Perch fishing around Chicago leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but there are other things such as ice fishing up north, as well as lake trout, brown trout and whitefish on southern Lake Michigan.
It’s that time of the year where it is waiting on ice up north and perch on southern Lake Michigan and those threads lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report going into the Thanksgiving break.
Provided by Ryan Merkel
ILLINOIS’ LAKEFRONT CHINOOK
Hi Dale,
Pete Merkel, my cousin, caught a new boat record for us today out of Winthrop Harbor. (Two photos of the fish are attached below)This king was 28 lbs and 42” long. Hit on a green/white flasher with an Aqua Howie’s fly behind a rigger. We were in 125 feet of water and the rigger was set 110 feet down. Fish took a massive initial run pulling 500+ feet of line off the reel. Great day on the water, we also got a 23 lbs king a just few minutes prior. Not a lot of bites but the two we got were awesome.
Andy Mikos
Brown trout and coho are going on southern Lake Michigan, largemouth bass are moving shallower on inland, big smallmouth bass are active on Lake Michigan and Chicago-area rivers and crappie are going inland, too, for this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Andy Mikos emailed on Sunday:
Hi Dale. I hope your recovery is going well and you are enjoying the spring weather. Saw your video on Facebook powerlining which was cool. My friend Chizel got this 13 pound brown yesterday on my boat out of Diversy. It was part of a 6 for 10 outing with 3 browns, 2 Lakers and a coho landed. Lost another sweet brown at the net and a screamer king the straightened out a peanut fly during a 450’ run. Take care -Andy. Ps- I know you like fishing pictures with the city in the background.