Saginaw Bay Walleye Fishing on the Edventure in Linwood, Michigan |
West Coast Sportfishing Charters, is a Michigan Fishing service located Linwood, MI. We are here because Saginaw Bay offers some of the best walleye fishing to be found in Michigan. Enjoy fishing aboard our 29' Baha Cruiser... outfitted for serious fishing and maximum safety & comfort!!! We are a member in good standing in the Michigan Charter Boat Association (MCBA) |
| 9/15/09: I booking now for some excellent fall fishing. I hae been fishing salmon, trout and steelhead in Manistee since 7/15, but will be back on 9/20/09. The fishing is good this time of year. Call now to reserve the best days in October. |
7/11/09We started early today, because it was supposed to be very windy in the afternoon. Pink was the hot color again, and these Army veterans caught their limit out next to the 3 fingers near buoy 1.
7/3/09Today we fishing out by the shipping channel of Saginaw Bay. WE had a stiff west wind blowing 15 knots that produced 4foot waves. We caught 14 keepers, a few shorties, and a sheepshead. Mostly the fish came on a pink blade with white and black spots. The motor started backffiring on the trip to port, and we idled in, but not before Capt Dick pulledd up alongside and the group transfered 10 cold refreshments (beer) to our boat. They tossed them across the 10 foot gap into our net which Eric was proficient with. That was the catch of the day.
Bauer's 6/28/2009 walleye fishing trip on Saginaw BayHunter, Shannon and Jeff, Jason, Michelle and Dennis came out fishing in 3 foot waves this morning as part of a charter trip I dontated to hands of hope at Covenant Healthcare. Nick and I set lines and we started catching fish out near #1 buoy in Saginaw Bay. We had 21 walleye when the wind starting blowing hard. We decided to quit as we didn't want to have a 2 hour boat ride back to the dock against 6 foot waves. The small craft advisory was put into effect by the time we arrived back at the dock.
Bob Sauve's family 6/27/2009 pm walleye fishing trip on Saginaw BayBobby, Paul and Mark got to my dock at 3pm expecting me to hop on the boat and start fishing and get done early. I turned the key and the boat was dead. No power anywhere. It turned out after 90 minutes of troubleshooting that the problem was a 50amp circuit breaker had gone bad. I replaced it and off we went to buoy #1. There we picked up our limit in about 2 hours and we caught that 11 pound catfish that qualifies them for a master angler patch.
Covenant's 6/27/2009 am walleye fishing trip on Saginaw BayRhonda and her son, Tom and Karen, Rod and Cody joined up at the Covenant work perks for a great day on the bay. The wind was light and variable, and there were virtually no waves except for other boats, which stayed away from us. We caught a 6 man limit in just under 4 hours, with both Nick and I working the rods. The bite was constant and we probably only had all the lines in the water for 10 minutes total during the morning. I hear there was a hatch that afternoon, but we had finished before the bugs hatched and got back into port early.
6/21/2009 Chris and Andy fished with me in 25 fow by the number 1 buoy in Saginaw Bay. The best harness was any color bead with a white #4 blade (back and front were both white). #2 producer was pink with a white back and white stripe in middle with black dots in white stripe. #3 was white beads with a orange blade (back and front). 1 oz at 45 feet, 2oz at 35 feet, 3 oz at 23 feet all produced equally. We took 25 on Saturday, and 15 on Sunday. We stopped when we hit our limit for the number of people on board each day. Both days, we had to throw keepers back because as we reeled in lines, fish were still biting. The color is really important, they hit an occasional fire tiger, but if white or pink was involved, the fish inhaled the bait. Today we were done before the sun broke through the clouds. Yesterday it was the same colors early, but as soon as the sun came out almost anything was taking fish. We were pulling lines and throwing fish back that hit after our last fish.
5/23/09 We only had a few hours to fish, and caught 5 fish this morning. We pulled lines to head in for a wedding at 9:30an. I got a call from Dick Donovan (Adventure1 Charters) and talked to Jay (Strikezone Charters) a little bit later (11am) who both said the fishing turned on about 10am. Wish I could have stayed another hour.
5/16/09 We caught 10 fish this morning. It was cold out there, with a 20 knot breeze, and 50 degrees, the chill was freezing my hands early in the morning.
Saginaw Bay temperatures are in the 50's now after the warm weekend. Check out this walleye limit (below) we caught in 17 fow trolling crawler harness's at 1.4 mph. Put out you harness 40 feet back with a 1.5 or 2 ounce weight at that speed. The hot color today was green blades, with a diagonal chartruese strip.
Capt. Ed
On Saturday, April 18th, I couldn't get out early as planned, but I did make it out walleye fishing out of Linwood Beach Marina about 4pm. I headed south and started trolling in 13 fow about half way to the Kawkawlin river mouth. We trolled south without success for 30 minutes, then we trolled west directly into the wind, and picked up our first walleye on a orange crawler harness with a one ounce bottom bouncer, trolling at 1 mph. We marked the spot and trolled for another five minutes and turned around. The wind changed from the west to NE and started blowing about 20 - 30 knots. We pulled lines and headed to port. I talked with a buddy who was out there in that vicinity from 9am - 4pm and he pulled in 10 fish using crawler harness's and husky jerks in 14 fow. I passed him in the parking lot - he was leaving as I was arriving. I was checking out the weather report and it is going to be breezy and we will get some rain showers the next few days, but the long range forecast looks good for next weekend. I hope to be out there then.
Capt. Ed