Little Bay de Noc Fishing Reports

A beautiful day greeted Glenn, Kevin and myself this morning.  We got on the water around 7 a.m. and started out trolling bottom bouncers and Walleyes Choice spinners.  There must have been one heck of a mayfly hatch last night south of Gladstone because the water surface looked like an oil slick with all the spent carcasses.  I also saw some alewives jumping, and that isn't what I wanted to see at all.  We've been catching fish all month pretty much pitching jigs/crawler halves along shallow weedlines, but the last few trips we've been catching lots  and lots of undersized fish.  After no bites on spinners we headed to the Escanaba River.  Plenty of fish and action in the river, but no keepers.  My plan was to start drifting after the wind started blowing...if it started blowing!  The forecast was for it to start blowing around 11 a.m. and for once they actually got it right.  We started drifting with Walleyes Choice floating jigs tipped with crawler halves along some deep weeds and it wasn't too long before the fish started coming to the boat.  We got the first keeper shortly after noon and proceeded to fill our three man limit in the next 3 hrs.  We lost lots of nice fish as well, so it ended up being a pretty decent day after starting out on the slow side.  It's one of my favorite ways to catch fish, and one of the most fun ways too.  The guys will be able to take some fresh walleyes back to Omaha Nebraska and Las Vegas Nevada.  Good luck from all of us in the Bay de Noc area.