RACINE — “Captain” Dan Johnson a shipwreck hunter was just a diving apprentice in 1978 when he decided to enter the waters of Lake Michigan in Racine in search for the Kate Kelly. The Kate Kelly was a 126-foot schooner ship that sank in May [Read More] The post Hundreds of shipwreck artifacts worth about.5M - Racine Heritage Museum first appeared...

Mary Bohling Michigan Sea Grant  Michigan State University Extension – November 24 2020 2020 was another good year for habitat restoration and sediment investigation on the Detroit River but water levels created some unexpected issues.  While 2020 was different and unique for many reasons progress was still made [Read More] The post Cleaning up th...

The 2020 Perch fishing season is in full swing with many limit catch’s near #1 Buoy off of Stoney Point in 23 ft to 27 feet of water and straight out from Bowles Harbor from 17 to 22 feet of water. C Buoy between Bolles [Read More] The post Perch Fishing Report Monroe Michigan 10-10-2020 first appeared on Stray Cat Fishing Charters Lake Erie / Mon...

The 2020 Perch fishing season is 10 times better than the 2019 season so far! Many limit catch’s near #1 Buoy off of Stoney Point in 23 ft of water. C Buoy between Bolles Harbor and Toledo Beach Marina produced some limit catch’s this week. [Read More] The post Perch Fishing Report Monroe Michigan 08-07-2020 first appeared on Stray Cat Fishing Cha...

Walleye fishing on the Western Basin has been very productive during the Mayfly hatch especially early morning and late afternoon. Best bets are off Stoney Point near the restriction buoys at Fermi in 22 to 24 ft. of water. Either side on #1 buoy for [Read More] The post Fishing Report Lake Erie Monroe Michigan 07-03-2020 first appeared on Stray C...

Walleye fishing off Stoney Point near the Michigan Ohio boarder many limit catches using spoons and divers 70 to 90 back spoon color didn’t matter. Bandits produced well 70 to 90 back. E buoy  and the Michigan dump always has walleyes on it but they [Read More] The post Fishing Report Lake Erie Monroe Michigan 06-10-2020 first appeared on Stray Ca...

“The totals are astonishing ” said Hale. “We had high numbers in the 1980s but we’ve made adjustments to our methods of counting walleye numbers and believe this year’s population one the best we’ve seen. “We have estimated today’s population of walleye that are two years [Read More] The post Lake Erie walleye numbers in stratosphere future is bri...

Fall is rapidly approaching and we have begun our fall fishing charters. We only have a month left in our 2015 fishing season! “Mr. Muskie Too” is still at our home port of Jefferson Beach Marina. We have both our smaller boat “River Raider” and our big boat “Mr. Muskie III” up in Algonac MI. for our Sturgeon fishing charters. We are still running...

Well the heat of Summer is finally upon us and the fishing has been getting hotter just like the weather! We have been fishing Bass on the Canadian side of the lake since their opener and have had some awesome days of catches over the 4 dozen mark. The quality of the bass has been out of this world! We have had many days with 4 and 5 pounders as a...

Happy New Year! We at Mr. Muskie Charters would like to thank all of our customers for making the 2014 fishing season a great year and a huge success. We greatly appreciate your business and look forward to fishing with you again soon. We are currently booking charters for the 2015 season and would like to give all our customers first dibs on avai...

Last Call Well we are in the final stretch of our 2014 Fishing Season and what a season it has been. September proved to be a record month for Sturgeon fishing! We were able to boat a total of 49 Sturgeon and fished for 15 nights. The size this season has been incredible with 26 fish measuring between 60 and 69 inches! A fish with incredible power...

Summer’s Sizzle We are well into the peak of the Muskie fishing season! We have had some very strange weather this summer producing a wide range of temperatures and weather patterns. These weather changes have brought many storm fronts through the area which has made for some real interesting days of fishing. The numbers of Muskies caught have bee...