Saturday 05/10 Brest Bay Report

[grousedog]

Three of us fished Brest Bay out of Sterling State park this morning from about 7:45AM to noon. We landed four walleyes, three around 20 inches and another at 14. We also landed half a dozen silver bass and lost one other decent fish that was likely a walleye.

Three of four walleyes and the fish that we lost were on a jointed shad rap, orange belly/blue back with a rattle. One other walleye was on a purple chrome hot-n-tot. Trolling speed was right at 2 mph.

We marked tons of fish in 17 feet of water between the state park channel and Stoney Point. All of our walleyes came near the point in 17 feet of water when the sun was shining. After it clouded back up, we didn't touch a fish. We also saw a couple other walleyes netted, but it didn't look like there was much going on. The water was very dirty, maybe a foot of visibility. I suspect that the post spawn bite will be on big time once the water clears.

[steve ypsi]

thanks grouse, I will be down there by boles hopefully tue or wed,these storms make it hard to figure when to go, went last tues early and caught 2 in a hour and lost one then the rain started, after we got home it cleared up and the weathermen said the oppiste. rain in the afternoon

[Rasdale]

We also launched from Sterling on Saturday. We headed south towards Boles Harbor. Caught two walleyes 21" & 19" about 8:20am near the area where the fish nets are. Fished there for a couple of hours more, only picked up one silver bass. So we trolled toward the banana dike, north of Stoney Point. About 1:15 we caught a 17" walleye. Also caught two silver bass while trolling near the dike. Called it a day about 3:00 PM.