Lake Charlevoix Smallmouth Fishing

Pontiac Lake the neighborhood that’s good for numbers of largemouths, said Braunscheidel. Look at a map of 585-acre Pontiac Lake and you ll see that it has an abundance of weedbeds and stumps that supply perfect largemouth bass habitat. An impoundment of the Huron River, a steady flow of water and nutrients produces excellent numbers of bass and fish to 5 pounds on occasion. Shallow-water methods excel on the lake, though you may be able to find depths to 30 feet on the lake s east end. That’s a good place to concentrate your efforts throughout late summer. (gameandfishmag.com)

‘As for lures, you may be able to stick with conventional jerk baits, like Rapalas. I also like the Rattling Rogue. Cast it out and work it back to the ship in an erratic fashion. They will grab it. Another is the tube bait – those things with little tentacles. Make sure to get the special hook that goes with them 1/4 oz. Is a good size . Drop the tube bait, then crawl it gradually along the bottom to imitate a crawfish. For colors, attempt sand or black green. That’s a bait smallmouth really relate to. For top-water baits lures that skitter across the surface as you reel, for use in shallows, I like the Rattlin’ Chug Bug. (mynorth.com)

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We split up, with Don and Mark fishing one lake and Jerry and I another. We didn t catch lots of fish but the ones we caught were good ones. Jerry had a monster smoke his spinnerbait so hard we firstly thought it was a salmon since they’re running into the inland waters from Lake Michigan this time of year. He was using my 7-foot KVD Tour cranking rod and reel with 14-pound fluorocarbon and the fish almost took the rod out of his hands! though the drag was set firm, the fish zipped 20 yards off the spool in no time flat. (bassmaster.com)

Another one of my favorites is the nomadic smallmouth bass. While all these lakes and rivers support inhabitant smallies, the biggest live in Lake Michigan and swim in when the conditions are right. Every spring, a migration of the big lake s stout smallies comes in to spawn. The best bite occurs as they’re filtering in through the channel or spawning. The rest of the year, keep tabs on the wind, water temperature and alewives. Strong east winds will create an upwelling event in Lake Michigan, which brings cool water and the alewives to the pier heads. All kinds of gamefish will capitalize on this, and the smallies are no exemption. (magazine.fishsens.com)

Petoskey is a just a long cast from bent Lake, where the inland waterway commences. Bent Lake offers remaining smallmouths, and feeds into Pickerel Lake, which offers quality bass fishing for both largemouths and smallmouths. But bent also feeds into Burt Lake, which feeds into Mullet; Burt and Mullet are among the best smallmouth fisheries in the state. Both offer good perch fishing, too, also as a deep-water rainbow trout fishery. (outdoorhub.com)

The east end of Lake Charlevoix has some of the best cover and shallow bottom structure on the lake. Old slab wood from the lumber mill that use to stand on the point shown right and abundant weed growth offer good cover for walleye, smallmouth and northern’s. Work the area from the Boyne River Mouth to just south of Harborage Marina, with jigs or troll crawler harnesses for the best results. Be sure you jig up close to the break wall in front of the harborage in the early morning or evening when walleye will feed on crawfish in the rocks. (boynecitymainstreet.com)

The largemouth get bigger and that can be the only benefit of catching the bigmouth bass. The current state record is a whopping 11 pounds, 15 ounces. The biggest Michigan smallmouth is a mere nine pounds, four ounces. The record fish are really big and, rare. A really nice largemouth in Michigan could be a six pound fish and that could earn Master Angler recognition. A really good smallmouth could be a little smaller – five pounds – and that could also meet the criteria for Master Angler recognition. (articles.petoskeynews.com)

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Walleye were caught in 12 feet off the Pinconning Bar and Gambil s Marina, 17 to 20 feet off Linwood and 21 to 24 feet near the Spark Plug. At Finn Road, walleye were caught shallow in four to six feet in the early morning but they move out deeper as the sun comes up. Crawler harnesses are working best at all places. The hot spinner colors were chartreuse, purple, brass and pink. some walleye with lots of white bass and freshwater drum were caught at the Hot Pond by those casting crank baits. At Quanicassee, some boats were skunked while others had bound catches along the Slot between Sunset Bay and the tip of Fish Point. (Visit the site)