Saginaw Bay Area Walleye anglers off Linwood were marking fish but had no success catching them. A few walleye were caught off the north end of Spoils Island when jigging minnows in eight to 10 feet. Water levels near the river and the inner bay were high and muddy. A few catfish were caught at […]
Saginaw Bay Area Weekly Fishing Report 03/16/2017
Saginaw Bay has frozen back over for as far offshore as the eye can see, but no one should assume that the ice is safe to walk on! It’s barely thick enough to hold the little bit of snow that fell on Monday into Tuesday so STAY OFF THE ICE! The bitter cold weather really shut […]
Saginaw Bay Area Weekly Fishing Report 03/02/2017
Saginaw Bay had no fishing in Linwood as the ice was poor. Anglers were fishing the Hot Ponds but no reports came in. A few eight to 10 inch perch were caught in the cut off Finn Road when using tiny tube jigs under a bobber. Quanicassee and Thomas Road had no anglers. At Sebewaing, […]
Saginaw Bay Area Weekly Fishing Report 02/23/2017
Saginaw Bay: Stay off the ice! There is no safe ice or even remotely walk-able ice anywhere on the bay!! Most of the cuts and rivers around the bay are wide open and can provide some shore fishing for perch. Boat anglers were fishing the lower Quanicassee River. Saginaw River: Had lots of fishing activity […]
Saginaw Bay Area Weekly Fishing Report 02/09/2017
Saginaw Bay: Ice conditions were not good to start with and after the rain, they are even worse. So much water on the ice will make it very slippery and will make it much harder to tell where the thin ice is. Anglers will need to use extreme caution. A handful of seven to nine-inch […]