This time of year I often find happiness to be found somewhere between the SE corner of Kellys and the Marblehead lighthouse, heading east, as the fish start to school to the central basin, so I'm not surprised. If I feel like making the run from East Harbor, I usually find decent sized fish from Huron and Vermillion anywhere from near shore to 10 miles out on through July... and then they're gone. Not totally by any means, just it's that I find perch fishing to be more worthwhile after that point in terms of putting meat in the cooler.

I'll be heading out that way this weekend myself. Got sick of the throwbacks out west, going to try east, starting in the KI area and going from there.