Green Bay Fishing Report/June 18th

Walleye fishing has been fantastic, as it has all year. I have said it numerous times but this system (the Green Bay system) is absolutly amazing. Great numbers of 3-5 year old fish being caught from 6' to 17' of water.

You can attack these transition fish in numerous ways...you can fish the windswept shoreline in shallow dirty water, or you can fish suspended fish over 12'-17' of water. Our best numbers of fish have come fishing windswept shorelines in shallow water pulling crawler harnesses with no weight from 30' to 45' behind planer boards. Color selections change with conditions, water clarity and weather. In a sunny situation we have chossen copper blades, and in cloudy conditions we select glow and silver blades. This color selection is the same when we venture out deeper but we add a 1oz fish weight in front of the crawler harnesses to get them down to the target depth. The rule of thumb when using 1oz weights is to multiply your target depth by 2 when letting them out. For example, when you want to put a bait 10 feet down you would let out 20 feet of line. This stays true when trolling 1.0-1.2 mph. Remember that the faster you go the higher your baits will run.

Good fish catches are coming from Bayshore down to Vincent Point on the East Shore and from deeper water in from of Suamico up to Geano's and Pensaukee. There are multiple schools of fish in multiple locations leaving you multiple ways to catch fish right now. Stay versatile and try not to get stuck fishing one area for an extended period of time. Play the wind whenever possible and it will help you catch more fish.

Good luck to everyone this week, we will be salmon fishing all weekend so look for our salmon reports to start Monday!