Milwaukee Fishing Lake Michigan Salmon Reports 4/28/2008
By Capt. Jim Hirt
Heavy rain on Friday turned the water chocolate brown and shut down the harbor Brown trout fishing on Saturday and Sunday. We marked fish but they would not bite inside the harbor. We had our best action working 30 to 40 feet of water outside the break wall between the main gap to the north gap. We also fished the temp breaks in front of the harbor gaps and marked fish at all depths with good success.
Church Mini planer boards and Vulcan regular size OL Sherbet spoons with a 1/4-ounce bead chain sinker running 8 feet ahead of the lure produced very well for Brown Trout. Downriggers with magnum spoons worked great for us running 60 feet behind the balls 8-28 feet down.
The Reaper Magnum Peacock and Magnum Fish n Chip were the big guns for Lake Trout. Our best boat speed was 2.2 mph. We ran Slide Divers they took their share of fish with 30 to 40 feet of line out set to number two. We did pick up three 13-pound Chinook on magnum spoons as well. The good news is a class of four inch Alewives is now showing up in the stomachs of the fish.
With the Alewives coming in we should see increased action on the Chinook soon. The only place you will find Reaper and Vulcan spoons is on the Badger Tackle web site at http://www.badgertackle.com 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 |