Fishing on Grand Traverse Bay from Traverse City from Elmwood Township Marina has been awesome this past week. I would say that this past week has been the week of the steelhead. These high energy, fast swimming, high jumping, line tugging, rainbow trout are just a joy to catch when fishing on the waters of… Read more »
This week fishy has been a little bit more challenging than the previous weeks. Last Saturday a big storm came through and the high winds and the heat that came after it really caused to change to the Manitou passage of Lake Michigan. The storm brought in warm water and we had to start fishing… Read more »
Fishing this week continued to be excellent. The week started off with calm seas and cooler temperatures. The weekend ended up with high winds and warming temperatures to a heat wave. The lake trout fishing from the port of Leland was still strong on the shallow flats and drop offs. We used traditional baits of… Read more »
Fishing on West Grand Traverse Bay remains excellent. Limit catches of Lake trout have been taken while trolling the banks sometimes shallow, sometimes a little deeper with cowbells and spin-n-glo baits and flashers and spin-n-glo baits. Cisco fishing is also good casting Kast Master jigs up to the bank with slow retrieve. We can expect… Read more »
I’m getting last week’s fishing report in a couple days late and I apologize for that. Fishing this past week continue to be the same as the previous week. The lake trout are up on the flats in pretty good numbers off the port of Leland and they have also gone shallow onto the banks… Read more »
So as May turns into June, Fishing continues to be good. We are able to get mixed bags of fish, Lake Trout and King salmon, consistently on our fishing trips. We have been using a multi species set up: on the downriggers -were using flasher and flies along with spoons, on the deep dip diver… Read more »
I had some family and friends in town this weekend so we were able to get out and do some fishing near South Manitou Island. I have to say that after the many days of high winds and rough seas, it changed on Sunday morning, although it was cold, the conditions turned out to provide… Read more »
The lake trout fishing from both West Grand Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan out in good Harbor Bay have been excellent. We’ve been catching the lake trout, using cowbells with spinning glows trailing behind them. We have also caught lake trout on spoons using dipsey diver and leadcore rod set ups. On some days, glow… Read more »
The Reelin Leland Fishing Charters 2025 fishing season started April 5th on West Grand Traverse Bay. I was so excited to get out on the water a couple weeks earlier than last year. The first crew of the season was celebrating a young man’s bachelor party. We started early in the morning jigging for lake… Read more »
Now that 2025 has started and we’re looking forward to our spring fishing adventures and excursions, we should be excited to know that it looks like it’s going to be a very good 2025 fishing season. The initial reports from MDNR Fisheries fall of 2024 surveys show there is good to strong bait fish populations,… Read more »