Little Bay de Noc Fishing Reports

There is a lot of great water to fish north of the Days River.  Center Reef, Nelson's Bay weedline, Deeper water of the northeast corner, shallow flats where the rivers dump in, they are all good areas.  If specifically targeting a wall-mounter the shallow flats/weeds in 8-12 fow at the north end can't be beat.  Suckers below tip-ups during low light times produces pretty good, as well as jigging too.  However, the water is very dirty this winter due to the warm wet fall and early winter, and the rivers are still  flowing good.  This dirty water has the walleye biting at various times throughout the day.  We've actually been experiencing a much better bite right in the middle of the day this year as opposed to the usual morning/evening times that typically produce the best.  I personally have been fishing deeper water targeting mostly "eating sized" walleye.  My philosophy is that if you're catching numbers of fish sooner or later you'll get a big fish too.  My family loves to eat walleyes, so I target the more numerous smaller fish and we release any big fish we catch.  It takes 11 yrs to get a 23 inch walleye out here, and those 30 inch fish are 17-20 yrs old.  You're not hurting the resource keeping some smaller fish to eat, but it takes a long time to replace the bigger fish over the slot limit.  The biggest thing about fishing the north end is getting away from the noise.  The fish are very spooky, so getting as far away from other anglers and any noise is probably the best thing you can do.  You can fish any breakline, weedline, rock pile or reef in the bay and at prime times expect fish to move through.  You just have to be there when they get hungry and figure out what they want to eat...that is the challenge.  Good luck, welcome to the board,