Big Manistique Lake, Curtis 7-27-08

Big Manistique Lake walleye fishing is slow this time of the year, but if you can find structure you will normally find some very nice perch. Team members fished Big Manistique last week and produced several limits of 12" to 14" perch fishing in 10 FOW using perch rigs and minnows.

Good Luck.

Houghton Lake 7-25-08

Another excellent fishing morning on Houghton Lake. We started fishing at 8:00am and had our walleye limit at 11:10am. Not may fishermen out on the lake this morning. The majority of the fishing pressure is out in front of the Limber Lost.

We'll be back out fishing Sunday morning and I'll report back.

Houghton Lake 7-24-08

Another beautiful night of fishing on Houghon Lake. I got out of work early and was able to make a quick trip up to Houghton with my niece and two nephews to do some walleye scouting.

We headed out just south of the area where we have been producing walleyes and setup to troll in 5 FOW using our normal setup. After fishing for about ten minutes we had a double header with two 14" walleyes which good the kids attention and kept them focused on fishing most of the night. Tonights weather conditions were great and the slight West wind created a perfect walleye chop.

Over all we boated eleven walleyes six of which we kept. Four pike, four small mouths and one small perch. Fishing pressure was zero out in the lake, but closer to the Limber Lost the boats are piled up in 10 FOW. The main fishing method in that area is jigging the weed beds and working the 8' to 12' ledge. My suggestion to anyone fishing Houghton is to find structure the is not a weed bed. The lake is full of drops and sand bars that hold fish year round, you just have to go find them. The best part is that most of the time you will be fishing in less then 7 FOW. I'll be back on Houghton at 6:00am Friday morning and will report back. Good Luck.

Houghton Lake 7-19-08

The walleye fishing fun never ends on beautiful Houghton Lake and Saturday morning was about as good as it gets. We started trolling at 7:00am and had our four person walleye limit by 1:00pm.

We fished in 6 FOW most of the morning and then found a very hot spot in 4.8 FOW that added the last six fish to our limit. Overall we landed 46 walleyes, 12 pike, and 15 bass.

Trolling Houghton can be extremely difficult do to the weed cover, but if you use your GPS and map out slots you can really have fun. We are trolling with 8lb line, trail dancers, thunderstick of varying color and running at 2.25 to 2.60 mph.

Good luck.

Hougthon Lake 7-18-08

The best action yet! Houghton Lake was on FIRE this morning. We setup and started trolling at 7:00am and we had our fifteen fish limit at 10:25am.

We fished the "Devils Ledge" which is a 4.5 foot break in the middle of the lake that's surrounded by 8 FOW on both sides. We trolled with the normal HL walleye smasher (tail dancers and storm thundersticks) for three hours of fun fish fighting action. The one change to our normal setup was the addition of speed to the troll 2.5 to 2.75 mph.

Our best fish was 20" and the rest were all 15 to 16 inch fish. The impressive part of the fishing trip was we boated 36 total walleyes.
We also had three double headers, two triple headers, and one streak where we had six walleye on at one time.

Houghton Lake Walleye 7-3-08

We made it back on Houghton Lake and had a good night of fishing. The weather was good and the wind was normal.

We boated three walleyes in 6 FOW trolling with tail dancers and storms. We'll be back on Sunday and hopefully we will find the big fish.

Fishing Report 7-1-08

Pratt & Houghton Lake Report:

Fishing has been very good on both Pratt and Hougthon Lake. I've been fishing on Pratt Lake three time in the last two weeks and the bass has been great. Both sides of the lake have good fishing, but the best action has been on the West side of the lake in 17 FOW. We are fishing with Berkly Gulp leaches and slip weights and the method has produced some very nice bass.

Houghton Lake has been hard to fish with all of the crazy wind and weather we have been getting. Our last two times out we boated five walleyes and fifteen small mouth bass. We are fishing on the north side of Hougthon in 9 FOW.

Go fishing...