Today's Scheduled Trip has been Moved to April...3/28/26

"Morning....okay...here's what I know right now...

The forecast from a few apps...

mostly cloudy...low to mid 40s in the morning...afternoon high of 56.

one app says SW wind 15mph with gusts to low to mid 20s...another app says gusts to 30....so which one is right? I don't know...both are usually good apps...

We didn't get a good satellite pic to see how muddy it got the night before last with that storm that came through ....near shore was muddy yesterday when I went through town and couldn't see clean water from my vantage point...

it was blowing NW last night too....so that will keep it muddy inside, due to waves crashing in the shallows on this shore...

tomorrow's wind forecast...as you know...the further out from shore we get the rougher it will be...but we would need to go out there to find cleaner water...(I was thinking of going out of Huron, because that's where most of the catches were last week and I think west of the islands is all mud right now)

however....its going to lay down this morning around 10am while it changes from the NW to the S to less than 10mph, so that will help it settle....(dirty water cleans up faster in the cold water than it does when it's warm)....it's blowing 27mph at South Bass right now, and 22 at Marblehead....so it's easily probably 4-6's right now west of the islands and 2-4s in the south passage...

My fear is...that if you come it's going to suck, but if you stay home...the wind forecast will change for the better and we will have missed an opportunity...lol

So, with that said....you still have your alternate date of April l0th available to you, so I'll let you make this call...you're the one that has to travel... 

The wind forecast the rest of the week is insane except for Friday....but, it will probably change several times...

I don't have another trip lined up until the 4th, and that looks like blow day right now too, but hopefully that will change.....deep sigh...

Let me know what you want to do...."

Vito opted to  go with the alternate date.  With what we knew at the time I had to let him know the conditions, before driving over, it was a good decision. 

Later in the morning, I checked the forecast again, and of course, the wind forecast was showing a little better wind speeds. But, that's how it goes...it would have been worse had he driven all the way here, and conditions were bad.  I didn't have a satellite pic to reference until later in the morning, and after that big storm and big winds....I knew the mud was stirred up...I just didn't know how much. The satellite pic was available by the afternoon, and with a bluebird sky, it showed a great picture.  There is a lot of muddy areas out there right now, but there are also some decent areas to the east of Kelly's right now, that looks pretty good. 

Reports that came in yesterday evening, showed that those who found those cleaner areas were able to catch some nice fish.

So, guess who's going fishing this morning...

I contacted a friend that is usually up to going on a moments notice, and he and a friend are going to meet me around 10am when the wind gusts settle down. We will probably launch out of Mazurik's if there's any parking spots left there that late in the morning. There are a lot of out of towners here this weekend. :)

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls