Door County Salmon Update

Salmon and Trout Fishing in Door County has been the best that it has been all season!

October 2 afternoon we caught 18 Salmon in one hour and thirty minutes with the customers limit.  Oct. 4 morning Silver Strike caught the 10 fish limit of the two clients in just over an hour.  The fishing has been so good that it has been hard to keep all the lines in the water.  The best depths have been 150 feet of water to 250 feet fishing 60 to 150 down.  Some nice Steelhead were caught this morning as well.  Fishing about 4-7 miles out of Baileys Harbor, Flasher Fly combos have produced the best.  The weather has been perfect and looks to continue this trend over the next week.  Boat traffic has been almost nonexistent with the lake to ourselves.

Door County Salmon Fishing update

Fall Salmon Fishing in Door County continues to produce great catches!

Salmon fishing on september 24th continued to be very successful out of Baileys Harbor, WI.  Our Charter went out on a morning run aboard the Silver Strike at 6 am.  We ended up boating 27 kings, which half of the salmon were nice 10-15 pounders.  Most of the action came between 165-220 feet of water ranging form 60 to 125 feet down.  The water temperatures have been much cooler spreading the salmon through out the water column.  Flasher fly combos of a variety of colors worked including greens, pearls and blue depending on the cloud cover.

End of Summer Salmon and Trout

At the end of August fishing stays steady and nice mixed bag catches of Salmon and Trout are still coming out of Baileys Harbor, Door County, WI.

The Catch shown was the morning of Aug. 31.  For the past 5 days the average haul has been 10-15 fish with mostly Chinook Salmon, a third Rainbow trout and a few Lake trout.  The best water depths have been 120-170 feet fishing 50-100 down.  A mix of Lead core, copper, downriggers and dipsys have all produced fish.  Mostly dodger fly combos with color varying on weather and conditions.  The Kings have been a mix of 1-4 year olds with most being in the 10 lb range.  We will update the fishing after the weekend charters and hopefully will continue to provide information into October.

Salmon Fishing July 13

King Salmon out of Baileys Harbor, Door County,WI. is still steady with very nice big fish.

This week Fishing on Lake Michigan has been consistent.  The catches have not been very large in quantity 5-15 but they have been very big in comparison to past years.  The Salmon have been large and putting up great fights.  The bait fish numbers are the largest we have seen in years and the die off is still occurring.  Once the die off is done and water continues to warm I am confident we will be seeing larger catches when the fish are more concentrated into the thermalclines.  Dodgers and Flies have been best over 60-130 feet of water.  The fish have been in the lower half of the water column any where from 45 to 100 feet down.

Salmon Fishing in Door County becoming hot and steady!

Silver Strike Charter Fishing has been having consistent catches of King Salmon on the water of Lake Michigan.

From June 30th to July 1st the catches on our charter boat have been 10-15 Kings/trip with some Rainbow trout mixed in.  The water temperatures on Lake Michigan have been increasing a little but the fish are still scattered outside of Baileys Harbor.  Finding mostly cold water from the surface down the Salmon have been coming from 40 feet to 100 feet with Rainbow trout coming in the top 40 feet.  Dodger and Flies have been the best for the kings, while spoons have been best with the rainbows.  Early morning and late evening have been best but fish have been biting through out the day.  Most of the fish have been coming from 90-130 feet of water.

King Salmon have arrived in Door County!

Charter Boats from Baileys Harbor south on Lake Michigan have started catching double digit King Salmon catches.

Starting in Algoma and Sturgeon Bay last week Chinooks have been piling into coolers up and down the Door County shoreline.  This catch came from this morning, June 22, Charter out of Baileys Harbor.  The biggest Salmon weighed in at 24.75 lbs on Hickey Brothers fish market electronic scale.  We did not get off the dock until 5:30 am and the conditions were tough to run many lines due to a mixed swell and wind.  We still filled the cooler not including lost fish and multiple broken lines.  The fishing report from Ephraim, Sister Bay, Ellison Bay and Gills Rock has still been dismal. 

June 14 Salmon and Trout, Door County, WI. updated report

Salmon fishing has continued to be slow but steady around the Door County, WI. area.  Some days are producing 3-4 fish while others are getting 6-7 Salmon.  No trout have been caught yet, but as the Lake Michigan Water Temperatures continue to rise we will start seeing some Steelhead.  The good news is that the salmon have all been in the larger size category.  We did pick up one Coho Salmon two days ago as well.  There is supposed to be a steady NE to SE wind over the course of the week which should put some thermoclines and current lines together, pushing the fish into a more concentrated area.

Door County Charter Fishing Report

June 11, Salmon report update for the waters surrounding Baileys Harbor, Door County WI.

The King Salmon are not yet here in large numbers but there are fish being caught and all of them have some size to them.  This morning we went 4 for 5 on the Kings.  Most fish were taken on dipsy divers with dodger fly combos.  It has varied between long lining lead core and copper on certain days to dipsy’s on others with some sporadic hits on downriggers.  The fishing was slow until about 6:30 am and then we started to pick them up.  We found all of them to be full of baitfish ranging in sizes.  Depths of water trolled were 40-100 feet of water with no depth particularly working better than the other.  With the warm weather, baitfish and big salmon around, the big catch is going to happen anytime now!

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Gills Rock Salmon Fishing

One of our crew members headed up to Gills Rock, Door County, WI. to give these waters a try for some Salmon. Water temperatures were still very cold on the Green Bay side and fishing was slow. They marked a lot of hooks, but could not get one to take a bait. Fish were found in shallow and deep water and were spread across the water columns. A little more warm weather should bring the chinooks into a more concentrated area. Lake Michigan continues to produce some Salmon and hopefully double digits soon in Baileys Harbor. We have charters on Silver Strike all week long, so we will update the fishing reports often!

Salmon Fishing Door County

Silver Strike Charter Fishing out of Baileys Harbor hook up with the first Kings of the season in Northern Door County.

After many weeks of Brown Trout Fishing we headed out for the chance of Salmon out of Baileys Harbor, Door County, WI on Sunday.  Water Temperatures still in the 48 to 50 degree range were not looking great but we wanted to give it a try.  The group on Silver strike charters ended up with five nice salmon all 10 to 15 lb’s and lost a few.  All of the fish had baitfish in the stomachs and showed signs of another great season!  My brother hooked up 2 salmon as well on his 16 foot alumacraft.  Many say that the Chinook do not show up until water temperatures warm around the shorelines but this proves that books and internet are not always correct.  Surface temps were at 48 degrees and the Salmon were coming down around 40 feet.  Waters around the shoreline ranged from 50-52 degrees.

For everyone wondering when the Great lakes Salmon season will be under way this is the start!  We will keep posting as the Chinook Salmon show up in greater numbers.

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