New Lake Michigan Fishing Report
Sunday October 4, 2009
Captain Jim Hirt fishes Lake Michigan for trout and salmon with Blue Max Fishing Charters. He has offered many tips and tactics for catching trout and salmon and is publishing this up-to-date fishing report. Also visit the gallery of pictures from Lake Michigan.
picture (c) Captain Jim Hirt
Comments
My favorite inland spots have become flooded! If I wanted to go I would have to launch on 80/94 and motor down the road to get to a spot. Has anyone out there got information on southern Lake Michigan, especially shoreline. Haven’t heard much worth listening to and our local newspaper has been taken over by antis and there is no longer any useful information coming from their once a week article (no longer in paper).
Capt. Jim is probably a pretty good Charter Capt. but his constant shilling for his prefererd tackle companies puts his credibility in doubt in my mind. This is not the only site he puts his promotion of Badger Tackle above how to catch fish. Be warned!
Tom
He does push Badger Tackle a lot. And I am sure he sends his reports to multiple sites. If I were a guide I would want mine on as many sites as possible. I am not sure if he has an interest in Badger Tackle or not but he might just really like their products. I often make reccomendations of tackle that works well for me.
It’s no different than any other sponsored professional guide. They’re all hawking their wares. If he’s a half-way decent guide, then it shouldn’t matter as long as you are catching fish.
Southern end of the lake has some great fishing. September is better than October, but since he asked the question, I’ll answer it. We always fished at Calumet right up tight to the State Line. Casting off the rock wall with 1oz Sonars produced fish. Never had much luck with spoons or Tadpollys.
Hey Ronnie,
I will stay in Milwaukee for two weeks in August. Can you tell me if I need to buy some kind of day ticket there to be allowed to go fisching. Well I should tell you that I am from Germany and over here you always have to buy tickets…maybe you can send me an E-Mail to mailt:thomas.koszil@gmx.net
Thank you for your help,
Petri Heil
Like we say over here…I think this means
Good catch…
You should email Captain Jim Hirt – check his site through his name link on the article. Let me know if that works. I live in Georgia and just post his reports.
Wisconsin has non resident licences for great lakes fishing that go from one day to annual. A real bargain for the trip. Captains are promising a lot this year. A lot of great service for small price.
this a joke
How is is a joke? Will you share better information?
Arcadia,mi right on 22 highway, right on the bridge for anybody that wana fish for just about averything they want small town will enjoy with friendly locals I promise or try same highway next town alberta,mi same deal my friends I used to go to those places all the way from tx state and it was worth it.
By the way I wana say gud by to a friend that pased away last 7 of jan mr gene orr from arcadia,mi god bless ur soul.
I live in edinburg,tx and there is a little beautiful irrigation lake where I have caught the biggest bass and needle nose gar. Check it out in a map and locate it, enjoy.
I could give a few tips for bass that really work for me reach me at raymundo22454675@gmail.com
I got lots of bass pics, by the way anybody from frankfort,michigan that’s gone fishing lately?
I usually catch bass with weedless lures like : rapala minnow spoon and spro frog etc.They are hard to get in these days.And btw i just bought , and i caught a 3lb bass with it, with the first throw..
Try using a water melon finesse worm GULP! Brand, TX rig it, if you really like to catch bass, once you tx rig it cast, pull up three times upwards to immitate live bait, do this over and over, before I forget you gotta use 1/8 of an once weight hook for bass and if you want to see it work check it out in youtube just type in how to catch bass. And it will show you hundreds of ways to catch bass and what to use depending on the year station, something very important, enjoy!
Excellent well written and laid out,but a friend of mine said lake Michigan was heavily polluted. Is that true?
See http://hubpages.com/hub/fishing-tackle-review then click on other hubs by thor6 to read the rest.
Take care and tight lines
i really dont know peter but im pretty sure you can always catch and release but i will look it up and im pretty sure that just about every body of water in our planet is polluted sadly nobody does anything about it specially us americans buying plastic products that contaminate our beautiful planet and im sure a little poison wont kill you so enjoy water and our planet as much as we can, fish on people
Hello!
Do you know why it’s so important to collect and recycle abandoned fishing line?
Please visit our website to watch our short documentary, Pick Up Line, for free: http://www.pkupline.com/
We’ve gotten several monofilament recycling bins sited around our Tri-Cities and we want them at all popular Michigan fishing spots.
Anglers, please visit our website to find out how you can participate.
Thanks!
Rick Tarchinski
Artistic Sass Productions, Inc.
Grand Haven, MI
thats good ricky im glad somebody is doing something for our planet, hey is that club lucky13 or lagunabeach club is still open, i use to go there to drink a couple of beers after a good day of fishing, i now live in edinburg,tx. i use to live in holland,mi and worked at HAWORTH INC. where we had a good group of bass fisher men, but those days are long gone my friend, so keep fishing my michigan friends.