Gun Lake-Western Michigan any reports?

[FYRE926]

I'm hoping to go to Gun Lake tomorrow Friday 10/4 sometime early in the afternoon, I am at best an inexperienced Walleye fisherman other than 4 years of fishing in Northern Ontario for them with great success, but that was not really a comparable. Does anyone have any report on fishing at Gun Lake , not just for Walleye but all species? Does anyone have any tips or locations they can recommend? I have a map of the lake, no GPS but I'm pretty good with landmarks.

Lefty:)

[RJF]

With the water cooling off it should improve. I was there two weeks ago. Caught a dandy smallmouth, threw back a limit of largemouths, and kept enough bluegills for a very good meal. Left the state park launch. Around the point to the right. Worked well. I drifted thru 8 to 12 FOW. Walleyes should be getting good. I intend to get a book with a map. The white, spiral bound books I saw a Wal-Mart a week ago looked pretty good. $20 for maps of many lakes in the area.

I do not know off hand where to find walleyes. That lake has lots of structure and it should hold fish. I'd try the points in the deep half of the lake.

[FYRE926]

Ok, thanks for the info...I'll be fishin alone so hopefully I'll get into something to keep me happy I'm there, but hell a bad day fishin will always be better than a good day workin

[jaid]

There is a gun lake in barry county, and a gun lake in mason county. Im assuming you are speaking of the one in barry county. We went out to the lake once this year, and the pleasureboat traffic was unbearable. This time of year, I would imagine that the pleasure traffic wont be so much of an issue. We went out there for bass and pike, but I would imagine a lot of this info will apply to the eyes also.

If I recall, the entire west side of the lake is fairly shallow and heavily weeded. There are tons of weeds that extend right up to, and out of the surface of the water. We pulled a few bass fishing the pockets of these weeds. Near the center of the lake on the north side of the lake, is a big peninsula that extends out into the lake. Around the point its quite shallow(we actually got out and waded less than knee deep), but there is a fairly steep drop and a solid weed line right there off the shallow. Its suppose to be a good spot for pike, and I would imagine it would be good for eyes also. Just to the east of that peninsula is a small island that also has steep edges around it. It is also suppose to be good for pike. Other than that, we caught a couple pike in the northwest corner of the lake and lots of small bass around the docks. Id say just watch the bottom, there seem to be lots of humps and dropoffs.

Good luck!

Edit: One other thing, while we were fishing with spinnerbaits, on nearly every cast we had perch following the spinnerbaits back in. There were perch everywhere. Might be a good color pattern to try!

[FYRE926]

Ok, well today was washed out thanks to old man weather...maybe tomorrow I can get out onto Gun Lake. Yes it is the one in Barry County not terribly far from U.S. 131.

Lefty :eek:

[sfw1960]

Let us know what happens!!!!!:D :D :D

[FYRE926]

Well I made it out onto Gun Lake finally...marked lots of fish but the 2-3 ft swells w/whitecaps thrown in was not a great match for my 16 ft bass tracker at least going into the wind or perpendicular to it either LOL. Appears the fish were stacked up right out in front of the launch down 12-18 feet in 20+ feet of water right against the drop off. I launched from the State Launch everyone else was coming out(pontoons, jetskis etc) Looks like they were all puttin em ashore for winter...as if I'm upset about less jetskis on the water. Anyway, no fish, all I could do was troll back & forth no way I could anchor & jig for em in that wind. Enjoyed bein on the lake....just wish old man wind would've lightened up about 40 knots :cool: