Houghton Lake

[beerguide]

A buddy of mine has a place up to Houghton Lake and he wants me to come up this memorial weekend and take him fishing for walleye. I have not seen much for reports lately, has anybody got anything to share as of recently?

[Burksee]

Beerguide,
Welcome to the M-S website! Lots of great folks and information here! Hope you enjoy! Please post a report of how you guys do!

Do a search using "Houghton Lake" or "HL", you'll catch all the threads that apply. Some very good info! There are quite a few M-S'ers around HL or like myself have a little get away there. Anyhow for fishing reports I contact either Lyman's or Jeff at the Sportsmans Resort.

Here's the links:
http://www.sportsmanresort.net/
http://www.houghtonlakefishing.com/teamlyman/

We'll hopefully be up Satuday evening til Monday, Don't think I'll get any fishing in this weekend hopefully get some R & R in after I do some spring cleaning around the cottage. Also gotta check and make sure the firepit is burning OK and that the aux. refrig. is keeping the cold ones cold! ;)

[deputy865]

welcome beerguide. hope you enjoy the site. my moms side of the family lives up there and ill ask my cousin i think he orks at one of the two lakes (houghton/hiigans) but im sure he should know and ill tell you if anything is happening.

[Dave200516]

They say that the walleye fishing is the best it's ever been. I don't know if that helps you out any but that's what I've heard.

[RJF]

Leechs in eight feet of water is what I've heard. Also, the Pike are hungry, as usual.

[Fatherof3]

I was up there twice last weekend. The water was very dark stained. On friday I only fished 2 hours by myself and picked up 1 eye trolling the west shore. I was exploring some new water. Other people I talked to were getting "some". They were drifting with leaches. On Sunday we launched a couple boats on the North East launch and fished the east end from 7am till 1. My boat just got small pike, but the other boat picked up 3 eyes, mostly drifting with crawler harness. All this while dodging lightening, hail, strong storms and constant rain. Probably half the time was spent hiding from storms. All in all I'd say the bite is pretty good up there, and of the 4 walleyes mentioned, 2 were on cranks, 2 on harnesses. Fish were being caught at both ends of the lake. So pick your weapon and go! I might even be up there myself If I can slip away.

[RJF]

I, too, have noticed the water color. The water level is very high, this spring. It's been many years since it's been this high. I assume the color is coming from the lake reaching areas of shoreline it hasn't touched in the past. I expect the level to drop, if the rain ever quits or they pull some boards out of the damm. It's too high, now. Hope we aren't crying for water in August.

[beerguide]

Thanks for the info guys. I must say I am impressed with the generousity to share knowledge on this site. I will post how I do when I return, thanks again.