October 10 - 12 @ St. Germain, WI

I am pretty confident this is my personal best walleye!
Didn't weigh it, but it was heavy...and ~25" long.

This is Tim's best walleye to date
at ~18"+

Spent a couple of days up in St. Germain, WI...again, staying at the St. Germain Lodge.  As I have mentioned before, if you are looking for a great fishing trip, only 4 hours from Milwaukee, I highly recommend checking out St. Germain and the St. Germain Lodge.

Again, here is a link to the lodge: CLICK FOR LINK

This was really my first FALL walleye trip, so I was not totally sure where to catch them.  I got some good info from YouTube (man you can learn anything there) but the tips I got simply sitting at Fibbers (the bar at St. Germain Lodge) is what made the fishing trip.

We found fish between 15-28 ft of water over hard bottom.  To catch them, we simply dragged 4" walleye suckers behind a small bell sinker and a single gold hook.  We tried other things, and some fish came on fatheads and jigs, but the sucker/gold hook combo was by far most effective.

John may have lost his muskie, but he did
land this 30" pike.

Lake Michigan - Part One of Many

On September 20th I took a charter boat out on Lake Michigan with Carly and our friends Nicole and Travis.

While it was beautiful out and we caught 7 brown trout, fishing from a charter boat just isn't the same as fishing on your own and catching them with rod in hand.

Travis is pictured here with a nice brown at about 8 pounds.  While it is a gorgeous fish and no doubt did not just submit to being caught, a combination of the planer board and the force of the moving boat made the fish feel more like a plastic bag in the water than a powerful fish.

If you are looking to hang out on a boat and have a nice time with your friends without having to do anything but reel in fish, a charter is for you...but if you want the pride of finding your own fish, and the excitement of catching them on light tackle, you may find that you will be disappointed.

That being said, I did learn a lot from our guides and I got a good feel for the Milwaukee Harbor...enough so that I will feel comfortable taking a boat out there myself.

September and October appear to be the time of year when the King Salmon are in the harbor on their way to spawning grounds.  This makes it a great time to fish from shore or from a small boat.  In the next few days, I plan to hit the harbor hard from shore, then from boat to catch some salmon on my own.

I am guessing I will not have a ton of success right away, but I am pretty sure this will be my new fishing passion.

Below is a video of the type of fishing I can't wait to learn.