Lake Michigan fishing report for southeast Wisconsin

Sorry, I've been busy lately but here is last year's report:

Shore fishing has been slow to dead, but there has been decent action from boats in Port Washington.  Fishing has been good in Sheboygan with a wide variety of fishes getting caught.  Reports based on personal observations and angler reports from the past three years.

Port Washington:

Ramp:  Brown trout were caught in 30 feet of water with spoons of various colors.

Power plant:  Brown trout and rainbow trout have been caught on spawn sacks but action has usually been slow, conditions:  water was blue green in color with low to high clarity.

Harbor:  Undersized brown trout caught in the north slip.

Pier:  No action from the pier.

Sauk Creek:  No action on the creek.

Sheboygan:

Ramp:  Brown trout, lake trout and a Chinook salmon were caught on stickbaits in 10-20 feet of water near the mouth of the Pigeon River.

Piers:  Brown trout and a rainbow trout were caught off the lakeside of south pier on spoons, castmasters and a green and silver cleo, conditions:  water temperature was 44-50° F, the water color was blue green with low to moderate clarity.

Sheboygan River:  A wide variety of fishes were caught from Esslingen Park to the Kohler dam in both the morning and afternoon.  Smallmouth bass were caught on flies, worms, minnows, spinners, plastic grubs and jigs.  Rock bass were caught on flies and minnows.  Northern Pike were caught on spinners and minnows.  Rainbow trout were caught on plastic grubs, jigs and spinners.  Brown trout were caught on minnows.  Common shiners were caught on corn and worms.  Conditions:  water temperature was 52-62° F, the water color was brown with clarity usually low but sometimes with moderate to good clarity, water level was low to moderate and the current was moderate.  Air temperatures ranged from the low 40’s to the low 60’s, skies were partly and mostly cloudy, and the wind was light to moderate and to the east and northwest.

Pigeon River:  No action on the Pigeon River.   

Edgewater power plant:  Carp were caught on corn in the late afternoon by the outflows behind the power plant, conditions:  air temperature was in the low 40’s, skies were partly cloudy and there was a moderate wind to the northwest.