This week in recent fishing history

In Port Washington, light fishing effort from shore and very slow or dead, but there has been light effort with decent action from boats.  In Sheboygan, light fishing effort with a little action from boats and the piers; also, carp caught behind the power plant.

Reports based on personal observations and angler reports from the past three years.

 

Port Washington:

Ramp:  Usually light effort from the ramp with a decent amount of action, most boats reporting 2-3 fish landed.  Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, rainbow trout and a lake trout have been caught, 20-100 feet down in 80-240 feet of water with spoons and flashers and flies on planar boards, dipsy divers and down riggers; conditions: air temperature from mid 50’s to low 60’s, overcast to mostly sunny and little or no wind to light to moderate winds to the southwest.  Also, brown trout and a lake trout have been caught 15 feet down in 30 feet of water on spoons.

Power plant:  Usually light effort in the area with very little action.  Rainbow trout have been caught on spawn; conditions:  water color was light brown or blue green with low clarity.  Also, undersized rainbow trout have been caught on Gulp minnows; conditions: water color was blue green with moderate clarity.

Harbor:  Usually little or no effort with no action.  Undersized brown trout have been caught.

Pier:  Usually little or no effort with no action.

Sauk Creek:  Usually no effort.

Cedar Grove:

Amsterdam Road

ramp:  Usually no effort.

Sheboygan:

Ramp:  Usually light or no effort and a little action.  Brown trout have been caught in the harbor on rapalas, green glo and spoons.  Chinook salmon have been caught 60-100 feet down in 100 feet of water with spoons on downriggers and a Coho salmon was caught 25 feet down in 100 feet of water with a spoon on a planar board; conditions:  air temperature in the mid 50’s, skies were cloudy and there was a light to moderate wind to the southwest.

Piers:  Usually light or no effort but occasional moderate effort and a little action.  Brown trout have been caught off the harbor side of the south pier on rapalas, green glo and spoons; conditions: water temperature was 50-56° F, the water was muddy with low clarity.  A brown trout was caught off the lakeside of the pier on a spoon at approximately 8 o’ clock in the morning: conditions: water temperature was 50-52° F, water color was blue green with moderate clarity.  A lake whitefish was caught off the lakeside of the pier on an alewife at sunset; conditions: water temperature was 50-52° F, water color was greenish brown with moderate to good clarity and the lake was flat, air temperature was in the 50’s, skies were cloudy and there was a moderate wind to the southwest.

Shore:  Usually no effort.

Edgewater power plant:  Usually very little or no effort and a little action.  Carp caught by an angler bow fishing at the outflows behind the plant in the mid afternoon; conditions:  air temperature was in the low 40’s, skies were cloudy with a light to moderate wind to the south/southwest.

Sheboygan River:  Usually very little effort with no action

Weeden’s Creek:  Usually no effort.

Pigeon River:  Usually no effort.

Cleveland:

Cleveland ramp:  Usually very little effort with no action.