter the sun the further you let out inline boards. Outdoor Writer and Bay guide Michael Veine prefers to use Moonshine lures and Hot-N-Tots and last year he had limit catches and happy clients using his deadly strategy. What about you? That’s when it dawned on me that June is perhaps one of the hottest months to pursue walleyes on Saginaw Bay. Saginaw Bay: Walleye fishing has been very good. Subscribe to MLive.com. Callahan Reef. One boat was about 10 miles out while the other one caught fish in 6 feet of water off the Callahan Reef. © 2021 Advance Local Media LLC. Unique getaway to Lake Huron. Then you switch all divers to the strike zone and soon the box is full of beautiful walleyes. She said they highly enjoyed having field workers such as Fielder come into the classroom and allow them to participate in the project by designing signs. Michael Jury of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is the project manager for the reef and said the bid for the construction came in at $1,379,740. A prevailing west wind can move Saginaw Bay current toward Sebewaing and Bay Port and walleyes tend to congregate along the eastern shore from Callahan Reef all the way to Caseville. However, walleye numbers are on the rise today. Forums > Michigan Fishing > Warm Water Species Fishing > Saginaw Bay and its Tributaries > Callahan Reef Musky? The difference between a Rattle Tot and Hot-N-Tot is profound. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Allison VanDriessche who teaches science at Western Middle School in Bay City said her students loved getting firsthand experiences of science happening in their own community. Construction places 22,800 tons of rock into the Saginaw Bay, August 16, 2019. Last summer Michigan had plenty of east and northeast wind which pushed fish toward Linwood and they congregated in the shipping channel too. The immediate areas in the Bay consists of Wildfowl Bay, Callahan Reef, Thomas Reef, and the heavily fish populated section known as The Slot. Home; All Charts; Regions; Geographic.org; Help; Advertise; Contact; SAGINAW BAY MICHIGAN. Funding to supplement the grants will come from the Office of the Great Lakes. Large blades give off more flash and disperse water drawing fish from afar. The idea is to rip spoons through schools of active fish, give ’em a spoon that is wobbling, flashing, zipping past and trying to swim away. 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