Lake Michigan, Racine County (all postings)

Saturday - Fished 6am - 7:45am and went 10 of 11. All flasher flys (pretty well any color pattern fly with gold in it. 25-30 fow. Ran 3 color and 3/8 keel on boards with lots of success (especially the 3 color). Riggers down 7-10 speed was 2.1 at the ball and dipseys at 12-15 on the counter. The pace of the bite was fast, furious and fun.

Sunday went back and fished 6am - 11 am. The bite was much slower and the fish were not hooking up as well. We went 8 of 13 after losing the first 3 fish at the back of the boat. We ran the same setup as Saturday.

Talked to guys at the landing and the near-shore 20ft - 30ft bite was strongest prior to 6:30am. Later on the bite had moved out to 70 fow according to guys that had limits in their coolers.

It was our first time in Racine and it's a great landing with pretty good nachos at the snack shack.

Good luck to all.

Blair

Fished immediately outside the mouth of the river. Twenty FOW, 12-16 feet deep. 20 hook ups and 15 in the box. Four down riggers, two dipseys, two birds, all hit. Orange dodgers with any fly. Limited out in two hours, 7am-9am. All coho.

I wonder if all that "Milwaukee run off" fed the little buggers?

Grey Beard

4 cohos this morning 2 on chrome raps on boards and other 2 on blue coho candy on dipsy. Gnats are horrible with no wind!!!!

Gnats, Gnats, And more Gnats!! Caught 3 Coho, then said screw it to many bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Couldn't even breath. Ive seen it bad but not this bad.

Launched out of Pershing at 7:00am. No piers in yet. City workers said they should start temporary dredging this week... and maybe a couple piers in after... Started by the green can and ran North. Caught two before lines were all in! Worked in front of south pier 20 to 30 FOW. Everything worked, Flasher Fly, Cranks, Spoons. Bright Colors such as red, Yellow were key. Off the water by 10:00am with a two man Limit. 5 Coho, 4 Browns and a surprise 13# King that hammered a Brads thin Fin on the Port Board for the last Fish of the day!

Can't wait to hear. My ignition switch shattered last week when I was getting the boat ready so I am hoping to get out soon. I'm currently waiting for one to get here from an online purchase as West Marine was unable to get the correct one for me. A buddy has caught a few cohos just south of Milwaukee harbor.

Svitruem ill be out today and will report how we do we are gonna try bender today.

Well there is apparently at least a few fish (cohos) moving through here as they are starting to show up at Bender. If anyone has been out and would not mind giving me a shout, just message me please and thanks alot. Gonna go Wednesday regardless and will definitely post a detailed report. Tight lines my friends!

Jimmy

Late report. Fished last Sunday a.m for about 4 hours and a swing and a miss is all I could drum up. Marked numerous large fish just north of the river in about 24-28 fow. I tried trolling shad raps and various stinger spoons to no avail. Water temp was 35 degrees. Ran 2 dipsies and 4 boards. Dipsy rod got a rip and was off before I culd grab the rod. Tim you did not miss anything.

Is the launch basin open or still locked up? Message if you like. Thanks a million.

4 of us went out yesterday evening, we trolled from our slip at Gaslight Point out to about 55 foot of water on a SE to a southerly run.

While we marked some bait fish as well as random fish, but not a taker. We left the pier around 5PM and returned around 8:45PM and the weather was wrong about the N/NW - S/SW wind direction as it went from NNE to S/SE instead.

Racine fisherman are not as friendly and willing to share info. as Milw. & Port. guys Ever heard anyone on the radio sharing info. out of Racine? Those who do post periodically get lonely...and give up.

Really, it's been over a month and no one has anything to add for the Racine area?

This has me wondering if all of the posts coming from Milwaukee & Kenosha are the only places catching fish?????

svitreum...

We should have cool water by end of tues "inside" for smaller boats. two days with wsw or west wind will change it quick ( w 10-15 knots tues).. Taking 16' out to 120-180 on sunday, unless the depth raider finds something cooler closer in, but thinking that won't be the case.. < 1ft sunday and monday will let us get out deep... Tues a wash for small boats

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