Milwaukee Fishing Lake Michigan Salmon Reports 7/23/2008
By Capt. Jim Hirt
East wind and warm weather has brought the warm water into Milwaukee. Surface temperature is 60 with the Temperature break at 40 feet. It is important to check your down temps every trip as wind direction will rapidly change the thermocline and location of active fish. Look for 50 degrees this is a good place to start.
Currently the action down is at 40 feet. We are catching all five types of Lake Michigan fish Chinook, Coho and Lake, Brown and Rainbow Trout. The fish are from the 50 to 100 feet of water fishing 40 feet and down. The best action is from east of the filtration plant all the way to Fox Point. Church Walleye planer boards with 4,5,8 and 10 color Cortland Kerplunk leadcore with Reaper Magnum Monkey Puke, Peacock, Fish n Chip, and Big Joe Silver spoons have been best. Spoons in silver/blue, silver/green or silver/chartreuse caught Chinooks Coho and Lake Trout. Vulcan Magnum Blue Sky and Silver Lizard are also taking fish.
On overcast days try the Reaper Magnum Fish Fry Glow spoons. For you anglers that have not tried the Reaper and Vulcan form Badger Tackle.com I recommend you give them a try. Most of my fish are on Vulcan's and Reapers everyday. They are offering a buy 4 and get 1 free at this time. The fish ranged in size from 3 to 20 pounds. The 4-year-old Chinook have been very active the last several days with many Chins to 17 pounds with a few over 20.
The smaller Vulcan regular size Dolphin Green Silver spoons are taking Rainbows on 2 color leadcore. Downriggers from 40 to 60 feet down 125 behind the ball picked up Chinooks and Laker's. Trolling at 1.8 to 2.1 miles per hour on the Depth Raider speed and temp gauge will get more fish. We ran Slide Divers with the big ring they took their share of fish with 40 70 feet of line out set to number one and a half. I used 50-pound Power Pro on all my divers this year and it allowed for better hook sets and deeper running with less problems.
The only place you will find Reaper and Vulcan spoons is on the Badger Tackle web site at
http://www.badgertackle.com Jim charters out of Milwaukee, WI. With Blue Max Charters He can be reached at 414-828-1094 or visit his web site at
http://www.bluemaxcharters.com If you are going out on the lake please call me for an update.
