Anderson's Probait

Almost time for the annual run up to Lexington with the gang! My boy is already grilling me on a daily basis on when we are going. Nice to see there is some good action outta Port Sanilac but has anyone heard anything a little further South? We are planning on Friday the 30th, running up to just South of Lexington and trolling North. Last year we boated two Kings and a Walleye on July 31st so we are looking to better that by a fish or two.

Any reports would be greatly appreciated! Will post our results upon our return.

I heard from the Lexington Harbor Master about 10 days ago a boat caught a King, an Atlantic, and 2 Lake Trout in the first 2 hours of morning trolling in 60FOW on the humps off Lexington. Seems a little bit shallow this time of year. Sorry nothing more recent for you. Good luck.

Thanks for the report! Any news is better than no news so your report is uplifting!

Well, yesterdays trip to Lexington went off w/out a hitch! It's just too bad the fish didn't know or want to get involved. The North wind was lightly blowing but steady, all the way from Rogers City where it apparently was blowing a bit harder. This sent some really nice, big rollers at us. About 9:15am we had a lead core knock off the boards due to wave action, so I temporarily set it as an outrod, and within minutes it went off... small King, maybe three or four pounds, but a King nonetheless! (Silver Streak Ice Cold George, 92fow)

That's it, nothing else but big rollers and scarfing down food for the next 6 hours...

Around 4pm when we started to pull our gear, we had a rip on a big dipsey but couldn't get to it in time, so we decided to reset it and fish for another 10 minutes and we got another rip not 5 minutes later. That one got off too! At first I thought we might have been hitting bottom but we were in 80fow and I know we weren't down that far. We tried everything we had, even gave a meat rig some wash time. In the end we went back to all spoons.

We had fun, and didn't get skunked so in our minds the trip was a success. Thinking of going back again in a few weeks, my son is already getting fired up.

Sorry Danski, we couldn't prove the theory that there are some deep fish off of Lexington but we gave her a hell of a try!