Today marks the end of the fishing season for me. A little early unfortunately but that’s ok we had a stellar year!! We fished West Grand Traverse Bay fishing in the “Hole” and had a great bite. We didn’t manage to keep a lot hooked to the boat but we sure had a awesome bite! Landed a handful so that was plenty. It was a gorgeous day to be on West Bay fishing right outside of down town Traverse City!
There are a lot of salmon in and around the Boardman river. Today we hooked into 23 salmon, assuming all kings but might of had a coho or two on as well. We landed 12 Kings and could of kept going but the guys had more than enough fish! It was a really good bite all morning! The normal baits were in the water all morning never made a change! Ladder back plugs, watermelon on riggers. Spin doctor on one diver and Big Weenies NFN on the other wire. That was the spread all morning setting rigger 65 to 70 down. Wires were back 120 and 13o they just kept biting so we never changed!!
We had an excellent bite today! Started a little slow the first hour, I changed a few things up and bam! Fish on filled the air, the salmon fishing here in Traverse City was very good! When all said and done we landed eight very nice salmon and lost another handful. We were fishing right down town Traverse City which is such a fun experience most would never think there would be giant salmon right off the beach of downtown Traverse City!
September King Salmon charter Fishing in Traverse City, Michigan:
The annual salmon run has been strong for the last few weeks! We still have a few weeks left, of the best salmon fishing Traverse City has to offer! Fishing the “Hole” outside of the Boardman river has been the best. Luhr Jensen J Plugs, and flasher flys have been the go too. Try anything blue or green seems to be the ticket!!