Shore Fishing Lake Michigan For Salmon and Trout • Locations • Seasons • Gear • Presentations • Bait preparation
Jan 15, 2015
Shore Fishing Lake Michigan For Salmon and Trout
• Locations• Seasons• Gear• Presentations• Bait preparation
Location Break down
HarborsHarbors•Kenosha (WI)•Waukegan (IL)•Racine (WI)
RiversRivers•Root River (WI)•Pike River (WI)•Milwaukee River (WI)
StreamsStreams•Little Calumet (IN)•Trail Creek (IN)
Kenosha Harbor
Root River
Little Calumet/Salt Creek
Trail Creek
Seasons
• Springtime browns and Coho
• Fall Chinook salmon run
• Late fall browns and steelhead
• Winter steelhead• Summer Skamania
steelhead
Proper Gear
• Spinning Rods• Reel sizes • Line weights• Lure choices
Presentations
• Live bait presented with floats utilizing slip floats and steelhead style fixed floats – Golden roaches– Wax worms– Spawn sacks– Tube or tinsel style jigs
• Bottom rigs
Presentations
• Fly fishing– Woolly buggers– Egg sucking leaches– Egg imitators
Presentations
• Artificial baits– Inline spinners– Body baits– Spoons– Jig and twister tails– Gulp minnow baits
Live Bait Preparation
• Spawn: cures, care, rigging.
• Minnows: live, dead, salted.
• Spawn sacks: tying, colors, adding attractants.