Shore Fishing Lake Michigan For Salmon and Trout

• Locations• Seasons• Gear• Presentations• Bait preparation

Location Break down

HarborsHarbors•Kenosha (WI)•Waukegan (IL)•Racine (WI)

RiversRivers•Root River (WI)•Pike River (WI)•Milwaukee River (WI)

StreamsStreams•Little Calumet (IN)•Trail Creek (IN)

Kenosha Harbor

Root River

Little Calumet/Salt Creek

Trail Creek

Seasons

• Springtime browns and Coho

• Fall Chinook salmon run

• Late fall browns and steelhead

• Winter steelhead• Summer Skamania

steelhead

Proper Gear

• Spinning Rods• Reel sizes • Line weights• Lure choices

Presentations

• Live bait presented with floats utilizing slip floats and steelhead style fixed floats – Golden roaches– Wax worms– Spawn sacks– Tube or tinsel style jigs

• Bottom rigs

Presentations

• Fly fishing– Woolly buggers– Egg sucking leaches– Egg imitators

Presentations

• Artificial baits– Inline spinners– Body baits– Spoons– Jig and twister tails– Gulp minnow baits

Live Bait Preparation

• Spawn: cures, care, rigging.

• Minnows: live, dead, salted.

• Spawn sacks: tying, colors, adding attractants.