Fishing Day 3 with Marion and Ruth Baker....6/12/2025

[Capt Juls]

The original plan was to go to Huron again, so my crew was instructed for a 4:45 pick up, but I had changed my mind this morning, and wanted to launch at Mazurik's instead. I didn't want to deal with the traffic if the re-paving wasn't done yet, and they still had the accesses blocked.

So, I pulled into the White Caps Motel at 4:35, and there were Marion and Ruth, sitting on the front steps of the office...waiting, on ME!

I told them, that I had changed the launch location, and that we would be early, so we had time. We drove through town, and hit the Speedway for some ice, before heading to Mazurik's.

It was still dark out, when we pulled into the get-ready lane, so I just took my time getting things ready, and after a couple of us used the bathrooms, we were headed out at 5:20. This reminds me, I need to get a pair of clear lens glasses, for the early morning rides out. The yellow ones I have are too dark, for that early in the morning. I can't go without, because if you have ever had a bug hit your eyeball, you would never go without glasses, driving a boat, ever again.

The wind was less than 5mph out of the SW, the sky was clear, and the air temp was 69 degrees.

We headed to the east side of Kelly's, and set up over 36 feet of water, headed to the NNE....moving out to deeper water as we went. Speed was 2.5mph on the FishHawk, and the water temp was 65 degrees, at 20 feet down.

The dipsies were non-stop with little itty-bitties, and a handful of keepers. The larger fish are on the Bandits at 47, 57, 67, 77, and 97 back, behind Off Shore boards.

Dipsies:
Zero setting at 43 and 54 back caught with Yeck and BadMo Arrow Spoons, and the three settings were at 65 and 71 back....running a Michigan Scorpion spoon and another Yeck spoon. Color didn't matter.

We caught a Steelhead! They had never seen one before, so I told them they were really good, smoked, so they kept it. I was surprised to see it caught right there, (northwest of Cedar Point).
We only caught one Sheephead, but it was a tanker, with a big belly. No White Bass or White Perch, either.

My crew wasn't choosy today... if it was legal, it went into the cooler, because they had a 12 hour ride back to Iowa, ahead of them. They talked about coming back for a week next time, and that makes me happy!

It was getting rough, anyway. The wind had switched from the SW to the NE around 7AM, and kept picking up as the morning went on. I don't think it was ever over 15mph, though. The waves grew to 1-3's by 9AM, when we finished with our limits, and headed in.


I'm off for a few days. My Saturday trip just rescheduled to the 28th, due to a forecast of a gusty NE winds, and rain.

Stay tuned...

Capt Juls