Every year I know winter is getting too long when I start dreaming about summer days chasing Lake Michigan Kings 
Who’s with me?
Where you going and when??
What’s your favorite rod/baits?
Screenshot_20250221-191945.png
Hopefully!
Mid July. Kewaunee.
Copper/steel, wire dipsys, riggers
Flasher/fly, flasher/meat, spoons
Probably back to Kewaunee over the 4th of July weekend.
Sometime in late July. Baileys Harbor.
Last year was great for 4 year olds. Caught them on every kind of rig.
Wish they would just always hit riggers much more fun than copper or lead.
Jamming a wire dipsey is a close second.
Heck yeah guys 
We’re planning two trips to Kewaunee, one in June and then early July.
My best rods (not “favorite” though lol) are usually 300′ coppers, but since switching to 5-color SWR’s, my rigger bite has increased 10-fold.
My riggers used be one of the slowest rods in the boat, now they are one of the best! Just gotta be careful by having extra separation and run them deep (it’s possible to sink long coppers into them while redeploying)
My favorite spoon for Michigan is hands down Bad Toad and RV Bad Toad. I always start by running a pair, but often 3-4 more earn their way into the water.
As for flasher and flies, anything works for me as long as it’s green 
They most certainly bite all day (and all night on fuller moons), but the 2 hours on either side of the sunrise/sunset are the most consistent/predictable.
Our usual program is to get up at 3am, fish till 9ish.
Cut fish, go out for breakfast.
Slam a couple stiff drinks to sleep until 3pm
Eat an early dinner, on the water at 5pm, fish until it’s pitch black.
Cut fish, in bed by 11pm.
Get up at 3am, fish till 9ish.
Cut fish, go out for breakfast.
Slam a couple drinks to sleep until 3pm
Eat an early dinner, hit the water at 5pm, fish until it’s pitch black.
Cut fish, in bed by 11pm.
get up at 3am, fish till 9ish.
Cut fish, go out for breakfast.
Slam a couple stiff drinks to sleep until 3pm
Repeat
Repeat
After 5 days of that you’re REALLY looking forward a full night’s sleep at home
But you have the equivalent of a half-beef in salmon meat from running the gauntlet LOL
And you absolutely have to stop in at Smashed-On-The-Rocks (Algoma) on a weekend for a Loaded Bloody. We run up from Kewaunee every year for one (sometimes by boat if we’re fishing north)
(one of them feeds two people lol)
Screenshot_20250221-215548.png
Used to run out of kewaunee. Then wanted to try some new places from BH you can run to sturgeon bay and up to gills rock and Washington Island.
Door county is just fun to explore.
It is definitely a grind fishing times, but usually catch up on sleep one morning on a blow day.
We go for the KD and usually do a trip before and a trip after. Pretty much always fish out of Kewaunee but switch it up on some afternoons and go out of Algoma. It’s definitely a grind that’s for sure but not near what it used to be now that we have a kid, that cut the self inflicted pain in half. Has anyone else tried that cherry cider when your out there? My god is it delicious! The place in Algoma makes it.
B – you slept away prime time being in bed by 11. Last year we were on fire from 11-3. Most nights we headed out about 9.
Boat goes back to the dock late April. By late May we strip all the trout/coho stuff out of the boat and just chase kings for the rest of summer.
IMG_9621.jpeg
IMG_1408-scaled.jpeg
IMG_0185-scaled.jpeg
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
