We arrived last night to a calm marina scene between the rain storms.
There's a few weekend warriors in the marina, but for the most part just the seasonal crew is here and even a few of those have pulled their boats for the winter already.
I woke up storms in the area and lightning off the stern. After hemming and hawing for an hour, I finally decided Mother Nature was going to let us experience boating this morning.
So off we went, set some lines and trolled across the Straits. We did have a nice lake.
Mackinac Island off to starboard.
St Ignace to port.
This was the first try over in that water and discovered it stays quite deep all the way to shore over there. We were in a little over 100' of water only 3/8 of a mile off the beach. Bad news was the fishing wasn't any better. Only one lake trout came to the net this morning which we released. It started to pour rain so we quit after a couple hours. The on/off rain continued all day. One minute, sun. Next a downpour.
The consensus seems to be the fishery in all the lakes is off this year for multiple reasons. I'm sure the brutal winter and cool summer haven't helped any. Obviously, the fishery here hasn't been much beyond the available lake trout but all along the Lake Michigan coast the fishing has been poor.
I guess there's always tomorrow.
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