Houghton Lake Labor Day weekend

[Natlight]

Fished friday night out of the East side DNR launch. About a mile out in 9 to 12 feet of water. 2 walleyes (both around 14 inches),1 pike (22 inches) and some perch. Fished saturday morning pretty much the same area, but hit some 14 feet depths. 5 walleye (one at 15 1/4 inches, the others all undersized), 7 perch and 1 13 1/4 crappie. All fish caught on crawler harness's. 4 walleye on a purple and yellow harness with a firetiger blade on saturday. Neighbor fished sunday morning out in front of the public beach in Prudenville at the first weedbed and caught 2 walleyes, 15 inchers and one crappie all on small shad raps. Saw quite a few boats fishing on the lake.:)

[spikejbrook]

left the fishing boat on the hoist and just cruized around soaking up sun with the wife on her boat. i did bring a rod with asome jigs and gulp smelt . fishing all the drop offs around prudenville . and by that island but that area got real congested with boats as the day went on . no walleye but some decent size large mouths in the weeks on the sides of the drops . lots of minnows in the weeds . a;so you could see schools everywhere . even busting the surface.. o yea today im at work and realize i have swimmers itch . whats up with that . should be gone by now allways get it up there in the early part of the summer but never this late.